Issues with installing large fitgirl repacks (lemmy.world)

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Hi fellow Linux users, I just built a new rig and am issues with installing large fitgirl repacks. My specs Ryzen 7 7800x3d Rtx 4070 ti super 32 gigs of ddr5 RAM Linux mint 22.1 Lutris with wine version: ge-8-26x86_64 I am trying to install FFXVI on an SSD with plenty of free space. I can get to about 90% of unpacking before I get an error saying I ran out of memory. I made sure to check the box in the installer to limit RAM use, I also had my system monitor up to monitor it and my RAM usage never got to 100%. Looking at other posts, it seems like using a windows VM is my best option because I have had missing files on other games that successfully installed. Just wanted to see if there's another solution or if I should just use a windows VM. Thanks!

EDIT: I forgot that a while back I made an external USB windows to go drive. I used that to unpack the game then move it over to my Linux drive. That worked with no issues unpacking

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

FitGirl repacks are often the smallest, but her installers are awful, so fragile that they often fail in Wine with error messages that don't make sense. (For example, "not enough memory" on systems with ample RAM.)

Exporting these environment variables before running the installer sometimes avoids the failures:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES=isdone,unarc=n,b
WINE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=0
PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=0

Recent releases of GE-Proton may handle FitGirl installers better than Wine-GE-Proton, Kron4ek, or other more standard Wine builds. Note that it generally works outside of Steam/UMU, despite this use being unsupported and discouraged by GloriousEggroll. It's best to generate a new Wine prefix when switching a game from another Wine build to GE-Proton, since different support files will be generated and a different username ("steamuser") will be seen by Windows executables. The Wine executable in GE-Proton is files/bin/wine instead of the bin/wine that you might be used to.

I have read that these things might also help in some circumstances:

In winecfg, try setting the Windows version to "Windows XP". Try other versions as well if that one doesn't help.
Run the installer from within the Wine command prompt, which can be started by running wine cmd.
Run the installer from within the Microsoft command prompt, which can be installed in a Wine prefix using Winetricks by running winetricks cmd.
Untick any installer options for updating DirectX or Visual C++ redistributables. The former are replaced by DXVK and vkd3d-proton. The latter can be installed after the game install, if needed, using Winetricks.
Tick the installer option to limit RAM use.

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