Beyond Good and Evil is an arcade action adventure game where you play as Jade the reporter. Battle aliens, solve puzzles, take pictures, race your hovercraft & travel to different cities.
![]()
![]()
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Beyond Good and Evil in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Beyond Good and Evil. Other versions may require additional steps.
Tips & Specs:
To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained
Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.4
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"
![]()
Click Next
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
![]()
Name your virtual drive: beyondgoodevil
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
![]()
PlayOnLinux Packages (Components, DLL's, Libraries)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_gdiplus
- POL_Install_dsound
- POL_Install_tahoma
Click Next
![]()
Note: All libraries will automatically download and install
Installing Beyond Good and Evil
Click Browse
![]()
Select "setup_beyond_good_and_evil_2.0.0.5.exe"
Click Open
![]()
Click Next
File Integrity
![]()
Check End User License Agreement
Click Options
Uncheck Adobe Reader
Uncheck Desktop icons
![]()
Installing
![]()
Click "Exit Installer"
![]()
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "BGE.exe"
Click Next
![]()
Name your shortcut: Beyond Good & Evil
Click Next
![]()
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Select "Beyond Good & Evil"
Click Configure
![]()
General Tab
Wine version: 1.6.2
![]()
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"
Select "SettingsApplication.exe"
Click Next
![]()
Name your shortcut: BGE Settings
Click Next
![]()
Display Tab
Video memory size: Select the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
![]()
Remove Widescreen bars
Wine Tab
Click Registry Editor
![]()
Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Expand Software
Expand Ubisoft
Expand Beyond Good & Evil
Expand SettingsApplication.INI
Expand Basic video
![]()
Right-click
Select New
Select DWORD Value
![]()
Type: NoBands
Press Enter
![]()
Doubleclick NoBands
Type: 1
Click OK
![]()
Should look like this
![]()
Close Registry Editor
Close Configure
Optimization
Select BGE Settings
Click Run
Select resolution
Click Save
![]()
Advanced Settings
Adjust Water detail, Antialiasing, Flare, Shadows quality and Compatibility
Make sure to uncheck Triple-buffering and W buffer & HW Vertex Processing
Click Save
Click Quit
![]()
Conclusion:
Beyond runs pretty good on my GeForce 550 Ti. Some of the audio is out of sync during the cutscenes. But the game itsself has a great frame rate and is totally playable and quite fun.
I was happy that the widescreen bars can be removed via registry. Now it runs great in fullscreen.
Video:
Screenshots:
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
Comments
Discussion in 'Guides' started by booman, Aug 22, 2014.
XenPorta
© Jason Axelrod from 8WAYRUN.COM