[GRLUG] WINE and Elder Scrolls

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 07:25:06PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> 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.

For a 3D game?  Wouldn't that be terrible for performance?
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