Call of Juarez Bound in Blood is another FPS installment of the Old West with the McCall brothers. Fight together in the Civil War and the West to find the Gold of Juarez. Play as Ray or Thomas, choose a variety of guns to slay bandits, soldiers and other enemies. Mount horses, drive wagons or row canoes across beautiful wild west landscapes.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Call of Juarez Bound in Blood in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Call of Juarez Bound in Blood. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0.2
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 4.0.2
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Installed
Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0.2
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Downloading Wine 64-bit
Installed
Wine 4.0.2 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, 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: cojboundinblood
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 4.0.2
click Next
Select "64 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 (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- POL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Note: All packages should automatically download and install
Click Browser
Select "setup_call_of_juarez_bound_in_blood_1.1.0.0_(32412).exe"
Click Open
Click Next again...
Click OK
Click Options
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Uncheck "Create desktop icon"
Click Install
Click Exit
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "CojBiBGame_x86.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: COJ Bound In Blood
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "COJ Bound In Blood"
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 4.0.2
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
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see bugs and errors
Optimization
Click Options
Click "Video"
Adjust:
- Resolution
- Material quality
- Texture quality
- Full screen
- Shadows
- Shadow map size
- Foliage quality
- FX quality
- Max refresh rate
Conclusion:
Call of Juarez Bound in Blood ran perfectly in PlayOnLinux with stable Wine alone. No need for DXVK or staging versions of Wine. My GeForce GTX 1060 handled the game perfectly and had great frame rates.
The only problem I noticed was the logo videos in the beginning. Just press any key to skip them as you will only see a black screen.
Gameplay Video:
Screenshots:
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