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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.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Run it through proton. Import into steam from add non-steam program, or lutris

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

I can run pirated steam games on steam? that doesnt sound right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

If you add a steam game it will delete or invalid portions of the repack depending on where you got it from. I had to unzip the game again and try in lutris. DBZ sparking 0

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Steam has DRM for Steam games. You can add any other game to Steam and ask Steam to attach Proton to it.

Steam.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago

You can also run them using the correct Proton prefix directly.

ProtonTricks can help make this a lot easier and more graphical.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

It's pretty straightforward. You just select the unit as you do in windows (as long as it is mounted).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'll give it a shot if I can't get it to run on lutris.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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 pirates games.