[GRLUG] WINE and Elder Scrolls

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:16:07PM -0400, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:31:00PM -0400, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 07:24:41PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> > > 1) try "playonlinux"
> > > 2) check WineHQ.
> > > 
> > > Steam is may be the most popular package manager for Windows.
> > 
> > PlayOnLinux is intriguing.  I'm using it to install Skyrim but it's
> > stuck on "Steam Updating 0% Complete" (the steam dialog box).
> > PlayOnLinux just keeps moving the status indicator back and forth.
> > 
> > I'll give it some more time.
> 
> Much better install process and interface than even Crossover.  I love
> that PlayOnLinux even chooses which version of WINE to install with the
> app.  Neat.
> 
> However, the game still bails on launch.  SkyrimLauncher.exe encounters
> an error and needs to close.  Bleh.

Well...I'm an idiot.  Before I get to that...

PLayOnLinux is a remarkable app.  I love the ability to install multiple
versions of WINE (32bit & 64bit!) from within the program.  In my very
limited experience it blows away the commercial CodeWeavers stuff
(interface, ease of use, etc.).

Back to my idiocy.  I could get the game installed just fine with
CrossOver and with PlayOnLinux.  It crashed on startup each and every
time.  In PlayOnLinux I enabled debugging and decided to walk through
each error message and duckduckgo.com.  The first error message
complained of not having OpenGL extensions.  Bullocks, I thought.  I'm
running nVidia's binary stuff.  I found a page where a person with a
similar problem needed to update a library (something-ia32-something) so
I quickly did a `dpkg -l *ia32*'.  libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32 was not
installed so I installed it.

And the game works just fine.

Thanks for the suggestions.  They pushed me in the right direction.
-- 
john-thomas
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