Eidolon Guide

Eidolon is an open-world, survival game where you explore and learn about the lost civilizations after a massive earthquake. Hunt with a bow, fish, gather berries & mushrooms, explore the remains of a city and enjoy the surreal graphical simplicity.

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

Note: This guide applies to the Humble Bundle version of Eidolon. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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

Name your virtual drive: eidolon
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 PlayOnLinux Packages (Components, DLL's, Libraries)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_dotnet40
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2010

Click Next

Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Eidolon (Humble Bundle Download)

Click Browse

Select "UDKInstall-Eidolon1421086697.exe"
Click Open

Click Next

Click "I Accept"

Click Install

Installing...

Uncheck "Launch EIDOLON"
Click Finished

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select UDK.exe
Click Next

Name your shortcut: Eidolon
Click Next

Click Next again...

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Eidolon
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 1.6.2

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

Close Configure

Launching Eidolon

Select Eidolon
Click Run

Note: Clicking Debug will show errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Settings

Select the resolution to match your Linux Desktop

Adjust:

• View Distance
• Cloud Density
• Fauna Density

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

Conclusion:
Eidolon ran very nice on my GeForce 550 Ti. Frame rates were great due to the fact that there is not texures in-game. Everything is solid colors and vector-based. Loading, saving, inventory, and all interactions worked perfectly in UDK with PlayOnLinux. This game is DRM Free, so you can purchase it and download the game files right from Humble Bundle.


Screenshots:

 

This game looks really interesting. I think I'll have to look for some videos online to see the gameplay.

 

Its a little slow for my tastes, but the visuals are very beautiful and epic in its simplicity. I found myself walking and walking and walking but admiring all the changing colors as the sun goes down and comes back up again.