[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 1 points 1 day ago

Hey thanks for the feedback. When you say elements, are you referring to the Desktop variant that needs external power or the portable?

[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 2 points 2 days ago

That makes sense. And do you know between Mybook and Elements what is the primary difference? Besides the looks of the outer casing.

[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 1 points 2 days ago

Good question. I would imagine the internal ones would be cheaper, but its the contrary. Crazy

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I am debating between those Western Digital portable drives that go up to 5tb that function with USB only (WD my passport) and the bigger ones (eg my book) that are bigger and need power outlet besides the USB connection.

Is there any difference in quality or durability to store media?

[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 1 points 3 days ago

I like the post, and have experienced similarly after moving to GOS. What I also like is I could put some apps that I still need (but dont really like) just in case in a Private Space (eg Whatsapp, or banking), this way is always closed and just check it once a day, with a specific purpose. No notifications from there whatsover. Most people (the important ones anyway) know they can reach out immediately if needed via Signal.

[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 1 points 4 days ago

Ah, interesting. So in principle they wouldn't leave a VLC or Media player with a big bug out there for long. The VLC of Mint is actually older 3.0.20-3build6 and it also looks like backported 3 times. I thought they were the same as Ubuntu but apparently not.

[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I couldn't fix it, and also wasted a lot of time on it. In the end, I decided to run everything that works out of the box from the secondary, and those that give problems I move them to the primary drive. That way everything works. Ideally i'd have just all of them in one drive, but it's just not worth the effort to find out and fix each of them, it's some kind of nightmare. In the end, it's just a game location.

For those interested, from 13 games installed, 4 did not work in the secondary drive and 9 do. So it's not too bad of a %.

[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 2 points 4 days 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.

[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I did now, it says Unhandled exception: System.TypeloadException: Could not load type of field ‘InstallerMesage.Form1+…’ due to: COuld not load file or assembly ‘Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, …’ or one of its dependencies.

Does this tell you something?

PS: To clarify it is a rather long text that I get via the terminal when launching said game

[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 2 points 4 days ago

I did now, it says Unhandled exception: System.TypeloadException: Could not load type of field 'InstallerMesage.Form1+......' due to: COuld not load file or assembly 'Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, .....' or one of its dependencies.

Does this tell you something?

[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 3 points 4 days ago

Linux mint, and I run the games via Steams. Indeed, I am aware of the DRM but the interesting part it only is a problem on the secondary drive and not on the primary drive. That must be pointing to the root cause... i just dont know what.

[-] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 2 points 4 days 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 4 days 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)

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by ui3bg4r@lemmy.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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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