I've had issues with repacks and Lutris. One of the reasons I still dual boot, I already have a large collection of mostly repacks.You're probably more likely to get it to work with an uncompressed installer, and much more likely with already installed files.
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I've basically grabbed every fitgirl repack that interested me for the past few years and have installed and played it on linux. Literally just use steam to install non steam game. Set your proton compat and enjoy.
In general, the Denuvo bypasses will not work. Other games should generally work fine, with the appropriate cracks.
You can fix that by simply not playing games with invasive DRM.
by denuvo bypasses do you mean hv or even voices38 stuff? i know hv doesnt work for now
voices38 cracks are traditional cracks, so they should work. It's really the HV bypasses that absolutely require windows, no workarounds.
If the original game runs on Linux, sure.
Otherwise if the original game runs on proton/wine/bottles whatever, I guess it depends and you need to try.
My two cents: if the game already run on Linux, doesn't matter if it's emulated native or what, will run both original and pirated.
Yes, but in my experience, its more work to get it to work. Some games will launch immediately, others you will find yourself tweaking proton settings or installing dependencies. On windows every cracked game just launches immediately.
Yes, they all work. 🤦🏼
what games did you test? also how did you run them? im intrested in linux
I use many,goldberg based crack work fine. Online fix work fine too as long as you launch them trough steam with some parameters.
I use most of them in an bottles
There are some extra steps of adding the game steamid to a config file, but you can also use slssteam and just run the game through steam which is much cleaner on steam deck or deck like setups, and you can also use h3adcr-b to manage updates of sls and steam to prevent steam client updates before they are patchable.
Benefits include seamless deck gamemode/big picture experience, easy proton version switching, mods and advanced config work like regular steam install so following guides for such will be easier. Its also an easy setup to use for linux vr which I have tested using wivrn and after the recent update also steamvr to steam link app on quest.
Achievements don't work out of the box, which is great those concerned about stealth or just dont want them, but by reverting the patched steam api dll to the backup, armageddon repacks change the original .dll to .ag for example, then running slscheevo or similar to generate missing files. There is a standard spot to find the .dll in all the common game engines but you can always search for "steam*.dll".
Supposedly online also works in a bunch of games but only with other people doing the same thing, with additional titles possible with extra work but I haven't tested any of this and I don't know if its different from the usual steam emu online methods.
If it's a true crack then as long as the game itself works on linux then the cracked version can. You listed the current exception (as hv bypass is not a type of crack).