For me, fitgirl installer does not work with wow64 (where you do not have to install 32 bit libraries). I had earlier also tried with wine-wow64 package from chaotic aur repo, and it did not used to work back then, and now arch linux has made the default wine package wow64 version. This has benefits (smaller package size, you can disable mulitlib repo, etc), but now installer does not work. It gets stuck as soon as any decompression is about to begin. And to me not much is clear. My guess is the freearc compression that fitgirl uses, its decompressor does nto work in wow64. Has anyone else tried for whom it works? Maybe I have to add a separate dll for this and create a override. Fitgirl faq does not mention it (probably since wow64 is still relatively new).

If this is not a right community for this, then sorry, I do not know of a better one. (wine team would not handle requests related to pirated installers, fitgirl or related communities in general do not do linux much, and of them, only a small fraction would be using wow64)

For testing purposes, You can grab almost any installer, I went and sorted by size (smallest first) and got it, and it does not work. (I am not going to provide link here for somewhat obvious reasons)

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Do other repackers have the problem as far as you know? I'm contemplating swapping out the ones I have downloaded but not played. I don't want to use the cursed method of install on windows and transfer if it can't run in the future.

[–] sga@lemmings.world 1 points 9 hours ago

i have not tried any others (just don't "pillage" enough). But my wild guess would be no, mostly because others do not compress that much or use freearc. fitgirl compresses a bit more than others. I prefer their repacks because of their great repuatation, large amount of seeders, and small size (i have terrible internet).

This is not a huge problem, you can still get wine builds with older lib32 implementations (for example on arch, you can check aur (and by extension chaotic aur), most other distros would have not changed yet), so you do not have to install on windows and move over.