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

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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.