Install Dawn of War 2 (Steam) On Ubuntu 14.04 with PlayOnLinux

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Malaysia Penguin Recordings
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (2009)
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A short beginner-friendly guide on setting up Steam in PlayOnLinux so that you can play Dawn of War 2 on Ubuntu!

Pre-requisites to following this guide:
1. You must have a Steam account (it's free)
2. You must own Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 2

For the professionals/veteran users of Wine, all you need is Wine 1.7.30 and the latest updated version of DoW2 combined with your proprietary drivers. The prefix is clean, there isn't any need for additional installations.

Note, you will need to disable Anti-Aliasing in-game. If it's enabled, you will get pink screens here and there stating vid memory is insufficient.

This guide should work on all Ubuntu versions from 12.04 until 14.10, so long as you have access to PlayOnLinux 4.2 or greater and Wine 1.7.30.

Summarized Step-by-Step:
1. Open PlayOnLinux.
2. Click on Install.
3. Click "Install a non-listed program".
4. Go through the menus, name the drive anything.
5. Tick "Use another version of Wine" and "Configure Wine".
6. Select Wine 1.7.30 (or newer).
7. Select "32 bits windows installation".
8. In Wine Configuration, go to Graphics tab. Tick "Emulate a virtual desktop" and set it to any resolution you want (for windowed mode).
9. Click Browse and select SteamSetup.exe (where you put it).
10. After installation is done, select Steam.exe from the list to make a shortcut. Name it anything you want.
11. Select your new Steam installation in the list and click Configure.
12. In the Arguments section, type -no-dwrite
13. Start Steam from the list. Download DoW2 and play!

WARNING: I have no idea if this works for AMD and Intel graphics users. This may only work for Nvidia users. Please share your experience in the comments so others know.

Download Steam here [FREE]:
http://store.steampowered.com/about/

Download PlayOnLinux here [FREE]:
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html

Purchase and Download Dawn Of War 2 here:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/15620/

My main computer rig specs:
CPU - Intel i7-4770 3.4Ghz
GPU - Asus Nvidia GTX 680 2GB (Nvidia 340.46)
RAM - 8GB DDR3 Corsair 1333MHz
OS - Ubuntu 14.04 64Bit/Windows 8 64Bit (Dual Boot)

Video recorded using:
SimpleScreenRecorder 0.3.1
Audacity

Video edited using the following software:
VideoStudio Ultimate X6
GIMP 2.8.10

Download Ubuntu 14.04 for free:
http://www.ubuntu.com/

Download GIMP 2.8.10 for free:
http://www.gimp.org/

My alias in ubuntuforums.org:
myromance123

About me:
I'm just a Malaysian, who is finishing off the remainder of his studies at MMU Cyberjaya in Software Engineering and Games Design. Love Ubuntu and Linux, and more so gaming!



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