Installing Hawken on Ubuntu 12.04/12.10/13.04 (PlayOnLinux)
This video will hopefully guide you on installing Hawken in Ubuntu. You will need PlayOnLinux, which is a great free software to help you manage your Wine versions accordingly. You may get PlayOnLinux from the Ubuntu Software Center OR from their website: www.playonlinux.com
Please make sure you have at least version 4.1.8 of PlayOnLinux to get this working right. If you're missing the arguments tab or the Wine Install Components tab, then you're using an older version of POL. Please update it first.
This video was requested, so I hope it provides you with some help or at least insight on how to setup Hawken under Ubuntu and Linux in general.
Following these instructions should be the same on Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 13.04. So don't worry if you have these versions of Ubuntu, it should still work. It might work with older versions of Ubuntu, but I have no idea if you will be able to get the new POL running on older Ubuntu machines.
Please Note: Hawken will definitely not run as well as it would in Windows. It's good enough to be considered playable right now, but there can be bugs in the game. Even the launcher is buggy/quirky, so do not be surprised. I use Wine 1.5.25 in this video.
Download Hawken Open Beta here:
http://www.playhawken.com/#download/
Official website for Hawken:
http://www.playhawken.com/
This video was recorded using:
Vokoscreen 1.4.14 Beta 3 (game video)
Audacity + Blue Yeti Microphone (voice over)
This video was edited using:
Kdenlive 0.9.4
GIMP 2.8.2
Audacity
My computer rig specs:
CPU - AMD Phenom II x4 965 3.4GHz
GPU - Asus Nvidia GTX 680 2GB (Nvidia 310.14)
RAM - 8GB DDR3 Corsair 1333MHz
OS - Ubuntu 12.10 64Bit/Windows 8 64Bit (Dual Boot)
PPA for Vokoscreen:
ppa:vokoscreen-dev/vokoscreen-daily
Download Ubuntu 12.10 for free:
http://www.ubuntu.com/
Download GIMP 2.8 for free:
http://www.gimp.org/
My alias in ubuntuforums.org:
myromance123
About me:
I'm just a Malaysian student studying in Multimedia University Cyberjaya. I am currently in my 4th year at the time of this video. I am taking the Software Engineering and Games Development course (which has now been relabeled as Games Development under FCI).
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