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.

    • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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      6 hours ago

      If you add a steam game it will delete or invalid portions of the repack depending on where you got it from. I had to unzip the game again and try in lutris. DBZ sparking 0

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      23 hours 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

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        16 hours ago

        How does steam deals with installing on a different HD than system’s one? That’s the only issue I have had with WINE and I had to unpack in Windows.

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          22 hours ago

          Lutris + wineprefixes works great but most of the time it’s harder to configure and needs some search around the web to get it right !

          Non-steam games with proton on steam works like nearly every time without to much hassle (if supported) !!

          If you’re afraid of your account ban, create a dummy steam account only for your pirates games.

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      17 hours ago

      Steam has DRM for Steam games. You can add any other game to Steam and ask Steam to attach Proton to it.

      Steam.