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[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You can normally add it to steam to see if proton will work, or if not, you could use heroic, lutris, or bottles, although normally if it doesnt work under proton and there isn't a premade wine prefix in lutris or heroic, it will take some tinkering.

Which games are you worried about?

[–] Highlandcow@feddit.uk 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Pirated games or games downloaded off itchio mostly

[–] SeeFerns@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Can’t you just download Lutris and tell it to run itch games via Wine? I have done that with one game from itch before but tbh it’s the only time I’ve tried it so it could’ve been a fluke.

[–] Highlandcow@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah I tried to run a number of games through wine and it was very hard to get anything running sadly

[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Itch is a bit spotty if you don't want to configure your prefix and it doesn't work under proton, but pirated games work fairly well in lutris using the official versions prefix

[–] Highlandcow@feddit.uk 1 points 8 hours ago

Hmhmh I'll try that thank you