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Wanna play Soulframe, don't wanna pay for Windows to play a game I got legally.

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[–] land@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] muhyb@programming.dev 20 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Kinda funny that this is on Github.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 21 hours ago

Your data is worth a lot more to microsoft than the license fee.

[–] land@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 22 hours ago

That script is a lifesaver! 😅I’ve used it countless times. Usually, GitHub takes them down, but this one managed to survive.

[–] yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

A VM is going to incur a pretty big performance loss. From what I've read, Soulframe works just fine with Proton. Either Lutris or the Linux Steam client should work for running it.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 10 points 21 hours ago

Aye, Soulframe works flawlessly via Lutris. It runs on the same engine as Warframe and performs as well really. Been playing Soulframe for months on SUSE.

[–] ryokimball@infosec.pub 4 points 18 hours ago

+1 for proton, though I think modern VM tech very little overhead these days.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

OP can also do GPU passtrought to huuugely negate the performance loss, but it is a rather complex process.

[–] exu@feditown.com 1 points 14 hours ago

For 2d platformers, the virtio GPU with 3d acceleration might be OK.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 19 points 21 hours ago

Do you even need to activate it? It's not like it will do anything other than nag you

[–] ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 16 points 23 hours ago

Click "I don't have a product key" during install. Then use MAS to activate after the install.

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 12 points 23 hours ago
[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 hours ago

massgrave.dev should be good

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 23 hours ago

If that game can run on a VM, pretty sure you can play it even though you have activate Windows watermark.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

Why would you need that?
If the watermark doesnt bother you, I wouldnt even bother.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

What are you playing on atm?

[–] OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not playing. My computer runs Ubuntu and I can't get decent performance with Lutris.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 5 points 23 hours ago

Hmm... I'd try running it through Steam.

I feel like I've generally had better results with Steam than Lutris.

[–] Drbreen@sh.itjust.works -4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Windows 10 Pro: W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX Open CMD and type slmgr /ipk yourlicensekey press enter

Then type slmgr /skms kms8.msguides.com press enter

Then type slmgr /ato press enter

Now activated.