Wine-ge was archived back in January, https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom is the preferred option and is supported by Lutris by default. Or try newer versions of wine or wine staging. Or try installing it as a non steam game.
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I had better luck with dodis repacks on Linux. Maybe there is some way to tell wine to use more memory?
May i ask what nvidia driver version linux mint uses, im thinking of giving it a shot but when i installed my 4070 super, only arch and bazzite had recent enough drivers to support my gpu.
I am using the proprietary driver on mint and it's version 550.120. It works great and I haven't really had any issues with my games. The only one that gives me issues sometimes is Alan wake 2. I have that installed through heroic and the performance is hit or miss. Somedays it's great, and other days it won't fully use my GPU. But all my steam games run great. I would give it another try.
Nice, thank you! Maybe I'll give mint another try, i love it on my laptop :D
i can't get it to unpack at all, fails immediately. so i use virtualbox to unpack and then just move it back from there
Why get repacks in 2025? There are many websites for downloading regularly compressed games safely, and it won’t take an hour to unpack
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,bWINE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=0PROTON_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.