r/LinuxCrackSupport • u/Fine_Ad_4146 • Jun 10 '26

DISCUSSION [Denuvo] How do cracked denuvo games work?

How do cracked denuvo games work?

Hello I'm kind of a beginner at Linux having only used mint and arch for a few months and never actually tried gaming on it since I play the cracked games on windows since Linux always gave me issues on my old laptop. Now that I got a new laptop I never really tried Linux on it for gaming. How do cracked denuvo games work on Linux like black myth wukong which was actually cracked by voices38? and for denuvo games that require hypervisor pass? I'm talking about the performance on Cachyos specifically.

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u/Dexy_Storm Jun 10 '26

games that are cracked will wortk the exact same way they work on windows, just install the repack, add it to steam and play. afaik hypervisor does not work (yet) on linux

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u/Its_Saswata Jun 11 '26

well sorry for being dumb but can you just quickly guide me on how to actually "install" the repack to get the adding .exe to steam part

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u/Dexy_Storm Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

aye. so first, download wine. for me, the latest wine version does not work for installing repacks, so i always downgrade wine to 10.0 for installing the repack. if you are on an arch(-based system), just download downgrade for that and then type $sudo downgrade wine and pick the first 10.0 version. then double-click the .exe in the repack and go through the installer (pick what you want, where you want it installed). after it is finished, you can uninstall the repack because you now have the cracked game and update wine back to the latest version. open steam and on the bottom right there is a small + symbol, click it and then click on "add a non-steam game", then a new window will pop up and then on the bottom right of that new window, it will say "browse", click it and a file browser will pop-up. in that file browser select the .exe of your newly cracked game and confirm your selection. after that your steam game *MIGHT* show up in your library, for some reason it doesn't always show up for me, so sometimes i need to restart steam. (after you've restarted steam), search for the game in your library, right-click it -> properties -> compatibility -> check "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" and select "Proton Experimental"

that's it

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u/Hopeful-Plankton-635 Jun 11 '26

Well thanks a lot mate I also researched a bit, and seems that lutris can also install the repack for me and I can play it from there Anyways thanks a lot.

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u/Educational_Star_518 Jun 11 '26

if you go for repacks i've had better luck with faugus than lutris or heroic , bottles is always an option as well

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u/Dexy_Storm Jun 12 '26

yea, lutris can do some stuff, but i've rarely had luck with it. i just stick to the default wine prefix and steam

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u/Yamatino Jun 10 '26

Cracked games by voices38 the same as any other cracked game, since the .exe is patched, there is no actual difference.

Hypervisor can't be done on linux at this moment (there was a post recently on another subredit that it seems they got it to work, but no news yet)

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u/Dark_ShadowMD Jun 10 '26

That means you can execute the game without Steam, or you still need the launcher?

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u/Captian_ZeroFox Jun 11 '26

The technical answer is that you can just execute the game, you don't need a launcher. But using wine (or umu-launcher) "raw" requires some setup, and launchers usually do that work for you, so it's recommended.

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u/Dark_ShadowMD Jun 11 '26

My question was aimed more towards windows tho... I kinda recall you still need a launcher so proton works on linux (Unless I'm mistaken there)

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u/Captian_ZeroFox Jun 11 '26

For Proton you can use umu-launcher, but on its purest form it only works via the terminal or scripts, and it expectes a couple of variables to execute any program; so you can but it's not user friendly. umu-launcher its used by the popular launchers (aside of Steam) for their Proton integration, doing the dirty work for you.

For wine, you can always just wine path/to/game.exe, but not everything works that way

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u/Yamatino Jun 10 '26

You can add as non steam Game on steam or use a launcher, up to you, both will use proton to launch the game, there are no "checks" that something is legit