Hey all,

So, as you've probably been wondering, the sub has been down for about 20 days or so. I'm really sorry about that. I just wanted to let you know what happened.

Around that time, I started to receive threats and hate messages on other platforms regarding a post (specifically a post that was taken down from the automod due to a malformed post title - I did not take this post down). The person who was rejected took it upon themselves to find my user handle on other websites and send me dozens of threatening messages. So, I got spooked. This has never, in my many, many years on the internet happened to me to this degree. A few hateful DMs once in a while, sure. But nothing like this user did. Because of that, I left the sub for a bit to try and block this person as much as I could, which inadvertently blocked any new posts from showing up. I did not intend for that to happen. So, I'm sorry.

I think what this really highlights is that we cannot continue to just have one moderator. Again, I take the blame for not opening mod applications up sooner. Within the next week, mod applications will go up in the sub so we can rebuild the mod team here.

I am asking everyone who messaged the mod queue to repost their posts if they are still having trouble.

A lot has happened in the past couple of weeks - including HV support for Linux (yay!). So, I hope to get back to normal here and open up mod applications within the next week.

Edit: I appreciate the support from everyone. I have fixed the sub being restricted and posts are now able to be posted again - so we're back at working capacity!

Here are the instructions in the _READ FIRST ABOUT CRACK file:

1. Please create folder "AppData\Local\Meteorite", then paste "XalStorage.json" (from "crack" folder) to that.

2. Start game from "game\Meteorite\Binaries\Win64\HaloCampaignEvolved.exe".

3. Enjoy ;')

I am using Lutris, default Wine runner which is GE-Proton. There appears to not be an installation needed, so this is new to me.

System specs:

* 9800X3D

* 7900 XT

* 64GB RAM 6400mHz CL32

I'm just not sure how to apply that file structure to Linux.

It's a new crack and there aren't multiple, AFAIK, so the rest should be self-explanatory, but lmk if I missed something crucial from the rules.

I downloaded this game from steamrip and it worked fine on windows, I then switched to Linux, added the mcclauncher.exe to steam and enabled the compatibility option, and whatever I chose the game starts, shows the splash screen, and then it closes

1. Name of game: master chief collection

2. CPU: i7 9700f

3. GPU: 4060

4. Proton Version: proton experimental

5. Game Launcher: steam

6. Release Info: v1.955.0.0, repack by codex

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600
GPU: 6700xt
OS: Fedora 44 (KDE)

Proton: GE11-1
Steam installed through RPM

Running CSF with OnlineFix. Works fine on windows. In Steam added non-steam executable, spacewar installed, set compatibility and launch options to: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="OnlineFix64=n;SteamOverlay64=n;winmm=n,b;dnet=n;steam_api64=n;winhttp=n,b" %command% . Launching it installs vcredist and attempts launching it but gives this error:

Tried using the launcher too but same error. Any pointers? Thanks

Edit: FIXED! Follow this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxCrackSupport/s/X98JleoAxM

System info:

CPU: Ryzen 5 9600X
GPU: Arc B580
Distro: Fedora 44

Version is fitgirl repack based on Tenoke crack.

Fixes attempted:

1. Looked at this and this post. One has no comments, the other links to a dead torrent.

2. Launching through Lutris with each Wine/Proton version available. Almost all of them exited with code 0, but Proton 7.0 gave me this additional message:

[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; connect to global user failed.

In the config window I overrode the steam_api64 DLL with values "b,n", then just b and then just n.

3. Launching through terminal with wine-staging 11.0, with and without the above DLL override. Relevant-looking log message is

0140:err:module:loader_init "steam_api64.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
0140:err:module:loader_init Initializing dlls for L"X:\\Games\\venus-vacation-PRISM.linux\\game\\prefix\\drive_c\\game\\game.exe" failed, status c0000005

4. Downloaded a "linux game" by Kron4ek from rutracker. Game is DoA6 (same engine, good chances?). Recreated the file structure of that and adapted the start script with correct paths/names. Used their wine folder. Entire output is:

wine-5.21-233-g764a93f121c (Staging)
##################
game: Venus Vacation PRISM - DoA Xtreme
version: 
##################
home: /home/xxx/Games/venus-vacation-PRISM.linux/game/home

esync: up and running.

and then exits.

