hello fellow sailers , hope you’re having a nice day , a few months back i switched to arch linux because my computer has good ram but not that good gpu , but now i would like to play some og games like portal 2 , portal 1 , inscryption etc from fitgirl repacks and i have scoured through many guides but nothing just works , too complicated. can’t there be a simple guide with preferably images or something like that (like a website /blog maybe?) I would really appreciate that since many of my friends may like to join linux ship but they are pirates like me as well who wouldn’t be able to play games on linux. #Fitgirl-repacks,#Linux

  • slushiedrinker@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    If you want something to help you with the process, you might like to try using Lutris or Heroic Games Launcher. They allow you to install anything you want and set up wine prefixes automatically. Heroic Games uses Proton and all other versions of Wine. If you find that you prefer Lutris, you can get Proton to work in it (lots of instructions about it available on Lutris web site). Good luck! If you need help with linux, lemmy.zip has a great community called Linux Questions. They’re very friendly and helpful over there. I know first-hand because I asked a question and got great answers.

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      11 months ago

      I got the game working but the sound is not working (game : Inscryption)

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    11 months ago

    I don’t think there’s a guide for your specific use case, but it’s essentially no different from running any other windows installer on Linux. You will have to set up Wine (a guide is on their website) and once that’s done, it’s basically just double-clicking the setup.exe.

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        11 months ago

        Yes, that is absolutely how it works, the compression or the files being distributed via torrents doesn’t make any difference. I have installed plenty of (Fitgirl) repacks just by setting up wine and double-clicking the .exe file. I’ve never had any issues whatsoever.

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          11 months ago

          Clueless person dishing out a condescending ‘no brother thats not how it works’, comedy gold 😃

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            11 months ago

            “It doesn’t work because repacks are extremely compressed because they’re sent through torrent”

            Dude should stick to Windows

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              11 months ago

              Oh he’ll definitely be back on it in a few days and will be telling everyone how it’s all Linux’s fault.

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                11 months ago

                He’s got another post now telling people that no one helped because they didn’t understand he was on Linux 🙄

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        11 months ago

        I’m not sure what problem you are having when you say ‘nothing works’. I’ve installed several FG repacks over the years including one only a couple of weeks ago. Open and terminal and cd to the directory that contains your FG download, then:

        1. export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine_gamename
        2. winetricks -q dxvk xact xinput vcrun2022 win10
        3. winetricks -q vkd3d corefonts win10
        4. wine setup.exe
        5. cd installdirectory
        6. wine gamename.exe

        I separate the winetricks lines as sometimes winetricks gets overwhelmed if you call two many functions. I can assure you that this does work, though the repacks sometimes take ages to install. Personally I use rutracker as my source as the games come pre-made with wine.

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          11 months ago

          So If I use fitgirl -repacks rutracker then will i get wine pre made?

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            11 months ago

            Rutracker has a forum dedicated to Windows games pre-packed with a wine runner. EDIT: Nothing to do with Fitgirl.

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              11 months ago

              Are those safe? i just trust fitgirl repacks /Dodi repacks and nothing much

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                11 months ago

                Yes, rutracker is safe. In particular Kron4ek is a trusted repacker. You can also download games from certain IRC channels which is much quicker but requires some setting up.

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      I’ve had a lot fail, usually during the install process. I’m thinking some missing dll or something for the decompression or something. As an alternative I’ve just used regular size downloads since speed isn’t an issue anyway

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    11 months ago

    If your download limits aren’t capped by your ISP, I’d probably just grab the original Steam files and Goldberg’s Steam emulator off cs dot rin dot ru slash forum and call it a day