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

  • @Hubi@feddit.de
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    171 year 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.

      • @Hubi@feddit.de
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        401 year 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.

      • @monstoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        121 year 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.

        • @KDEOP
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          11 year ago

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

          • @monstoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            1 year ago

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

            • @KDEOP
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              11 year ago

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

              • @monstoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                11 year 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.

        • @KDEOP
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          11 year ago

          Thanks This also works i am having a directx error to make sound unable but other than that wholesome

        • Helix 🧬
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          151 year ago

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

          • @ruckblack@sh.itjust.works
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            81 year ago

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

            Dude should stick to Windows

              • Tippon
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                1 year ago

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

      • @moody@lemmings.world
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        41 year ago

        If the game isn’t too big, you can add the installer exe to Steam via the “add a non-Steam game” menu, set it up to run with Proton, and then click the Play button which will launch the installer. When it’s done installing, remove the installer from your games, and add the game’s exe to Steam directly.

        If the game is too big (60gb or more) use Lutris’s “install a game” feature, and run the installer from there.