Moving to Linux soon, and wondering how pirated games work with it. I know about proton with steam and lutris for most bought games, but how would I run pirated windows games over there?
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Wow now thats really cool. Im curious if this would work well with Ilok.
The main reason im not switching atm is because i make music and unfortunately some of the plugins i use require Ilok. Regardless if it does, def interesting! Thanks for sharing.
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Ilok is a license manager used by some vst or plugins to pervent piracy. It sucks. Its not based on any DAW or anything like that.
Ive been doing research on whether it can be run using things like wine but it seems to break pretty easily if wine updates.
I recommend using this amazing ressource: https://github.com/jc141x/portal for games already repacked for linux and ready to run with a simple bash script.
Why do jc141 releases use DwarFS, instead of more typical compression formats like tarballs?
From their Github: Q: Why use the dwarfs format? It makes it less convenient for users. A: Our purpose is to serve a community which is involved enough to be able to follow a short setup page. It enables us to provide users with new technological features that we find useful.
Thank you, and sorry - I made sure to read the FAQ, but I couldn’t find the answer for this specific question.
No worries, I actually did not find it either even tho I had read it before. Seems that they removed it from the FAQ but it is still in the search results.
So why aren’t they packing the games as flatpaks with their dependencies all baked in?
You can ask them on their Matrix Support Group
Thread hijack:
Has anyone found a Tony Hawk PS1+2 file? Not about to pay $40 for some online-only BS.
vimm.net has it, the megathread has a lot of good resources
Which megathread?
it’s on the sidebar, but here’s a direct link to it: https://rentry.co/megathread
I’m so very confused.
Vimm.net seems to be entirely comprised of emulators.
I found it on c/crackwatch. It links to this predb site which prompts you to download a text file that has the same instructions in it as the website. The first instruction says “extract”. Extract what? It also says I have to change firewall settings so the game can’t connect to the internet and I’ve no idea how to do that.
I don’t see Tony Hawk or any other games on that megathread site.
All these torrent sites just seem to link back and forth to each other.
Search results for a good place to find Torrents turn up nothing but VPN ads.
vimm.net has emulators, but they also have Playstation 1 - 3 games under the Vault section.
I was looking for the new Steam game…
man I thought you meant the tony hawk games for the playstation 1 and 2
vimm is for old console/handheld games. on the megathread link go to the games section, go to ones of the torrent sites in general purpose and look up tony hawk
ones of the torrent sites
Great, thanks…
If you can’t click 3-5 links within the megathread rentry link and search for one the game you want on lets say 1337, then maybe paying is more your speed
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On steam deck I just install them with Steam forcing it to run in proton. Works great
Use bottles for Linux , its just a great experience using that software I am already playing Far Cry Primal and Battlefield 1
In most cases, the windows version will work with Lutris.
I remember I pirated God Of War and Days Gone and they worked fine.
You need to run the setup installation, and then select the game launcher (.exe) as executable.
Try portproton https://github.com/Castro-Fidel/PortWINE It works without steam
In all my years of pirating on Linux is the first time I’ve heard of this tool, could you give a brief description of it? Their Github isn’t entirely clear and his website is completely in Russian.
It’s create own folder with wine prefix.If simply talking when u click on exe file,pop up a new window with asking u which version of installed proton/wine to use and on what to run it vulkan/opengl/gallium-nine .it’s automatically download the updates of dxvk and new version of proton-lg and proton-ge.And have very cool feature about adding shortcuts to main menu and ur desktop folder like it would be usual native program.It’s also have wide customization about launch options and integrated vkBasalt as example
Sounds pretty interesting, definitely I’m gonna try it up.
Proton will make almost anything work. There are more than a few different approaches but if you need a gui/simplified all-in-one tool I can’t recommend lutris enough.
I just do right click on the exe file and “open with wine”. It works for me
I use Lutris for this. It makes configuration simpler. The problem is that your crack or patch might not work because it’s shit or because wine/proton doesn’t like it, and it’s not easy to figure out why.
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just mount the .iso (if there is one) and run the installer (e.g. setup.exe) with WINE
Yeah sure and then it fails because some WINE compatibility issue or because you’ve to manually install half of Windows on Wine manually before being able to install anything useful.
assuming that you’re running WINE through the terminal you’ll see if there’s any error and usually it’s pretty simple to find what you need to make the game run (if it doesn’t already)
for starters get all the gst/gstreamer packages including the plugin ones (libav, good/bad/ugly, etc.) and make sure to have both 64 and 32bit versions.
get wine-mono (or directly install .net runtimes in your wineprefix, easily done with winetricks) and wine-gecko.
after that you basically just get whatever .dll or vcrun stuff as needed (following error messages), most easily done through winetricks
I will admit though, while using Linux Mint (instead of Arch Linux which I use on my home PC) at a relative’s house I had some trouble at first because a) apt package manager sucks, b) the names of the packages were different, and c) wine-mono and wine-gecko packages didn’t exist so I had to follow these instructions https://wiki.winehq.org/Mono & https://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko
also just like how protondb is a really good resource to look up how well games will run on steam proton and tips on how to run them, there’s https://appdb.winehq.org/
I wasn’t saying it can be done, thing is the time and effort to make it work is way too much… and the end result tends to be poor. A Windows license costs close to nothing to most people (comes with computers, can be bought for 10$ in some places, pirated etc) and things work out of the box as expected, better ROI. Even if you’ve to virtualize and/or dual boot still easier.
I wasn’t saying it can be done, thing is the time and effort to make it work is way too much…
If you think it’s too much time and effort for you, that’s fair enough.
I obviously don’t think it is or I wouldn’t do it. Also something to note is it gets easier and faster with time as you have more things already installed and thus more games run out of the box, as well as just having the experience and know-how of what to do.
and the end result tends to be poor.
I’m not having poor end results compared to when I were using Windows, so that’s just a you thing.
Only real notable fault for linux gaming is online multiplayer games with anti-cheat, and luckily for me I don’t play those anyway.
Well one thing that hasn’t been working that comes to mind is Frosty Tool Suite, a mod manager for Frostbite engine games, so I was unable to replay Dragon Age Inquisition with new mods on Linux.
That however isn’t a game itself but a 3rd party mod manager, and technically I could get it too work by either using a NTFS formatted hard drive or some other tricks, but it seemed too much of a pain to deal with so I’ve left that on the back-burner.
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Ahahaha. I’ve tried them all, bare bones wine, bottles even the payed version of crossover and the thing is that they’re all a fucking joke. Don’t be delusional you know as well as I do those things don’t provide a good experience nor a good result.
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Bottles is not that much better. Crossover (payed) does a much better job but still it’s funny to see how ReactOS that is 100% “volunteer-developed and a reimplementation of the entirety of the Windows API” performs much better with older Windows applications. I believe they even share code with Wine.
