Of Orcs And Men Guide

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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:
  • Use another version of Wine
  • Configure Wine
  • Install some libraries
Click Next

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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:
  • d3d10
  • d3d10_1
  • d3dcore
  • d3d11
  • d3d9
  • dxgi
Select one at a time
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:
  • POL_Install_corefonts
  • POL_Install_d3dx10
  • pOL_Install_d3dx11
  • POL_Install_d3dx9
  • POL_Install_tahoma
Click Next

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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/

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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:

Screenshots:
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