first person shooters

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl is a long anticipated First Person Shooter with Role Playing elements in a Sci-Fi Post Nuclear zone in Russia.

With Graphical capabilities beyond its time S.T.A.L.K.E.R had lasted the test-of-time. Even today its still graphically beautiful with plenty of eye-candy even for mediocre hardware.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow Of Chernobyl in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow Of Chernobyl. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 1.8.3

Wine Installation

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There are still a lot of favorite Steam games that won't run in Linux. So, I thought it would be nice to have a step-by-step guide on how to install WinSteam with PlayOnLinux

I found it to be fairly easy to install and restore my backed up games from Windows. I am dual-booting Mint & Windows 7 so I can easily access my Steam games from the Windows 7 partition. This saved me a lot of time because I didn't have to download each game through Steam. Instead I did a quick copy & paste to migrate my games after Steam was installed.



Tips & Specs

Try SteamPlay before using this guide as Valve now uses a fork of Wine called Proton and should run most Windows games.

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

Mint 16 32-bit
PlayOnLinux ver: 4.2.2
Wine version: 1.6.2

Installing Wine

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