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Old games that needed patches on Windows (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 week ago by Parptarf@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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My journey into daily driving Linux is going rather well. Decided I’m gonna give myself a bit of a small challenge (or not, this might be easy).

I want to get a couple old games to work. I’ve had to do some tinkering or installed unofficial patches on these games probably since the Vista days. So I know they require some work to run on modern systems. But can’t find info on how to do it on Linux. I don’t want to do a «throw shit at the wall and see what sticks» and end up breaking something in my OS. I’m on Nobara KDE.

Installed in the EA App through Lutris:

  • C&C Red Alert 2 and Tiberian sun (Black menus, game runs otherwise)
  • Medal of Honor Allied Assault (Crash on startup)

Anyone wanna teach a Linux noob some tips and tricks to make this work? Or a way to install these .exe patch files and go the «windows» route? (Can this be done safely through Wine?)

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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago

ProtonDB is generally quite helpful to find tweaks and fixes for games to run on Linux.

I haven't used Lutris, but through Steam/Proton, installing a patch is basically as simple as changing the executable path from the game .exe to the patch .exe and then changing it back after the patch was installed.