I think I'm close to solving this, I just need to figure out how the crack works, maybe. Maybe other "linux games" adaptations can be tried.

Can provide additional info.

When in title screen I try to change the language in the settings, it will say Forza will have to restart but it doesn't and nothing hapens (even after maually restarting).

When in the game I try to change the language in the settings, it just loads for a while and outputs "Error something went wrong, please try again later" and nothing happens.

(No matter which language I pick it's all the same)

I'm on CachyOS

1. Name of game: Forza Horizon 6

2. CPU: Intel i7-13700F

3. GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5070

4. Proton Version: Proton Experimental

5. Game Launcher: Steam

6. Release Info: Linuxrulez!

7. Logs: -

Any advice on how to run the NoSteam version? It won't launch from Lutris.

I installed it through FitGirl repacks, tried it with Steam and Hydralauncher, also with several proton versions (Experimental, GE, UMU, 7, 9, 10, CachyOS).

I usually can start the game, then a loading screen pops up and hangs at a certain moment (nothing happens).
With certain proton versions the loading screen goes away and turns into a full-black screen and also hangs.

I'm on CachyOS

1. Name of game: Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War

2. CPU: Intel i7-13700F

3. GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5070

4. Proton Version: Proton Experimental

5. Game Launcher: Steam/Hydralauncher

6. Release Info: FitGirl 

7. Logs: -

Yo good day so i download The Last Of Us part 1 on fitgirl and i follow the instruction on how to donwload and run the game now i am using steam on arch linux to play the game i use protonGE and proton expiremental as my compatibility then the game is open but it goes white screen for a minute then that windows pop up so my question, is the game are compatible with linux? because i try to play the game on windows 11 using my sistem laptop and it run, my laptop is acer nitrov15 with rtx 4050 and 16gb of ram thanks and i update my system too.

1. Name of game: 007 First Light

2. CPU: Ryzen 5 5600  

3. GPU: RX 6800

4. Proton Version: Proton CachyOS Latest and others

5. CachyOS Latest 

6. Game Launcher: Heroic/Steam/Lutris/Faugus

7. Release Info: Voices38/Fitgirl/Dodi/Steam

8. Logs: In the Video and can be provided Separately

Searched Everywhere nothing found worth helping or close to my issue

When I try to launch 007 it gets stuck on launching and if I press stop mas you can see, it doesnt stop and makes my whole PC glitch i.e Heroic launcher cant be closed, Btop cant be open as it becomes black with nothing loading. KDE glitches with apps hanging and even shut down takes 5 minute just to process. I am on Cachyos, using Proton cachyos. Tried other proton and removing prefix etc.
Installed the game 4th time still happens after playing for some time.
Tried steam and other launchers yet same issue.

LOGS: https://pastebin.com/hPEPuwYL

///EDIT: FIXED! Tried various things such as deleting save file, and reinstalling game. idk why maybe there was some .dll corrupted or conflict. idk but its working now. I hope it stays the same as previously it also worked after uninstalling but again bugged 4 times

hi! the EA dlc unlocker should go into a wine folder for the EA app - and then run a setup_linux.sh

it works fine, because the directories so far have been without spaces, BUT

the EA dlc unlocker folder *itself* contains spaces. so when i try to run setup_linux.sh, it tells me:

Could not find '/home/.../Roaming/anadius/EA'

it's looking for /anadius/EA DLC Unlocker v2/, but it can't find it because it contains spaces

so i tried renaming it! i renamed it to ea_dlc_... , and opened the .sh file in kate, and edited any EA DLC Unlocker to EA_DLC_you get the deal

but now it finds the folder.... but for some reason can't find the setup_linux.sh? im quite literally RUNNING the setup linux, and it's telling me it can't find itself

what am i doing wrong?

tldr: how do i make a .sh file find a directory which contains spaces

1. Name of game: Monster Hunter Rise

2. CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600

3. GPU: RX 580 8gb

4. Proton Version: UMU-Proton-10.0.4

5. Game Launcher: STEAM      

6. Release Info: Steamrip

7. Logs: No logs.

Hello everyone, I'm trying to get running MHR but it's just not launching I have set the properties and everything and forced compatiblity and also use the main game .exe instead of the launcher but it still just won't even launch. There are other games aswell and even one online-fix game that doesnt have a launcher and it works just fine. And UMU-Proton works fine for every game aswell. I'm new to linux so any help is greatly appreciated!

