Harry Potter Sorcerer's Stone Guide

Play as Harry Potter in The Sorcerer's Stone in an adventure, platformer and Quidditch flying game. Meet many of the famous Wizards and characters from the movies. Hop your way through linear levels and use your magic to find secrets and conqueror your enemies.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Retail version of Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 1.8.5

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 1.8.5
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 1.8.5 is installed and you can close this window

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install

Click "Install a non-listed program"

Click Next

Name the virtual drive: harrypotter
Click Next

Check all three options:

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

Click Next

Select Wine: 1.8.5
Click Next

Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next

Wine Configuration

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 (DLL, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next

Installing Harry Potter

Click "Select another file"
Click Next

Click Browse

Navigate to the Harry Potter CD ROM
Select "Setup.exe"
Click Open

Click Next again...

Enter the Key
Click OK

Click Next

Click Next

Click Yes

Click Next

Click No

Click "Register Later"

Click OK

Click OK

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "HP.exe"
Click Next

Name the shortcut: Harry Potter Sorcerer's Stone"
Click Next

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

PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Harry Potter"
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 1.8.5

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

Launching Harry Potter
Select "Harry Potter"
Click Run

Note: Click Debug to see bugs and errors

Click Options

Adjust:

• Resolution
• Color Depth
• Texture Detail
• Object Detail

Custom Resolution

Unfortunately the game only supports 1024x768 from the in-game menu
We can manually set the resolution ourselves as long as its a 3:4 ratio

Launch the game at least one time
Nativate to:

/home/username/Documents/Harry Potter/

Open HP.ini
Update the WxH resolutions in both of these sections:
[WinDrv.WindowsClient]
[XDrv.XClient]

You can set the games resolution as high as 1600x1200 and 32-bit color
Fullscreen - Set your Linux Desktop to 1600x1200 before launching

Conclusion:
Harry Potter the Scorcerer's Stone played really well on my GeForce GTX 950. It should run on just about any laptop since it's an older game. It was nice that 1600x1200 was supported, but had to be adjusted manually.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

Very good old harry potter game and good screens too

However chamber of secrets, i remember have problems with mouse input

 

I went through this process using PlayOnMac, which I assume is the same as above, but the game doesn't run. An error message says to insert the correct CD in the CD-ROM (which I did not remove after installing successfully), and then another message pops up saying "Error in Main. Harry Potter Sorcerer's Stone has crashed." The one thing I was not able to implement directly from this guide was the video chip memory, as the number that my MacBook uses was not listed (1536, I believe). Can someone help me?

 

Sure, I've seen this problem before as well. Wine always has a problem recognizing CD ROM and DVD drives.
One thing you can try is open configure, then go to the Wine Tab
Click Wine configuration
Then check the "drives" Tab and see if it has a CD ROM setup.
If not, you can create one and make sure it is set as the "D" drive

Then eject your Disk and re-enter it. Try the game again.
I don't remember if this game requires the disk in the drive to play, but normally I will copy all of the data off the disk to a folder on the desktop and install it from there.

 

I tried setting a CD-ROM to the D drive in the Configuration (Drives tab) as you suggested, but that didn't work. I also tried copying all the data from the disk to a folder on the desktop and installing it from there, but that didn't work either. I still get the same error. Thanks for your help!

 

Hmm, what version of PlayOnMac are you using? 4.3.4 is the current version.
Maybe you should try an older version like 3.0 or even 2.0
This is always a problem with CD ROM games. I think there is a DRM tied to the CD ROM and the game requires the disk in the drive to play. Sadly...

Also, maybe Mac has the same problem as Linux with unmounting disks...
I have to unmount the disk before removing the CD from the drive. Otherwise, if I just eject and grab the disk, Linux still thinks its mounted for some reason?

 

My game is running super fast, the movies are so fast that stuff gets skipped, the timers are a bit faster, and I and every other npc is zumming around the map.

 

Hi, did you post on the YouTube video as well?
Did you follow all the instructions in this guide?

I have never experienced a game running too fast with Wine. I have seen it in DOSBox, but not Wine.

What version of PlayOnLinux are you running?

 

Hi, did you post on the YouTube video as well?
Did you follow all the instructions in this guide?

I have never experienced a game running too fast with Wine. I have seen it in DOSBox, but not Wine.

What version of PlayOnLinux are you running?

yes, that was me on the youtube
I am using PlayOnLinux 4.2.10 as seen in the help menue.

 

Hi, did you post on the YouTube video as well?
Did you follow all the instructions in this guide?

I have never experienced a game running too fast with Wine. I have seen it in DOSBox, but not Wine.

What version of PlayOnLinux are you running?

Okay i just reinstalled the poe or what ever for fun, it fixed the probblem, but it came back -slowly. I was at the 1st herbolgy clase, were I learn the incindio spell. I was were I met the 1st blue butterfly thing, were the vines were attacking the tree, by the time I got melfory and the chase for the remball, after like 2 or so retrys, it had sped back up to the super speed mode. I fear later on in the game, this speed hike will make it almost enbeatable.

 

Very strange for sure!
Make sure to download the newest version of PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Then download Wine 4.0 with the Wine manager. That might help...

 

So with the newest version of whin Hq it installs and plays just fine, no need to tweek or anything.
I even had luck runng it from the play on linux install folder. Yet for some resion I could not get your methode to worke. I am on mint cinnom 18 by the by

 

Interesting. Probably because of the PlayOnLinux version.
The older versions have unsupported versions of Wine.

Thank you for posting your solution!