Its 1920 in a remote English village. You play as a Priest who is demonized by lies and fear... Enjoy high resolution and explore detailed environments. Solve surreal puzzles to prove your own innocence in this epic horror adventure.



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

Note: This guide applies to the itch.io demo version of Gray Dawn. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0
DXVK 1.0.1

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 4.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Installed


Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Downloading Wine 64-bit


Installed


Wine 4.0 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install


Click "Install a non-listed program"


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


Name the virtual drive: graydawn
Click Next


Click all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 4.0
Click Next


Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7


Libraries Tab
Enter the following libraries:

• d3d10
• d3d10_1
• d3d10core
• d3d11
• dxgi

Select each one and click Edit
Select "Windows (Native)" for each library
Click OK on each one
Click Apply


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_d3dx9
• POL_Install_physx
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_xact

Click Next


Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Do not click "Browse"
Click Cancel because Gray Dawn does not have an installer


Download Gray Dawn demo from itch.io
https://interactivestone.itch.io/gray-dawn
Save it to your Desktop
Open with your Archive Manager
Click Extract


Navigate to Program Files
Full path: /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/graydawn/drive_c/Program Files
Click New Folder
Name it Gray Dawn
Open it
Click Extract


Click "Show the Files"


Installing DXVK

More information: Setting up DXVK

Download DXVK 1.0.1
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.0.1
Open the 64-bit directory
Copy all DLLs


Paste them in the GrayDawn-Win64-Shipping.exe Folder
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/graydawn/drive_c/Program Files/GrayDawn/GrayDawn/Binaries/Win64/

Also paste them in the CrashReportClient.exe Folder as well
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/graydawn/drive_c/Program Files/GrayDawn/Engine/Binaries/Win64/

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure


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


Select "GrayDawn.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: Gray Dawn
Click Next


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


Back to Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 4.0


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

Select "Gray Dawn"
Click Run


Note: Click debug to see bugs and errors

Warning, Gray Dawn may crash the first time. Try launching it again and it should work.

Optimization
Click Options


Click Video


Adjust:

• Resolution
• Fullscreen
• Quality
• Vsync

Click Apply


Conclusion:
At first launch the game crashed with out any serious errors... so after running it again the game launched perfectly. It also ran a bit slow on my GeForce GTX 1060, so I turned off Vsync in the video options. Then it ran much smoother.

Turns out, as I kept playing the demo, there are some outside areas that do not run very smoothly. Adjusting video settings in-game doesn't help much as it doesn't adjust properly.
Working on a solution...

Gameplay Video:


Screenshots: