[GRLUG] WINE and Elder Scrolls

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:05:10PM -0400, Steve Romanow wrote:
> Let me know what you think of Skyrim.  I logged a few hours but couldnt get
> into it.

It is very unlikely that I will play much of it.  It truly is for my son
(14).  He absolutely loves it.  I'm impressed with the level of detail
from the several minutes I've watched him over the past couple days.
It's a bit like Zelda but with signficantly more things to do and
explore.  One can interact with the world on a more more detailed level.

> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Collin Kidder <collink at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >>
> >
> > Sweet! I'm sure you used to be an adventurer before you took an arrow to
> > the knee. I hope your son has a blast.
> >
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