The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

What works

Menus, gameplay (kind of), synchronizing Steam Cloud, saving, loading.

What does not

Sound. In game the character keeps moving in some direction like two of the WSAD buttons were pressed and it tries to hotkey the stuff from inventory sometimes. It varies but basically it's the same: it moves some direction even though you wouldn't press a button. It does take moving buttons but still tries to move to a direction it was first moving to.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Long gameplay, changing graphic settings inside the game.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

This was necessary for me to run Oblivion on Ubuntu 18.04. You may not have to do this in your distro. Solus for example did not require this,

The game has an issue with winegstreamer, and will crash if it is
enabled. 

1. Open up terminal and run $ winecfg (note, do not put the $ in terminal, as it's already there)
2. Click 'Add application' and find the Oblivion.exe from the steam\steamapps\common\oblivion folder
3. Then navigate to 'Libraries'
4. In the dropdown menu, begin typing "winegstream.." and winegstreamer should appear
5. Click 'Add'
6. Then click 'Edit' from the right hand side and click 'disable'
7. Then click Apply and exit

When playing this game on Ubuntu, I had to install DirectX manually. This may not be necessary depending on your distro, but I needed it for Ubuntu 18.04 when installing 3.0 stable from the software center.

1. If you haven't done so already, install winetricks from the Ubuntu software center
2. Select the default wineprefix
3. Install a Windows component or DLL
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the list and install XACT