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Anyone have any luck with getting the fitgirl repack of Silent Hill 2 (2024) to work on Linux?

I'm using prime-run wine64 ./SHProto/Binaries/Wine64/SHProto-Win64-Shipping.exe but it hangs on a black screen after the splash screen with no obvious error messages. Anyone have a fix that works?

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I can't even get the fitgirl installer to run on Linux. How did you unpack the game?
- Two things:
  
  One: It does not work with the default install directory selected. Z:\Games\xyz maps to /Games/xyz which you do not have permission to write. Install to C:\Games\xyz and the game will land in the drive_c folder of the active wine prefix (it is a good idea to use a separate WINEPREFIX for each game / program, so you can tweak WINE's settings individually, but this is not necessary. The default is ~/.wine)
  
  Two: I need to run the installer in a virtual desktop. Run winecfg, go to Graphics, enable "Emulate a virtual desktop." This can be disabled after installing the game.
  
  It's been a while since I fiddled with these, but setting the compatibility mode to Windows XP might have helped too. I'm testing one now (Dark Souls 3) and only the first two steps were necessary.
- wine ./setup.exe and then select your z drive and then the target directory. I'm surprised it doesn't work at all on your machine.
  
  sorry for double comment but this is something i've been desperate to solve for a little while lol. do you never run into out of memory error with the installers? i frequently do with Lutris. is there a difference with just calling vanilla wine yourself vs using Lutris?
  
  I have always used vanilla wine and only oom when I have too many browser tabs open and try to install something.
  
  do you use the limit to 2GB option? I have tried using it and still got the error consistently with certain repacks
  
  I do not
  
  The installer always crashes at some point.
  
  yeah i will get out of memory errors with any installers doing uncompression like fitgirls. would love to know if there is a reliable workaround for this
  
  Oom killer errors or errors from fitgirl?
  
  from the repack
  
  Weird. I'm afraid I can't be too helpful here as I've never seen this before.
- Also, in that case, what do you use instead?
  
  I have a windows partition for edge cases like this.

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