Oblivion under Ubuntu with Wine

[bastiegast]

It's been a while since I checked out Oblivion in wine. There used to be a bug that caused grass and bushes to randomly appear and disappear. I can't find the bug in appdb anymore but it seems still apparent in the game when I test it.

Is the bug fixed yet?

[darklegion]

It's been a while since I checked out Oblivion in wine. There used to be a bug that caused grass and bushes to randomly appear and disappear. I can't find the bug in appdb anymore but it seems still apparent in the game when I test it.

Is the bug fixed yet?

The bug stopped occurring for me around the time I upgraded to an 8800gt from a 7900gs and I'm pretty sure that the card change was what fixed it and not an upgrade to wine.In fact I just tested it and the issue doesn't occur with 0.9.53 or 0.9.56.There is a bug for the game "The Witcher" which has rendering errors when used with 6xxx and 7xxx nvidia cards that don't occur when using 8xxx series cards.This seems to occur because wine uses up some of the shader pipelines for the directx to opengl conversion which results in not enough shaders being left over to render everything correctly.I'm thinking that this is what causes the trees pop in and out with Oblivion.Look here for the bug report: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11285

[bastiegast]

Ok thanks for the info!
That sounds very logical to me because the first time I experienced this bug was in wine 0.9.33 if I remember correctly. That release improved directx support and a lot of shaders started working in Oblivion.

[jpittack]

john@Turion:/media/cdrom$ ls
john@Turion:/media/cdrom$ wine setup.exe
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\setup.exe": Module not found

Should be the right mount point. Did I miss something?

Background: Hardy using 9.54 Gutsy debs because 9.55 is blah. Game of the Year Edition. Proper fixes for this seems to have been taken. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\MountedDevices already existed.

[foosed]

Where does the .dll file go after i extract it with cabextract?

EDIT: Figured this out with the --help in cabextract, still not able to run oblivion though. launcher opens but then says it cant find the disk.

EDIT: Got Oblivion up and running, fairly well, under wine 9.55. A few little bugs but nothing that makes it unplayable, if you try to click through the intro sequence all hell breaks loose, and sometimes a random buzzing in the audio, but it's easy to ignore and it goes away after a while. Thanks to OP for a great how-to.

[carltonh]

Good news. 0.9.56 has stubs for the d3dx9_27.dll. So before I upgraded from 0.9.56, I removed that Windows DLL file from Wine's System32 directory. I upgraded and ran Oblivion, and so far, and although with the performance limited by fbo, Oblivion runs fine.

This means that Oblivion can be now finally be run with no code that requires a Microsoft license. Now if they can just get pbuffer to work again soon, and before they declare a 1.0 release, I'll be very happy.

[Strike>>]

jpittack I couldn't get my plugins and mods to work. got almost the same error. I fixed it by putting the .exe files(your plugins) inside the data folder in your oblivion folder. I guess default is:
home/yourusername/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Bethesda Softworks/oblivion/Data
Just drag the mods there and right click on them and choose open with wine emulator.

BTW does anyone else getting bad FPS inside the buildings, like inside Battlehorn? My fps outside is around 40 but drops dramatically when i face enemies, or go inside buildings, to around <10 fps.

[darklegion]

Good news. 0.9.56 has stubs for the d3dx9_27.dll. So before I upgraded from 0.9.56, I removed that Windows DLL file from Wine's System32 directory. I upgraded and ran Oblivion, and so far, and although with the performance limited by fbo, Oblivion runs fine.

This means that Oblivion can be now finally be run with no code that requires a Microsoft license. Now if they can just get pbuffer to work again soon, and before they declare a 1.0 release, I'll be very happy.

AFAIK pbuffers are not better or faster than fbos, at least with nvidia cards.I'd say that the reason that pbuffers worked better in older wine versions was simply because the wine code for pbuffers was better/faster/more complete, but that is not the case with newer wine releases.

[Felson]

Anyone ever get obse working?
http://obse.silverlock.org/
There are a tonne of cool adons that use it.

[scottyboycj2]

okay it would appear that i am unfortunately a LE' N00B (new to Linux,Ubuntu,wine) is there any script that will enable me to just run oblivion or is that completely out of the question .... if it is is there any
newbie instructions



PS~ be nice now we were all le' n00bs at one point lolz {post back soon}