[GRLUG] WINE and Elder Scrolls

[L. V. Lammert]

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.
>
Why fool with Wine, install Vietual Box - gotten a lot smoother n the past
year.

    Lee