Albedo Eyes From Outer Space Guide

Albedo Eyes From Outer Space is a First Person Shooter Mystery Puzzle Adventure. Manipulate objects, complete mini-games, solve puzzles and attack alien enemies. Of of this with a 60's sci-fi B-movie theme.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Albedo Eyes From Outer Space in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Albedo Eyes From Outer Space. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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

Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 1.8.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 1.8.2
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 1.8.2 is installed and you can close this window

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: albedo
Click Next

Check all three options:

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

Click Next

Select Wine 1.8.2
Click Next

Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next

Wine Configuration

Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply

Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Click OK

PlayOnLinux Packages (DLL's, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_gdiplus
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next

Click Browse

Select "setup_albedo_eyes_from_outer_space_2.0.0.1.exe"
Click Open

Click Next again...

Click OK

Click Options
Uncheck "Create desktop icon"
Check "Yes, I have aread and accept EULA"
Click Install

When the installation is complete
Multiple Errors
Click OK on all of them

Click Exit

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Albedo.exe"
Click Next

Click Next again...

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

PlayOnLinux Configure

Select Albedo
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 1.8.2

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 Albedo & Optimization

Select Albedo
Click Run

Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Click options

Click Graphics

Adjust Resolution and Preset
Set Fullscreen

Note: Changing resolution applies immediately. They keys is to hold the left-mouse button as you rotate the dial to the desired resolution. Make sure to match your Linux desktop resolution. Otherwise, any resolution that is not supported may break the game each time you launch.

Click Advanced

Adjust:

• Quality
• Shaders
• Rendering
• Mesh LOD
• Material LOD
• Motion FX
• Reflections
• A.Occlusion
• VSync
• Brightness

Rule of Thumb:
Higher settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Lowere settings = Less detail, higher frame rates

Conclusion:
Albedo Eyes From Outer Space installed and ran perfectly on my GeForce 9800, 550 Ti and GTX 950. The only issues I experiences was related to screen resolution. I recommend setting the in-game resolution to match your Linux Desktop resolution.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

I got this one dirt cheap on a Humble Bundle and I haven't played it yet, I'll download it and test it out with this setup.

As always, thanks for the manual Booman.

 

Yes, please let me know if it runs on your system as well. I was able to run it on my old GeForce 9800. No problem!!!

 

Dang it, the Humble Bundle version comes with no .exe installer, just a folder with the game inside... I could do a .exe installer (with InstallForge for example) out of the files/subfolders inside it but I wonder if there is a workaround were you can set up the folder with the .exe launcher and tell PlayOnLinux to launch it with some config instead of the whole installation.

 

Yes, just created a virtual drive in PlayOnLinux by going to Configure first. Click New and then name the virtual drive. After that you will still have to do the wine configuration and add components:

• corefonts
• d3dx9
• tahoma

Then all you do is extract all the Humble Bundle files into the virtual drive "drive_c/Program Files" directory.
Then go back to Configure for that new virtual drive and create a shortcut to the executable.
Last, Play!

 

Worked, I didn't knew you could do that, tsk! I'm such a PlayOnLinux rookie. Works perfectly on 1920x1080 either fullscreen or windowed.

 

Sure can... there is more than one way to install a game... or even run a game.
I'm glad you can setup a virtual drive and run executables without having to install them. There are a lot of games that don't have an installer, so this works perfectly.
Enjoy