Play as a simple Mechanic thrown into an alien frenzy as all hell breaks loose! Shadowgrounds is a combat action game with a huge arsenal of weapons, upgrades, destructible environments and top-down action.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Shadowgrounds in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Shadowgrounds. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 4.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Installed
Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Downloading Wine 64-bit
Installed
Wine 4.0 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click "Install a non-listed program"
Select "Install a program ina a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name the virtual drive: shadowgrounds
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 4.0
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Graphics Tab
Check "Automaticaly 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_tahoma
- POL_Install_vcrun2005
Note: All packages should automatically download and install
Click Browse
Select "setup_shadowgrounds_1.05_(22186).exe"
Click Open
Click Next again...
Click OK
Click Options
Uncheck "Create desktop icon"
Click "Yes I have read and accept EULA"
Click Install
Click OK on all errors
Click Exit
After the Installer exits, it may hang for a long time without completing
Check Your System Monitor
If you see many icacls processes running
Alt+Tab back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
Make sure shadowgrounds is selected on the left side
Click Wine Tab
Click "Kill Processes"
Now PlayOnLinux will continue...
Ctrl+Alt+Tab back to the installer
PlayOnLinux Shortcuts
Select "Shadowgrounds.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: Shadowgrounds
Click Next
Also Select "Shadowgrounds Launcher.exe"
Name the shortcut: Shadowgrounds Launcher
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 4.0
Debug flags: warn+heap
Note: "warn+heap" should reduce the crashing in the game menu
Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
Close Configure
Run Shadowgrounds Launcher
Optimization
Adjust:
- GFX detail level
- Enable Menu Videos
- Sound Enabled
- Speaker Type
- Resolution
- Vertical Sync
- Hardware 3D
- EAX
- Mixing Rate
Click Advanced
Adjust:
- Ground Shadows Texture
- Lighting Level
- Lighting Texture Quality
- Weather Effects Level
- Shadows Level
- Shadows Texture Quality
- Misc
- Texture Detail Level
- Anisotropic Filtering
- Antialiasing
- Fullscreen
- Weather Effects
- High Quality Lightmap
- Extra Gamma Effects
- Render Glow
- Distortion Effects
- Disappearing Corpses
- High Quality Video
- Reset After Load
The resolution options in Shadowgrounds Launcher did not included 1920x180
But you can open the Options.txt and enter the desired resolution.
Make sure to run the game at least once
Open Options.txt
Enter 1080 for screen_height
Enter 1920 for screen_width
Full path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/shadowgrounds/drive_c/GOG Games/Shadowgrounds/ConfigConclusion:
The only issue I experienced was the in-game menu crashing when I wanted to upgrade my weapon. After some reading on AppDB someone mentioned the WINEDEBUG argument. This seemed to fix the issue, most of the time. It still crashed randomly, but rarely. Just make sure to upgrade your weapons after you load a new area.
Gameplay Video:
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