The world has been laid waste to the Demonic Rhogar Legion and our only hope is the convict Harkyn. Slay the minions of the Legion where every slice of your sword counts as life or death. Lords Of The Fallen is a Dark Souls inspired action RPG where your weapons, armor, magic, offense and defense are your strategy.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Lords Of The Fallen in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Lords Of The Fallen. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.14 Staging 64-bit
DXVK 0.72

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 3.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Install the 64-bit version as well
Click "Wine versions (amd64) Tab
Select 3.0
Repeat steps

Wine 3.0 32-bit and 64-bit are 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: lordsofthefallen
Click Next


Check all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 3.0
Click Next


Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply


Libraries Tab
Enter the following libraries (one at a time)
Click Add

• d3d10
• d3d10_1
• d3d10core
• d3d11
• dxgi

Select each one at a time
Click Edit
Check "Native (Windows)"
Click OK


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


PlayOnLinux Packages

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_physx
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2012
• POL_Install_vcrun2013

Click Next


Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Installing Lords Of The Fallen

Click Browse

Select: setup_lords_of_the_fallen_game_of_the_year_edition_1.0.0_(64bit)_(24706).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 "LordsOfTheFallen.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: Lords Of The Fallen
Click Next


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


Installing Lutris Wine 3.14-staging (64 bit)

Go to: https://lutris.net/files/runners/
Click and download: wine-staging-3.14-x86_64.tar.gz
Save to your Desktop


Open staging-3.14-x86_64 in Archive Manager
Click Extract


Extract to the PlayOnLinux linux-amd64 Wine directory
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-amd64/

Click Extract


Installing DXVK

Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases
Download Version 0.72
Save it to your Desktop


Extract the folder
Open the 64-bit directory
Copy all of the DLLs


Paste in the Lords Of The Fallen x64 directory
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/lordsofthefallen/drive_c/Program Files/Lords of the Fallen - Game of the Year Edition/bin/

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Lords Of The Fallen"
Click Configure


General Tab
Click the down-arrow
Select Wine version: staging-3.14-x86_64


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

Select "Lords Of The Fallen"
Click Run


Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Options


Adjust:

• General Detail Level
• Resolution
• Texture Quality
• Geometry Detail
• Shadow Quality
• Window Mode
• Post Processing
• Volumetric Lighting
• Post Chromashift
• Anisotropic Filtering
• Vertical Sync
• NVIDIA Turbulence

Press Return


Conclusion:
Lords Of The Fallen runs fairly well even with and older "staging" version of Wine and DXVK. The outside areas slow down the frame rate a bit and maybe a few flickering textures, but other than that, it looks beautiful! I have heard the Steam version doesn't run at all in Wine, so stick with the GOG version for now.

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