Once again you play as Alan Wake the Champion of Light and your dark arena is the dry desert of Arizona. Expose the darkness with weapons of light, kill minions with a variety of weapons and search for answers in dark desert landscapes.
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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Alan Wake American Nightmare in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Alan Wake American Nightmare. Other versions may require additional steps.
Tips & Specs:
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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.5
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
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
click Install
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Click "Install a non-listed program"
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Click Next
Select "Instal a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name your virtual drive: awnightmare
Click Next
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Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Click Next
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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
Application 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, Components)
Check the following packages:
Click Next
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_gdiplus
- POL_Install_tahoma
Note: All packages will automatically download and install
Installing Alan Wake American Nightmare
Click Browse
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Select "setup_alan_wake_american_nightmare_2.1.0.24.exe"
Click Open
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Click Next again
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Uncheck "Create desktop icons"
Click Install
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When the game is finished installing...
Click Exit
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "alan_wakes_american_nightmare.exe"
Click Next
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Name your shortcut "American Nightmare"
Click Next
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Click Next again
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select American Nightmare
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
Display Tab
Video memory size: Select the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure
Launching Alan Wake American Nightmare
Select American Nightmare
Click Run
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Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Optimization
Click "Help & Options"
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Click Graphics
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Select resolution, fullscreen, vsync, blur, or Advanced Options
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Select a preset Graphics Quality or custom and set it yourself.
Adjust:
- Antialiasing
- FXAA Quality
- Anisotropic Filtering
- SSAO quality
- Backdrop Quality
- Godray Quality
- Volumetric Light Quality
- Draw Distance
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IMPORTANT
SSAO Quality needs to be OFF
Otherwise you will see a bunch artifacts on the grass.
Note: I couldn't find an "apply" button, so it should automatically apply for you or just restart the game. I was also unable to set the resolution, so I left it as 1024x768 and yet it was 1680x1050 fullscreen anyways.
Conclusion:
American Nightmare ran exceptionally well with minimal crashes. If it did crash randomly, I would just start up the game again and most of the time I continued from where I left off. After I figured out the grass problem with Ambient Occlusion, the game looked beautiful. I love all the light visuals like the flares and flashlight.
Gameplay Video:
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