This method is experimental presently(see associated bugs), so try at your own behest. Install enb same way as in windows to game directory. Open `winecfg` and under libraries add 'd3d9' and set it to 'Native then builtin'.
To set basic enb environment, run ` winetricks -showbroken d3dcompiler43`. Additional dll requirements change depending on the preset used, ` winetricks d3dx943 d3dx936` should work fine for most presets. Experiment with more dlls to get your preset working but avoid installing directx9, d3dx942 and d3d9 as they would do more harm then good. Game getting stuck at load screen (Vivid Weathers ENB). This is caused by enbeffect.fx and enbeffect.fx.ini files, I replaced these with the one from Tetrachromatic ENB Ghost Preset to make it work. Game getting stuck after/during load screen, ingame music keeps running(Multiple ENB Presets). Set `FixParallaxTerrain=false` in enblocal.ini There is a black overlay over characters and objects(Tetrachromatic ENB Ghost Preset).
Freezes during every load screen ยป Sun May 27, 2012 8:35 am. And found that Skyrim would crash to desktop during every load screen, whether using a door, fast travel or wait. So i got rid of that, uninstall my Skyrim, cleared out the folder of mods and reinstalled it clean. I open it up and it works fine.
This is a issue in subsurface scattering, set`EnableSubSurfaceScattering=false` in enbseries.ini to solve this. Surprisingly, enabling ambient occlusion also corrects this, only set `EnableAmbientOcclusion=true` in enbseries.ini to have both ambient occlusion ans subsurface scattering working without issues. Everything is black with only hud visible. Set `FixTintGamma=false` in enblocal.ini. Audio To fix crackling and choppy sound with Pulseaudio: Possible fix 0: run in some terminal: while true; do pasuspender sleep 0.02; sleep 60; done This finally prevents buffer underruns and the sound is perfect then.
Possible fix 1: Make sure your realtime kit (rt-kit) is installed and functional so it can assign pulseaudio realtime priority. The kernel config CONFIGRTGROUPSCHED needs to be off for this. Possible fix 2: Setting SndQueueMax to 15 (default is 10), see here: Possible fix 3: Launch wine with an environment variable set: PULSELATENCYMSEC=50 wine steam.exe Underwater view If you cannot see underwater (water is solid green): Edit SkyrimPrefs.ini in your 'My Games Skyrim' directory and in the Imagespace section set bDoDepthOfField=0 and iRadialBlurLevel=0 This is a game bug, not a Wine issue! Stuck at main screen Some mods change the fonts in Skyrim and sometimes that ends in wine not showing up the menu of Skyrim.
Simple fix is to remove fontconfig.txt in Data/Interface. Crashes, texture bugs etc. Remember, this is a Bethesda game, a few bugs happen for Windows users too, so blaming wine might not be justified.
Please leave comments and bug reports, especially if things that used to work suddenly break. Hi, Just installed Skyrim via steam on Ubuntu 16.04.
I'm using wine 2.4 (staging) and the game does start, I can hear background sounds but no music during the main intro (when you travel with other prisoners on the carriage). When they talk, I can see the lips moving, but no audio.
Additionally, I reach the stage where I'm supposed to create my character - but nothing happens. Please note all of this is on a clean installation of wine, then only additional install I did was 'winetrick corefonts'. What can I do? Sorry if these posts are lengthy. I'm new here so I'm not sure what the norm is.
These workarounds were very difficult to find for me though, so I feel like they should be written somewhere visible. In my opinion, they should be copied up to the 'miscellaneous tips' section above. ISSUE: Skyrim crashes, with memory errors in the debug log, when the texture setting is set to 'high'. WORKING SOLUTION: Use ENBoost to improve memory management and game stability. Note that ENB can be used /without/ graphical tweaks (that's what ENBoost refers to). Also note that with ENBoost installed, the game will stay on a black screen for a minute or so on start-up - that's normal.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:. ISSUE: ENB / ENBoost doesn't work. You can tell by the fact that no in-game message appears on start-up. WORKING SOLUTION: Open up the Winecfg configuration tool, go to the 'Libraries' tab, and add a new override for 'd3d9'. Set its load order to native first, then built-in. ISSUE: Skyrim freezes and unfocuses when the Alt key is pressed.
WORKING SOLUTION: Open up the Winecfg configuration tool, go to the 'Libraries' tab, and add a new override for 'gameoverlayrenderer'. Set its load order to disabled. Note that this will also disable the in-game Steam overlay. I suggest that you only do this if you actually encounter the issue. I've been pulling my hair out trying to get Skyrim working properly on Ubuntu 16.04. I've finally managed to get it running well, so I wanted to make a consolidated post with the workarounds I used so others can benefit. ISSUE: Crackling distorted audio (bug #28282).
