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

  • Mambabasa@slrpnk.netEnglish
    152·
    2 years ago

    The LinuxRulez repacks sometimes include Windows games that work almost natively on Linux with some WINE magic.

      • nivenkos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Unfortunately older games often have issues.

        I was trying to fix Capitalism Lab for a while, but still couldn’t manage it.

        It only redraws the rectangle around the cursor rather than the whole screen, it must be something to do with the clipper in DirectDraw and that conversion to framebuffer objects in OpenGL.

      • Mambabasa@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          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.

      • minimar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        In my experience a lot of cracks don’t work. I can’t get DOOM 2016 or Heavy Rain to work, for example.

          • minimar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            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.

                  • minimar@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    2 years ago

                    Installing the other vcrun’s didn’t help. I have an AMD card too, so that’s not the issue.

                    Lutris log, just in case

                    I don’t have heavy rain downloaded at the moment, but I have a feeling it’ll be the same story… :(