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Wild Woods Guide

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  • by booman, Aug 23, 2019 at 1:20 PM
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    Wild Woods demo is a cooperative 3rd person action game where your clan of 4 animals guide the caravan through dangerous forests. Collect wood and health to stay alive when it gets dark, because when the light is gone, the enemies come to take all of your goods... and your life!

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

    Note: This guide applies to the itch.io version of Wild Woods demo. Other versions may require additional steps.

    Tips & Specs:

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

    Mint 19 64-bit
    PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
    Wine: 4.11-staging 64-bit
    DXVK: 1.3.1

    Wine Installation

    Click Tools
    Select "Manage Wine Versions"

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    Look for the Wine Version: 4.11-staging
    Select it
    Click the arrow pointing to the right

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    Click Next

    Downloading Wine

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    Extracting

    Installed

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    Click (amd64) Tab
    Select 4.11-staging
    Click the arrow pointing to the right

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    Downloading Wine 64-bit

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    Installed

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    Wine 4.11-staging 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window

    PlayOnLinux Setup

    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: wildwoods
    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 4.11-staging
    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 the following:
    • d3d10
    • d3d10_1
    • d3d10core
    • d3d11
    • dxgi
    Select one at a time
    Click "Edit"
    Select "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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    PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)

    Check the following:
    • POL_Install_corefonts
    • POL_Install_d3dx10
    • POL_Install_d3dx11
    • POL_Install_d3dx9
    • POL_Install_tahoma
    Click Next

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    Note: All packages should automatically download and install

    Do not click Browse
    Wild Woods demo does not have an installer
    Click Cancel

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    Download Wild Woods demo
    https://wildwoods.itch.io/wildwoods
    Save to your Desktop

    Open Wild Woods ZIP with your archive manager
    Click Extract

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    Navigate to Program Files
    Full Path:
    Code:
    /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/wildwoods/drive_c/Program_Files/
    Click the New Folder button
    Type: wildwoods
    Click Create
    Click Extract

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    Click "Show the Files"

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    Install DXVK 1.3.1

    Go to https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.3.1
    Download dxvk-1.3.1.tar.gz
    Save on your Desktop
    Extract
    Open the x64 Directory
    Copy all of the DLLs

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    Go back to the wildwoods folder you just created for the game
    Paste all of the DLLs you copied

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    PlayOnLinux Configure

    Back to PLayOnLinux
    Click Configure

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    PlayOnLinux Shortcut

    Select wildwoods on the left column
    General Tab
    Click Make a new shortcut from the virtual drive"

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    Select "Wild Woods.exe"
    Click Next

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    Name the shortcut: Wild Woods
    Click Next

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

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    General Tab
    Wine version: 4.11-staging

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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 Wild Woods demo

    Select Wild Woods
    Click Run

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    Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

    Unity 3D Launcher
    Adjust resolution and quality
    Click Play!

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    Conclusion:
    Wild Woods wouldn't even launch with stable version of Wine and DXVK, but I found that it runs GREAT with the staging versions. I was able to play the entire demo several times with my daughters and 2 controllers along with keyboard and mouse. Performance was great, controls were snappy and made sense... it was quite a fun game! I'm looking forward to a full game one day.

    Gameplay Video:


    Screenshots:
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    Last edited: Jan 6, 2020

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