Zombie Shooter 2 is a hack-n-slash action shooter with non-stop zombie slaying! Level up your character's skills, upgrade your weapons and armor at the shop, splatter or flatten zombies with a tank and grind your way through levels of the walking dead and bosses.





Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Zombie Shooter 2 in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Zombie Shooter 2. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.6
Wine: 1.6.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.6.2
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 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install


Click "Install a non-listed program"


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


Name your virtual drive: zombieshooter
Click Next


Check all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 1.6.2
Click Next


Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply


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


Installing Packages (Components, Libraries, DLL's)

Check the Following Packages:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_gdiplus
  
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next


Note: Each package requires a "no support agreement"; click "I agree"; each package will automatically download and install.

Installing Zombie Shooter 2

Click Browse


Select "setup_zombie_shooter2_2.1.0.8.exe"
Click Open


Click Next again

Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Click Options
Uncheck "Create desktop icon"
Click Install


Errors
At the end of the installation there will be a few errors
Click OK for all of them


Click Exit


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "ZombieShooter2.exe"
Click Next


Name your shortcut: Zombie Shooter 2
Click Next


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


PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Zombie Shooter 2"
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine version: 1.6.2
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 Zombie Shooter 2

Select "Zombie Shooter 2"
Click Run


Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Click Options


Adjust:

• Details
• Resolution
• Shadows
• Film Effect
• Vsync
• BW/Color
• Blood

Click OK


Widescreen Hack
The game only runs at 1024x768 and will appear windowed

Navigate to

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/zombieshooter/drive_c/GOG Games/Zombie Shooter 2

Open zombieshooter2.cfg


Go to

Code:

DefaultScreenX

Code:

DefaultScreenY

Replace the values with desired resolution
Save and close


Now open the "Maps" folder
Open CONST.LGC with a text editor
Navigate to

Code:

static int RT_SCREEN_X[]

Replace the 1280 with the desired resolution
Replace the 800 below it with the desired resolution


Launch Zombie Shooter 2 again and it should appear fullscreen in a widescreen resolution
The menu will still appear as 1024x768 but the game itsself will be widescreen.

HUD widescreen
The HUD may still appear in the middle of the screen at 1024x768
You can disable the HUD by pressing Tab
or
Go back to the Maps folder
Rename the .men files to your desired resolution:

• damageframe1920.men
• gamebar_gun1920.men
• gamebar_net1920.men

Conclusion:
Zombie Shooter 2 runs almost flawlessly. If you decide to use the widescreen hack, there are a few side effects like the screen panning strangely and the stereo audio might sound off here and there.
Otherwise, the game runs great with no performance issues on my Geforce 550 Ti.

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