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How to manually install a game on Lutris
I figure this should be a good followup article to the how to play Windows games on Linux article I posted previously.
While, Lutris does have many configuration files that will help you configure the game automatically. There may come a time when you want to install a game manually, and the process for that isn’t super straight forward at first.
Steps to installing a Windows game manually
In the following demo, I will be going over installing MTG Arena, as it is a game that is not in the installation scripts on the Lutris site.
- Download the installer for the game you plan on playing…
- Click the + sign on the top left of Lutris
- Game Info tab
- Name: You can call it whatever you want, it doesn’t really matter
- Runner: Select Wine (Runs Windows games)
- Game options tab
- Executable: Path to the installer you downloaded (We will change this later once the install is complete)
- Wine prefix (Path where the game will be installed)
- Runner options tab
- The only thing you need to change here is Wine version, I left mine as default with Lutris.
- The only thing you need to change here is Wine version, I left mine as default with Lutris.
- You don’t really need to change anything in the System options tab, but feel free to take a look anyway.
- Now, right-click the icon for the new game and select Play
- You should see a Wine window come up for a moment and then go away, at this point the installer for your game should open.
- Follow the instructions to install your game as if you were on Windows.
- Now, once the game is installed, we need to change the executable from the installer file to the actual game executable.
- Right-click the game icon again and go to Configure
- In the Game options tab under Executable point it to the actual game launcher, in my case since I was installing MTG Arena it would be the following.
- /home/YOUR_USER/Games/MTGArena/drive_c/Program Files/Wizards of the Coast/MTGA/MTGA.exe
I really hope this worked for you, in the event that you’re not able to get a game going, I would be more than happy to assist you in any way I can, if there is one thing I have learned about Linux in the short time I have been using it is that it is always a learning process. Feel free to drop me a message using the Contact form if you want to get some help or just want to say hello.