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.

  • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
    51·
    2 months 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
      9·
      2 months 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·
        2 months ago

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

        • nave@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          2 months 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·
        2 months ago

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

        • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          2 months 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
            1·
            2 months 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
              3·
              2 months 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.

      • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        2 months 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