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.

  • ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
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    18 days 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

      • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
        13·
        17 days 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 pirated games.

    • Bobby@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      then chang the path of the exe and the working folder to those of the installed game

      I feel the need to underline this part because removing the setup.exe entry and the adding the installed exe doesn’t work. The entire virtual drive gets deleted when removing setup.exe. This makes the procedure a bit more complicated than it should be but it’s needed when it has to go through Steam because of Steam Deck Game Mode.

    • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
      1·
      18 days 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.

        • Bobby@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          17 days ago

          I don’t think Steam lets you pick the location for Proton’s virtual environments which is where Steam installs non-Steam games. AFAIK they are always in the home directory and you can only pick a random location when it’s a portable game without setup.exe.

          • ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
            2·
            17 days ago

            I’m at work right now so i can’t take a pic, but I have an SD and an external drive for my steam deck. When I’m installing a repack through proton (or also a gog game through proton), it will let me pick my SD as the drive D and my ssd as drive E same way as if I were in windows. I can post a pic later today.

            • Bobby@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              17 days ago

              Maybe my memory is wrong or it was different in an older SteamOS version. I remember Valve changed something about mounting SD cards a couple of months ago.

              • ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
                1·
                17 days ago

                Been doing this for the last two years since i got my deck. I’m not really sure what are you doing differently but I have not changed my way of dealing with these installs singe the beginning.