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.
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.
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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"
Look for the Wine Version: 5.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Installed
Click (amd64) Tab
Select 5.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Downloading Wine 64-bit
Installed
Wine 5.0 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, 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: orcsandmen
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 5.0
Click Next
Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click apply
Libraries Tab
Type each of the following:
- d3d10
- d3d10_1
- d3dcore
- d3d11
- d3d9
- dxgi
Click Edit
Change to "Native (Windows)"
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- pOL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
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
Click Next again...
Select Language
Click OK
Click Options
Uncheck "Create desktop icons"
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Click Install
Click OK on all errors
Click Exit
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "OfOrcsAndMen.exe"
Click Next
Name the Shortcut: Of Orcs And Men
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Of Orcs And Men"
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 5.0
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
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
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
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.
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