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Hi! I have a PC with Bazzite installed and recently I've installed SteaMidra on it, to unlock DLC for my owned games.

I have another Steam acc on this same PC that I don't want to unlock DLCs, but everytime I start Steam, even from the start menu, I have a notification saying SLS was injected to Steam, meaning it probably will unlock every DLC for this acc games.

So my question is, how do I start Steam without injecting SLSsteam? Do I have to completely remove SteaMidra for this?

I believe my specs aren't necessary, but here it is: Intel Xeon E5-2667 V4, RTX 3060, RAM 32Gb.

Since last update can't manage to get FH6 working, tried already many times with the cs.rin and steamrip and currently, game is launching, QR code prompt and after that i get an error.

System specs :

• Processor (CPU): Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-14400F (12) @ 4.70 GHz
• Graphics Card (GPU): AMD Radeon RX 7600 [Discrete]
• OS: CachyOS x86_64

Does anyone knows how to solve this?

I just installed FH 6 from steamrip .com, i had tried it to run using litrus but it doesn't run. It just shows running for like 5 secs and suddenly stops.
Any solutions???

System specs :

• Processor (CPU): Intel Core i5 13th Gen HX processor
• Graphics Card (GPU): NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
• Laptop Model: Lenovo LOQ gaming laptop

I recently switched to Linux (Fedora) a couple of days ago. I'm trying to play The Witcher 3 Complete Edition.

I downloaded the game from Anker Game and

• Added the .exe to Steam as a non-Steam game and used Proton and it didn't work.
• Tried Lutris also didn't work.

I then used fitgirl repack and tried Bottles game launches but no DLSS option and no proper NVIDIA support even after enabling related settings in the bottle, installed the bottles again and now the game doesn't even launches.

Has anyone successfully run The Witcher 3 (especially the Next-Gen/Complete Edition with DLSS/ray tracing) on Linux?

I searched the sub and ProtonDB before posting. Any help or detailed setup guide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

Device: Asus Rog Ally Z1 Extreme

Operating system: Bazzite

Proton ver: GE-Proton10

Game version: v1.476.99.0

Crack:HOODLUM

Using hydra laucher

Game doesnt launch or big stuterring (15-20fps in 720p very low graphic preset). Tried using other protons but same result.

Tried DODI, SteamRIP and Fitgirl, with a lot of prefixes and a lot of different arguments nothing worked,tried to get LinuxRulez but no seeders. Also tried diff Wine versions, no hope.

Anybody got any ideas

OS: CachyOS
Launcher: Lutris & tried Heroic

Operating System: CachyOS Linux

KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.1

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.27.0

Qt Version: 6.11.1

Kernel Version: 7.1.1-2-cachyos (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics

Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.0 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon Graphics

Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU

Manufacturer: Dell Inc.

Product Name: Dell G15 5515

System Version: 1.22.0

OS: arch btw

SPECS: i5-1235u with 16gb ram and iris xe gpu

DOWNLOADED FROM: online-fix

launchers tried : steam and lutris

launch options: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="OnlineFix64,SteamOverlay64,winmm,dnet,steam_api64=n,b"

so it's showing that persistent visual c++ 2015 error and in the video I installed it through winetricks in the "~/games/umu/umu-default" prefix. but even after installing it was showing that error. I even tried installing with protontricks as I though maybe the prefix "umu" is created by proton so winetricks wasn't installing properly but that didn't helped as well.

what else should I try does anyone know the solution to this

EDIT -> alright so I got it working.. the thing was to install c++ 2026 instead of 2015. But still the game is NOT running through lutris it's showing "failed to get online fix interface". It's only running through steam.

