How to install Plutonium for Black Ops 1 (Windows and Linux)

In this guide I will show you how to play Black Ops 1 Multiplayer in 2024, without the risk of playing against cheaters or hackers that can damage your PC.

What is Plutonium?

Plutonium is a launcher that offer a unique Call of Duty experience, complete with dedicated servers, mod support, and much more. The entire modification in provided for free. This launcher is not exclusive for Black Ops 1, but also supports other games like, Black Ops 2, World at War and Modern Warfare 3. Plutonium makes you to play the way you like, that is why it allows you to create your own dedicated server, or, you can join any other servers. Plutonium also includes a built-in friends list, so you can join your friends easily, and a dedicated Anti-Cheat, to prevent losers from joining your game. Other features include full mod support and controller support.

Installing Plutonium on Windows.

1- Go to plutonium.pw and click install.



2- Click on plutonium.exe to download the executable.



3- Run plutonium.exe and wait for it to download



4- Log-in into you account

If you don't have one go to https://forum.plutonium.pw/register to create an account.




5- Set up you game folder

To find the folder of you game go on steam, right click Black Ops 1, select Manage and click on Browse local files.




Then copy the folder destination.



After that click Setup, on Plutonium and paste the folder, click on the arrow and select that folder.




6- Play

The only thing left in to play and have fun!





!!!Note!!!:

Make sure to reset all filters and refresh the server browser so servers do appear

Installing Plutonium on Linux

1- Install Lutris

Lutris is an app for Linux that allows you to manage all your games from one place, including Windows games.



Next, enter the following commands in your terminal to install Lutris (with all its dependencies):

Debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint / ZorinOS:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y flatpak wine64 wine32 libasound2-plugins:i386 libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 libdbus-1-3:i386 libsqlite3-0:i386
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub net.lutris.Lutris

Fedora / Red Hat / Rocky:
sudo dnf install flatpak wine
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub net.lutris.Lutris

Arch / Manjaro / SteamOS:
sudo pacman -S --needed lutris wine-staging giflib lib32-giflib libpng lib32-libpng libldap lib32-libldap gnutls lib32-gnutls mpg123 lib32-mpg123 openal lib32-openal v4l-utils lib32-v4l-utils libpulse lib32-libpulse libgpg-error lib32-libgpg-error alsa-plugins lib32-alsa-plugins alsa-lib lib32-alsa-lib libjpeg-turbo lib32-libjpeg-turbo sqlite lib32-sqlite libxcomposite lib32-libxcomposite libxinerama lib32-libgcrypt libgcrypt lib32-libxinerama ncurses lib32-ncurses ocl-icd lib32-ocl-icd libxslt lib32-libxslt libva lib32-libva gtk3 lib32-gtk3 gst-plugins-base-libs lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader



2- Configure Lutris

First install Wine:
Open Lutris and go to ☰ > Preferences > Runners, look for Wine and press the button with the icon of a box, and install any Wine version.



Note: If the game doesn't open later, it will most likely be solved by changing that.

Then, add the Plutonium launcher as a game:
Click on the "+" button at the top left and click on the option "Add locally installed game".



Give the game the name you want, and select Wine as the runner.


Go to "Game Options" and in "Executable" select the path of the game executable, and in "Wine Prefix" select any empty folder you have created. In my case, I created a folder called "lutris" in documents.




That is the folder that the game will use to save the Windows files. It's as if it were the hard drive of your Windows.
With this it should be enough in most cases. Now all that's left is to open the game.


3- Open the game

Simply select the game and hit "play".




Then, the launcher will open. From here you just have to do the same as you did on Windows, select the path where you have the CoDs installed and hit play.

[AlexanderTG]

you can also play on DLC maps for free, both zombies and multiplayer, have fun!