Is it possible to run the game on linux with wine?

anwar_shen · January 2017

I have been away for a while from the game for a while and now I use only linux..
I've been researching the topic for a while and this is what I came up with:
the game used to run until the thieves guild patch which the game after that and until now runs on directx 11 only..
but the game is available for mac which really had me confused
I am not sure of any of these info..if someone could clarify a bit that would be appreciated.

ps.I hope I am using the forums right.

Jenshae · January 2017

Since they run it on Mac, it should be easy to make a wrapper for it, as you suggest.

PlayOnLinux --> set up a drive, then you need to update Wine version, keep it on 32bit, get frameworks as XP until you hit 3.5 then swop to Win7 emulation.
After downloading it under DirectX 9 and updating it you can rip out the Dx9 libraries and change it to Dx11.

I can run it but it crashes frequently.

ESO thread on there: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1990.html

SirAndy · January 2017

I know they removed OpenGL from the Windows version but doesn't the MAC version use OpenGL?

Asharin · April 2017

As an update, yes you can now run ESO with wine under Linux again, however, you have to at present be able to tolerate corrupt textures on the ground. Hopefully as DX11 support increases in Wine this problem will be fixed.

Wow · April 2017

Asharin wrote: »

As an update, yes you can now run ESO with wine under Linux again, however, you have to at present be able to tolerate corrupt textures on the ground. Hopefully as DX11 support increases in Wine this problem will be fixed.

Wish they fix this problem soon. Same thing with Overwatch, from completely being unable to run, now it's playable with broken texture.

Though I heard the latest patch break it again.

but still a progress

misfitmanic · April 2017

I would really like to see the devs throw some support towards Linux. Dying to switch back to Linux permanently but cannot give up my ESO addiction.

ElFinito · May 2017

Hope it works anytime. Wanna come back to the Game. Installing Windows as 2nd OS isnt an Option.

Asharin · May 2017

Working for for me now, however I changed to an AMD card. Using Nvidia you still have the messed up textures

However, using Linux/Wine with an AMD card (well a recent one supported by AMDGPU at least) you can play ESO again.

Of course, AMDGPU not supporting compatibility profiles means NMS broke, but I got bored of that game lol

ElFinito · May 2017

Asharin wrote: »

Working for for me now, however I changed to an AMD card. Using Nvidia you still have the messed up textures
However, using Linux/Wine with an AMD card (well a recent one supported by AMDGPU at least) you can play ESO again.

Of course, AMDGPU not supporting compatibility profiles means NMS broke, but I got bored of that game lol

ty. will try it next time. good to hear with the AMD card, i always have radeon´s. ^^

Asharin · February 2018

As a new update, With Wine staging 2.21 + DXVK (uses vulkan to render dx11) you can now run ESO on nvidia + linux/wine with no corrupt textures

kenjitamura · February 2018

Asharin wrote: »

As a new update, With Wine staging 2.21 + DXVK (uses vulkan to render dx11) you can now run ESO on nvidia + linux/wine with no corrupt textures

Sucks that Wine staging is no longer being maintained though. Developers posted just a couple of days ago that now since they're out of school they don't have time for it anymore.

Kevin_of_Devinshire · February 2018

Anyone use crossover “office” to run it. I haven’t tried in years. Maybe nice to run a stripped Linux.

Asharin · February 2018

kenjitamura wrote: »

Asharin wrote: »

As a new update, With Wine staging 2.21 + DXVK (uses vulkan to render dx11) you can now run ESO on nvidia + linux/wine with no corrupt textures

Sucks that Wine staging is no longer being maintained though. Developers posted just a couple of days ago that now since they're out of school they don't have time for it anymore.

It has new maintainers now and is being actively updated...though currently just using the existing patches against the wine 3.2 base, after that, proper updates..

Kevin_of_Devinshire wrote: »

Anyone use crossover “office” to run it. I haven’t tried in years. Maybe nice to run a stripped Linux.

It should work, as normal Wine can run ESO nowadays, especially if you have an AMD gou, with nvidia, you pretty much need wine staging + dxvk or you have corrupt textures on the ground

tuwtle · February 2018

Asharin wrote: »

As a new update, With Wine staging 2.21 + DXVK (uses vulkan to render dx11) you can now run ESO on nvidia + linux/wine with no corrupt textures

With nvidia propietary drivers it just froze after the first load screen (right when it should have started showing the character select screen). I used this this fork https://github.com/vesim987/dxvk/ with the DXVK_SPIRV_OPT=ON environment variable set and it works fine (no more overwriting ground textures!). Except the glare when looking at the sun (or the hole to aetherius, whatever) is pixelated. Hmm, there are a few more graphical artifacts like effects flickering as they fade into view.

Asharin · February 2018

ESO running on Manjaro Linux + wine 3.2 (with vulkan libs from staging) + DXVK (built from git this morning 26/02/2018)
Seems to run fine, only crash so far is when I selected hide helmet

Playable FPS, obviously some loss due to using linux/wine instead of native, but not bad.
Hardware is a AMD A8-7650, Geforce GTX 1050 (2GB) , 16gb ram. Happy I can play ESO again without having to dual boot windows, not that I necessarily have anything against windows, I just prefer Linux