Alone In The Dark: New Nightmare is the fourth installment of the series and was inspired by Resident Evil. Featuring amazing lighting effects as Edward Carnby walks around with a flashlight to reveal items and secrets behind the cover of darkness. Utilize many weapons and inventory items to kill evil demons, zombies, serphents and much more.
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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Alone In The Dark: New Nightmare in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of New Nightmare. 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"
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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
Download New Nightmare from GOG and save it in a folder on your desktop
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PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Select "Install a non-listed program"
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Click Next
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name your virtual drive: darknewnightmare
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
Applications 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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Installing Packages (Components, Libraries, DLL's)
Check the following packages:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_gdiplus
- POL_Install_tahoma
Click Next
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Note: All packages will automatically download and install.
Installing New Nightmare
Click Browse
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Navigate to the folder on your desktop
Select setup_alone_in_the_dark_the_new_nightmare_2.0.0.9.exe
Click Open
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Click Next
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Click Options
Uncheck "Create desktop icons"
Click Install
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After the installation is complete
Click Exit
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "launch.exe"
Click Next
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Name your shortcut: New Nightmare
Click Next
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PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "New 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: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure
Launching New Nightmare
Select New Nightmare
Click Run
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Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs
Click "Video Options"
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Select a screen resolution
For fullscreen choose the resolution that matches your Linux desktop
Check "High Quality"
click OK
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Click Play
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Click New Game
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Conclusion:
New Nightmare ran extrememly well. Mostly because its an older game from 2001 and will probably run well on any laptop or netbook. I didn't play the entire game, but never experienced any artifacts, bugs or mouse problems.
Gameplay Video:
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