Jade Empire Guide

Enter an epic story in the Jade Empire as a marshal-arts student becomes a master. Choose your own side through tons of dialog and level up your characters abilities as you combat with Marshal Styles, Magic Styles, Weapon Styles, Transformation Styles and more.

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

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Jade Empire. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.8
Wine: 1.7.42staging

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.42staging
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Note: I also recommend installing Wine 1.6.2

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 1.7.42staging is installed and you can close this window

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: jadeempire
Click Next

Check all three options:

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

Click Next

Select Wine 1.7.42staging
Click Next

Select "32 bit 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 (Libraries, Components, DLL's)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3d9
• POL_Install_gdiplus
  
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next

Note: The packages will automatically download and install

Click Browse

Select "setup_jade_empire_#.#.#.#.exe"
Click Open

Click Next again

Check "Yes I have read and accept EULA"
Click Options
Uncheck "Create desktop icons"
Click Install

DirectX 9.0c
Click No

Click Exit

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "JadeEmpireLauncher.exe"
Click Next

Name your shortcut: Jade Empire Launcher
Click Next

Select "JadeEmpireConfig.exe"
Click Next

Name your shortcut: Jade Empire Config
Click Next

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

PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Jade Empire Launcher"
Click Configure

General Tab
Click the Down-Arrow after Wine Version
Select Wine 1.6.2

Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine

Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses

Close Configure

Optimization

Select "Jade Empire Config"
Click Run

Click Video
Adjust:

• Resolution
• Refresh Rate
• Aspect Ratio
• Anti-Aliasing

Note: For Fullscreen set the resolution to match your Linux Desktop

Enable/Disable:

• Soft Shadows
• Bloom Lighting
• Frame Buffer Effects
• Focus Trails
• Intro Movies
• All Movies

Save and Exit

Launching Jade Empire

Select "Jade Empire Launcher"
Click Run

Click Play

Conclusion:
Once I found out the Wine "staging" versions fixed the installer crash, I used Wine 1.7.42staging to install Jade Empire. Then I switched to Wine 1.6.2 for playing the actual game. You can still play it in 1.7.42staging, but I always prefer the "stable" version. Everything else runs fine. Every once in a while after a save/load the camera will be stuck in a vertical position and you are looking at the ground. Just quit the game and start it again.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

This game is very nice too see also is emblematic title of xbox generation, great classic and very good guide as always

Nice screenshots

 

Thanks!

 

Hey booman whats up!

I need some help with this game. I currently have the steam version. I was trying to help a friend out get this to work. But i'm having issues with getting the steam store to work. need it to download the game. If you can help. Running Debian based Linux

 

Have you tried Proton in Steam yet?
I bet this game will run flawlessly in Proton.

 

@booman Actually it won't work in proton i looked and me and my friend tried. There seems to be workaround you have to do but i tried it and didn't work.

I'm unable to get the steam store to work under wine playonlinux if you can help. The only way got it to work was using outdating xp. steam store won't work under windows 7 anymore.

 

Dang, I hope Valve will fix this with older games.
I have a game called The Ship and it doesn't run in Proton either.

The Steam store is a known problem with windows 7 in Wine
If you already have the game in your library, then you don't need the Store functionality.

Just install Windows steam in PlayOnLinux like you normally would and then download the game

 

@booman Well I had it working before under windows 7 prefix with esync wine. But now something is not working.

 

Where is the game getting stuck at this point?
You may have to uninstall and re-download the game.
Unfortunately I don't know how to see the ouput errors in Proton

 

It was with playonlinux. I will post the error here