Plutonium BO2 & WaW - Linux Tutorial
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Got everything working except T6 in particular has no audio. I'm using pipewire so maybe that is the issue? Can anyone who uses pipewire vouch if they have audio issues or not? Other than that all of the games run like butter. I tried setting the prefix to xp as the previous comment mentioned, but had no success.
I have made a Bottles backup that you can import (I have wayland + pipewire)
Tested on T4,T5, T6 and IW5 and it work like a charm
Archive : bottles_Plutonium.tar_gz
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How to get Plutonium BO2 & WaW to work on Linux - Updated: June 15, 2021
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Must have Wine, Lutris, and correct Drivers for your distro installed. I will briefly go over how I did it but keep in mind that I am using Arch Linux and won't be able to help with other distros. So for other distros or more information on how to install wine and all its dependencies refer to GloriousEggroll's Guide.
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Most of these steps were taken from pants Guide, so if you are having any issues refer to that before commenting.
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I am on Arch Linux and I am using yay as my AUR helper. I recommend doing the same unless you know what you are doing. Follow this guide if you want to know how to install yay.
Installing Drivers, Wine, Lutris, and Plutonium
Drivers & Dependencies:
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Make sure you have the correct drivers installed. I am using a laptop running an 8th Gen Intel CPU and an MX150. If you have similar specs you may follow these steps, else refer to GloriousEggroll's Guide mentioned above and skip this section.
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I am using the "Prime Render Offload" method of utilizing my MX150 as mentioned in the Arch Wiki. If you are doing the same, make sure you follow the Arch Wiki and that it works.
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Next enable the multilib repository and run:
yay -S nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-settings vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loaderin a terminal. This installs the required vulkan dependencies for my pc, again refer to GloriousEggroll's Guide for other builds. -
Install Wine and DXVK by running
yay -S wine-staging-git winetricks dxvk-bin, after installing Wine, create a new 64-bit wine-prefix. This can be done by runningwinecfgin a terminal and it will create.winein your home directory, once the wine configuration app opens you can exit. -
Next you need to install the dependencies required for running BO2 and Plutonium. In a terminal, run:
sudo winetricks --self-update
winetricks -q --force dotnet48
winetricks -q d3dcompiler_47 corefonts
winetricks -q vcrun2005
winetricks -q d3dcompiler_43 d3dx11_42 d3dx11_43
winetricks -q gfw msasn1 physx
winetricks -q xact_x64 xact xinput
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine setup_dxvk install
You will get a message box saying "Error: Application cannot be started.", ignore it and move on.
Lutris, Plutonium & BO2
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If you have your drivers and wine installed correctly, you are ready to install Plutonium and BO2. Start by installing Lutris,
yay -S lutris, open Lutris and click on "lutris" on the left panel and search up
"Black Ops II" in the "Community Installers" tab. Click on Black Ops II when it shows up and install the Plutonium version, not the steam ones. This will install plutonium on your system. You can set the install path wherever you want, but in my opinion, I believe its better to have a "Games" folder in the wine bottle. So for me its
~/.wine/drivec_c/users/nawa/Gamesdirectory.
The app will show up as "Black Ops II" but this is actually incorrect, you should configure and rename the app to "Plutonium " and change the app picture as this is not launching BO2 but plutonium. -
The previous step will only install Plutonium, to install BO2 you must torrent the game files provided by Plutonium. I use Deluge as my BitTorrent application.
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You now need to torrent the game files. To do this add the
pluto_t6_full_game.torrentthat you downloaded from the previous step to your BitTorrent application. When it is done the status will say "seeding" and you can then remove it. By default it will torrent the game files into~/Downloadsand the folder will be calledpluto_t6_full_game. You need to move this into your wine bottle, which for me is~/.wine/drive_c/users/nawa/Games
To copy the files into the wine-bottle run:cp -r pluto_t6_full_game~/.wine/drive_c/users/nawa/Games`from the directory of the torrented files. This will copy and move the files to where they need to be and rename the directory to "BO2". Make sure to replace "nawa" with your own user. -
The previous step can be repeated for WaW and MW3. Make sure to change the directory name when copying, and selecting the correct game files, for example, t4 for WaW and t6 for BO2.
