I have decided to switch to Linux Mint from windows. I don't use computer for work that much. And for my personal use I'm switching to Linux Mint. I have heard a lot about it. So giving it a try. I know about emulating windows in linux to play window games. But how do you use cracks and stuff?? Does emulating also access my 100% graphics card or less? I want to know about all these. Please people in my condition help. Thanks in advance :)

  • Ithorian [comrade/them, he/him]
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    25 days ago

    Lutris is your best friend for that. But you can also add non-steam games to your library and force them to run with proton, just be sure to only launch them when you're in offline mode. Between those two programs I can get 90%+ of all my pirated games working.

    • homhom9000 [she/her]
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      25 days ago

      Is one of them hogwarts legacy? I've been fighting with that for 2 days and no luck. I've gotten closest with lutris but still no launch.

      • Ithorian [comrade/them, he/him]
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        25 days ago

        Not one I was interested in. You're using a GE version of proton as your runner? i know some people forget to add those runners.

      • burgersc12@mander.xyz
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        25 days ago

        For Steam Deck and AMD processors:

        1. Run in terminal sudo nano /etc/default/grub Replace nano with the text editor you are using.
        2. Find the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
        3. Add clearcpuid=514 inside the quotes.
        4. Update the settings with sudo update-grub for Ubuntu/Mint and similar or sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg for Arch and the like.
        5. Reboot the system.
        6. Play!

        Doing this helped me, running archlinux so i used systemd-boot instead of grub.

    • Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      hexagon
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      25 days ago

      Is bottle different from wine ? And thank you for suggesting it. I'll look it up.

      • radiofreeval [any]
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        25 days ago

        Bottles is a wrapper for wine that is better for dependency managment

      • RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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        25 days ago

        No, bottles is just a program that enables you to use wine much more comfortably.

        Wine isn't super hard to use, but it's annoying. So stuff like Bottles and Lutris exist, both basically do the same. They give you both a GUI and much easier accessable settings for the wine-prefixes. Those prefixes basically are just folders with the faked windows stuff in it.

        Lutris is made for games but can be used for programs too. Bottles is made out of the box for both games and programs, has a much more streamlined interface and workflow and lets you easily create new "bottles" (bottle is just the given name for a wine prefix) for each of your games / programs.

        Putting everything in their own bottle / prefix is really handy because it allows you to modify the prefix for each application without ruining it for another. If you need a specific version of a certain .dll file for one game but not for others, you can just install that .dll file in the specific bottle / prefix for that one specific game, and the other games just use their own bottles / prefixes with the default .dll for example.

        Very handy.

        Bottles is usually more recommended because it's more streamlined... Also the dev of lutris seems quite toxic and isn't good with making friends in the scene :D

      • burgersc12@mander.xyz
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        25 days ago

        I used bottles for a while, until it wiped basically all of my game data. Lutris is much better imo, use wine-ge and had zero issues

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    25 days ago

    Additionally: look for johncena141's releases. They're obnoxiously packed (you got to have DwarFS, annoying to install in Mint*), but he'll typically provide native versions of the game if possible, and when it needs an emu layer he also bundles it with the WINE version that it works the best with.

    *to be honest I use his releases mostly to extract the contents.

    • Ithorian [comrade/them, he/him]
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      25 days ago

      johncena141's releases are the most obnoxious thing ever, I have an easier time getting windows games working then trying to get his shit running.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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        25 days ago

        Yup. Like, I get what he's trying to do, if people don't need to extract the contents of the release they're more likely to keep sharing it. It would be reasonable if DwarFS was installed by default in most distros, Mint for example doesn't even have it in the repos*. Still, he shares a huge collection of games, so it's still worth to check if he has something you want.

        *might be relevant for the OP. In Mint here's what I did: I downloaded DwarFS binaries and put them in some random dir (I'll call it /randomdir). Then I edited my .bashrc file and included the following lines:

        undorf () {
        	mkdir "$1".extracted
        	/randomdir/bin/dwarfsextract -i "$1" -o "$1".extracted
        	}
        

        Then when I download his releases, I navigate to the dir where the dwarfs is, plop a terminal, and write undorf [filename]. Boom, extracted without too much fuss.

  • Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    24 days ago

    Lutris handles it very well, simply has an add button in the top corner with a few options:

    1. Install with windows executable: games that need an installer first

    2. Preinstalled game: if you have a game or drive that doesnt need to be installed, you can just tell it where the .exe is and what runner to use.

    3. Search lutris: great for software or things that are free to download from the browser. Basically preconfigured install packages. For example I installed PlayStation plus via their installer.

    Lutris uses runners to emulate systems, wine is the windows emulator, it also has retro game emulators and such. There's a runners section in the preferences in lutris.

    The prefix is confusing at first, but the default selection usually works. The prefix is just the folder the emulator files are installed in. Each folder with a wine game gets a c drive and program files and all that, and I usually install the games themselves in the "c" drive. You can make a new one for each game or share them between games. Sorta like docker containers for games.

    Super easy stuff, not everything works but protondb.com is a place people post if it works on linux or not and what fixes might be needed.

    If you DM I can send you some specific walkthroughs or videos so you can walk through it a step at a time.

    If you can bring a drive with preinstalled games from your windows installation, that will give you a huge head start. Most will be add to lutris and play. Thats it!

    P.S. anything you have in steam is even easier, steam loves linux

  • land@lemmy.ml
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    25 days ago

    Lutris is what you need. I have recently migrated from windows to Bazzite OS. Most of the games I play work flawlessly. I was dual-booting, but eventually got rid of windows. It’s a waste of space, time, and energy