The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

What works

Installing with steam. Playing at least until the Oblivion Gate. Talking, Fighting, Casting, Selling, Alchemy, Repairing. Sound.

What does not

The game hangs when exiting.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Gameplay further than escaping the prison and up until the first oblivion gate.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Steam was installed with winetracks (--no-isolate). All in a separate wine prefix. Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT, Pulseaudio, Quadcore, 16 GB RAM, 2 screens (game was running on 2nd screen) Running with "ultra high" settings (including HDR)

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