For example WaW:
cp -r pluto_t4_full_game ~/.wine/drive_c//users/nawa/Games/WaW -
Next, open Lutris and configure Plutonium. Under the "Runner options" tab make sure the wine version is set to system/staging and that DXVK is enabled. DXVK version should be set to the latest one. Next, make sure that Esync is enabled. My Audio driver is set to PulseAudio as I was having problems with "default". Next, go to the "System options" tab and Disable Lutris Runtime. Scroll down and Select Optimus launcher if you are using one, else leave it as default. Set "Vulkan ICD Loader" to the correct one, I have it as "nvidia_icd.json". Then make sure that "ACO Shader Compiler" is enabled, and if you are using "Prime Render Offload" as I am, enable it and turn on "Use discrete graphics".
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Once you have completed all the steps, restart Lutris and run Plutonium. Plutonium should launch but it will be blank, I'm not sure what is causing it to be blank, but plutonium is now updating. Wait 5-10 minutes and it should ask you to log in. Login using your forum credentials. Then select your game and setup the game folder. For example for BO2 you would click on Black Ops II Multiplayer on the left pane and select the game folder. If you have followed this tutorial correctly it should be in
My Computer > C: > users > nawa > BO2orC:\users\nawa\BO2. Select the same folder for Zombies. The same steps should be repeated for WaW and MW3 providing that you have installed the games correctly and you select the correct folders. -
All you have to do now is press play and have fun.
If there is anything that is confusing, please comment below.
If you get any issues, try installing the redist packages found in the game folder.Enjoy
~NawaNawa i keep getting the "directX has encountered an error" message
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dps910 thank u
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Nawa i keep getting the "directX has encountered an error" message
spacer2001 just go to Configure -> Runner options click on Advanced to turn it on and go down to "Enable DXVK-NVADI/DL" and turn it off
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OmarDevX said in Plutonium BO2 & WaW - Linux Tutorial:
i have this black screen when run the game
EDIT: i fix it but when i join server kicks me out of the game
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HoneyOTU said in Plutonium BO2 & WaW - Linux Tutorial:
Managed to Successfully get T5 and T6 running even in a Crossover Bottle, however I noticed that I have a lot of mouse stuttering rendering Zombies a bit challenging to play.
Anyone got a quickfix for that?
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Hey, I got bo1 running on my mac through Crossover. Having issues with mw3, it's crashing when I join a server. Any clues why might it crash right when I join a server?
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I have made a Bottles backup that you can import (I have wayland + pipewire)
Tested on T4,T5, T6 and IW5 and it work like a charm
Archive : bottles_Plutonium.tar_gz
Thoxy How wonderful is it because it runs the servers in linux and that is a chaos of cpu consumption almost 90% only running a server
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I have made a Bottles backup that you can import (I have wayland + pipewire)
Tested on T4,T5, T6 and IW5 and it work like a charm
Archive : bottles_Plutonium.tar_gz
Thoxy I have been having trouble importing this. It seems like you linked the DLLS to your home directory and I don't seem to have the same versions.
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I have made a Bottles backup that you can import (I have wayland + pipewire)
Tested on T4,T5, T6 and IW5 and it work like a charm
Archive : bottles_Plutonium.tar_gz
Thoxy the bottle is deleted.
do you have a new upload? -
does somebody have a copy of that bottles tar.gz ?
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When installing with Bottles you should use the soda 7.0.9 runner as any newer one fails to start the game. I have not tested any non soda runner and they may work.
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I'm having issues getting the mouse to work, i'm on Fedora 41, and I have followed all of the steps.
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Portproton.
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how do i do this in 2025?
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for anyone trying this in in 2025, i got it working on arch (Linux 6.15.6-arch1-1) by installing bo2 multiplayer on steam, adding plutonium.exe as a non-steam game and running it through that with proton 9.0-4. everything works flawlessly tbh, including controller
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I love you
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why so many complex steps lol i dont even use wine and got it working simply using steam and built in addons. Why in the world would someone make it even more complex for no reason.
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why so many complex steps lol i dont even use wine and got it working simply using steam and built in addons. Why in the world would someone make it even more complex for no reason.
DatBomber420 props to creative members finding ways to get a non supported feature working... if you've found a better way then post it... otherwise your commentary doesn't help anyone.
put up or shut up
