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Of Orcs And Men is a 3rd person action RPG with some stealth elements and a lot of dialog. Play as Arkail an elite orc soldier and Styx a stealth goblin theif. Together your mission is to kill the Emperor. Use both of their abilities and horde tactics to sneak into the massive maze-like environment and gamble your fate with clever dialog or brutally slay human filth.
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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Of Orcs And Men in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Of Orcs And Men. Other versions may require additional steps.
Tips & Specs:
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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 5.0 64-bit
DXVK: 1.5
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 5.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next
Downloading Wine
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Installed
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Click (amd64) Tab
Select 5.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Downloading Wine 64-bit
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Installed
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Wine 5.0 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "Install a non-listed program"
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Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name the virtual drive: orcsandmen
Click Next
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Check all three options:
Click Next
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
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Select Wine 5.0
Click Next
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Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click apply
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Libraries Tab
Type each of the following:
Select one at a time
- d3d10
- d3d10_1
- d3dcore
- d3d11
- d3d9
- dxgi
Click Edit
Change to "Native (Windows)"
Click Apply
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Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK
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PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the following:
Click Next
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- pOL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
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Note: All packages should automatically download and install
Installing Of Orcs And Men
Click Browse...
Navigate to your downloaded game
Select "setup_of_orcs_and_men_1.02_(1233)_(34456).exe"
Click Open
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Click Next again...
Select Language
Click OK
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Click Options
Uncheck "Create desktop icons"
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Click Install
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Click OK on all errors
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Click Exit
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "OfOrcsAndMen.exe"
Click Next
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Name the Shortcut: Of Orcs And Men
Click Next
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Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
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PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Of Orcs And Men"
Click Configure
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General Tab
Wine version: 5.0
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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
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Close Configure
Installing DXVK
Download DXVK 1.5
Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.5.1
Save to your Desktop
Extract to your Desktop
Open x32 Folder
Copy all of the DLLs
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Paste in the Of Orcs And Men game folder
Full Path:Code:/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/orcsandmen/drive_c/GOG Games/Of Orcs And Men/![]()
Run Of Orcs And Men
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Of Orcs And Men"
Click Run
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Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs
Conclusion:
Of Orcs And Men initially launched in Spanish even though I selected English during the installation. After some research and trial-n-error, I found you can delete the other language packs and leave your language pack to play correctly. There was no in-game solution for changing languages. Other than that, I was able to play without any serious problems on my GeForce GTX 1060 and save/load worked fine.
This game is more like a tactics game than an action RPG because you don't have 100% control over your characters actions. Kinda like The Witcher. You can select which attacks to apply, then watch them do all the moves.
Gameplay Video:
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