Help Please? (Linux and Windows transfer) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello!

I’ve been a somewhat new member of the community here. My crummy windows PC can’t really handle any games outside of maybe some GBA emulators.

However! I recently was gifted a Steam Deck.

As a test, ages ago, I tried to set up Yuzu and Tears of the Kingdom on my W11 machine.

It crashed on launch, but BG3 didn’t! It ran on 2 frames per second.

I have a few other similar games that I would love to play on my Deck. But I’m not sure how to get the files transferred!

I tried using KDE Connect to move the Repacked files over, but couldn’t get that working.

I then tried dropping the repacks into a USB and transferring that, but it didn’t seem to work either — the file wasn’t recognized.

Should I just set up my Steam Deck from scratch and ignore my seedbox of a laptop?

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[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

LocalSend can transfer files between pretty much any two machines with an absolute minimum level of setup, but it seems like your real problem is getting windows games to run on Linux outside steam. I use Lutris to install and run repacked windows games on Linux. Install Lutris from your steam deck's package manager, click the plus in the top left to add a game, select install from exe, and make sure in the repack's install wizard to put it on C:\ instead of Z:\ which it will probably default to.

[-] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

I will try this and report back. Thanks BuckyKat!

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

Please do feel free to ask more questions if you need help or more details

[-] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Okay. So I was able to install to Lutris, set it up, and got this error when installing to my SD card. It has 117 GB free, and I only need around 70 GB free according to the installer.

Error message I got was.

An error occurred while unpacking: Not enough memoryl

Unarc.dIl returned an error code: -5

ERROR: archive data corrupted (decompression fails)