| STATUS: playable | Steam Store Page: click here |
| Wine Version: 1.3.32 | |
| Virtual Desktop: yes | Full-screen: yes |
I installed Steam + Skyrim in it’s own clean wineprefix using “winetricks steam” from the terminal
Close Steam then run
winetricks xact
winetricks vcrun2008
winetricks d3dx9_42
These should be run in the new Steam wineprefix – to do this run winetricks – then select the Steam wineprefix – then run the terminal (debugging) then run the above commands.
I then launched Steam and installed the game as per normal.
On first launch the game installs 3 items – and froze up on the last .Net – so I just cancelled it and ran the game again. It again tried to install .Net though the game launcher still came up…
I had to set in Options Anti-aliasing to NONE or video didn’t work for me.
Skyrim runs – though at reduced framerates for me… it may just be my graphics card.
Windows Version: Windows XP (I have PulseAudio + ALSA so had to use XP to get sound)
WINE Library Overrides/ Winetricks Present:
xact / vcrun2008 / d3dx9_42
Registry Tweaks to improve framerates (not everyone will need this = again probably my graphics card)
videomemorysize=1024
glsl=disabled
Skyrim.ini Tweaks I used (from Reddit):
Disable the smooth mouse:
- Go to Steam Directory > steamapps > common > skyrim > Skyrim
- Backup SkyrimPrefs.ini
- Change bMouseAcceleration=1 to bMouseAcceleration=0
Fix the vsync / laggy mouse problem
- Go to Steam Directory > steamapps > common > skyrim > Skyrim
- Backup SkyrimPrefs.ini
- Under [Display] add iPresentInterval=0
23 Responses to “Skyrim – The Elder Scrolls V”
Leave a Reply
If you have anything to add to this game test, please feel free to comment. Do post your Wine Version, Linux Flavour and graphics card drivers = NVIDIA or ATI! Help each other out and be nice to one another :)
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Why Windows XP? Would the Windows 7 file set maybe contain more of the repositories the game requires?
I’m very interested in running steam games under Linux, having just bought Skyrim I’d love to give this a go myself.
You can try it under Windows 7 on your machine… I did, and sound disappeared for me. You will really have to tweak things to get acceptable frame-rates… search the net for optimisation mods and .ini settings to try. :)
I installed the same way and only get a small decrease in performance running it in Win XP mode.
core i7-2630QM, nvidia gtx 560m, 8gb ram
Maybe it’s my specs then – GTX 460 with older quad core… You are running 64bit Linux?
Yea, running 64 bit Xubuntu 11.10.
Are you using Bumblebee or Ironhide with you Nvidia drivers?
In-game, the mouse behaves strangely and gets “stuck” in one place (whenever I move away from that spot, it snaps back.)
This issue is also present in Oblivion and Fallout 3.
What version of Wine + are you playing full screen or on a virtual desktop? Check your winecfg and set “Capture Mouse” as needed – also try changing your mouserwarp override reg setting… you should install Skyrim into it’s own wineprefix to avoid conflicts with other game installs, overrides etc…
I have been trying to install this on Arch64 and I get steam installed, then I get skyrim downloaded… But then when I go to start the Skyrim Launcher, Wine crashes and won’t open up where you actually install the game or play it
Are you installing in a clean wineprefix? Did you install the winetricks? You should install into it’s own CLEAN wine prefix…
Followed instructions from here, apart from “winetricks steam”
I had to install graphic driver again. (Even though it looked like it was working, fglxinfo, gears was working) It would give error when started and shutdown.
Wine 1.3.36
Didn’t install in only wineprefix.
ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.x86_64
ATI/AMD HD 6850
ALSA sound
Ubuntu 11.10 64bit
winetricks xact
winetricks vcrun2008
winetricks d3dx9_42
regedit:
Direct3D:
DirectDrawRenderer = opengl
OffscreenRenderingMode = fbo
PixelShaderMode = enabled
RenderTargetLockMode = textex
UseGLSL = enabled
VideoMemorySize = 1024
OpenGL:
DisabledExtensions = GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
Winecfg:
TESV.exe:
set to Windows XP
Graphics
Windows settings:
All 4 unchecked
Direct3D:
Vertex Shader Support: Hardware
Allow Pixel Shader = checked
glsl=disabled – didn’t work for me, ATI/AMD card
I have xact, vcrun2008, d3dx9_42. I tried Windows 7 and XP for both SkyrimLauncher and and TESV. I did AA 0. PC-BSD 9.0-RELEASE, Wine 1.4-rc2.
I get error:
$ wine SkyrimLauncher.exe
fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L”clr_optimization_v2.0.50727_32″ failed to start: 2
fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
fixme:dpnhpast:DllRegisterServer :stub
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0xd3f57c, overlapped 0xd3f560): stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f860,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f610,0x00000000), stub!
err:service:service_send_command service protocol error – failed to read pipe r = 0 count = 0!
err:dialog:EndDialog got invalid window handle (0x0); buggy app !?
err:module:import_dll Library X3DAudio1_7.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim\\TESV.exe”) not found
[[email protected] ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim]$ err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L”C:\\Program Files\\The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim\\TESV.exe” failed, status c0000135
err:ntdll:RtlDeleteResource Deleting active MRSW lock (0x113284), expect failure
What linux + desktop + video drivers are you running? BTW – this is a site for running STEAM versions of games = it looks like you are running the DVD / Store bought version… we can still try to help ;)
Hi, I have ATI 6950 core 2 duo 2.66GHz 2G RAM wine version wine-1.5.1-92-ge4ad164 drivers version 12.1-r1 and I am using gentoo. I think with this hardware I should be able to run it on good fps but with everything on lowest setting it runs max 10 fps :S any ideas? thanx
You aren’t running disk encryption are you? That is the first thing I would check…
Sorry, but how can I check that? is that in kernel?
ps: I have lvm installed and running through cron
You are running Linux within a virtual machine? You can’t play games running on a VM… or if you meant LVM as is variable partition sizing that will also probably cause issues with Skyrim.
did you tick “encrypt home folder” when you installed Linux?
uninstalling lvm didnt help, there are lots of fixme messages http://pastebin.com/2dVQcRdp
Running the game under Fedroa 17 64bit with wine version 1.5.3. Done the installation as described here. Game works great but I have an issue with mouse. When I move mouse right then the cursor goes all the way to the right when i move it left cursor behaves corectly. Any suggestions?
Btw running in 64bit system requires to install 32bit gfx libs.(in my case xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs) When i had only 64bit version installed game didnt launch.
try changing the capture mouse in full screen setting in winecfg?
The game works great on my Chakra 64-bit installation.
I’m running it via PlayOnLinux with Wine 1.5.20 (32-bit).
The ONLY bottleneck seems to be my laptop’s CPU, which is an AMD Athlon II P340 Dual-core. My graphics chip is an ATI Mobility Radeon 5470, which seems quite good for these kind of games.
Wish the proprietary driver was better, though…not that the free-source driver is better, by any standards. :P