Playing Repacked windows games on linux (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by hopefull_cottonball@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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What's the best way to play pirated windows games on Linux?

Ever since I've migrated I stuck to emulation for game piracy cause it was pretty simple. Ive been trying to run some repacked games but I can't get them to install properly.

I don't see many people talk about this probably because most game pirates use windows if I had to guess.

Edit: i fixed my problem, yesterday When running the fitgirl installer it would only show me two drives ,c and z, which were my home and root folder respectively. I wanted to install my game to a bigger drive, but couldn't find the option to and assumed it was a problem with wine or the installer. A few hours ago I searched for a bit and found out I can add a drive to wine via winecfg -> Drives -> add drives. I ran the Installer again and this time it saw my bigger 1tb drive and everything went smoothly from there, ran The installer, added the game on steam, ran the game, all good.

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[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

I've tried all the ways, and Bottles was the easiest by far. Make a bottle for games from the high seas, using bottles' preset for games. Once created change the wine from Soda to whatever you want or just use Soda.

Then inside the bottle look for install dependencies and grab things like vc redist, and dot net. Once that's done under the bottles' UI choice "Run Executable" and chose the .exe for the game's installer. If it doesn't work as expected, click the cog/gear and select the checkbox for "Run in Terminal" to see where it goes wrong and search online for what fix is needed.

The only time I had to troubleshoot with terminal, was for a mspatcha.dll problem. It was an easy fix: the bottle has a Legacy Wine Tools > Configuration > Libraries, where I found mspatcha listed, then changed it to "Native then Built in."

Hope that helps.