WHAT DIDN'T WORK (for me):. 'Possible fix 0' listed above - Running 'while true; do pasuspender sleep 0.02; sleep 60; done' in a terminal.
'Possible fix 2' listed above - Setting the HKCU Software Wine DirectSound SndQueueMax registry key to 15. This key seems to be removed in current versions of Wine and does nothing. Running ('killall pulseaudio') before playing.
Ubuntu seems to auto-restart this, so maybe that's why? I didn't investigate further. Editing '/etc/pulse/daemon.conf' and increasing the 'default-fragments' setting, then restarting pulseaudio. WORKING SOLUTION: Simply set the 'export PULSELATENCYMSEC=60' environment variable before playing. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: It works like magic! If using PlayOnLinux, just editing the shortcut script to add this line works fine. Thanks to Deve for this solution: (Apparently using Windows XP mode also solves this problem - I found this out later on.
I believe this is because Wine uses a different sound system for XP.) - ISSUE: Extremely long start-up time. WORKING SOLUTION: Install Skyrim directly to the Linux drive. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: I was previously running Skyrim directly from my Windows NTFS drive (with the steamapps folder symlinked). It appears that this was the cause of the issue. Installing Skyrim directly to my Linux drive solved the problem.
If it was NTFS that was making it take so long, then perhaps using a shared drive with a different file system could also resolve the issue? I didn't investigate further. ISSUE: Gallium Nine not working (using a patched version of Wine).
WORKING SOLUTION: Uninstall any ENB mods. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: This was caused by an ENB mod I had installed.
After some investigation, it seems that the ENB mod apparently uses DirectX 10 or 11 features, whereas Gallium Nine obviously provides only DirectX 9 functionality. It seems that it was getting disabled as a result. Uninstalling the ENB mod resolved this issue. ISSUE: Running in fullscreen mode and then switching focus to another window causes the game to freeze. WORKING SOLUTION: Play in a borderless 'fake fullscreen' window instead.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Skyrim mod 'OneTweak' works well for this. You can find the mod here: Thanks to Danny for this solution. I've tried Skyrim on a few different Wine versions in Ubuntu 14.04, with and without PlayOnLinux, and for the most part the game works fine-under certain conditions. The first couple times I played it it froze completely around 30 minutes in and I didn't know why. The next few times I noticed the game froze specifically when I tried to perform the Silent Roll you can get as a Sneak perk. I noticed that if I went outdoors I could roll a couple times before the game would freeze up again, but doing it indoors seemed to freeze it on the first try every time.
Last time I tested it out the game froze after going through a door and autosaving, no rolling needed. I should mention that when it freezes, I typically cannot alt-tab out or close the game in any way and usually end up rebooting completely. I should also mention that sneaking around and stealth-rolling is my primary mode of transportation in this game, so simply 'not rolling' is uh, not an option. I've tried changing my Wine versions, making sure I'm using 32 bit architecture, updating my NVIDIA drivers, moving my /home mounting point to my HDD (I boot from a SSD and thought maybe some difference in how memory is accessed might have something to do with it), everything. And I've looked all over the web, and nobody else has this specific problem (though I'll be honest, trying to search for 'skyrim freezes while rolling' mainly yields irrelevant results including the phrase 'roll back to a previous save'. Which I have also done, and which did not help). What might be going on here?
And what should I try next? Hi all, I've been trying to get Skyrim from Steam working using PlayOnLinux but I've run into a problem.
When I click play on the Skyrim Launcher after installing the game, it launches the game and I can hear the sound of the Bethesda logo and the main menu music (even the noise of different menu options getting highlighted when I move the arrow keys) BUT there's no video shown with it-it's just a black screen. Any ideas about what's wrong?
I've scoured the internet for the past two days but I've had no luck. My guess is that it has something to do with video libraries not present, but I'm not sure what. I'm running Arch Linux 64bit and I've tried using Wine versions 1.7.36, 1.7.53-steamcrossoverhack, 1.8, and 1.9.2 in POL.
Has anyone else tried running Skyrim in wine with a Radeon card/APU? I used to run Skyrim in wine on an old Radeon card since the game was released. It was always buggy, but kept getting better more or less as new versions of wine came out, up until around 2012 some time I think.
