Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com CorrodedCranium @lemmy.fmhy.ml 1y ago

What's the most noteworthy/interesting game repack you've come across?

Some of them that come to mind for me are:

FitGirl's Escape from Tarkov repack that featured a single player mod
FitGirl's Half Life Alyx repack that with the NoVR mod
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

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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.
  
  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.
  
  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 vcrun2015 or 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 executable
  
  Heavy 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:
  
  Wine-GE 7-37
  
  DXVK 2.2
  
  VKD3D 2.8
  
  Esync+Fsync enabled
  
  NVAPI enabled
  
  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:
  
  Running the vulkan executable via lutris with Wine-GE, DXVK, VKD3D
  
  I've created a winetricks prefix called 'doom' with vcrun2015 ticked, and set it to use that prefix in lutris.
  
  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 play button), 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 vcrun2017 or vcrun2019 to 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.

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