hello fellow sailers , hope you’re having a nice day , a few months back i switched to arch linux because my computer has good ram but not that good gpu , but now i would like to play some og games like portal 2 , portal 1 , inscryption etc from fitgirl repacks and i have scoured through many guides but nothing just works , too complicated. can’t there be a simple guide with preferably images or something like that (like a website /blog maybe?) I would really appreciate that since many of my friends may like to join linux ship but they are pirates like me as well who wouldn’t be able to play games on linux. #Fitgirl-repacks,#Linux

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    1 year ago

    I don’t think there’s a guide for your specific use case, but it’s essentially no different from running any other windows installer on Linux. You will have to set up Wine (a guide is on their website) and once that’s done, it’s basically just double-clicking the setup.exe.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, that is absolutely how it works, the compression or the files being distributed via torrents doesn’t make any difference. I have installed plenty of (Fitgirl) repacks just by setting up wine and double-clicking the .exe file. I’ve never had any issues whatsoever.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not sure what problem you are having when you say ‘nothing works’. I’ve installed several FG repacks over the years including one only a couple of weeks ago. Open and terminal and cd to the directory that contains your FG download, then:

        1. export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine_gamename
        2. winetricks -q dxvk xact xinput vcrun2022 win10
        3. winetricks -q vkd3d corefonts win10
        4. wine setup.exe
        5. cd installdirectory
        6. wine gamename.exe

        I separate the winetricks lines as sometimes winetricks gets overwhelmed if you call two many functions. I can assure you that this does work, though the repacks sometimes take ages to install. Personally I use rutracker as my source as the games come pre-made with wine.