Then a wine version was released that completely destroyed the performance of the game on Radeon cards, and subsequent releases kept getting worse. I haven't been able to play it on wine since, because the performance makes Skyrim unplayable, and the issue was never resolved.
I seem to be able to run other wine compatible games fine. The issue seems to be more or less specific to Skyrim. Hi all, I'm experiencing a strange problem in my gaming laptop which sports hybrid graphics in Optimus configuration. The issue is simple: There are missing textures from time to time or when plyaying for long periods and from traveling long distances in the world (not fast travel), these are mostly character or 'actor' (objects like weapons, pelts, plates, ingredients, clothing, etc) textures.
I have this setup cloned from my main system installation where I have no such issues, and where the graphics card is a dedicated nVidia GTX 760 with 4Gb vRAM, now the laptop has 4Gb of vRAM as well, and wine is set up with that amount of video RAM. Thus far, Skyrim is the only game exhibiting this behaviour on this particular hardware configuration. Anyone else seen this with hybrid graphics and Skyrim? Yea, I had this issue too.
Skyrim's VRAM management is known to be pretty bad, and apparently, with hybrid graphics in wine, it is even worse than usual. I worked around this by setting textures quality to Medium (and making sure to get 1k textures whenever I could in mods), which significantly extends how long until textures start going missing and the game soon crashes afterwards, from tens of minutes to hours. Yea, the textures looks terrible at this level, but rather that than a completely broken textures. Many people had this, but none of teh fixes that worked for dem does work for me. And funny thing, it worked for years until few weeks ago when I last played, then today I wanted to play, and no sound. I have: - verified game cache - updated and rebooted my system - reinstalled everything with winetricks that was installed before - installed xact via winetricks - reinstalled DirectX from game's directory - removed intro video file - toggled Wine from XP mode to Win 7 mode - made sure Wine uses pulseaudio - made sure speakers in Wine are set to stereo and not 5.1 None of these made a difference.
See more details at my bug ticket. This concerns users of the latest BodySlide2 and Outfit mod: It is not possible to install vcredistx86 2013 when you use have a 'Win7' prefix.
I have tested this myself and even under native Ubuntu I cannot access the files ('Access Denied'. This is an ACL issue (the files are in C: users Public Application Data Package Cache So Bodyslide2 mod cannot right now not be used with Wine. The issue is known since years, there even exist a patch but up to now it was not applied unfortunately.
Also the patch requires that you have your Skyrim on an Ext4 partition or it won't work. So apart from applying the patch (I don't know if it still working with the 'current' wine) on wine sources, I see the following workarounds: 1) Use cabextract to extract the vcredistx86 and copy the two DLL manually to windows/system32 2) Try to change to 'WinXP' and test if it is working (I suspect that 2013 in this case cannot be installed). The best thing would be if BodySlide2 mod would include these two DLL or provide a method to install them without requiring ACL (I don't know if it is possible, however another Game's Launcher from a Game that I bought, was able to install VS2012 in the System32 folder. The vcredistx86 from 2012 apparently has the same problem as I have read in the thread where the patch was mentioned.
The difference is on my side that this is a WinXP prefix compared to my Skyrim prefix). I use some mods that possiblty fix issues. For one I recommend to use SKSE 1.7.1 that with proper settings can change the way VRAM is assigned.
Also there is HiAlgoBoost that moves quite some work away from your GFX board to the CPU if that is your issue (i.e. You either have. Plays fine, except that it hangs when I try to exit to desktop. Here's what I'm running: MBD: - product: P5B vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. Similar experience, but I've now put about 100 hours into the game.
Beyond what's already mentioned in the submission, here are two painful experiences I'm having with workarounds that I've found:. lock-picking causes character to have jerky walk/run animation. Workaround: Toggle the caps-lock key, and try moving again. Repeat until it resets itself. Doesn't take many tries. The 'F' key isn't being recognised when trying to favourite spells/equipment. Workaround: The 'escape' key seems to do this toggling of favourites on/off instead.
I found this fix on another forum: in a terminal I pasted this line: wine reg add 'HKCU Software Valve Steam' /v DWriteEnable /t REGDWORD /d 00000000 and pressed enter. If Skyrim is not in the default wineprefix you will need to edit the registry by hand. This has worked for me with both pulse and alsa drivers.I have also placed a copy of X3DAudio17.dll in my system 32 directory and have run directX from the game folder. I don't have to use any.dll overrides. Wine version 1.6.2 Sound Card Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04) Video Card NVIDIA Corporation GK107 GeForce GTX 650.