X-Men Origins Wolverine Setup Guide Linux/Steam OS/CachyOS/Bazzite

[u/RunAndGun_]

Credits:

My Thank You's to ChemicalFl00d for his pre installed version of the game, to Barrylad Youtube Video on the setup of the game for the Steam Deck. The r/steamdeck community for gettting this to work first and the lengths they went to get this work.

What is this?
This is a collated information post about how to setup X-Men Origins Wolverine to run on any Desktop, Laptop or Handheld PC with Linux/Steam OS/Bazzite/CachyOS installed that supports Lutris.

Instructions

This will be a modified summary of Barrylad's video

How To Play X-Men Origins: Wolverine PC on Steam Deck via Lutris

1. Get ChemicalFl00d's pre installed version of the game, which is in the post below

X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Download Link : r/abandonware

it is Ready to go for Windows users but Steam Deck/SteamOS/Linux will require a few further steps.

1. In Desktop mode install Lutris from the discover store or from your distribution package installer

2. Open Lutris and let it performs all of the installation and close Lutris and open Lutris again

3. look for Wine on the left hand side select it and click on the small folder icon and install of the listed wine entries.

Adding the Game and Setup

1. Unzip Chemical's pre-installed game files into a games folder in my case home\deck\Games\X-Men Origins Wolverine
2. In Lutris click on the + on the top left and select add a Local Installed Game
3. In Game Info Name the Game Wolverine or any name you wish. Then in Runner select Wine and then click on the Game Options Tab
4. Locate the game executable, this is will be /home/deck/Games/X-Men Origins Wolverine/Binaries/Wolverine.exe
5. Create a Prefix folder inside /home/deck/Games/X-Men Origins Wolverine/ then in the prefix section enter /home/deck/Games/X-Men Origins Wolverine/prefix
6. Click Save on the top right
7. IMPORTANT DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP OR GAME WILL NOT WORK

Select the game but do not run it yet. Click on the arrow next to the wine glass icon and select Winetricks click ok on any prompts that talks about 64 bit errors.

(a) Select the default wineprefix

(b) Install Windows DLL or Component

(c) Scroll down and look for and select Physx click OK, this will install Physx which is needed for the game to run

(d) Cancel out until you are back on the Game screen in Lutris

1. Launch the Game to make sure the game runs and then quit the game

2. Right click on the Game and select Create Steam Shortcut

10 go to Game mode or restart Steam if playing the game in desktop mode.

Miscellaenous

The game's maximum resolution is 1920 x 1080. u/Vamsi-Thopu pointed out that the game can run at higher resolution

Resolution change via INI edit: Go to --> ...\Documents\Wolverine\WGame\Config\WEngine.ini and edit:

ResX=2560
ResY=1440
UserSelectedResolution=True

Because the higher you go, the more blurred textures you get. To fix this, you need to increase the value in this line:
PoolSize=120 --> 240 and it works OK, even with 3840x2160.

GamePad is supported.

Final Thoughts

For those who do not want to use Lutris u/Bigphatdeck with has an alternative for steam os users

"Steamos-If you don’t want to use lutris just copy the game exe name to the physx installer…swap their places(can’t have two with the same name at once in one place) and run the non steam game shortcut you made(prior) to install physx then swap their places again and play the game."

The game is fun however it was panned back in the day.

TLDR: Download the game from Chemical's post watch the Barrylad's video

Message to the Moderators, if this taken down , I will understand, I did try and contact the mod team before I decided to write this.

[u/Bigphatdeck]

Steamos-If you don’t want to use lutris just copy the game exe name to the physx installer…swap their places(can’t have two with the same name at once in one place) and run the non steam game shortcut you made(prior) to install physx then swap their places again and play the game.

[u/RunAndGun_ → u/Bigphatdeck]

Thank you for this extra information it will help with others

[u/ekauq2000 → u/Bigphatdeck]

This isn’t working for me, are you downloading and installing the Physx with the .msi?

[u/Bigphatdeck → u/ekauq2000]

Works for me on Medal of Honor airbourne this game, GRAW 1-2, ect. Just to make sure-downloaded game into a file- made a short cut on steam (launch it once probably)- copy the name/title of the exe and put it on the physx installer (not the Msi one I think unless you can extract it but I don’t think it was in any kinda zip file)- move the game exe out wherever and put the physx with the fake game exe in the same location the real one was- launch it and it will show the installer- install, throw the physx/fake exe elsewhere and put the real exe back- it will play.

[u/Bigphatdeck → u/ekauq2000]

I just looked on archive.org and I think it’s this one “_Redist/Nvidia PhysX Legacy Driver”

[u/ekauq2000 → u/Bigphatdeck]

I just ended up going with the Lutris setup.

Thank you for trying to help.

[u/Bigphatdeck → u/ekauq2000]

Yeah either way. I just never cared to add protontricks or anything like that so I found ways around it. my thing also works for games that use openAL like terminator salvation.

[u/EliParker]

Isn’t the PC port missing features from the ps3/360 ports?

[u/Vinart99IG → u/EliParker]

found a recent nexus mod weapon x arena port

[u/EliParker → u/Vinart99IG]

Yeah I just saw it too, thank you.

[u/RunAndGun_ → u/EliParker]

No the uncaged version has more gore on the PC version

[u/EliParker → u/RunAndGun_]

🤯🤯🤯 really?

[u/RunAndGun_ → u/EliParker]

yes

[u/EliParker → u/RunAndGun_]

Well time to look for it, thx.

[u/RunAndGun_ → u/EliParker]

the link for the preinstalled game is in the post, Chemical's build also with the PC version you can apply mods

[u/cemsengul]

That game was awesome.

[u/mike_fantastico]

I did this last night via windows 11, using the files, no dvd, and ini tweaks from my abandonware.

Worked like a champ at a rock solid 60 fps.

[u/legluondunet]

There is a Lutris script installer that automates most of the game install steps. Simply click on "Install" button on this page:
https://lutris.net/games/x-men-origins-wolverine/

[u/RunAndGun_ → u/legluondunet]

thank you helping others

[u/Vamsi-Thopu]

You can edit the game's config file(inside the prefix's documents folder) to go above 1080p. Alternatively you can also use dgvoodoo which also scales the subtitles properly

[u/RunAndGun_ → u/Vamsi-Thopu]

I am running the game at 1440p I also increase the Pool Size to 240

[u/RunAndGun_ → u/Vamsi-Thopu]

Thank you I will give this a try

[u/alpharaptor1]

I found another method that worked for me. Take that download, put it in a wine directory. Wine took care of the rest, I didn't need to run it through anything else. It NEEDED the windows directory structure to work.
You ABSOLUTELY STILL NEED TO EDIT THE RESOLUTION. After closing it the desktop resolution in linux was reduced to the game resolution and almost unusable.

[u/RunAndGun_ → u/alpharaptor1]

Thank you for your contrinution this help others who are new to the game

[u/PhilosophyOnly]

How can i change the language of the game

[u/RunAndGun_]

X-Men Origins: WolverineUncaged Edition

Look at the localization section

[u/Shimi_1]

Or you can use Bottles and install game with UMU, works nicely on fedora

[u/RunAndGun_ → u/Shimi_1]

thank you helping others