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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Hell, I've got a game I legally purchased on CD back in the Win XP days I'd like to play, and the farthest I got is installed but fails to run.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    This may or may not help. But I'll give you the basic steps using wine only and no Proton magic to run a game from disk:

    • Create an empty folder to be your wineprefix (emulated system folder) or use the default.
    • run WINEPREFIX=[full path to new folder] winecfg command in terminal (just winecfg if you will use the default prefix).
    • mount your CD so that you can see it in your file browser. (Might be simply clicking that device in the file browser when a CD is in the drive bay)
    • In the winecfg set drive D: to point to the folder where you mounted the CD.
    • run the CD installer with wine... e.g WINEPREFIX=/some/path wine /media/something/cdrom1/setup.exe, install the game to C:
    • run the game with WINE on the same prefix and with the CD inserted and mounted (if there are resources on the CD or basic DRM) e.g. WINEPREFIX=/some/path wine '/some/path/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Cool Game/coolgame.exe
    • if that works, you might be able to create an image of the disc and mount that instead of the physical CD, you'd then rerun winecfg and set D: to the correct folder where the disk image is mounted.
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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    So, I'm actually very drunk right now and my eyes just slid right off all that, but I want to set my default misanthropy aside for a second and genuinely thank you for taking the time to write up some genuine helpful tech advice. That's really cool of you to have done. I might try that day after tomorrow.

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