Serving as a mercenary of Valdis army with a race of Dark Wizards you will escape to the Dryads and become a slave. Earn your freedom but discover you are afflicted with a plague that drives you mad. Complete quests and explore to find pieces of the shield in order to reforge it as a weapon again Valdis.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Dungeon Siege 2 in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Dungeon Siege 2. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

Try SteamPlay before using this guide as Valve now uses a fork of Wine called Proton and should run most Windows games.

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

Wine Installation

Note: Wine versions older than 2.0.2 and 2.12-staging no longer work with Steam.

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.8
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 1.8 is installed and you can close this window

Downloading Steam

Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam


Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click "Windows" under the green button


Navigate to your desktop
Click Save


PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install


Click "install a non-listed program"


Click Next

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


Name your virtual drive: dungeonsiege2
Click Next


Select all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 1.8
Click Next


Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Configure Wine

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply


Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Check: Emulate a virtual desktop
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click Ok


PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)

Check the following libraries:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2005

Click Next


Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Steam

Click Browse


Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open


Click Next

Click Next

Check: I accept the license...
Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Install

Click Finish

Updating Steam

Click the "X" to close Steam login


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select Steam.exe
Click Next


Name your shortcut: Dungeon Siege 2
Click Next


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


PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure


General Tab
Arguments: -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox
This fixes the missing font problem and the store problem


Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of wine

Display Tab
Video Memory Size: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses


Close Configure

Launching Steam

Select Dungeon Siege 2
Click Run


Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Click "Login to existing account"


Login


Select Dungeon Siege 2 in your Steam Library
Click Install


Uncheck "Create desktop shortcut"
Uncheck "Create start menu shortcut"
Click Next


Click "I agree"


Click Finish


Click Play


Optional Shortcut
Note: You may have to delete the original steam shortcut
Click Configure


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


Select "DungeonSiege2.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: Dungeon Siege 2
Click Next


Select "DS2VideoConfig.exe"
Click Next


Name this shortcut: Dungeon Siege Config
Click Next


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


Optimization

Click Options


Click Video Tab

Adjust:

• Screen resolution
• Shadows
• Texutre filtering
• Gamma
• Object detail
• Shaders

Click OK


Conclusion:
Dungeon Siege 2 refused to run fullscreen in widescreen resolutions. So you either have to set your Linux Desktop to 1280x1024 or 1024x768 or play it windowed on any resolution you want. Everything else ran perfectly. I just wish they had mouse-follow implemented so you don't have to keep clicking to move your characters.

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