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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 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.
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Definitely do not recommend trying to set up a winecfg environment while drunk. The two kinds of wine do NOT mix.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

You know what they say about wine and beer...