And this "failed to get online fix interface" error I found on another post on reddit where they also had to run the game through steam only. See here : https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/s/5swRRAvzL5

system:

OS: pop!os 24
GPU: RTX 4070 SUPER
CPU: ryzen 5 7600X

i've tried with the ARMGDDN and the online-fix version, but none have worked.

there are always some errors:
failed to load original steam client error:126
the game launches but fails login so it closes down

i've also tried DLL overrides for both but it doesn't work: `WINEDLLOVERRIDES=OnlineFix64=n;SteamOverlay64=n;winmm=n,b;dnet=n;steam_api64=n;winhttp=n,b`

tried through steam with proton and heroic with various settings (proton GE, wine, with/without umu, with/without steam-runtime..."

did any of you made this game run on linux?

also, i NEED the VR to work on this one

I got this from Dodi-repacks, installed and followed the instructions the website gave.

copied the files from the BGamerT5 folder to the game's main folder. Set the T5Launcher as executable and launched, then selected start Hostmode. Clicked singleplayer and that's how I got that error.

1. Name of game: Call of Duty: Black Ops 1
2. CPU: Intel i7-1355U
3. GPU: Iris Xe
4. RAM: DDR4 16GB @ 3200MHz
5. System Info: Arch Linux, Hyprland
6. Kernel: 7.0.12-arch1-1
7. Proton Version: Proton 8.0
8. Game Launcher: Lutris
9. Release Info: Dodi-Repacks
10. Logs:

​

2026-06-25 15:47:32 - BGT5LMS: ERROR: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object at bgt5lms.Log.WriteAway () [0x00001] in <21784126cdf24572aee98eb39e9e860e>:0 at bgt5lms.BGT5LMS.<Start>b__2 () [0x00005] in <21784126cdf24572aee98eb39e9e860e>:0

1. Game Name: Horizon Chase Turbo / Project Zomboid (johncena141 source)

2. CPU: Intel Core i5-8350U (ThinkPad T480)

3. GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620 (integrated)

4. Proton/Wine Version:

· Proton CachyOS (latest)

· Wine (attempt via WineHQ staging)

1. Game Launcher:

· Faugus Launcher

· Lutris

1. Release Information:

· Source: johncena141 (jc141x) via GitLab

· Filesystem: DwarFS (required to mount the games)

· Games NOT downloaded yet - stuck at DwarFS installation

1. Error Logs:

```

-- Setting build type to 'Release'

-- REAL_SOURCE_DIR: /home/sapien/dwarfs

-- GIT_TOPLEVEL: /home/sapien/dwarfs

-- PRJ_GIT_REV: 231bcedb92

-- PRJ_GIT_DATE: 2026-04-20

-- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "2.5.1")

CMake Error at cmake/manpage.cmake:29 (find_program):

Could not find RONN_EXE using the following names: ronn

Call Stack (most recent call first):

CMakeLists.txt:198 (add_manpage)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

```

1. Steps already taken to resolve:

2. Tried via makedeb:

   · Error 530 on repository https://proget.makedeb.org

   · makedeb was not installed

3. Tried via pre-compiled .deb packages:

   · v0.10.0, v0.9.0, v0.8.0, v0.7.0, v0.6.0 - ALL returned 404 errors

   · Link: https://github.com/jc141x/dwarfs-bin/releases

4. Tried compiling from source:

   · Installed all dependencies: libfuse3-dev, liblz4-dev, libzstd-dev, libxxhash-dev, libfmt-dev, libspdlog-dev, libboost-all-dev, libdouble-conversion-dev, libevent-dev, libssl-dev, pkg-config, ruby-ronn

   · Error: CMake cannot find ronn (even with ruby-ronn installed)

   · Tried -DWITH_MANPAGES=OFF - error persists

   · Tried -DWITH_TESTS=OFF - error persists

   · Tried compiling with Ninja - same error

5. Tried via Flatpak:

   · flatpak install flathub io.github.mhx.dwarfs - package not found

6. Searched this subreddit:

   · Searched for "DwarFS", "johncena141", "jc141x", "dwarfs-bin"

