It seems to mostly happen to 3D games, very rarely for 2D ones.
Normally, this wouldn’t be much of an issue for me since I install everything to secondary SSDs anyways, but the one piece of software that is driving me up a wall is Steam VR, since its installation folder can’t be moved.
I could find plenty of fixes when it came to the opposite problem (launching games from another drive) but nothing for my situation.
Any solutions or even just point me in the right direction where to start when it comes to troubleshooting something like this?
OS: Endeavour OS
GPU: RTX 2070 (latest Nvidia drivers)
CPU: Ryzen 2700X
Happens on both X11 and Wayland environments and everything is up-to-date
Edit: also this seems to happen with every version of Proton
Can you check which GPU APIs are being used by your games? (ex. OpenGL, Vulkan) Are those games 64-bit, or 32-bit?
Additionally, you’re not missing out on VR side. SteamVR is horrendously broken on Linux
Since that 545 drivers, I cannot play with Proton 8 at all. Open source drivers don’t have this problem (their problem is performance), so it seems Nvidia f*cked up as usual. However first time hearing this. Can you play native games at least?
If something doesn’t work on one drive and then magically works when you install it on another drive…
How is your drive formatted? Is it NTFS and not keeping the right Linux file permissions or something like that? It’s been a decade since I had a Windows formatted drive, but I seem to remember there were issues using NTFS in Linux.
EXT4. Huh, didn’t realize installing a Linux OS into an NTFS formatted drive was even a thing
I don’t think you actually could put the OS on NTFS, it literally cannot store Linux file permissions and I have no idea how badly that’s going to break the system.
You certainly can use an NTFS drive for data storage in Linux but Windows has some default behaviors that make it hard to share that drive.
Just a thought, does the path to the games on your OS drive have a space anywhere in it? I remember a lot of old Windows games would throw a shit fit if they had a space anywhere
You 100% can move the folder. Copy it to whatever drive and symlink it in the original location.
