Playing Repacked windows games on linux (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 18 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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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 29 points 2 days ago

Run it through proton. Import into steam from add non-steam program, or lutris

[-] hopefull_cottonball@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I can run pirated steam games on steam? that doesnt sound right.

[-] ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I do it all the time. Just add it to steam as a non steam app and select the proton version you want to use. It will run just fine.

EDIT: If you need to install first, just add the installer as a non steam program, run it, install normally and then chang the path of the exe and the working folder to those of the installed game

[-] bobby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

then chang the path of the exe and the working folder to those of the installed game

I feel the need to underline this part because removing the setup.exe entry and the adding the installed exe doesn't work. The entire virtual drive gets deleted when removing setup.exe. This makes the procedure a bit more complicated than it should be but it's needed when it has to go through Steam because of Steam Deck Game Mode.

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