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.

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