I’m using my last month of Game Pass before switching to Linux. I just want to thank everybody here and Lemmy wide for being so friendly and helpful about all things Linux. You guys have taken out all the stress and worry from the transition
Never really had a problem with either FitGirl or DODI repacks in Lutris
This may not be the right place for a superficial rant, but: I never figured Lutris out. Installed it a couple of times in the past years and rage-deleted it after a week of fiddeling because NOTHING WORKED. Not GZDoom, no emulator, no windows game let alone RDR2 repack. I don’t think I’m that dumb, but seriously, I need help. I want to like it but the time I already sank into this piece of software without accomplishing anything of depressing!
You can find a procedure using Lutris here
Worked great for me on a fitgirl repack.
I personally use bottles via flatpak and flatseal to make the games not connect to the internet when it’s not needed just in case.
If you want to play repacks as in repacks made for native Linux there are trusted sites for it, but I’m not sure if I can mention one such site that I used here.
Ehm… which sites?
There’s torrminator for once, it has a section for linux cracks specifically. There’s also a large collection on the internet archive of native linux games that you’d have to find for yourself (to keep in line with the rules), but it shouldn’t be too difficult.
I’ve installed a few through Litrus and they have just worked. This was on SteamDeck and Ubuntu desktop
Run the installer in Proton, then point the steam shortcut to the installed executable.
I mostly do the same but with heroic launcher.
Install them with Bottles or Lutris
Install the full Visual Studio runtime and try some different settings with winecfg. People recommend Lutris but for me it never made a difference
Can I ask: How? What do you do to install that, and don’t you mean c++ runtime? Also I’ve never tinkered with winecfg, I fear that I might break things. What are some settings that are worth looking at?
I’m asking caz I’m going crazy trying to play games on linux, if I buy them on steam it should just reportedly work, but non-steam games or cracked ones, I either have a very hard time starting, or it works, but just barely.
On winecfg you can try the checks on the Graphics tab, it shouldn’t break anything. Also, try to change the Windows version. Sometimes either XP or 7 work better. You’re right about it being c++, not sure which one I installed, maybe this one: https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist
Not sure if this C is about the same thing, but there it is. Linux crack.
I install them on my Windows Desktop, copy the files, and run them with Proton
Or just
winethat bitch.That works 99% of the time. I’ve run across a couple that refuse to extract, so I had to run them in a VM and copy the files over.
Found this very video super helpful a few weeks ago!