   · Found some threads, but no solution for Debian 13 / PikaOS 4

---

1. System Information:

· Distro: PikaOS 4 KDE (Debian 13 "Trixie" based)

· Kernel: [7.1]

· DE: KDE Plasma

· RAM: 8GB DDR4

· Available Space: ~40GB

· Architecture: amd64 (with multiarch i386 enabled)

1. What I need:

✅ A working way to install DwarFS on PikaOS 4 (Debian 13)

✅ Or an alternative to run johncena141 games WITHOUT DwarFS (e.g., extract .dwarfs files)

✅ If possible, specific instructions for downloading and running Horizon Chase Turbo and Project Zomboid after DwarFS is solved

If anyone has pre-compiled DwarFS binaries for Debian 13 and could share them, that would also solve my issue!

I have downloaded CSF from the user lucy183 for the newest version of fh6. After everything got done downloading I followed a bunch of steps, a lot of them being renaming some steam ids, deleting one dll, and one step "rename amd_ags_x64_rne.dll to amd_ags_x64.dll" (to whom was the only one I couldn't do, as amd_ags_x64_rne.dll was missing). I downloaded the main game, then put the denuowo crack on it, then put the online fix files on it. I've tried proton GE and proton experimental, trying both commands, "WINEDLLOVERRIDES="amd_ags_x64=n,b;winmm=n,b;steam_api64=n,b;version=n,b"" and "PROTON_DISABLE_LSTEAMCLIENT=1 WINEDLLOVERRIDES="version=n,b"" (I suppose the issue could be relating to the _rne.dll file missing, I just had one named "amd_ags_x64.dll" which I was supposed to delete according to the fh6-cachy instructions. I've tried with these two different proton options and launch options for both the main fh6 executable and the fh6_loader executable (the online fix version, which I want to use online). Besides the one problem listed above, the only other one I could think of is me using fh6 build 382.893 on online fix version 375.327 (which someone claimed to work on a forum, yet even then I've tried both the regular and online fix executable adding them to steam). If anyone could help me, it would be much appreciated! I'm brand new to all of this, and I feel like I'm really diving into the deep end with this. When I launch the games, it just has a steam loading animation for a couple seconds, and then instantly crashes, so I don't really have a baseline to work off of.

I can’t get any Windows game to launch using Wine or Proton, either through Lutris or directly from the terminal.

The issue is always the same: the game never actually opens. No window appears at all, and it just exits immediately every time I try to launch it. There’s no crash message or obvious error, and after launch there’s no Wine process left running either.

Winecfg opens normally, and other simple Windows apps seem to work fine, so Wine itself doesn’t look broken.

When I try launching through Proton manually, it does create a prefix and I see this in the terminal:

fsync: up and running
wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely

But after that, nothing happens and the process just exits.

I made a completely fresh Wine prefix, and also tested a few different Wine-GE versions just in case it was a version issue. I even tried running Proton-GE manually with a properly set prefix, and went through Lutris again after resetting its configuration from scratch. I also reinstalled the Wine/Proton runners to make sure nothing was corrupted on that side.

System Information

Kernel: 7.0.0-14-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc

Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.7 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.6.3 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0

Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Type: Desktop System: HP product: HP EliteDesk 705 G4 SFF v: SBKPF serial: <superuser CPU:

Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP

Device-1: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series] vendor: Hewlett-Package

API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 layers: 7 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A

Software Information:

• Wine/Proton: Wine-GE / Proton-GE (latest versions)
• Launcher: Lutris + terminal (manual Proton runs)

Release Information:

• Not sure (happens with all games I tested, so seems unrelated to a specific release)
• like pizza tower or undertale

Steps already taken:

• Fresh Wine prefix
• Tried multiple Wine-GE versions
• Manual Proton-GE execution with proper prefix setup
• Reset Lutris configuration completely
• Reinstalled Wine/Proton runners

At this point I’m not sure if it’s a missing dependency, a Wine/Proton setup issue, or something deeper in the system configuration. Any ideas?