World of Tanks is a free-to-play MMO with all the tank battling you could possibly want. Sign up, download and then battle online in WWII locations with all kinds of WWII tanks. Engage in epic battles in Europe in high detailed terrain and architecture. Upgrade your tank at the store or purchase new tanks.





Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing World of Tanks in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.5
Wine: 1.7.37

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.37
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 1.7.37 is installed and you can close this window

Download World of Tanks

Go to: http://worldoftanks.com/en/content/docs/update
Click "Download Game"


Navitage to your desktop
Click Save


PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install


Click "Install a non-listed program"


Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next


Name your virtual drive: worldoftanks
Click Next


Check all three options:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next


Select Wine 1.7.37
Click Next


Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next



Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7


Graphics Tab
Check "Automaticaly capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop Size: 1024x768
Click OK


Installing Packages

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_dxfullsetup
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2008
• POL_Install_wininet

Click Next


Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing World of Tanks

Click Browse


Navigate to your desktop
Select "WoT_internet_install_na.exe"
Click Open


Click Next

Click OK

Click Next

Click Next

Check "Don't create a Start Menu folder"
Click Next

Uncheck "Create a desktop icon"
Click Next

Click Install

!IMPORTANT!
Updating will crash every time unless torrents is disabled

Click the wrench (top right)


Uncheck "Allow torrents"
Click OK


Updating World of Tanks

World of Tanks is over 7 Gigs of data
Wait while it downloads the entire game

When the updating is finished, do not click "Play"
Close the World of Tanks client


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "WOTLauncher.exe"
Click Next


Name your shortcut: World Of Tanks Launcher
Click Next


Click Next again...

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select World Of Tanks
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine Version: 1.7..37


Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine

Display Tab
Video Memory Size: Select the amount of memory your video card/chip uses


Close Configure

Launching World of Tanks

Select "World Of Tanks Launcher"
Click Run


Note: Clicking Debug will output errors and bugs

Click Play


Sign In or click Register


Optimization

Click Menu
or
Press ESC


Click Settings


Click the Graphics Tab
Adjust Window Size to match your Linux Desktop
Check "Full-screen mode"
Adjust field of view, antialiasing, etc
Click Apply




Click Details for more control over Graphical settings
Warning: World of Tanks is known to run slow in Wine, first test with lower settings

Use "Graphics Quality" at the top left to select a preset
Click OK


Rule of Thumb:
Higher settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Lower settings = Less detail, higher frame rates

Conclusion:
World of Tanks ran pretty smoothly on my GeForce 550 Ti. I had all the graphics settings on medium but the resolution was fullscreen: 1680x1050
At times it would slow down in a large map. The visuals are amazing and the arcadish action is pretty fun. It pretty much ran on any version of Wine I threw at it.
There was a point where the game would not launch. I would only get a black screen. So I switched versions of Wine an then it was fine again.

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