[GRLUG] WINE and Elder Scrolls

[Topher]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, John-Thomas Richards wrote:

> My son is dying to play Skyrim.  (Yes, it's that important; death looms
> unless and until he can play it.)  I've installed Steam and Skyrim via
> WINE and even the trial version of Codeweavers.  The game appears to
> install correctly.  There is an error message/warning about not having
> DRI enabled, though a `glxinfo | grep rendering' shows it is.
> Everything appears to work until I try to launch the game.  Every time I
> get a SkyrimLauncher.exe error.
>
> Anyone here have any tips for getting this to work?  I've found lots of
> tips for other problems but none for this exact error.
>
> On a related note, what's up with Steam?  Why are so many games
> installed through another application like that?  Bleh.
>
> BTW, my son appears to be in stable condition at the moment, though that
> could change.  It's dicey.  :-)

He may not be into it, but this is one of my favorite games of all time: 
http://www.elderscrolls.com/arena/

It's free now, and they include specific instructions on making it work in 
dosbox on all platforms.

Awesome.