Brothers In Arms Road to Hill 30 is based on a true story where 101st Airborne Paratroopers battle in France against the Nazi invasion. Not only is this a First Person Shooter, but its also a tactical team management game. Instruct your squad to Attack, Hold or Flank the enemy.





Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Brothers In Arms Road to Hill 30 in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Retail version of Brothers In Arms Road to Hill 30. Other versions may require additional steps.

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int 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.5
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 "Installa a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next


Name your virtual drive: brothersinarms
Click Next


Select 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


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


Installing Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2005

Note: All libraries will automatically download and install

Click Next


Installing Brothers In Arms

Note: If you have a Steam version install Steam Client instead of the retail version.

Select "Select another file"
Click Next


Click Browse


Navigate to your DVD ROM
Select Setup.exe
Click Open


Click Next

Select Language
Click Next

Click Install

Click "I Agree"

Click Next

Uncheck "directX 9.0c"
Uncheck "Desktop shortcut"
Click Next

Click Yes to proceed

Click Finish


Click "Never Register"
Click OK


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "bia.exe"
Click Next


Name your shortcut: Brothers In Arms
Click Next


Click Next

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Brothers In Arms"
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.


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


Miscellaneous Tab
Mouse warp override: force


Close Configure

Launching Brothers In Arms

Select Brothers In Arms
Click Run

Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs


Optimization

Click Options


Click Video

• Select a Resolution that matches your Linux desktop
• Set Vsync
• Adjust Anisotropic filtering

Click Apply


Click Back

Click Performance


Adjust Shadows, Reflections, Decals, Detail and Lighting
Click Apply


Exit Brothers In Arms
Relaunch Brothers In Arms

Rule of Thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates

Conclusion:
Brothers In Arms ran beautifully and had greate frame rates with a resolution of 1680x1050 and everything on high. I had a vew mouse problems with rotating the character, but setting Mouse override to "force" fixed it.

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