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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 71 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] muhyb@programming.dev 28 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Kinda funny that this is on Github.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 11 months ago

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

[–] normonator@lemmy.ml 20 points 11 months ago

Microsoft support uses it even if they aren't supposed to officially

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You know what's even funnier? There's even an official mirror on Azure DevOps. https://dev.azure.com/massgrave/_git/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Ok, that's even funnier. Unless there is a conspiracy. :)

[–] land@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months 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 29 points 11 months 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 12 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 23 points 11 months ago

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

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 11 months ago

massgrave.dev should be good

[–] ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago

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

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago
[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

From microsoft https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/kms-client-activation-keys

Or click on "I don't have a product key" during install

Btw gaming in a VM, unless it's a extremely old game (30+ years ago), or you have a second, dedicated GPU that you can passthrough, it's going to give disappointing results

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What are you playing on atm?

[–] OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

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

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

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

tried bottles?

[–] Drbreen@sh.itjust.works -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.