I believe you do have to change the slashes in the checksum files and run wine setup.exe in the folder, after that it should have a desktop shortcut just like on Windows. You should also be able to add it as installed game to Lutris.

Take it with a grain of salt, I haven't tried it myself, though.

[–] Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 1 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Can’t you just run any release through a normally installed version of wine?

In most cases -- no. Wine is far from being a reliable tool. Many programs demand this or that patch for Wine to work. And you surely don't want to tinker with that.

[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 13 points 18 hours ago

I've only had like 3 games from FitGirl not work fine installing with Lutris.

2 of them needed some dependency like .NET installed first, and only one I could get working at all but the DODi version worked fine.

Everyone kept telling me Wine sucks even before I switch to Linux. But I've had it work fine a lot more times than not, even for some old obscure software that barely works on Windows 10 anymore.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 9 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Weird. I have yet to encounter a game that wine-ge couldn't handle out of the box.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago

wine-ge is patched wine which includes many patches proton has that make games work (well).

Also, the developer of wine-ge no longer has their focus on it, because UMU [1] makes it possible to use proton(-ge) directly. UMU is already included in Lutris, Bottles & Co., or you can use it standalone [1].

[1] https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher

[–] wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org 1 points 15 hours ago

I have an old Win95 game that isn't working very well but that doesn't run on modern windows either

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 19 hours ago

I have tried many different fitgirl repacks through bottles. Currently playing Alan Wake 2 without issues.