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
    51·
    1 day 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
      8·
      1 day 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
        3·
        23 hours ago

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

        • nave@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          Yeah fitgirl doesn’t work well with translation layers. In my experience elamigos works the best out of all repackers.

      • kusivittula@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        23 hours ago

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

        • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          18 hours ago

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

      • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        21 hours ago

        I’ve only had issues with fitgirl repacks i think there’s an optimisation they use for low RAM machines that doesn’t play well with proton