Rules of Survival Guide

In Rules of Survival your character parachutes on to a massive island unarmed along with 300 other trigger hungry players. The goal is to find a weapon and kill anyone that moves. Its not as easy as it sounds. Loot weapons and gear from building and watch your back.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Rules of Survival in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Free to Play Online version of Rules of Survival. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.11

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 3.11
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 3.11 is installed and you can close this window

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: rulesofsurvival
Click Next

Check all three options:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next

Select Wine 3.11
Click Next

Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next

Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7

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_d3dx9
• POL_Install_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2010

Click Next

Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Click Browse...

Select "ros_publish_129_publish_1.167700.173136.exe"
Click Open

Note: The version of installer will change as it's updated

Click Next again...

Click Accept

Click Next

Default path of C: \ros needs to be changed

Click Browse

Select drive_c\Program Files
Click OK

Click Next again

Uncheck "Create a desktop shortcut"
Click Next

Click Install

Uncheck "Launch rules of survival"
Click Finish

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select: ros.exe
Click Next

Name the shortcut: Rules Of Survival
Click Next

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

PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Rules Of Survival"
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 3.11

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

Select "Rules of Survival"
Click Run

Note: Click debug to see bugs and errors

In order to login install Rules of Survival on your smartphone
Click "PC Login" in the phone app
Scan the barcode with your phone
Your account will automatically login on PC

The login process is unique, but it means you don't have to create an account using your email

Conclusion:
Rules of Survival ran a bit slow with all settings on high. So cranking them down helped my frame rates and it still looked fairly decent. Sometimes its hard to know exactly how to login becaues the barcode screen will be unfocused behind the launch screen. So an Alt+Tab can help to focus it. Other than that, have fun with all the banner ads. If you can last longer than 3 minutes it can actually be fun.

Gameplay video:

Screenshots:

 

amazing thanks booman i can't wait to play this

 

No problem. I'm not very good at these online games, but if you can survive long enough to kill a few player, its pretty fun.

Let me know if you have any problems.

The only issue I noticed is sometimes when launching the game I don't see the PC barcode to scan with my phone. So I had to alt+tab for it to appear.

 

Hey Batman, were you able to play Rules of Survival?

 

no not yet. its on my things to do. I will let you know when i do. hopefully, i can get to it by this week or weekend.

You never guess what i installed windows 8 on drive. Now i have windows 7 and windows 10 on other drives all windows. I'm going to mess around with dual booting to see if it keeps up. I have heard things of people saying its not good

 

Windows 8 isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Its faster than windows 7, but not as stable in some area's. Really, Windows 7, 8 & 10 all have Vista in the background with some optimization and GUI changes. Thats all.

 

I installed the game booman. This game is confusing wow. I don't think they put you with players on your lvl i joined and players had stuff already clothing and what not. How far did you make it in the game. I never killed anybody i got to lvl 3 on my guy and stayed to alive at lvl 9

 

Its really not a game about story or missions, its about survival.
So everyone who parachutes out of the plan "should" be the same level and you have to find weapons/armor/backpack as fast as possible.
Then roam around until you die.
Kinda short-lived, but can be fun

 

I bet this game will run well with DXVK