Wine Reviews
| Oblivion on Linux with Wine! |
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| Written by drewfs7270@gmail.com |
| Friday, 23 May 2008 15:05 |
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Wine Reviews
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Oblivion is a single-player game that takes place in Tamriel's capital province, Cyrodiil. You are given the task of finding the hidden heir to a throne that sits empty, the previous emperor having been killed by an unknown assassin. With no true Emperor, the gates to Oblivion (the equivalent of hell in the world of Tamriel) open, and demons begin to invade Cyrodiil and attack its people and towns. It's up to you to find the lost heir to the throne and unravel the sinister plot that threatens to destroy all of Tamriel. Oblivion features a groundbreaking new AI system, called Radiant AI, which gives non-player characters (NPCs) the ability to make their own choices based on the world around them. They'll decide where to eat or who to talk to and what they'll say. They'll sleep, go to church, and even steal items, all based on their individual characteristics. Full facial animations and lip-synching, combined with full speech for all dialog, allows NPCs to come to life like never before. This test was done in a clean wine prefix and the game was played in a Virtual Desktop. System Specs: Operating System: Ubuntu 8.04 Wine version: 1.0-rc2 with 3DMark patch applied. Video Card: Nvidia 8800GTS 640MB CPU: Intel E6550 2,333 GHZ Memory: 2 gb RAM Installation First off, you have to change directory to your dvd directory in a terminal, in my case it look like this: $ cd /media/cdrom0 and then you start the installation program by typing "wine setup.exe", in my case it look like this: /media/cdrom0$ wine setup.exe  Patching After you have installed the game, then you will probably want to upgrade Oblivion to the latest version: Get the official patch here Download the patch, and install it by typing the following in a terminal: Wine patchname.exe  After the game has been patched, you probably want to play! Important! The game will crash if you don't have installed DirectX 9.0C.You can find Twickline's DirectX9.0C guide here. Playing the game To start the game, cd to the game directory via the terminal, and start the game with: wine Oblivion.exe  Performance boosters If you want to enhance performance, the you can add WINEDEBUG=-all before ”wine Oblivion.exe”, ”WINEDEBUG=-all” means that the Wine Debugger will be shut off. Compiz can be quite the performance killer. You can change some settings in Wine's regedit to enhance performance. This is how my settings look like:  You can read more about regedit on this page: http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys And last but not least, here is a very good Oblivion Tweak guide: http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_1.html Video And finally, here is a video when I play Oblivion. (the performance is a lot lower because of the screencast program) 
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