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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3 in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Retail version of Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.6
Wine: 1.6.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


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


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 1.6.2 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 your virtual drive: proskater3
Click Next


Check all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 1.6.2
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


Installing PlayOnLinux Packages (Components, Libraries, DLL's)

Check the following packages:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next


Note: All packages will automatically download and install.

Installing Pro Skater 3

Select "Select another file"
Click Next


Click Browse


Navigate to your Tony Hawk Pro Skate 3 CD ROM
Select "setup.exe"
Click Open


Click Next again...

Click Next

Click Yes

Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Install

After completing installation...
Desktop shortcut
Click "No"


Check "Register Later"
Click Next


Check "Install later"
Click Next


Check "do not install DirectX 8.1"
Click Finish


Click finish


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Skate3.exe"
Click Next


Name your shortcut: Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3
Click Next


PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3"
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine Version: 1.6.2


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

Launching Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3

Select Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3
Click Run


Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Setup

Options Tab
Adjust Quality, Resolution and Performance
Click OK


Note: Pro Skater 3 does not support widescreen resolutions. You will need to ajust your Linux desktop resolution to 2048x1024 first, then launch Pro Skater 3 to simulate full-screen.

Conclusion:
Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3 ran really well on my GeForce 550 Ti. No bugs, graphical artifacts or anything else. I was not able to configure my controller in the setup, but the keyboard works well with WSAD and Num pad. I also did not test the network game because I only have one copy.
Creating a custom skater worked perfectly as well.

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