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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...
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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.
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: 4.15-staging
DXVK: 1.4.4
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 4.15-staging
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 4.15-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 4.15-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
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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: exhaustingday
Click Next
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Check all three options:
Click Next
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
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Select Wine 4.15-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:
Edit one at a time
- d3d10
- d3d10_1
- d3d10core
- d3d11
- dxgi
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:
Click Next
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- POL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
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Note: All packages should download and install automatically
Do not click Browse
Click Cancel
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Open Yet Another Exhausting Day demo with your Archive Manager
Click Extract
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Navigate to the virtual drive Program Files directory
Full Path:Click the New Folder iconCode:/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/exhaustingday/drive_c/Program Files/
Name the folder: exhaustingday
Click Create
Click Extract
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Click "Show the Files"
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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
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Navigate back to the open folder where the game files are...
Paste the DLLs
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PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
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Select "exhaustingday" on the left column
General Tab
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"
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Select "Yet Another Exhausting Day.exe"
Click Next
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Leave the default name for the shortcut
Click Next
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Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
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Back to Configure
Select "Yet Another Exhausting Day" Shortcut
General Tab
Wine version: 4.15-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 "Yet Another Exhausting Day"
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Note: Click debug to see bugs and errors
Unity3D Launcher
Adjust:
Click Play
- Screen Resolution
- Graphics Quality
- Monitor
- Windowed
- Input
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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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