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As the title suggests, Lutris is requiring me to sign in to GOG so that it can verify my ownership of the game. If my memory serves me well, I used to be able to simply click on the GOG version and then link it to the installation executable file that I downloaded from gog-games.com.

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[–] Mordachai_Shedbacon@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That sucks! Half the reason I use GOG is to get non-DRM versions of games that I like..

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't you still run the installers manually?

[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was fixed already, but a new release of Lutris has not been published with the fix included. The exact line in your screenshot was specifically removed in this commit:

https://github.com/lutris/lutris/commit/3b64e70e2a2a4f90e2679b12f9f2bf56cb0a5986

[–] Miyabi@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 1 year ago

Good to know. 👍

[–] TheGreatFox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it trying to download the install files? That requiring a login makes sense.

[–] Miyabi@iusearchlinux.fyi -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It never used to do that before it just made you add the install files yourself. But yea that is probably what it is doing now.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you downloading the game to install, or is it already downloaded and you are installing the game?

Pretty big difference there.

[–] Miyabi@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I already have the game installer, I just wanted to use the install script from the app.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

My bad, I didn't realize what community we're in.

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried lutris, heroic, bottles... even steam has issues with dodi's or FG installers. Now I just do wine path/to/file to install and add .exe as a non-steam game to run it through proton and it works every time.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Can confirm. It's what I do.

Use the Lutris website to find the game and install script, that should bypass the login check and let you bring your own exe.

[–] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is it all GoG games or just this game? afaik each game script can be different.

[–] Miyabi@iusearchlinux.fyi -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From what I have seen it is every GOG game. You have to install it manually if you get it from gog-games.com or another piracy site.

[–] BustedPancake@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally I use innoextract on the installer, add the game to bottles or even steam library if I add it to my deck and play. No need to even bother double clicking installers, it's doing the same process of extraction with dumb banners I don't care about.