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Skyrim will not launch

Skrym Steam failed to load modules

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steve723 Sunday 8 December 2013 at 5:27
steve723Anonymous

Why did the Steam client stop working in my Skyrim prefix?

Play on Linux log for today:

[12/07/13 20:10:12] - Running wine-1.5.20 Steam.exe (Working directory : /home/steve7233/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Skyrim/drive_c/Program Files/Steam)
[12/07/13 20:10:12] - Running wine-1.5.20 Steam.exe (Working directory : /home/steve7233/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Skyrim/drive_c/Program Files/Steam)
wine: configuration in '/home/steve7233/.PlayOnLinux//wineprefix/Skyrim' has been updated.
[1207/201042:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(126)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[12/07/13 20:16:19] - Running wine-1.5.20 Steam.exe (Working directory : /home/steve7233/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Skyrim/drive_c/Program Files/Steam)
[1207/201621:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(417)] Failed to load C:\Program Files\Steam\bin\chrome.pak
Some features may not be available.
[1207/201621:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(126)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000004 at address 0x7caa4aea (thread 003c), starting debugger...
Daerandin Sunday 8 December 2013 at 12:03
DaerandinAnonymous

Because the recent steam update breaks it for all wine versions except the newly released 1.7.8 which includes the fix to get steam working. There is a big topic for it here
steve723 Sunday 8 December 2013 at 21:37
steve723Anonymous

I already tried changing to the latest version.It seems to be working now. I will read that article. Thanks for the info.

Edited by steve723

booman Monday 9 December 2013 at 22:56
booman

Awesome! thank you for confirming that Skyrim runs in Wine 1.7.8!
I will update my guide.

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