Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb takes you on an action adventure with Indie through Aztec Dungeons, Jungles and epic ruins. Sneak past mercenaries or take them out with your whip, pistol, shotguns or even hand to hand. Each ruin presents challenging jump tricks and stealth kills to reach the exit.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb . Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 1.8.4

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.8.4
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 1.8.4 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 the virtual drive: indianajones
Click Next


Check all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 1.8.4
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


PlayOnLinux Packages (DLL's, Components, Libraries)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next


Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Click Browse

Select "setup_indiana_jones_and_the_emperors_tomb_2.0.0.6.exe"
Click Open


Click Next again...

Click Options
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Uncheck "Create Desktop icon"
Click Install


You will get several installation errors
They do not affect the game's installation
Click OK


Click Exit


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "indy.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: Indiana Jones
Click Next


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


PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Indiana Jones"
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine version: 1.8.4


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

Wine Tab
Click Registry Editor


Artifacts Fix

Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER - Software - Wine - Direct3D


Right click and select "New"
Click "DWORD Value"


Name the DWORD: MaxShaderModelVS


Close Registry

Back to Wine Tab


Click Wine Configuration again...


Libraries Tab
Click Drop-Down Menu
Search for: msvcrt
Select msvcrt
Click Add


You have added Library: mscvrt (native,builtin)
Click OK


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


Launching Indiana Jones

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Indiana Jones"
Clcik Run


Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Options


Click Display


Adjust:

• Resolution
• Bit Depth
• Brightness
• Subtitles
• Shadows

Setting Custom Resolution

Go to:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/indianajones/drive_c/GOG Games/Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb/GameData/indy

Note: Replace username with your login

Open vars.cfg


Find the res_height line


Change it to:
res_height=1600
res_width=1200

Or enter whatever 4:3 resolution you want...
Click Save


Now Display shows the current resolution


Before you launch Indiana Jones
Make sure to change the desktop resolution to match the vars.cfg height/width
Or you will get this error


Conclusion:
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb ran perfectly on my GeForce GTX 950 with a resolution of 1600x1200. After I found out about the registry fix msvcrt, the graphical artifacts were gone as well.

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