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Survival Crisis Z is an obscure indie title that features an open-world action elements. Survive random zombie horde attacks and help two opposing factions by completing missions and purchasing/selling weapons and merchandise.
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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Survival Crisis Z in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Tips & Specs:
To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained
Mint 17.2 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.9
Wine: 1.6.2
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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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
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Click Next
Downloading Wine
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Extracting
Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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Wine 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window
Download Survival Crisis Z
http://ska-studios.com/category/scz/
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PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch playOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "Install a non-listed program"
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Click Next
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name the virtual drive: scrisisz
Click Next
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Check all three options:
Click Next
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
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Select Wine 1.6.2
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply
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Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK
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PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, DLL's, Components)
Check the following packages:
Click Next
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
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Installing Survival Crisis Z
Click Browse
Select scz.exe
Click Open
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Click Next again
Default Destination is incorrect
Enter: C:\Program Files\Survivial Crisis Z\
Click Install
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "SCZ.exe"
Click Next
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Name the shortcut: Survival Crisis Z
Click Next
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Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
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Download missing DLL's
dx7vb.dll
http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files_new.php/dllfiles/D/dx7vb.dll/5.03.2600.2180/download.html
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dx8vb.dll
http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files_new.php/dllfiles/D/dx8vb.dll/5.03.2600.2180/download.html
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d3drm.dll
http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files_new.php/dllfiles/D/d3drm.dll/5.1.2600.0/download.html
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MSVBVM60.DLL
http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files.php/dllfiles/M/msvbvm60.dll/download.html
Move all 4 DLL's to Virtual Drive
Navigate to: /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/scrisisz/drive_c/Windows/System32
Drag-n-drop all the missing libraries to the System32 directory
Click "Replace"
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PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Survival Crisis Z"
Click Configure
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General Tab
Wine version: 1.6.2
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Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine.
Wine Tab
We need to activate two of those missing DLL's
Click "Command Prompt"
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Type:
Press EnterCode:regsvr32.exe dx7vb.dll
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Type:
Press EnterCode:regsvr32.exe dx8vb.dll
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Close the Command Prompt
Display Tab
Video Memory size: enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure
Launching Survival Crisis Z
Select "Survival Crisis Z"
Click Run
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Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs
Main Menu
Follow the instructions for creating a user, class and difficulty, etc
Conclusion:
Once you activate those DLL's with the command line, Survival Crisis Z runs perfectly in PlayOnLinux, but unfortunately it only runs in the resolution of 640x480. There are no resolution settings. I experienced a few random crashes, but the game seems to auto-save every time you talk to an NCP, so I didn't loose a lot of progress.
Still, its quite a fun action game with a lot of exploration and zombie slaying! Don't let your NCP's turn into zombies!
Gameplay Video:
Screenshots:
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