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Issues with games on secondary drive (lemmy.org)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by ui3bg4r@lemmy.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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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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[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haven't run into this personally, but most of my gaming on Linux these days is on the Steam Deck without anything particularly interesting going on storage-wise.

It'd probably help with debugging if you add the distro you are using into the text of your post. Also, how are you launching the games? (Steam? Lutris? Heroic? Something else?)

For RE4 specifically, Steam has it listed as "Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: The Enigma Protector", so you might be running into some shittiness from DRM on that one, perhaps?

If you're running on Fedora or related distros, check your system logs to see if SELinux is complaining about anything. Sometimes the security features are overzealous.

Best of luck!

[–] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 3 points 22 hours 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.