Playing pirated video games on Linux (lemmy.wtf)

submitted 1 year ago by VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago

You should technically be able to run the exe with proton (assuming, you're talking about Windows games). Maybe Steam does some extra work like setting certain environment variables (see https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton#runtime-config-options for a list).

Or you could just run non-steam games through Steam

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[-] Sharmat@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Also adding Lutris, it’s a wrapper for wine, and with it, you can download game normally like you would in windows, run the installer and then play it.