Singularity Guide

In 1955 Russian scientist Nikolai Demichev discovers a new element called E-99 and develops new weapons & capabilities on a remote island. But, the experiments go wrong and everything is abandoned due to a catastrphic bomb explosion. In 2010 U.S. Recon marines go to the same island to investigate a surge that destroyed a satellite.

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

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Singularity. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 18.1 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 2.0-staging

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 2.0-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 2.0-staging is installed and you can close this window

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install

Click "Instal a non-listed program"

Click Next...

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next

Name the virtual drive: singularity
Click Next

Check all three options:

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

Click Next

Select Wine: 2.0-staging
Click Next

Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next

Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply

Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK

PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_dotnet40
• POL_Install_physx
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2005
  
• POL_Install_xact

Click Next

Installing Singularity

Click Browse

Select "setup_singularity_2.0.0.5.exe"
Click Open

Click Next...

Click OK

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

Click OK

Click OK for all errors

Note: These errors do not affect the installation

Click Exit

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Singularity.exe"
Click Next

Name the shortcut: Singularity
Click Next

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

PlayOnLinux Configure

Select Singularity
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 2.0-staging

Note: 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 uses

Close Configure

Launching Singularity

Select Singularity
Click Run

Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click "Start Game"

Click Options

Click Video

Adjust:

• Resolution
• Brightness
• Full Screen
• High Quality Decals
• Bloom
• Depth of Field
• Distortion
• Vertical Sync

Press Esc

Conclusion:
Singularity installed, configured and played great in PlayOnLinux on my GeForce GTX 1060. I was able to crank everything to high and experienced great frame rates with no bugs or graphical artifacts. Singularity is an older Unreal Engine 3 game, so it should run great on most modern hardware.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

Good 1st person shooter game, good screens too and good guide

 

I'm almost done playing through the entire game

 

With Mint 17.3, following the guide here I still experienced a crash at startup of Singularity (GOG, version 2.0.0.5). I found out that in order to fix this crash I also had to install PhysX within PlayOnLinux. Before that i tried several wine versions, even an older Kernel (4.4. -> 3.13) and an older Nvidia driver (375 -> 340), no luck. I have a GTX 580 and an I7 2600 and 16 GB RAM.

 

Thanks for the tip, I will add Physx to the package installation step. So are you able to play Singularity now?

I was able to finish the entire game.

 

Yes, it works quite fine for me now, I played it through on windows before, and will do soon under linux as well, to see whether further problems may arise. A tiny glitch maybe, near the beginning, if there is a flash in the "thunderstorm" in workers district, the screen freezes for half a second or so, but seems only to be there, found no other glitches yet.

 

Awesome! Yes, that is the only glitch I have seen as well. There is a bug with lightning... probably some kind of overlay or shader that isn't supported.... but it rarely happens.