The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

What works

Installing and playing the game through Steam

What does not

Common mods such as SKSE, Mod Organizer, FNIS, and ENB

Workarounds

• ENB
  • Add d3d9.dll to winecfg
  • winetricks d3dcompiler_43 d3dx9_43 d3dx9_36
  • If crashing, replace *.fx files in enbseries folder with Snapgradon Prime preset
• FNIS
  • Install wine-mono package for your distro
• SKSE
  • Rename skse_loader.exe to SkyrimLauncher.exe
• Mod management
  • Use linux-mod-linker: https://github.com/DougTy/linu...
  • CLI-based mod manager made specifically for Linux

What was not tested

Controller support, VR, Creation Kit

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: AMD
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

• I had previously been using Nvidia, and visuals were largely broken. Most of ENB's effects wouldn't work, and even without ENB, shadows were glitched and permenantly blocky. On AMD however, everything works great! No missing ENB effects, and shadows look great. Highly recommend playing the game on AMD if the option is possible.
• TESV.exe process must be manually killed, as exiting the game doesn't work properly and it just hangs.
• Still can't get the ingame ENB editor menu working...

• Go to your home folder and open "Documents"->"My Games"->"Skyrim"

• Open the "SkyrimPrefs.ini" file.

• Find the lines where you see "bFull Screen", "iSize H" and "iSize W"
  and change their values to your desired resolution.

This method is experimental presently(see associated bugs), so try at your own behest.

1. Install enb same way as in windows to game directory
2. Open `winecfg` and under libraries add "d3d9" and set it to "Native then builtin".
3. To set basic enb environment, run `winetricks --showbroken d3dcompiler_43`
4. Additional dll requirements change depending on the preset used, `winetricks d3dx9_43 d3dx9_36` should work fine for most presets.
   
5. Experiment with more dlls to get your preset working but avoid installing directx9, d3dx9_42 and d3d9 as they would do more harm then good.

Game getting stuck at load screen (Vivid Weathers ENB)

• This is caused by enbeffect.fx and enbeffect.fx.ini files, I replaced these with the one from Tetrachromatic ENB Ghost Preset to make it work.

Game getting stuck after/during load screen, ingame music keeps running(Multiple ENB Presets)

• Set `FixParallaxTerrain=false` in enblocal.ini

There is a black overlay over characters and objects(Tetrachromatic ENB Ghost Preset)

• This is a issue in subsurface scattering, set`EnableSubSurfaceScattering=false` in enbseries.ini to solve this. 
• Surprisingly, enabling ambient occlusion also corrects this, only set `EnableAmbientOcclusion=true` in enbseries.ini to have both ambient occlusion ans subsurface scattering working without issues.

Everything is black with only hud visible

• Set `FixTintGamma=false` in enblocal.ini

Audio

To fix crackling and choppy sound with Pulseaudio:

Possible fix 0:
run in some terminal:
while true; do pasuspender sleep 0.02; sleep 60; done
This finally prevents buffer underruns and the sound is perfect then.

Possible fix 1:
Make sure your realtime kit (rt-kit) is installed and functional so it can assign pulseaudio realtime priority. The kernel config CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED needs to be off for this (see here).

Possible fix 2:
Setting SndQueueMax to 15 (default is 10), see here:
wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

Possible fix 3:
Launch wine with an environment variable set:
PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=50 wine steam.exe

Underwater view

If you cannot see underwater (water is solid green):
Edit SkyrimPrefs.ini in your 'My Games\Skyrim' directory and in the [Imagespace] section set bDoDepthOfField=0 and iRadialBlurLevel=0

This is a game bug, not a Wine issue!

Stuck at main screen

Some mods change the fonts in Skyrim and sometimes that ends in wine not showing up the menu of Skyrim. Simple fix is to remove fontconfig.txt in Data/Interface.

Remember, this is a Bethesda game, a few bugs happen for Windows users too, so blaming wine might not be justified. Please leave comments and bug reports, especially if things that used to work suddenly break.