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

Vanilla game (AE 1.6.353 + Creation Club content);
SKSE;
Heavy modding;
Long gameplay (has problems, see below);
Utilities for mods (FNIS updater, SlideBody and Outfit Studio, LOOT).

What does not

Speech and some sounds missing (need faudio, see Workarounds);
Heavy tearing when runs on Wayland (tested on kwin and sway, seems to be XWayland + NVidia + PRIME offloading problem. Should be fixed with Wine native Wayland support);
Randomly freezes up (the more you play, the more often it happens; in some locations it freezes more likely; freezes even without any mods). In late gameplay it can freeze every few minutes;
Most mod managers (including Vortex) don’t work.

“Freezes” means “Music plays, some sounds repeats (horse whining, spell casting), picture frozen, game don’t respond, one or two CPU cores are 100% loaded”. There is nothing in wine or skyrim log when freeze occurs.

Workarounds

Install DXVK and faudio

winetricks dxvk faudio

When installing mods, make sure you haven’t two same folder in different case (like meshes and Meshes).

What was not tested

Tested everything

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU: Nvidia
Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Tested on Arch Linux, with proprietary Nvidia 515.48.07, hybrid graphics with PRIME offloading, kernel 5.18.5

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Current	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
Show	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