[GRLUG] WINE and Elder Scrolls

[Topher]

> 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?

Yes, it's pretty harsh.  I've made it work, but it's not worth it.