http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26292
--- Comment #15 from Delporte caffeine@calneva.org 2011-11-26 22:17:19 CST --- I was thinking this might be more of a workaround to the original problem since Windows users don't technically *NEED* a Large Address Aware executable for the game to at least load and run with all settings on High. My nephew is running windows 7 ultimate and can run the game for some time without this hack and with all settings at max before it crashes. Under wine, and without this hack, the Out Of Memory problem presents immediately. I know there are crashes for this game on Windows also but its hard to say if its the same issue. Maybe someone who knows more about this sort of thing can shed some light?
As !Ambroisius has pointed out I also have had this issue with Oblivion and Fallout 3 so it is entirely possible that this could be a Bethesda specific game engine problem that is specific to wine. I'm not a programmer so I could be completely off base here.
I will point out that before the Steam patch I could run the game for hours on end as long as I had the Shaders set to 'Low' but after the Steam patch it would freeze, lock up, not load areas, etc. at random times which is also what Windows users experienced after the update. So is there any way to tell if all this is related?
I only chime in in case this solution doesn't work for all people or stops working with future patches to the game.
I guess time will tell if this is truly an INVALID bug or if there is an underlying issue.
Unfortunately I'm not well versed in programming so have no real skills to test any of this but thought I'd throw some thoughts out there.
Thanks