The Wild Eight is a Wilderness Survival in the frozen forests of Alaska. Your plane has crashed and you wake up with absolutely nothing. Learn to craft tools using the environment and to make shelter before you freeze to death.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing The Wild Eight in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Itch.io Demo version of The Wild Eight. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.11-staging 64-bit
DXVK: 1.2.3

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 4.11-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Installed


Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.11-staging
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Wine 4.11-staging 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window

Download The Wild Eight Demo
Save to your Desktop
https://head.itch.io/thewildeight

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: thewildeight
Click Next


Check all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 4.11-staging
Click Next


Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7


Libraries Tab
Type the following Libraries:

• d3d10
• d3d10_1
• d3d10core
• d3d11
• dxgi

Select one at a time
Click Edit
Change to "native (Windows)"
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_tahoma

Click Next


Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Click Cancel
The Wild Eight Demo does not have an installer


Open "The Wild eight Pre-Alpha Demo v1.1"
Click Extract


Navigate to the virtual drive "Program Files"
Full Path:

Code:

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

Click Extract


Click "Show the Files"


Installing DXVK

Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.2.3
Download dxvk-1.2.3.tar.gz
Extract to your Desktop
Open the x64 directory
copy all DLLs


Paste the DLLs in the Game Directory
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/thewildeight/drive_c/Program Files/The Wild Eight Pre-Alpha Demo v1.1

For more instructions on how to setup DXVK
http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/dxvk-guide.2540/

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure


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


Select "thewildeight.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: The Wild Eight


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


Select The Wild Eight on the Left Side

General Tab
Wine Version: 4.11-staging


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 The Wild Eight
Select "The Wild Eight"
Click Run


Note: Click debug to see bugs and errors

Unity Launcher
Adjust:

• Screen resolution
• Graphics Quality
• Monitor

Click Play


Conclusion:
The Wild Eight is a pretty fun survival game with all the expected crafting techniques. Your character can upgrade abilities and craft more useful item as the game continues. Unfortunately there is no save feature in the demo, so if you quit... you loose all of you progress.

Gameplay Video:


Screenshots: