The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

Application Details:

Version:	Steam
License:	Retail
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Votes:	7
Latest Rating:	Silver
Latest Wine Version Tested:	7.11

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Test Results

Old test results

The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.

Selected Test Results

What works

A lot of tweaking needed to get this running close to native

Works,

Launcher
Main Menu
Gameplay (See Workarounds)
Sound (See Workarounds)
Modding (See Extra Comments)

What does not

Background Sound and Dialogues don't work without Faudio.
Sound stutters badly until PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC is changed.
Graphics ingame are badly blurred by default and DXVK is needed to correct this.
Very bad FPS ingame (See Workaround)

Workarounds

For performance and non blurred graphics

winetricks dxvk096

NOTE: DXVK versions post 096 don't improve FPS, whatever reason might be behind this but for now version 096 is recommended for playable FPS.

For Background and Dialogue Sounds

winetricks faudio
export PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=90

NOTE: PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC is needed to tackle stuttering in game audio, if your sound is stuttering or crackling this environment variable might not be getting applied before launch.

What was not tested

ENB
Reshade
Heavy Modding
Long Gameplay
WINEESYNC

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU: AMD
Driver: open source

Additional Comments

I used MO2 primarily for modding and it works great, though a wine version with uvfs patch will be needed for it to work. Wine Version 4.21 supports MO2 natively but then again it was introducing bug 48185 on my setup. For now wine 4.19 with uvfs patch might be best bet for running a modded Skyrim SE.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Jun 20 2022	7.11	N/A	Yes	Yes	Silver	Qaz21
Show	Debian GNU/Linux 11.x "Bullseye" x86_64	Oct 05 2021	6.18	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gold	Ryan Farmer
Current	Arch Linux x86_64	Nov 30 2019	4.19	Yes	Yes	Yes	Silver	ZenAnonX
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Sep 04 2018	3.15-staging	Yes	Yes	Yes	Silver	ZenAnonX
Show	Linux Mint 19.0 Tara	Aug 04 2018	3.13-staging	Yes	Yes	Yes	Bronze	Owen

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
38668	Wolfestein: The Old Blood crashes inside native XAudio2_7.dll	REOPENED		View
39402	Multiple applications are silent or crash with builtin xaudio2 due to missing audio conversion in IXAudio2Impl_CreateSourceVoice (Lost Planet 2 Benchmark, Skyrim, Skullgirls, Terraria, Stardew Valley)	RESOLVED	NOTOURBUG	View
40984	Depth of field(DoF) effect does not work with Skyrim	UNCONFIRMED		View
44893	SKSE64 fails to initialize, reports: "couldn't allocate trampoline, no free space before image" (virtual address space between KUSER_SHARED_DATA and main executable reported as reserved)	NEW		View
45311	Skyrim Special Edition: ambient sounds do not attenuate with distance	UNCONFIRMED		View
47088	Skyrim SE. FAudio souds volume does not depend on distance	UNCONFIRMED		View
47805	SkyUI mod for Skyrim Special Edition with SKSE64 fails to show HUD active effect icons (other functions of mod work)	UNCONFIRMED		View
48254	Steam + Skyrim Special Edition: fails to connect to api.bethesda.net	UNCONFIRMED		View
48641	skse64 is broken with the ntdll-ForceBottomUpAlloc patchset	UNCONFIRMED		View
53108	Skyrim SE NPC voices echo inside houses	NEEDINFO		View