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How i can play pirate games on linux (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I want to play gta san andreas, but the only version available at stores is the nasty remake that rockstar did a while ago, there is a way to play pirate games on linux?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I always use Lutris for that. Make a new wine prefix in the folder your games are in and add a new game to Lutris. Select the installer as an executable and the Wine prefix you created. Then launch the game and after it's done installing, change the executable to the game's one.