Yet Another Exhausting Day demo is a puzzle game where you control your character while they sleep. No more wasting night-time sleeping, now you can work all night collecting coins and solving puzzles. Use coins to upgrade your skills, but don't fall into deep sleep...
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Yet Another Exhausting Day in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the itch.io demo version of Yet Another Exhausting Day. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.15-staging
DXVK: 1.4.4
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 4.15-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Installed
Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.15-staging
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Downloading Wine 64-bit
Installed
Wine 4.15-staging 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window
Download Yet Another Exhausting Day demo from itch.io
https://candlemangames.itch.io/yet-another-exhausting-day
Save to your Desktop
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "Install a non-listed program"
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name the virtual drive: exhaustingday
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 4.15-staging
Click Next
Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Libraries Tab
Type the following:
- d3d10
- d3d10_1
- d3d10core
- d3d11
- dxgi
Select "native (Windows)"
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the Following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- POL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Note: All packages should download and install automatically
Do not click Browse
Click Cancel
Open Yet Another Exhausting Day demo with your Archive Manager
Click Extract
Navigate to the virtual drive Program Files directory
Full Path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/exhaustingday/drive_c/Program Files/Name the folder: exhaustingday
Click Create
Click Extract
Click "Show the Files"
DXVK 1.4.4
Download DXVK 1.4.4
Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.4.4
Save to your Desktop
Extract on your Desktop
Open the x64 Folder
Copy all of the DLLs
Navigate back to the open folder where the game files are...
Paste the DLLs
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
Select "exhaustingday" on the left column
General Tab
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"
Select "Yet Another Exhausting Day.exe"
Click Next
Leave the default name for the shortcut
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
Back to Configure
Select "Yet Another Exhausting Day" Shortcut
General Tab
Wine version: 4.15-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/chip uses
Close Configure
Run "Yet Another Exhausting Day"
Note: Click debug to see bugs and errors
Unity3D Launcher
Adjust:
- Screen Resolution
- Graphics Quality
- Monitor
- Windowed
- Input
Conclusion:
Yet Another Exhausting Day would not play with stable version of Wine, but ran perfectly with staging versions. Also DXVK is required for Direct X 10.11 support, otherwise the game would never launch and instead would crash upon running.
Gameplay Video:
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