Post #3757006
2026-07-12 08:11 UTC
First of all, don’t expose yourself to danger. Get your pirated games from reputable sources.
Most games only need a Steam emulator like Goldberg’s to run without license, and you can get clean steam files from cs.rin.ru, or using DepotDownloader if you get your hands on a manifest file. You don’t need VMs for this, it’s literally the original game.
If you need an actual crack, you can also look up on cs.rin.ru and try to gauge the reputation of the uploader. You can also check fitgirl or dodirepacks, they are both highly reliable. These are unlikely to have malware, but it’s not impossible.
If you want to use a vm because you still don’t trust the pirated game in question (reasonable), then there is no shortcut. Use the arch wiki to learn how to setup a VM with GPU passthrough, even if you don’t use arch it’s always a good place to get started.
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@nootux@lemmy.ml 2026-07-12 08:27
Thank you for your reply, this sounds on track to what I am looking for. Very interesting on the clean file + emulator route. Sounds like a similar line of thinking to my signed / hash checked GOG installer thoughts. Regarding using a VM with a GPU passthrough, what software would you recommend for doing this with? I am very familiar with virtualbox and do prefer a GUI though I recognise I will probably have to adapt in order to get what I want. Thanks again.
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@placebo@lemmy.zip 2026-07-13 10:29
You don’t need VMs for this, it’s literally the original game. How can you validate that if you don’t have the original game to calculate and compare hashes?