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Why FitGirl won't die: The repacker millions of gamers depend on in an age of surveillance (www.tbsnews.net)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 79 points 11 months ago (21 children)

it's consistent, quick, and dependable. There's no reason to use anything else. I get the original purpose was for people in countries with slow internet connections but now everyone just uses it.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (19 children)

    It's harder to use on Linux, and lower-performance devices. I would prefer prefer having dumps of the pre-installed game folder to use on a steam deck, for example.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    I use it all the time on linux, what problems did you have?

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    What's your process for running the unpacker executable? Maybe it depends on the game, but I set up a wineprefix through Lutris and always seem to run into issues getting it to complete properly without any unpacking errors.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    For the setup:

    Final Edit: The wine prefix is the same for the games and the installer, just a windows subsystem that has all the dependencies.

    First I install the wine-cachyos package, create a WINEPREFIX variable for the folder i want to put the prefix in, then i run winecfg to start the prefix, then I install the dotnet packages and vcredist packages through (before, when the repos existed) these links for the vcredist and dotnet (maybe archive.org or somewhere else still have the executables), or using winetricks too, but these are nicer to use as they install everything in one go.

    Then I install the dxvk and vkd3d (you can install through lutris, so this is kinda useless hahaha).

    Then I run the fitgirl repack through lutris and click to install the vcredist or .net when asked.

    Then I just run the game with a runner or wine-cachyos.

    I'll update this with valid links when I find them.

    Edit: last time I used this and this, installing just the .net runtimes, not directx, java, silverlight, etc.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    winetricks should be able to install all of those dependencies, including versions of .net and vcredist. But it's a terminal script, so requires the environment variables that Wine uses for the paths and stuff.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Yeah, remembered that wrong, thanks for the correction! Corrected it in my comment.

    winecfg can add drives too, I always put an U: to /home/username , that makes it easier to pick a better location to install the game files (in my case, to ~/Games). A lot of things can be tweaked with winetricks and winecfg hahaha.

    I think WINEPREFIX is all those tools need. Lutris can use that too (if i remember correctly).

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I mainly had trouble on the steam deck, in the early days. Most people recommended unpacking on a windows PC and transferring the files back then. It might be easier now, but it is more trouble than a game dump.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    As someone trying to move to Linux this year, what issues are there? I've heard this before, but I never see an explanation on what makes it difficult.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

    Proton can handle the game files but not the installer. So you have to install in wine and it's a hassle. I install the games on my windows pc, zip them and then transfer them to my deck.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Since Fitgirl's installer just unpacks stuff, I just use the same prefix for all installers. Protontricks/wine lets you specify a path in the Z:/ drive as well (the linux base system), so no need to move stuff.

    I even made a dummy exe file that does nothing and added that as a non steam game that works as a catch-all prefix for whatever I need to run without adding it as a non steam game first.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Huh? I add the installer to steam, use proton and install. No problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I also have problems on Linux. I’ve tried a few different methods, but ultimately, they always end up seeming to freeze and make no further progress after a certain point.

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