Warhammer 40K Space Marine Guide

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Raise your hand if you want to fight Orks! Warhammer 40K Space Marine is where you can slaughter thousands of Orks forever... Slay non stop Orks with all kinds of bloody melee weapons and guns while you save the world. What could be better than that?

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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Warhammer 40K Space Marine in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Warhammer 40K Space Marine. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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

Mint 18.2 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 2.12-staging

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 2.12-staging
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 2.12-staging is installed and you can close this window

Downloading Steam

Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam
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Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click "Windows" under the green button
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Navigate to your desktop
Click Save
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PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "install a non-listed program"
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Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name your virtual drive: spacemarine
No spaces
Click Next
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Select all three options:
  • Use another version of Wine
  • Configure Wine
  • Install some libraries
Click Next
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Select Wine 2.12-staging
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Configure Wine

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply
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Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Check: Emulate a virtual desktop
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click Ok
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PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)

Check the following libraries:
  • POL_Install_corefonts
  • POL_Install_d3dx9
  • POL_Install_tahoma
  • POL_Install_vcrun2005
  • POL_Install_vcrun2008
  • POL_Install_vcrun2010
Click Next
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Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Steam

Click Browse
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Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open
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Click Next

Click Next

Check: I accept the license...
Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Install

Click Finish

Updating Steam

Do not log in yet...
Click the "X" to close Steam login
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select Steam.exe
Click Next
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Name your shortcut: 40K Space Marine
Click Next
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Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
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PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
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General Tab
Arguments: -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox
This fixes any missing font problems and the store problem (must set Windows to XP)
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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: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure

Steam Server Errors

You will get a "content servers unreachable" error due to certificates

Navigate to your game's wineprefix:
Code: 
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/spacemarine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/config/
Open config.vdf with a text editor

Copy this code below

Code: 
"CS"        "valve511.steamcontent.com;valve530.steamcontent.com;valve548.steamcontent.com;valve539.steamcontent.com;valve519.steamcontent.com;valve555.steamcontent.com;valve504.steamcontent.com;valve529.steamcontent.com;valve558.steamcontent.com;valve500.steamcontent.com;valve561.steamcontent.com;valve532.steamcontent.com;valve540.steamcontent.com;valve502.steamcontent.com;valve544.steamcontent.com;valve528.steamcontent.com;valve556.steamcontent.com;valve520.steamcontent.com;valve542.steamcontent.com;valve538.steamcontent.com;valve551.steamcontent.com;valve521.steamcontent.com;valve564.steamcontent.com;valve516.steamcontent.com;valve535.steamcontent.com;valve541.steamcontent.com;valve533.steamcontent.com;valve536.steamcontent.com;valve557.steamcontent.com;valve559.steamcontent.com;valve537.steamcontent.com;valve508.steamcontent.com;valve525.steamcontent.com;valve565.steamcontent.com;valve566.steamcontent.com;valve514.steamcontent.com;valve545.steamcontent.com;valve517.steamcontent.com;valve547.steamcontent.com;valve549.steamcontent.com;valve503.steamcontent.com;valve515.steamcontent.com;valve506.steamcontent.com;valve562.steamcontent.com;valve526.steamcontent.com;valve543.steamcontent.com;valve522.steamcontent.com;valve518.steamcontent.com;valve509.steamcontent.com;valve550.steamcontent.com;valve552.steamcontent.com;valve505.steamcontent.com;valve553.steamcontent.com;valve512.steamcontent.com;valve546.steamcontent.com;valve554.steamcontent.com;valve510.steamcontent.com;valve563.steamcontent.com;valve501.steamcontent.com;valve531.steamcontent.com;valve523.steamcontent.com;valve524.steamcontent.com;valve507.steamcontent.com;valve560.steamcontent.com;valve567.steamcontent.com;valve513.steamcontent.com;valve1601.steamcontent.com;valve164.steamcontent.com;valve1615.steamcontent.com;valve1602.steamcontent.com;valve1604.steamcontent.com;valve1608.steamcontent.com;valve1603.steamcontent.com;valve1606.steamcontent.com;valve1609.steamcontent.com;valve1618.steamcontent.com;valve1617.steamcontent.com;valve1613.steamcontent.com;valve1607.steamcontent.com;valve1611.steamcontent.com;valve1614.steamcontent.com;valve1619.steamcontent.com;valve1616.steamcontent.com;valve1612.steamcontent.com;valve1610.steamcontent.com;valve165.steamcontent.com;valve1605.steamcontent.com;valve954.steamcontent.com;valve955.steamcontent.com;valve904.steamcontent.com;valve901.steamcontent.com;valve957.steamcontent.com;valve953.steamcontent.com;valve956.steamcontent.com;valve950.steamcontent.com;valve905.steamcontent.com;valve952.steamcontent.com;valve902.steamcontent.com;valve907.steamcontent.com;valve958.steamcontent.com"

Go to the line
"InstallConfigStore"
{
"Software"
{
"Valve"
{
"Steam"
{
"CM"

Paste in a new line under the "CM" line with all the IP Addresses
Save config.vdf

Launching Steam

Select 40K Space Marine
Click Run
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Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Click "Login to existing account"
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Login
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Go to your Library
Select "Warhammer 40K Space Marine"
Click Install
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Uncheck "Create desktop shortcut"
Uncheck "Create start menu shortcut"
Click Next
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Click Finish
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Click Play

Optimization

Click Options
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Click Video Options
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Adjust:
  • Aspect Ratio
  • Resolution
  • Shadows
  • Visual FX Detail
  • Post Processing
  • Vertical Sync
  • Ambient Occlusion
  • Gamma
  • Brightness
Click Accept
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Important: Post Processing needs to be set to "OFF" because it can cause graphical artifacts

Rule of Thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates

Conclusion:
Warhammer 40K Space Marine ran perfectly on my GTX 1060 with a resolution of 1920x1080. Once I turned off Post Processing everything looked great. I'm happy that Wine updates finally allowed this game to run... as I had tested it years ago and it refused to launch.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:
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batmanm0b1e
i tried this game i'm not getting no audio! booman also hope this is thread we post at i see people posting different place
 
booman
You may have to install dsound, xaudio or some other package.
Do you have sound in other games using Wine?
 
batmanm0b1e
This is the first game i tried with Arch. so not sure if its Arch or something else, xaudio is installed already by game i think but i did install it again with wine. I will have to keep playing around with this one. I will let you know how turns out
 
batmanm0b1e
Well had all those audio installed and still not auido. Its werid because i here like its trying to work out and nothing. So i'm going to try manjaro Arch and see if need I'm going to try Kubuntu because i'm loving kde right now. I'm off my cinnamon :rolling:
 
booman
I have avoided Arch like the "plague" because it looks like too much work.
Then again, I need to keep things as simple and "vanilla" as possible when I test games. Which is why I use Mint Cinnamon. Its quick, simple and fairly easy for anyone to setup and use.
 
batmanm0b1e
Well I got sound on Arch Linux and game is beautiful running amazing. I recommend if you are on Arch distro and having problems, switch to manjaro Arch.

WINE 3.7 Playonlinux

These are my settings
Resolution is 1920x1080 16.9
HIgh
High

Please turn off these if you're getting weird glitch effects like I was. You might not need to turn off Ambient Occlusion, but i did
post-processing;
Ambient Occlusion

I also need to fix my mouse as both my mouses have HIGH DPI my corsair and razer chroma. The razer mouse didn't use to be so fast but prob need to install software might slow down a bit.
 
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