wine users - Oct 2011 - Need help with Oblivion

Good evening my fellow Linux enthusiasts, 

for some time now I've been trying to run "The Elder Scrolls IV:
Oblivion" on WINE with very little success.
I've gotten it to play but with no sound and very glitchy graphics. The
various menus flicker wildly and the characters are messed up.
A while ago I launched Oblivion from the terminal and here's what I got from
it: http://freetexthost.com/kcyfgc2aw2
I've also taken a few screenshots to illustrate the problem:    
http://s788.photobucket.com/albums/yy163/GoodHumperdink/Oblivion/ .

Specs: wine-1.3.30, Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, Radeon HD 4650, ATI/AMD proprietary
FGLRX graphics driver, 2GB RAM, Oblivion 1.0.228 (I couldn't get the update
to work).

I'll try anything suggested and all suggestions are greatly appreciated.

1.3.30 was when Oblivion first stated working for me. Before 1.3.30 everything
except sound worked. Then in 1.3.30 with their drastic sound implementation
change (what's under the audio tab in winecfg looks completely different, it
automatically chooses a driver, and other cool improvements...like this!),
Oblivion works perfectly, except for a crash-glitch when an enemy first sees me
in a certain ruin. I plan on researching that more later.

Anyways, is Oblivion in its own prefix? If not, I recommend installing into a
clean prefix with 1.3.30 (or higher).

I did not need any dll overrides or winetricks or config changes. It worked
"out of the box."

I did not need to run Oblivion in a virtual desktop, either. I see that you are
running it in a virtual desktop. Oblivion has its own resolution settings, and
you can make it exactly fit your screen. If you have more than one monitor, say
one "regular" and the other widescreen, and it keeps going to the
regular screen, you can disable the regulat monitor with Ubuntu's monitor
config doo-dad, forcing it to go to the widescreen monitor. The doo-dad is
"gnome-display-properties" if using Gnome.

Also, I think 1.3.31 isn't supposed to leave your Linux desktop resolution
all messed up when you exit the game. Previously, Wine messes up your resolution
when you close out of a full-screen Windows program.

So try it not in a virtual desktop.

I love Oblivion. Such a great game.

BTW, keep the wrist irons. Not only do they look bombastically awesome (BA,
[Wink] ), they weigh nothing and can't degrade, meaning you will never have
to repair them. That makes them get for enchanting later on. I enchanted mine
for water breathing and named them "Diving Rings".

If you have Oblivion installed on a Windows side as well as in a Wine prefix on
your Linux side, you can make a symlink in your prefix folder that goes to your
Oblivion saves on your Windows side. So far that works for me, even though
you're not supposed to let Windows applications ran in Wine touch NTFS.
Maybe that lead to a corrupt save file causing the crash mentioned earlier. I
have all my saves backed up to an external anyways though. You might want to
too, [Wink] .

Also, I use CDEmu to mount an iso of my Oblivion disc I made instead of
inserting the disc. Just another tip.  :)

Cheers,
Jake