• Path of Exile ¹⁾
• Standalone
• 32-bit

• Fedora Workstation
• openSUSE Tumbleweed (GNOME)
• Wine

• Enable CSMT for NVIDIA Proprietary Graphics
• Enable Gallium Nine for AMD Graphics and disable Shadows
• Windowed Fullscreen works better for desktop environment integration
• The 64-bit client is unusable ²⁾
• A 64-bit Wine Prefix is used in order to use the High Texture Quality setting in-game ³⁾

• Install to default directory when prompted ⁴⁾

mkdir -p ~/'Wine Prefixes' ~/'Downloads/Path of Exile' && wget 'https://www.pathofexile.com/downloads/PathOfExileInstaller.exe' -O ~/'Downloads/Path of Exile/PathOfExileInstaller.exe' && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile' WINEARCH='win64' wine ~/'Downloads/Path of Exile/PathOfExileInstaller.exe'

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mv ~/'Downloads/Path of Exile/Content.ggpk' ~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Grinding Gear Games/Path of Exile'

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rm -Rf ~/'Downloads/Path of Exile' ~/'Desktop/Path of Exile.desktop' ~/'Desktop/Path of Exile.lnk' && sync

• https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

• D3D11 to Vulkan

• https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases

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rm -rf '/tmp/dxvk-'* && cd '/tmp' && tar -xvzf ~/'Downloads/dxvk-'*'.tar.gz' && cd ~ && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile' '/tmp/dxvk-'*'/setup_dxvk.sh' install && rm -rf '/tmp/dxvk-'* && sync

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rm -Rf ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Grinding Gear Games' && mkdir -p ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Path of Exile'

• Provides options for starting the game normally, killing the wineserver, and verifying Content.ggpk

nano ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Path of Exile/Path of Exile.desktop'

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Path of Exile
Comment=You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you.
Categories=Game;AdventureGame;RolePlaying
Exec=env WINEDEBUG='-all' WINEPREFIX='/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile' wine '/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Grinding Gear Games/Path of Exile/PathOfExile.exe' --noasync
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Path=/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Grinding Gear Games/Path of Exile
Icon=7F60_ClientIcon.0
Actions=Kill;Verify;

[Desktop Action Kill]
Exec=env WINEPREFIX='/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile' wineserver -k
Name=Kill wineserver

[Desktop Action Verify]
Exec=gnome-terminal -- env WINEDEBUG='-all' WINEPREFIX='/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile' wine '/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Grinding Gear Games/Path of Exile/PackCheck.exe'
Name=Verify Content.ggpk

sed -i 's/'CHANGEME'/'$USER'/g' ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Path of Exile/Path of Exile.desktop'

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WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile' winecfg

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WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile' winetricks

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WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile' regedit

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WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile' wineserver -k

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cd ~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Grinding Gear Games/Path of Exile' && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile' wine ~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Grinding Gear Games/Path of Exile/PathOfExile.exe' --noasync

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cd ~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Grinding Gear Games/Path of Exile' && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile' wine ~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Grinding Gear Games/Path of Exile/PackCheck.exe'

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xdg-open ~/'Wine Prefixes/Path of Exile/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Grinding Gear Games/Path of Exile'