Vikings Wolves Of Midgard Guide

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Vikings Wolves of Midgard is a Diablo-esque action RPG. Scour the world of Midgar and fight mythological creatures of Ragnarok in this epic adventure! Chose male or female and 5 classes: Thor, Tyr, Loki, Skathi and Odin.

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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Vikings Wolves of Midgard in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

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

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 5.0 64-bit
DXVK: 1.5

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

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Look for the Wine Version: 5.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

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Click Next

Downloading Wine

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Installed

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Click (amd64) Tab
Select 5.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right

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Downloading Wine 64-bit

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Installed

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PlayOnLinux Setup

Wine 5.0 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, 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: vikings
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 5.0
Click Next

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Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next

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Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7

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Libraries Tab
Type each of the following
Click Add
  • d3d10
  • d3d10_1
  • d3d10core
  • d3d11
  • d3d9
  • dxgi
Select one at a time
Click Edit
Change to "Native (Windows)"
Click Apply

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Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK

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Note: Check Emulate a virtual desktop and enter your screen resolution if the game does not accept keyboard input during gameplay.

PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)

Check each of the following:
  • POL_Install_corefonts
  • POL_Install_d3dx10
  • POL_Install_d3dx11
  • POL_Install_d3dx9
  • POL_Install_tahoma
  • POL_Install_vcrun2013
  • POL_Install_vcrun2015
Click Next

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Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Installing Vikings Wolves of Midgard

Click Browse

Select "setup_vikings_-_wolves_of_midgard_2.04_(25982).exe"
Click Open

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Click Next again...

Click OK

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

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Click OK on all errors

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Click Exit

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PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "vikings.exe"
Click Next

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Name the shortcut: Vikings Wolves Of Midgar
Click Next

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

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Installing DXVK

Download DXVK 1.5
Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.5
Save to your Desktop

Extract and open x64 folder
Copy all DLLs

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Paste in the Vikings - Wolves of Midgard game directory
Full path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/vikings/drive_c/GOG Games/Vikings - Wolves of Midgard/

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PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Vikings Wolves Of Midgar"
Click Configure

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General Tab
Wine version: 5.0

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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/chip uses

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Close Configure

Run Vikings Wolves Of Midgar

Select "Vikings Wolves Of Midgar"
Click Run

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Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Options

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Click Video

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Adjust:
  • Resolution
  • Game Screen Renter Quality
  • Screen Mode
  • Display
  • Graphics Quality
  • Anti-aliasing
  • VSync
  • Gamma Correction
Click Apply

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Conclusion:
Vikings Wolves of Midgard ran GREAT on my GeForce GTX 1060 once I was able to figure out how to make the keyboard work in-game. My character moves fine with the mouse, but if I want to use a skill, heal myself or look into my inventory... nothing happened from keyboard input. I started messing with windowed settings and it worked, but I wanted fullscreen. So I had to enable the virtual desktop at 1920x1080 and they keyboard input worked fine and the game was fullscreen. This may not work for everyone.
I also tried online co-op with another computer in my network and they just stuck at "Initiating Online Game"... so it never actually worked. I think its because the GOG game requires Galaxy to connect online.

Gameplay Video

Screenshots:
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