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Issues with games on secondary drive (lemmy.org)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ui3bg4r@lemmy.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Both primary and secondary ssd (internal both) are formatted Ext4 (linux mint)

I am facing this weird issue: Some games, they play flawless when installed in the secondary drive. Some others however, they don't launch. I have to move them to the primary drive for them to launch and then they work perfect.

How come some games are ok on the secondary drive, while others aren't? Have you experience this?

Everything I find online points to a drive being NFTS format, but mine are both Ext4, default settings and automounting.

Games that gave problems on secondary drive, but are perfect on primary driver; Ghost of Tsushima, Resident evil 4 and Witcher 3. They don't launch, and in the case of RE4 it even said my computer had a virus :D or was tampered when launched from the secondary drive (non-sense)

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[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 2 points 3 months ago

I see. When I tried the last step to move the game from /mnt to /home, it told me that it couldnt move because the folder already existed (the one i created in Step 1)

[-] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Have both directories be completely new, then install the game into the /home directory. I think you might be accidentally moving the symlinked folder around.

You can test you did it right by creating the symlink, then creating a text file in the /home directory. You will be able to see that from both the /home directory and from the /mnt directory.

[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 2 points 3 months ago

Hey thanks. It does look complicated indeed. Maybe I did something wrong and I think I created a symlink and not even know where/how to remove it. I am not sure I am capable of that. I hope that someone has an idea of the root cause for this strange behaviour (I dont mean about the symlink, but rather why games need the primary drive to run)

[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 2 points 3 months ago

Update: I managed to create the symlink with the entire steamapps folder, to the point that Steam recognized the game as installed in /home while it was actually on /mnt. However, it failed to launch in the same way as it did when the symlink was not there.

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