Hey,
I have been trying to get Skyrim to play on my Ubuntu 12.04 system. I ran the setup with Playonlinux and everything seemed to go fine.
The first issue I ran into was it was asking for some type of file, I assumed this was because of my drivers because at the time I didn't have the AMD ones installed. So I installed the latest 12.11 beta (I believe that is the latest) and it worked.
So now my issue is that when I start the game (using the Steam version) it will get to the main page of the game, when I click continue to start the game, it will load and continue to load.
I have tried it 5 times now, 3 of them have frozen and nothing can be done. I don't know any commands in Linux to quit it, so I have to hit the reset button on my system to get out of it. The other 2 times it actually loads into the game.
Now inside the game it is running quite weird. I don't want to say slow but I don't have another explanation for it. The mouse movements are the main issue, very jaggy and slow, and just overall not the experience I know from Windows.
And the second time it worked, I ran around for awhile, about 5 minutes and then it froze and had to reboot the system. I followed the information available on this site about a few settings that can be changed, and none of it made a difference. Though I couldn't find the settings area for
"b) Check if you've got 3D acceleration
-go to Settings->System -press GLXInfos and search for "direct rendering: Yes" -press 3D Test and after 20 seconds close it "
Though I have a feeling if it was set to no my game wouldn't start at all.
I know it's not my system because I play it on High settings (have it set to medium on this) without issue.
I have a
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.6Ghz
8GB DDR2 RAM
Lots of Drive space
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB video card.
Not sure if I am forgetting any information, please ask if I did.
