Quoting: WorMzyI recently started playing Oblivion again (in Proton), and I had some Fun™ setting up Darnified UI (because the default UI is basically unusable) and the unofficial patches. I also grabbed Wrye Bash and Oblivion Mod Manager, but neither really worked properly (Wrye Bash appears to install things, but then continues to show them as uninstalled until I manually extract them to the correct location manually). I was tempted to install obse and some related scripts to make the UI even less sucky, but the amount of faff it took to get Danified working has put me off doing that for now. Will see how long it takes me to get pissed off at the lack of a "take all" keyboard shortcut, or the ability to sort spells by school, or see all items in a single list, sorted by weight/value....

Quoting: dvdThis week i tried modding a bethesda game again: Skyrim. This time around i had a better experience. I ditched the hacky MO2 in favour of Vortex. It actually lets you deploy your mods now into mod folder. Getting ~50-60 mods running wasn't that involved either. I set up a windows 10 vm, copied my skyrim there, let nexus download, sort and install the mods. Once it was done and I was happy with the load order i switched the deployment method to copy instead of link. Finally copied skyrim back to its steam folder, and it ran skse and the mods. I haven't done too much playing on it, but the body mods and the alternative start mod work for sure, companion mods seem to work, and 30-60 minutes of random walking/teleporting around haven't produced a crash yet.

I still have the same issue as i had with new vegas, conversations don't have any sound at all.

Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: dvdThis week i tried modding a bethesda game again: Skyrim. This time around i had a better experience. I ditched the hacky MO2 in favour of Vortex. It actually lets you deploy your mods now into mod folder. Getting ~50-60 mods running wasn't that involved either. I set up a windows 10 vm, copied my skyrim there, let nexus download, sort and install the mods. Once it was done and I was happy with the load order i switched the deployment method to copy instead of link. Finally copied skyrim back to its steam folder, and it ran skse and the mods. I haven't done too much playing on it, but the body mods and the alternative start mod work for sure, companion mods seem to work, and 30-60 minutes of random walking/teleporting around haven't produced a crash yet.

I still have the same issue as i had with new vegas, conversations don't have any sound at all.

What was your experience trying to Skyrim without Windows? Or is it not possible? I had the same experience with Morrowind. The binary patches had to be run in windows, but the resulting exe worked great (better actually) in Wine. Wyre mash/bash were written in python, but they depend on the windows UI library, so I ran them through wine as well. The helper programs, like the Script extender and FPS optimizer we're mostly no-go's. I think they were "too hacky" for Wine to handle. Lol

Morrowind was my favorite game and I spent countless hours on it in University. But I've hesitated on pulling the trigger on Skyrim... Partly because I'm not sure I have the free time or dedication to spend hours getting mods to work ( if it's even possible in Linux).

Quoting: dvdThe second reason is that mod makers are incosistent with their naming, so should you go through the painful exercise of installing hundreds of mods by copying by hand, you will be guaranteed to end up with duplicate meshes/textures folder, for which you will have no idea which was copied when, leading to guaranteed crash or purple exclamation mark

Quoting: randomgamerguy1997I have been doing it alright on linux using MO2 and a script that installs and gets it set-up. sadly, MO2's UI is a bit buggy under proton/wine but otherwise the game launches and plays fine. another issue is not being able to easily install locally downloaded mods that are installed on another mounted drive. for some odd reason I can't access /mnt or go through the symlink in my home folder either so I had to polute my downloads folder to store mods that can't automatically be downloaded through the mod manager (even if said mod is on the nexus).

Quoting: dvdPast few days I've iterated through a couple of wine/proton versions and mod managers trying to set up fallout NV with a couple of mods (~50, nothing too crazy). However, the results were bad each time. The most stable of the setups was using the rather old FNV gog script in lutris then installing MO2 in the prefix. This resulted in a game without any sound and MO2 being quite unstable (missing models/textures on some runs, which are fine on the other).

Quoting: dvdI might go back to NV one of these weekends when I'm bored and try to get that one set up as well.