• @taco_ballerina
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    22 years ago

    Yes, this is technically true. However if you don’t run the executable you will not install the software. If you’re trying to install a cracked game you are going to have to put some trust in whoever released it. Up until relatively recently you couldn’t even use a VM since pretty much every game requires hardware acceleration.

    • Drew Got No Clue
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      22 years ago

      by the way, I haven’t encountered this personally, but some games have anti-cheat mechanisms that prevent you from running them in a hypervisor