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PSA for people trying out Wine/Proton for the first time (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by MyFairJulia@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 11 points 3 years ago (1 children)

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.world 7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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?

[–] EddyBot@feddit.de 6 points 3 years ago

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

[–] Rossel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

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.

[–] PlutoParty@programming.dev 2 points 3 years ago

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

[–] bgtlover@linuxrocks.online 2 points 3 years ago

@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