Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered is an action sandbox 3rd person shooter where every object is destructable. Join the insurgents and fight the Earth Defense Forces by literally smashing and blowing up their resources. Either piece by piece with your hammer, detonate with explosives or run it through with a vehicle. There is no end to your destructive forces...



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Lutris Wine: 3.12 64-bit Staging

Wine Installation

We still need to install a stable version of Wine to setup the virtual drive
We'll use the 3.12 version from Lutris later on in the guide

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


Wine 3.0 is installed and you can close this window

Install Wine 3.12 Staging 64-bit

Go to: https://lutris.net/files/runners/
Download wine-staging-3.12-x86_64.tar.gz
Save it to your Desktop
Extract to the PlayOnLinux Wine directory:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-amd64/


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: rfgurrilla
Click Next


Check the following:

• 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


Libraries Tab

1. Type: d3d11
2. Click Add
3. Type dxgi
4. Click Add
5. Edit both d3d11 & dxgi
6. Set them as (native) only

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
• POL_Install_xact
• POL_Install_xaudio

Click Next


Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Click Browse

Select "setup_red_faction_guerrilla_re-mars-tered_1.0_(21946).exe"
Click Open


Click Next again...

Click OK


Click Options
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Uncheck "Created desktop icon"
Click Install


Click OK on all errors


Click Exit


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "rfg.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: Red Fction Guerrilla
Click Next


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


PlayOnLinux Configure

Select Red Faction Guerrilla
Click Configure


General Tab
Click the down-arrow to select Wine "staging-3.12-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

Install DXVK 0.60

Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases
Download Version dxvk-0.60.tar.gz

Extract the files on your Desktop
Copy the 64-bit d3d11.dll and dxgi.dll to the Red Faction Guerrilla game folder:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/rfguerrilla/drive_c/GOG Games/Red Faction Guerrilla

Note: username is where your Linux login shows up

Important!
DXVK version 0.60 requires Nvidia 396.24.02 drivers

DXVK Test

One way to test if DXVK is working properly

1. Go to Configure
2. Miscellaneous Tab
3. Command to Execute before running program
4. Paste:

Code:

export DXVK_HUD=devinfo,fps

Now when you run your game, you should see a HUD in-game with Direct X and Vulkan versions

Here are detailed instructions in case you still can't get DXVK to run
DXVK Guide

Now Run Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
Click Run


Note: click debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization:

Click Options


Click Display


Adjust:

• Resolution
• Refresh Rate
• Windowed Mode
• V-Sync
• FOV
• Detail Level

Click Accept


Click Advanced
Adust:

• Shadow Detail
• Depth of Field
• Motion Blur
• Particle Detail
• Ambient Occulusion
• Sun shafts
• Texture Resolution
• Anisotropic Filtering

Click Accept


Conclusion:
Once I was able to get the proper version of Nvidia, Wine and DXVK running... Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered ran perfectly! I was able to get decent frame rates and cranked most of the setting to high.
Once I saw the HUD when launching the game, I knew DXVK was working. Otherwise the game would freeze up every time.

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