Ghost Master is a real-time strategy game where you manage your crew of Ghosts and scare the begeezee's out of sorority girls, red-neck families, fraternaty boys and many other victims. Customize your ghosts's powers to create spine-tingling effects and terrorize them to death.



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

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Ghost Master. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.9
Wine: 1.7.51-staging

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.8
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 1.8 is installed and you can close this window

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: ghostmaster
Click Next


Check all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 1.8
Click Next


Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Wine Configuration

Application 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


Note: Ghost Master only supports 4:3 resolutions. You will have to set the virtual desktop to 1600x1200 later on if you want to play at the highest 4:3 resolution. Otherwise, leaving it at 1024x768 will always play in windowed mode.

PlayOnLinux Packages (Dll's, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next


Note: All libraries will download and install automatically

Installing Ghost Master
Click Browse


Select: setup_ghost_master_2.0.0.2.exe
Click Open


Click Next again

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


When the installation is done
Click Exit


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "ghost.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: Ghost Master
Click Next


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


PlayOnLinux Configure

Select Ghost Master
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine version: 1.8


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


Running Ghost Master

Select Ghost Master
Click Run


Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Options


Click Display Tab

Adjust:

• Resolution
• Graphics Quality
• Texture Quality
• Gamma
• Cursor

Click Accept


Note: Set your Linux desktop to 1600x1200 and then set the game at 1600x1200 for fullscreen

Conclusion:
Ghost Master played perfectly in PlayOnLinux on my GeForce 550 Ti. No performance issues or input issues at all. When setting the fullscreen resolution, I had some issues getting the game to set at 1600x1200, but it eventually worked.

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