Yet Another Exhausting Day demo is a puzzle game where you control your character while they sleep. No more wasting night-time sleeping, now you can work all night collecting coins and solving puzzles. Use coins to upgrade your skills, but don't fall into deep sleep...



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Yet Another Exhausting Day in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the itch.io demo version of Yet Another Exhausting Day. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.15-staging
DXVK: 1.4.4

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 4.15-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.15-staging
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Downloading Wine 64-bit



Installed



Wine 4.15-staging 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window

Download Yet Another Exhausting Day demo from itch.io
https://candlemangames.itch.io/yet-another-exhausting-day
Save to your Desktop

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install



Click "Install a non-listed program"



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



Name the virtual drive: exhaustingday
Click Next



Check all three options:

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

Click Next



Select Wine 4.15-staging
Click Next



Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next



Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7



Libraries Tab
Type the following:

• d3d10
• d3d10_1
• d3d10core
• d3d11
• dxgi

Edit one at a time
Select "native (Windows)"
Click Apply



Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK



PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)

Check the Following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next



Note: All packages should download and install automatically

Do not click Browse
Click Cancel



Open Yet Another Exhausting Day demo with your Archive Manager
Click Extract



Navigate to the virtual drive Program Files directory
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/exhaustingday/drive_c/Program Files/

Click the New Folder icon
Name the folder: exhaustingday
Click Create
Click Extract



Click "Show the Files"



DXVK 1.4.4

Download DXVK 1.4.4
Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.4.4
Save to your Desktop
Extract on your Desktop
Open the x64 Folder
Copy all of the DLLs



Navigate back to the open folder where the game files are...
Paste the DLLs



PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure



Select "exhaustingday" on the left column

General Tab
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"



Select "Yet Another Exhausting Day.exe"
Click Next



Leave the default name for the shortcut
Click Next


Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next



Back to Configure

Select "Yet Another Exhausting Day" Shortcut

General Tab
Wine version: 4.15-staging



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

Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses



Close Configure

Run "Yet Another Exhausting Day"



Note: Click debug to see bugs and errors

Unity3D Launcher

Adjust:

• Screen Resolution
• Graphics Quality
• Monitor
• Windowed
• Input

Click Play



Conclusion:
Yet Another Exhausting Day would not play with stable version of Wine, but ran perfectly with staging versions. Also DXVK is required for Direct X 10.11 support, otherwise the game would never launch and instead would crash upon running.


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