[Wine] Re: I'm new to linux and I need help

[DanKegel]

Yeah, both Spore and Oblivion are popular enough that the
rough edges will probably be smoothed off sometime...
but who knows when.

Try a platinum rated game (there are a bunch of downloadable free ones),
once you have that working, try a gold rated game, 
once you have that working, try a silver rated game.
And then come back to Oblivion and Spore and try following their
recipes.