Aron's Adventure is a clever low poly Dark-Souls-ish 3rd person action adventure. The demo starts you later in the game where a siege of goblins and zombies are attacking the castle. Sneak or fight your way into the castle and fight side-by-side with whats left of the soldiers. Use bow & arrows or your sword & shield with special attacks, kicks and dodges to survive.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Aron's Adventure in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Itch.io Demo version of Aron's Adventure. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0
DXVK: 1.0.3

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 4.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Extracting

Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Downloading Wine 64-bit



Installed



Wine 4.0 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window

Download Aron's Adventure
Go to: https://timergames.itch.io/arons-adventure
Save the demo on your Desktop

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install



Click "Install a non-listed program"



Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next



Name the virtual drive: aronsadventure
Click Next



Check all three options:

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

Click Next



Select Wine 4.0
Click Next



Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next



Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7



Libraries Tab
Type the following:

• d3d10
• d3d10_1
• d3d10core
• d3d11
• dxgi
• xaudio2_7

Select one at a time
Click Edit
Select "Native (Windows)"
Click Apply



Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK



PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_physx
• POL_Install_vcrun2012
• POL_Install_vcrun2013

Click Next



Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Do not click "Browse"
Aron's Adventure Demo does not have an installer
Click Cancel



Open "Demo Build V1.31" with Archive Manager
Click Extract



Navigate to the Program Files directory
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/aronsadventure/drive_c/Program Files/

Click Extract



Click "Show the Files"

Installing DXVK

Download DXVK 1.0.3
Save to your Desktop and extract
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.0.3

Open x64 directory
Copy all DLLs



Paste the DLLs in the Win63 Directory
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/aronsadventure/drive_c/Program Files/Demo Build V1.31/DungeonGame/Binaries/Win64/

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure



General Tab
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"



Select "AronsAdventure.exe"
Click Next



Name the shortcut: Aron's Adventure
Click Next



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



General Tab
Wine version: 4.0



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



Visual C 2015 Install

Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Open a shell"



Copy/Paste:
Code:

Code:

wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks

Press Enter

Copy/Paste
Code:

Code:

chmod +x winetricks

Press Enter

Copy/Paste
Code:

Code:

WINEPREFIX=/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/aronsadventure ./winetricks -q vcrun2015

Press Enter

Note: Replace "username" with your login



Close Shell

Direct X 2010 Runtime

This will fix the stuttering audio with DirectX 11 games
Go to: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=8109
Download and Save to your Desktop in a Folder

Back to Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run a .exe file in this virtual drive"



Select directx_jun2010_redist.exe
Click Open



Click Yes

Click Browse
Extract on your Desktop in the same folder
(it will extract many files...)
Click OK



Back to Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run an exe in this virtual drive" again



Navigate to the extracted Direct X files
Select "DXSETUP.exe"
Click Open



Select "I accept the agreement"
Click Next



Click Finish when its complete



Set Wine to Windows 10

Wine Tab
Click "Configure Wine"



Applications Tab
Select Windows 10
Click OK



Close Configure

Aron's Adventure First Launch

Select "Aron's Adventure"
Click Run



Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click "Settings Menu"



Click Video



Adjust:

• Resolution
• V-Sync
• Gamma
• Brightness
• Presets

Click Advanced
Adjust:

• Volumetric Fog
• Resolution Scale
• Sharpening
• Foliage Density
• Anti-Aliasing
• Post Processing
• Shadow Quality
• Texture Quality
• Effect Quality
• Motion Blur
• View Distace Scale
• Click "Apply Settings"
• Click "Close Settings"

Conclusion:
Aron's Adventure ran perfectly with DXVK and Wine 4.0 on my GeForce GTX 1060. Frame rates were great, mouse an keyboard were responsive and I was able to quit and continue playing the demo without bugs. Some day Wine will fix the audio issues so we do not have to install DirectX 2010 Runtime. This demo is amazing and I can't wait to see a finished game!

Gameplay Video:


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