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.

  • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
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    13 days ago

    A lot of repack installers won’t work in Linux, not even with proton. Use the original scene release instead if you can.

    • ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
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      13 days ago

      I’ve been installing dodi, elamigos, fitgirl repacks for a while and still have to find one not working. Dunno what repacks are you installing.

      • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
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        13 days ago

        I’ve tried a number of fitgirl ones and had only around a 50% success rate with them.

      • kusivittula@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        13 days ago

        i tried many different cyberpunk 2077 repacks from dodi and fitgirl and none would finish installation with wine

        • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Try the jc141 repack. It worked for me. It’s a linux repack so I think their script handles the wine stuff.

          • kusivittula@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            12 days ago

            apparently his repacks are for arch, fedora and debian unstable. no setup provided for ububtu based, so that’s a nope then.

            • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              12 days ago

              Yes. You can make it work but it’s just too much work to support it. Gaming needs cutting edge releases.

              Check which version wine you are running. It could be the main problem.