Playing pirated video games on Linux

posted 1 year ago

piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Anybody know how to play pirated Windows games on Linux? I recently installed Lubuntu (22.04.2 Jammy Jellyfish) on my ancient laptop and all the guides I can find and trying out Lutris only seem to apply to “legit” copies bought from the official sources.

Is it even possible or will I have to do dualboot when I install Linux on my gaming desktop?

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VikingHippie@lemmy.wtfOP

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1 year ago

Ok, so I managed to run the installer with the help of bottles and it seemingly succeeds, but “add to steam” does nothing and when I try the add new game option in steam, the game is nowhere to be found.

It’s like the installer is trying to tell the system where the game is but only bottles is listening and it can’t actually run it 🙁

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highseas@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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1 year ago

You usually have to reboot Steam when you add a shortcut in Bottles, for it to show up.

If you’re using the Flatpak versions of things make sure you use Flatseal to give it access to the game locations, that might also be an issue.

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crow@beehaw.org

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1 year ago

When installing the game with bottles make sure you mount the folder you want the game to install to as a drive in bottles. Then I point steam at the folder by adding a non-steam game and forcing the use of proton support in the options for the non-steam game in steam.

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