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Elder Scrolls: IV Oblivion was a state-of-the-art benchmark for gaming before Skyrim. Consisting of a massive open-world full of dungeons, castles, ruins, mountains, swamps, forests and countless enemies. Anyone could easily invest 200+ hours just exploring Tamriel, leveling up and completing quests. There is always somewhere new to explore, someone new to talk to and some new minion to slay.
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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Elder Scrolls: IV Oblivion in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Retail version of Elder Scrolls: IV Oblivion. Other versions may require additional steps.
Tips & Specs:
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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.8
Wine: 1.7.46
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.46
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next
Downloading Wine
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Extracting
Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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Wine 1.7.46 is installed and you can close this window
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "Install a non-listed program"
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Click Next
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Click "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name the virtual drive: oblivion
Click Next
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Check all three options:
Click Next
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
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Select Wine 1.7.46
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply
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Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop Size: 1024x768
Click OK
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PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)
Check the following packages:
Click Next
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
- POL_Install_vcrun2005
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Installing Oblivion
Click "Select another file"
Click Next
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Click Browse
Navigate to the Oblivion CD ROM
Select "setup.exe"
Click Open
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Click Next
Click Next
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Click "I accept the terms..."
Click Next
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Click Next
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Click Install
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Installing...
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Uncheck "Add Oblivion shortcut to your desktop
Uncheck "Yes, I want to view the ReadMe file
Click Finish
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Unfortunately the installer refuses to close on its own
It will just hang at this window
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Open the Linux activity monitor
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Select Wineserver.exe
Click End Process
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "Oblivion.exe"
Click Next
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Name your shortcut: Oblivion
Click Next
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Click "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
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PlayOnLinux Configure
Select Oblivion
Click Configure
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General Tab
Wine version: 1.7.46
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Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine. Always try downloading the newest version of Wine to test on Oblivion.
Display Tab
Video Memory size: Select the amount of Memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure
Launching Oblivion
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Oblivion
Click Run
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Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs
Optimization
Click options
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Click Video
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Adjust:
- Resolution
- Brightness
- Texture Size
- Tree Fade
- Actor Fade
- Item Fade
- Object Fade
- Grass Distance
- View Distance
- Distand Land
- Distant Buildings
- Distant Trees
- Interior Shadows
- Exterior Shadows
- Self Shadows
- Shadows on Grass
- Tree Canopy Shadows
- Shadow Filtering
- Specular Distance
- HDR Lighting
- Bloom Lighting
- Water Detail
- Water Reflections
- Water Ripples
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Rule of Thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates
Conclusion:
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion ran perfectly in PlayOnLinux on my GeForce 550 Ti with almost all the settings on high. Its quite a beautiful game even considering its age. The only problem I had was the installer locking up.
Gameplay Video:
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