Endless Legend on GNU/Linux

Installing and configuring Endless Legend using Wine and optional CrossOver on GNU/Linux systems (should also work on various flavours of BSD). Full GPU-support is fundamental. This guide was created and tested on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit.

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Dependencies:
- Working AND 3D capable GPU driver!!!
- Wine (the higher the version the better)
- Optinal: CrossOver from codeweavers (link at the bottom)

Wine-config:
- Windows 7 32-bit
- Desktop integration enabled

Dependencies for Endless Legends (and Steam):
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1 and 4.5.2
- Microsoft Rich Edit 2.0 and 4.1 (Msftedit.dll)
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 (10.0) Redistributable
- Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 3.0
- msls31
- Steam
- TrueType-Fonts: Andale Mono
- TrueType-Fonts: Arial
- TrueType-Fonts: Arial Black
- TrueType-Fonts: ComicSans MS
- TrueType-Fonts: Courier New
- TrueType-Fonts: Georgia
- TrueType-Fonts: Impact
- TrueType-Fonts: Times New Roman
- TrueType-Fonts: Trebuchet MS
- TrueType-Fonts: Verdana
- TrueType-Fonts: Webdings
- Uniscribe
- Wine Gecko (32-bit)
- Xact Engine 2010

In-game settings:
- Set the video quality to "fastest" if you encounter displaced shadow maps,
it should perform well without multisampling (e.g. max well working setting
might be "good")
- depth of field should work fine
- better animations works fine
- post processing works

Tips:
- You may want to free additional GPU/CPU-ressources by disabling potential
desktop compositors/effects
- You can allocate more VRAM to your Bottle/Wine-config using wine-tricks
- If Steam fails you can install DirectX-9 manually
- DirectX-11 will not work with wine (currently)

Host system used for testing:
- Ubuntu 16.04 xenial 64-bit
- Linux 4.4.0-59-generic
- AMD Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics (using the free driver version)
- 1920x1080 screen
- Wine 1.6.2
- CrossOver 16.0.0
- Endless Legend V1.5.13 S3 (32-bit)

Tested game performance:
- between ~ 20 and 60 ~ FPS, dependent on video settings
- no tearing detected (although VSYNC was deactivated)

Links:
- Wine[www.winehq.org]
- CrossOver[www.codeweavers.com]
- Debian[www.debian.org]