Orion Prelude Guide

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Protect your bases by slaying dinosaurs in large prehistoric maps. Upgrade your weapons and abilities to get the upper-hand and cooperate with friends while you take down Dinosaur bosses. With many different multi-player modes and bots for pratice... Orino Prelude isn't your typical First Person Shooter.

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

Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Orion Prelude. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

Try SteamPlay before using this guide as Valve now uses a fork of Wine called Proton and should run most Windows games.

To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.0

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 3.0

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next

Downloading Wine
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Extracting

Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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Wine 3.0 is installed and you can close this window

Downloading Steam

Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam
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Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click "Windows" under the green button
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Navigate to your desktop
Click Save
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PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "install a non-listed program"
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Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name your virtual drive: orionprelude
No spaces
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 3.0
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Configure Wine

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
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 (Libraries, Components, DLL's)

Check the following libraries:
  • POL_Install_corefonts
  • POL_Install_d3dx9
  • POL_Install_d3dx10
  • POL_Install_dotnet40
  • POL_Install_tahoma
  • POL_Install_vcrun2008
  • POL_Install_vcrun2010
Click Next
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Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Steam

Click Browse
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Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open
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Click Next

Click Next

Check: I accept the license...
Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Install

Click Finish

Updating Steam

Click the "X" to close Steam login
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select Steam.exe
Click Next
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Name your shortcut: Orion Prelude
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
Click Configure
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General Tab
Arguments: -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox
This fixes any missing font problems and the Store problem (Windows needs to be set as Windows XP)
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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: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure

Launching Steam

Select Orion Prelude
Click Run
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Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Click "Login to existing account"
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Login
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Find Orion Prelude in your Steam Library
click Install
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Uncheck "Create desktop shortcut"
Uncheck "Create start menu shortcut"
Click Next
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Click finish
Wait for Orion Prelude to finish downloading
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Click Play
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Optmization

Click Options
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Click Video
Adjust:
  • FOV
  • Gamma
  • Aspect Ratio
  • Resolution
  • Fullscreen
  • Vertical Sync
  • Bloom
  • Depth of Field
  • Motion Blur
  • Speed Tree Leaves
  • Dynamic Lights
  • Dynamic shadows
  • Vehicle Particles
  • Weapon Particles
  • Character Particles
  • Environmental Particles
  • Max Anisotropy
  • Antialising
  • Shadow Quality
  • Foliage Quality
  • Character Textures
  • World Textures
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Conclusion:
Orion Prelude ran perfectly after I installed Dotnet. Normally UDK or Unreal Engine games have a Dot Net Framework distributable bundled with the installer, but not all of the games use it. Orion Prelude definitely uses it and won't launch without it. After connecting to an online game, if you experience some frame lag, try lowing some of the settings like anisotropy or antialising.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:
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Kaitain
Looks like a fun game.

Normally, I avoid Windows-only games and only get ones available for Linux/SteamOS, just to add some commercial interest in the right direction. But this one's going for less than a Pound at the moment, so... :rolleyes:
 
booman
Yeah, its fun... but also a bit unrefined as well. Not exactly a AAA game, but has some fun points.
The dinosaurs could be a LOT funner to kill. Most of the time its mow-them-down with a gun.
 
batmanm0b1e
Thanks it worked for me. But can you let me know which dotnet file you installed also it doesn't work under windows 7. the only dotnet works for me is 40. it switches to win xp tho if i swtich it back to windows 7 it wont load the store. Can you confirm this
 
booman
Actually I never installed dotnet because it always errors. I didn't realize there was a store. I am able to purchase upgrades, weapons and skills. Is that what you are referring to?
 
batmanm0b1e
At the bottom you said you installed Dotnet Orion Prelude ran perfectly. So how did you get game to work. I got an error on startup
 
booman
Oops, sorry about that!
I should have added it in the PlayOnLinux Packages section.
I'll update the guide.

I installed dotnet40

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batmanm0b1e
OK Thank you are awesome booman. no worrys. That's the one i finally installed, and for some reason it switches back to windows xp doesn't stay on windows 7 but still plays which is werid. I'm on Arch Linux not sure if this is why. check your settings back in what windows you have see if it switched for you also
 
booman
Yes, this happens to me as well. Some games will run in Windows XP as long as you installed them in Windows 7. Strange, but it works.
You can actually fool some games like Assassin's Creed III to play in Windows XP because Uplay will not run properly. But Assassin's Creed III still plays even when set as Windows XP
 
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