Black Dawn Guide

Renegade X is an indie-made multi-player FPS and vehicular combat game based on Command & Conquer.
Black Dawn is the single player campaign with co-operative A.I. to introduce you to the Renegade X game, weapons, vehicles, characters and enviroments.

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

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Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 3.2
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 3.2 is installed and you can close this window

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: blackdawn
Click Next

Check all three options:

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

Click Next

Select Wine: 3.2
Click Next

Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next

Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7

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

PlayOnLinux Packages (DLL's, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_dotnet40
• POL_Install_dxfullsetup
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2010

Click Next

Note: All packages will download and install automatically

Installing Black Dawn

Go to: Renegade X Website
Click "Download this file"
Save BlackDawn.exe to your Desktop

Click browse

Select "BlackDawn.exe"
Click Open

Click Next again...

UDK EULA
Click "I Accept"

Click "Install"

Uncheck "Launch Renegade X Black Dawn"
Click Finished

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "UDK.exe"
Click Next

Name the shortcut: Black Dawn
Click Next

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

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Black Dawn"
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 3.2

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 Black Dawn

Select "Black Dawn"
Click Run

Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Settings

Adjust:

• Screen Resolution
• Screen Mode
• Graphics Preset
• Anti-Aliasing
• Anisotropic Filtering

Click Apply

Conclusion:
Black Dawn ran really well on my GeForce GTX 1060. There were a few moments where the frame rates are really low, but otherwise performance was good.
Look out for Renegade X multi-player as well.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

Where did you get that blackdown.exe file can't find it. i went to renegade-x.com hit download but game doesn't lunch is says i need dotnet 4.5

 

I'm having hard time trying to install this i get this

Are those packages right you put in guide

 

I'm sorry, looks like I forgot to include the Black Dawn link:
https://renegade-x.com/files/file/2-black-dawn/

Also, I didn't install Dotnet 45. There is a way to do it manually, but Dotnet40 should work fine if windows is set to Windows 7

 

yeah I get that error for some reason every time I try and install it

 

I'll try and re-install it again.... dotnet40 should have handled it, but maybe it didn't install right?

Here are the manual steps for installing dotnet45, but it produces a LOT of errors.
Installing Dot Net Framework 4.6


Start PlayOnLinux

Click Configure

Select virtual drive shortcut (left side)


Miscellaneous Tab

Click "Open a Shell"

Copy/Paste:

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

Press Enter


Copy/Paste

chmod +x winetricks

Press Enter


Copy/Paste

WINEPREFIX=/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/blackdawn ./winetricks -q dotnet45

IMPORTANT

Replace "username" with your Linux login name

Press Enter

Wait for confirmation & ignore errors

 

I'm on older version of Linux Mint. 18.1. Is this why

 

I don't think that would matter as long as you are using PlayOnLinux 4.2.12 and Wine 3.2
You can also try Wine 2.21-staging

I'm surprised its asking for dotnet45 because Black Dawn is an older title made with UDK. Dotnet 45 wasn't even available back then.

Are you installing Renegade X by chance?

 

its not asking for dotnet45. It just shows that error in my Mint 18.1 Cinnamon. I was just asking before how you would install it and if it actually works with games in wine. If you tried it at all. Do you know if the Renegade X one works speaking of that one.

But i managed to install the game in my Arch install and it works. So it might be Linux Mint 18.1 if you can confirm this on another harddrive. But what i'm going to to is to make sure is copy the installed game from playonlinux to that cinnamon mint 18.1 to see if it is the game or something else.

I was actually reading about that error i got and it was saying it had to do with windows xp sp3 pack i needed they where saying it got upgraded but not sure it runs like you had it fine in Arch. So i'm thinking its old Mint maybe?

 

Sure I'll try Black Dawn on another computer at home. I do remember the game will not launch properly without dotnet40 installed. I crashes every time, but after installing it, you will see a UDK license agreement screen. So that is your confirmation that the correct version of dotnet is installed.

Still strange that its erroring about dotnet45
Glad you still got it running.

And yes, when manually installing dotnet45 or vcrun2015 it will change your OS back to Windows XP