Rules of Survival Guide

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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.

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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:

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

Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.11

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

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Look for the Wine Version: 3.11
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 3.11 is installed and you can close this window

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: rulesofsurvival
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 3.11
Click Next

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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next

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Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7

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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_d3dx9
  • POL_Install_d3dx10
  • POL_Install_d3dx11
  • POL_Install_tahoma
  • POL_Install_vcrun2010
Click Next

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Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Click Browse...

Select "ros_publish_129_publish_1.167700.173136.exe"
Click Open

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

Click Next again...

Click Accept

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Click Next

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Default path of C: \ros needs to be changed

Click Browse

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Select drive_c\Program Files
Click OK

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Click Next again

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Uncheck "Create a desktop shortcut"
Click Next

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Click Install

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Uncheck "Launch rules of survival"
Click Finish

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PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select: ros.exe
Click Next

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Name the shortcut: Rules Of Survival
Click Next

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

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PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Rules Of Survival"
Click Configure

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General Tab
Wine version: 3.11

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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

Select "Rules of Survival"
Click Run

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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

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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:
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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.
 
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
 
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