• andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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    1 year ago

    Wait, why not? I’ve been doing this for a few games so I can play on Linux or boot to Windows and play there if I need more reliable remote play or better performance. I haven’t had any major issues, just annoying occasional proton reinstallation when I’m in Linux.

    • MyFairJulia@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Wait a minute, Proton didn’t shit the bed when you run games off of NTFS? Did you happen to set permission masks or smth?

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        1 year ago

        the issue probably is that you had the proton/wineprefixes on ntfs which will not work

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        I symlinked the game folders from a NTFS drive to steamapps/common/ on my ext4 drive, and it works fine. Of course the compatdata and shader caches are on the ext4 drive.

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        1 year ago

        I run overwatch and rdr2 from ntfs partition with no problems. I just created a symlink from the default install path.

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        @MyFairJulia wait, you can run games from ntfs drives with linux? what ntfs driver is recommended for that? is ntfs3g broken? I’m asking because each time I try to do something like that, I do get permission issues, as you say. Worse, each time windows would make a file, the linux side would come up with a permission error when trying to access it. That’s why, I don’t use ntfs stuff anymore at all

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          I didn’t know that I wasn’t meant to run windows game off ntfs, didn’t have any issues but the drive did die recently (bad sector) I’m assuming this might have been the reason?

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            that’s possible, ntfs and linux are known to not work very well, as you probably have seen in this thread.