The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Application Details:
Version: | Steam |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.elderscrolls.com/ |
Votes: | 40 |
Latest Rating: | Bronze |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 7.0.1 |
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What works
Start Menu
Main Menu
Graphics change
Sound (see comments)
In-game interface
Quests
Interacting with NPCs
What does not
Workarounds
What was not tested
Mods (Steam Workshop included)
Really extended gameplay
DLCs (although they seemed to be active in-game)
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
The game worked at first, but without sound in the main menu (after the Bethesda Logo video, which have sound) and the game itself. Fixed it running "winetricks xact". If it tells you that it's already installed, force it with "winetricks --force xact". That solved the problem, but there was a crackling sound related in Bug #28282. Solved it running Wine in Windows XP. In fact, the game runs as almost good as on Windows: heavy as an elephant, running on High with AA and AF roaming about 25~40FPS. Maybe with some scripts can make it run smoother.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | Nov 22 2022 | 7.0.1 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | Mark | |
Show | Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" | Jul 10 2020 | 5.12-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | LinuxSupahFly | |
Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Jan 01 2020 | 4.21 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Doug T | |
Show | Manjaro Linux 18.1.0 | Sep 13 2019 | 4.15 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Ky Nguyen | |
Show | macOS 10.13 "High Sierra" | May 30 2019 | 4.9-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Avenue |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
11674 | Dual-core unsupported in WoW and SC2 | STAGED | View | |
28282 | Sound constantly crackling in lot of games | STAGED | View | |
30123 | Mouse pointer is confined in a box lesser than the full screen | REOPENED | View | |
30984 | Some keys do not work in different games (Trine, Skyrim, Dragon Age Origins, Dragon Age 2, Star Trek Online, Gothic 2) | STAGED | View | |
37508 | Some Bethesda games sometimes freeze during gameplay | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
37995 | Mouse jittering when steam overlay is enabled | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
39132 | Skyrim: flickering / glitchy shadows | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
40983 | VRamSizeDX9 reports incorrect video memory(Skyrim with ENB problem) | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
41262 | It won't let me open Skyrim on my Steam | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
43105 | Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Skyrim crash when the Steam overlay is opened on macOS | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
44878 | Skyrim with ENB fails to load game (d3dcompiler:assemble_shader Asm reading failed) | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
45575 | Skyrim: No controller input when multiple controllers are connected | UNCONFIRMED | View |
This method is experimental presently(see associated bugs), so try at your own behest.
Game getting stuck at load screen (Vivid Weathers ENB)
Game getting stuck after/during load screen, ingame music keeps running(Multiple ENB Presets)
There is a black overlay over characters and objects(Tetrachromatic ENB Ghost Preset)
Everything is black with only hud visible
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.
Crashes, texture bugs etc..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.
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