Advent Rising is a 3rd person action shooter in a Halo-inspired world. Actually, everything seems to be Halo-inspired from the enemies, story, weapons and vehicles. Save the human race from Seekers in a linear action packed world as you eliminate waves of alien enemies with an arsenal of weapons, driving vehicles and flying ships.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Advent Rising in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Advent Rising. Other versions may require additional steps.

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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: adventrising
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 (Libraries, DLL's, Components)

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_advent_rising_2.0.0.8.exe"
Click Open


Click Next again...

Click "Options"
Uncheck "Create desktop icons"
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Click Install


Click Exit


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "advent.exe"
Click Next


Name your shortcut: Advent Rising
Click Next


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


PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Advent Rising"
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

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


Close Configure

Launching Advent Rising

Select "Advent Rising"
Click Run


Note: Click Debug to see bugs and errors

Optimization

Click Options


Click Graphics Options


Adjust:

• Resolution
• Shadows
• Projectors
• Distortion Effects
• Dynamic Lights
• Draw Distance
• Fog Distance

Click Apply


Widescreen Setting

Open:

Code:

/home/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/adventrising/drive_c/Program Files/Advent Rising/SystemMydefault.ini

Change fullscreen settings to match your Linux Desktop:
FullscreenViewportY=1080
FullscreenViewportX=1920

Update the Widescreen setting to:
Widescreen=true

Click Save

Conclusion:
Advent Rising ran perfectly and at 1920x1080 once I enabled the widescreen setting. I never had any mouse/keyboard issues or graphical issues. It just ran flawlessly. The cutscenes are very low quality because they resize to fit the high resolution, but in-game its beautiful. The controls are kind of wacky, but you can get used to them.

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