Some of them that come to mind for me are:
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FitGirl’s Escape from Tarkov repack that featured a single player mod
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FitGirl’s Half Life Alyx repack that with the NoVR mod
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Gnarly’s Tale of Two Wastelands repack that had everything ready to go after the install. No need to install both Fallout 3 & New Vegas and wait hours for things to compile
The LinuxRulez repacks sometimes include Windows games that work almost natively on Linux with some WINE magic.
With the way you worded it, I just want to make sure you’re aware that practically every windows game works on linux nowadays. You can install windows repacks/anything through lutris with minimal tweaking. Not only do cracks almost always work on linux, they sometimes even help compatibility by stripping out DRM junk.
Unfortunately older games often have issues.
I was trying to fix Capitalism Lab for a while, but still couldn’t manage it.
It only redraws the rectangle around the cursor rather than the whole screen, it must be something to do with the clipper in DirectDraw and that conversion to framebuffer objects in OpenGL.
Yep, I just downloaded a copy and tried it out and it’s definitely a weird one. Old games are quite hit and miss, even on windows. Oftentimes, linux will run older games better with its array of compatibility tools, but you can still get unlucky and come across some game programmed via punchcards and duck sounds.
In my experience a lot of cracks don’t work. I can’t get DOOM 2016 or Heavy Rain to work, for example.
Hi!
Doom 2016 has SteamDRM and Steamworks API protection, so you can crack it with Steamless + Goldberg Steam Emu. It additionally requires winetricks’ing
vcrun2015or it will crash on startup. I suspect the vcrun2015 part is why you were having trouble, not the cracks you were trying. I launched it via the vulkan executableHeavy Rain has SteamDRM and Steamworks API protection, so you can crack it with Steamless + Goldberg Steam Emu. I was able to get this to work without any other modifications. When starting the game, there was a popup about steam controller configuration something or other, but clicking “cancel” let the game start normally.
My configuration for both games, if it matters:
I wrote a guide for linux cracking here that might help in the future if you didn’t see it: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/19693
Hope you get to play these games now!
So, here’s how I’ve tried to do this:
Still just a black screen at startup.
The black screen on startup was happening for me until I installed vcrun2015, which solved it. Have you tried creating the prefix through lutris?
Add a lutris game as “Wine”, then type in a folder where you want the prefix to be created (doesn’t have to exist yet).
Fill out the rest of the lutris info, e.g. wine version, DXVK, etc, and then click Save.
Click the dropdown next to the wineglass icon (near the
playbutton), and click “Open Wine console”.It will take a second to create your prefix, then it will open a console. Just exit out of the console.
Go back to the wineglass dropdown and click “Winetricks”
Wait for it to load, then do “Select the default prefix wineprefix” -> “Install a Windows DLL or component” -> select
vcrun2015-> Click OK.It will install it in the background, and it should reopen the winetricks GUI when it’s done. If it doesn’t open the winetricks GUI, it might have failed. Try again and hope it works
After it installs, fill out the rest of the Lutris configuration and try to launch it with that prefix.
Yeah, I’m afraid that’s exactly what I’ve done, no difference.
Very strange. You could try installing
vcrun2017orvcrun2019to see if one of those works instead, but otherwise my wine’s configuration doesn’t have anything special going on. I specifically made a new wine prefix every configuration attempt, and installing vcrun2015 was reproduceably the step that allowed the game to launch.I have an AMD card, though that shouldn’t matter. You can potentially check the lutris log for the game to see if anything useful gets printed there. In my experience it rarely prints anything useful.
To my knowledge, wine isn’t really that complicated - there’s only a couple important components that decide whether something’s going to run or not, and I don’t think it should really change on a per-system basis outside of maybe GPU drivers.
Did you get Heavy Rain to work at least?
Edit: Also I can at least say with certainty that if you’re using Steamless + Goldberg to defeat the DRM that that is not where the problem is. The game itself is having trouble running for whatever reason.
Installing the other vcrun’s didn’t help. I have an AMD card too, so that’s not the issue.
Lutris log, just in case
I don’t have heavy rain downloaded at the moment, but I have a feeling it’ll be the same story… :(
Personally, I haven’t gotten a crack to work that wasn’t a LinuxRulez or Linux native repack. I can keep trying though. I know others have gotten it to work.
Hi, I was going to write a quick reply with general linux cracking notes, and it turned into not a quick guide: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/19693
I’d give you gold but I have no money and that’s not a thing here. Cheers pal.
I install all of my cracks through Bottles and I’ve only ever had a problem with SimCity 2014, which is notoriously incompatible with a lot of things.
Just set up bottles, press “run executable” on the setup and afterwards bottles automatically shows the desktop shortcuts that would appear on a windows machine as a list of programs you can run. I’ve even had luck with running adjacent tools, for example VTOL for titanfall2 and my GTA mod menu injector.
Bottles is something I haven’t looked into yet. Thanks.