The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Guide

littlelink · Sep 27, 2015

Hy guys.

I'm french, so sorry if i make mistake. I followed your tuto and it works great for me, thank's a lot. I'm juste posting about the underwater bug. As they said here (https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=24749), it seems that it's not a wine bug. But juste put bDoDepthOfField=0 and iRadialBlurLevel=0 didn't worked for me. I fixed it with a mod : http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/14007/? ; and it works perfectly now.

booman · Sep 28, 2015

Nice, thanks for the fix. I'll try it as well and I will post if it works

Aremis · Sep 30, 2015

littlelink said:
Hy guys.

I'm french, so sorry if i make mistake. I followed your tuto and it works great for me, thank's a lot. I'm juste posting about the underwater bug. As they said here (https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=24749), it seems that it's not a wine bug. But juste put bDoDepthOfField=0 and iRadialBlurLevel=0 didn't worked for me. I fixed it with a mod : http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/14007/? ; and it works perfectly now.

Cool! If you can try and make some guide here for whatever bugs you find. You will be helping a lot of people out!!

booman · Oct 12, 2015

I can confirm the .ini changes:

Code:

bDoDepthOfField=0
iRadialBlurLevel=0

Worked for me! you can now see underwater but it will appear about the same as above water. No blur or cloudy effects, but you CAN see!

backplate101 · Jan 1, 2016

sorry that this is a late question. out of curiosity, why go through the hassle of installing steam app in POL manually (in your guides) when there is auto install method available in POL's depot?
The steam app installer fixes the missing fonts too.
I ask cause i just purchased this game and am going to install it and thought that it would be easier to install steam via the depository.

thanks

booman · Jan 2, 2016

Yes, using the PlayOnLinux provided scripts is easier, but it is not always updated with the newest version of Wine or Steam client updates break things. Manual installation allows you to choose which version of Wine you want to use from the beginning. I just like having more control over the installation process instead of having an out-of-date script that might cause things to not work.

Aremis · Jan 13, 2016

For note you are much better off learning how to use wine (in my opinion) and learning how to configure it. For the longest time wine was default 1.6.2 in POL and from repos then POL jumped to 1.7.21 but I was using 1.7.50 on my arch machine.

Now we're on 1.9.1 and have DX11 support there. It is much more worth the time and effort to learn how to configure and use wine.

booman · Jan 13, 2016

This is true for gamers who are comfortable with command line. Unfortunately most gamers aren't. As you can see with console gamers and smart phone gamers alike. They just "want it to work"
In Linux this is only the case with most games in Steam. All the rest require command line whether you are using Wine, tar, bash, or most other binary installers.

I would say if a gamer is interested in learning Linux, then using the command line (Terminal) is definitely the way to go. Everyone else should probably stick with PlayOnLinux and Steam for now. Even some PlayOnLinux games require some command line intervention, but Wine requires a lot of commands to install games, configure games, setup dependencies and even changing Wine versions per game.
For me that was a game-breaker... but when I started using PlayOnLinux, it made installing, configuring and optimizing games much easier.

mrdeathjr28 · Jan 13, 2016

booman said:
This is true for gamers who are comfortable with command line. Unfortunately most gamers aren't.

As you can see with console gamers and smart phone gamers alike.

They just "want it to work"

In Linux this is only the case with most games in Steam.

All the rest require command line whether you are using Wine, tar, bash, or most other binary installers.

I would say if a gamer is interested in learning Linux, then using the command line (Terminal) is definitely the way to go.

Everyone else should probably stick with PlayOnLinux and Steam for now.

Even some PlayOnLinux games require some command line intervention, but Wine requires a lot of commands to install games, configure games, setup dependencies and even changing Wine versions per game.

For me that was a game-breaker... but when I started using PlayOnLinux, it made installing, configuring and optimizing games much easier.

This right in my case console is very needed for install lastest nvidia drivers (around 30min finish install 361.18, this driver out this morning)

But as your said is very complex, linux must make more easily this process

However mint improve that and with this ppa

https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/ archive/ubuntu/ppa

Them have lastest driver (normally take 3 days more in stay out in some cases as when drivers have some problem like as broke something case 361 series and plasma for more details consult ppa)

In wine side this ppa stay updated

https://launchpad.net/~wine/ archive/ubuntu/wine-builds

Regular ppa stay outdated

Back to playonlinux is more affordable for new users and have many options

In my case recommends playonlinux if have problems with regular wine (compiling is more dificult too)

But have system when work nvidia cuda 7.5, nvenc sdk 5, wine compiling enviroment + steam native games + older native non steam case doom 3, quake, prey + some console native emulators + wine apps is very very difficult (hell of dependencies) to make but is possible

Without forget all games dont work in same wine version, and in this scenary playonlinux is a very usefull tool

infinity8x3 · Mar 19, 2016

I fixed the shadows in the game by editing SkyrimPrefs.ini and changing "bDeferredShadows=1" to "bDeferredShadows=0"

booman · Mar 20, 2016

Do you mean the erradic shadow movement with the sun?

infinity8x3 · Mar 20, 2016

Correct. And using wine 1.7.21 fixes the problem (worked out of the box for me).
Also I had had sound issues I fixed by configuring wine to windows xp.

booman · Mar 22, 2016

I've noticed sound issues in other games as well. Yes, setting to Windows XP fixes them. Something with xaudio I guess...

Thanks for the shadows tip, I wonder if it works in Wine 1.8?

NotaPCgamer · Apr 1, 2016

I need some basic help, where did you found the steam setup and steam.exe? This may sound ridicules but i just can't figure it out, i tried to use the shortcut but it appears like "the binary was not found in: steam.exe"

steve723 · Apr 1, 2016

Last time I played it the overlay worked just fine.

booman · Apr 3, 2016

steve723 said:
Last time I played it the overlay worked just fine.

Yes, the overlay works fine now with Wine 1.8 and newer... finally
Now if they can get dwrite to work properly. Sometimes it does and other times it doesn't

Pipes · Apr 11, 2016

Hi folks,

Thanks booman for the excellent tutorial. I encountered one curious problem: Skyrim won't recognize my keyboard. It works fine in Steam (running on the virtual drive) and in Linux/SteamOS, but won't work in the game. I can't get past the character creation step because I can't name my character. It's an Apple keyboard plugged in by USB. Any thoughts? Thanks!

booman · Apr 11, 2016

Welcome to the forum Pipes. I have a feeling there is something buggy between Wine and your Apple keyboard. Are you using PlayOnMac to play Skyrim?

Pipes · Apr 12, 2016

booman said:
Welcome to the forum Pipes. I have a feeling there is something buggy between Wine and your Apple keyboard. Are you using PlayOnMac to play Skyrim?

No, it's PlayOnLinux. The system is an Alienware Steam Machine running SteamOS, but the only keyboard I have handy happens to be Apple. I also have a steam controller hooked up and the "mouse" on that works fine in the game. I set it up using Wine 1.7.49-staging as you recommend in the tutorial. Curious.

booman · Apr 12, 2016

I've never personally tried that, but you might as well pick up a windows keyboard and it will probably work fine.
I'm sure you can do some research on configuring a Mac keyboard in Linux.