Make sure Proton is installed on the same drive the game is installed. I’ve never had a problem with ANY game I’ve attempted so long as that was true, and I’ve played BG3 and Satisfactory both on my Mint partition so I know those work.
If you’re running the game from a different drive then you have to get into symlinking and that gets complex. But if you make sure they’re on the same drive it should just work.
Proton is incompatible with the NTFS file system because NTFS lacks essential features Proton uses. Steam will try to stop you from running an NTFS game with Proton, and if you get it working anyway, you’ll corrupt your game data.
I see. Frustrating that I don’t recall the program giving any kind of warning or message that what I was trying simply would not work. I guess this is something a “real” Linux user would know.
No, you’re right to be frustrated. The support materials don’t explain it clearly at all, and finding out why NTFS isn’t supported is an ordeal. Steam should totally throw up an error message that explains the problem.
Drag prefers Linux because on Linux it’s actually possible to do everything right and have a perfect experience. It isn’t easy, it takes a lot of know-how and it’s best to be active on a support forum. But you can theoretically get it working perfectly. Windows? Not so much. Microsoft can decide to break your install basically whenever they want. Your knowledge isn’t an absolute factor, sometimes doing what you want is just impossible.
Make sure Proton is installed on the same drive the game is installed. I’ve never had a problem with ANY game I’ve attempted so long as that was true, and I’ve played BG3 and Satisfactory both on my Mint partition so I know those work.
If you’re running the game from a different drive then you have to get into symlinking and that gets complex. But if you make sure they’re on the same drive it should just work.
That might’ve been the issue, I have an SSD with all my games/programs installed and another SSD with my OSes, Proton is probably on the OS SSD.
Proton is incompatible with the NTFS file system because NTFS lacks essential features Proton uses. Steam will try to stop you from running an NTFS game with Proton, and if you get it working anyway, you’ll corrupt your game data.
I see. Frustrating that I don’t recall the program giving any kind of warning or message that what I was trying simply would not work. I guess this is something a “real” Linux user would know.
No, you’re right to be frustrated. The support materials don’t explain it clearly at all, and finding out why NTFS isn’t supported is an ordeal. Steam should totally throw up an error message that explains the problem.
Drag prefers Linux because on Linux it’s actually possible to do everything right and have a perfect experience. It isn’t easy, it takes a lot of know-how and it’s best to be active on a support forum. But you can theoretically get it working perfectly. Windows? Not so much. Microsoft can decide to break your install basically whenever they want. Your knowledge isn’t an absolute factor, sometimes doing what you want is just impossible.
See, the problem was not linuxing hard enough