proton games won't launch on external partition

[briantherobot]

proton games won't launch on external partition tried to launch proton version 8.0.2 tried to launch with experimental on same drive as installed to boot partition. tried moving proton experimental to the same partition where the games are installed. nothing works.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @briantherobot, what filesystem are you using with the secondary Steam library folder?

[briantherobot]

im using a windows ntfs partition. I've tried changing the steampaths as well but i never got it to work. im currently trying to get it to work by setting a symbolic link from the common folder to the drive. I never thought the incompatibility of the partitions would be what prevents it from working but you may be onto something.

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[kisak-valve]

Thanks, Proton interacting with NTFS is known to be finicky and is being tracked in several issue reports going back to #11. The general recommendation is to use a Linux native filesystem instead.

Having said that, you might get lucky with the workarounds mentioned at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows.

Closing in favor of the older issue report.

[briantherobot]

uh huh but the game booted when a symbolic link was used for sonic frontiers on the other partition. except when it updated it prevented the game from launching even when the files where moved to the same directory that steam was located on. so it's not really an ntfs problem. it's local to the fact that linux relies on everything being installed to the boot partition. you can't even choose steams install directory. technically even if you changed it it's always in the boot partition.

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[briantherobot]

I booted the witcher 3 classic just fine from an ntfs partition because it didn't need to be run from steam. it works just fine. On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 7:16 PM Brian Seabury ***@***.***> wrote:

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uh huh but the game booted when a symbolic link was used for sonic frontiers on the other partition. except when it updated it prevented the game from launching even when the files where moved to the same directory that steam was located on. so it's not really an ntfs problem. it's local to the fact that linux relies on everything being installed to the boot partition. you can't even choose steams install directory. technically even if you changed it it's always in the boot partition. On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 3:20 PM kisak-valve ***@***.***> wrote: > Closed #6744 <#6744> as > not planned. > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#6744 (comment)>, > or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AEMFKOEEWUIXL5GW3C57SQTXE2QBBANCNFSM6AAAAAAXWSDZTQ> > . > You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: > ***@***.***> >