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?)
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.