Elite Force is a sci-fi wave-based First Person Shooter. Upgrade your weapons, abilities and protect your based from waves of enemies and a boss. Developed by Fractured Games, but as far as I can tell it is no longer under development.



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

Note: This guide applies to the MajorGeeks version of Elite Force. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 4.0.2
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Installed


Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0.2
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Downloading Wine 64-bit


Installed


Wine 4.0.2 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window

Download Elite Force on MajorGeeks
Go to: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/elite_force.html

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: eliteforce
Click Next


Check all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 4.0.2
Click Next


Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7


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_tahoma

Click Next


Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Do not click Browse
Elite Force does not have an installer
Click Cancel


Open the zip file with Archive Manager
Click Extract


Navigate to the Program Files directory in the wineprefix
Full path:

Code:

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

Click the new folder button
Name the folder: eliteforce
Click Create
Click Extract


PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure


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


Select "Elite Force 64.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: Elite Force
Click Next


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


Back to Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 4.0.2


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

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


Close Configure

Run Elite Force

Select "Elite Force"
Click Run


Note: Click debug to see bugs and errors

Unity 3D Options
Adjust:

• Screen resolution
• Graphics Quality
• Windowed
• Input

Conclusion:
Elite Force ran perfectly on my GeForce GTX 1060. I was able to play through a bunch of waves and bosses without performance issues or crashing. I'm pretty sure Fractured Games has abandoned this project, but its still a fully functional demo and its free.

Gameplay Video:



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