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The short of it:
I cannot get Steam to recognize and use the game data for KF2 which is installed on a Windows partition.
Details:
I have my hard drive partitioned into the following segments: Win 10 boot, Programs (NTFS), Ubuntu 18.04 /, /home, /swap, and 'common storage' NTFS for access to files from both Win 10 and Linux. Steam on Win10 is installing the game data to Programs and runs fine. I want the prevent installing KF2 on both Windows and Ubuntu if possible. My /home partition does not have enough space to install the game (50GB+). I realize I should backup my data from /home/Downloads and /home/Videos anyways, which are taking up a huge amount of space. This should give me enough room for KF2 to be installed on my /home partition.
Attempted fixes:
I HAVE been able to play twice from Ubuntu. I tried to use combinations of Lutris or only Steam to play, but don't recall just when Lutris was running when it worked (not that it might make a difference). When I launch Steam, Killing Floor 2 is greyed out and the option to Install is present. When I click Install, it opens a dialog to choose an install folder. When I go to the existing folder on the Programs partition and point to the existing install there, it says it cannot install to folder with data in it. If I try to make a new folder on that partition it says that the drive is read-only.
I ran "sudo mount -o remount,rw '/media/<username>/Programs'" to mount the drive and writeable, tried the same steps above and got the same results. I then tried to create a folder for a new install using Caja and got the following error:
Error creating directory /media/steveb/Programs/Programs/Steam/steamapps/common/untitled folder: No such file or directory
When I tried to create a folder on the drive using CLI (with or without sudo) I got the following error:
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘KF2-test’: No such file or directory
With the above problems, would it work to install another drive, format it EXT4, and use it to install games on? I have a couple spare drives laying around and would like pointers before I go moving drives around. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated but if simply making more room on my /home partition is going to be the least painful way to go, I can do that.
Here are the steps I took to get in installed:
I mounted the partition in Caja, verifiying I could create a folder so it had r/w access.
Started Steam.
Killing Floor 2 was greyed out in my game list but has an "Install" button, which I click.
I pointed it the partition, created a new folder and it downloaded all the files including Proton.
I click "Play" and a small window pops up "preparing to launch", but the game does not launch.
In my game list, the game name has the words "running" followed by "0% - 0 bytes" flash beside the name and disappear in about 1 second.
I tried rebooting and when I did, the game name was greyed out again. I had already mounted the partition so I clicked "Install" again and pointed it to the existing folder. It went through a "discovering existing files" window for 30 minutes, then the game list said KF2 was "ready to play". I click play and I am met with results as detailed in the last two lines mentioned in the previous paragraph.
I have esync disabled per the ProtonDB user suggestion posts and have tried both Proton 3.16-9 and
4.2-9 with the same results.
Anyone have any ideas what to do to get it to run, and NOT run through a 30-40 minute file check?
You can try running that command but with exec at the end, partition needs to be executable.
sudo mount -o remount,defaults,rw,exec '/media/<username>/Programs'never tried to use the same steam library from windows but you can use a NTFS partition to store games, this is how I set up my fstab
UUID=47198XXXXXX /windows_dir_name_here ntfs-3g defaults,rw,exec 0 0remember that you have to add "exec" at the end otherwise it won't work. If you want you can add gid= and uid= but is not necessary .
to know what UUID is that partition simply run
sudo blkid
/dev/sdc1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="47FAfdasf8D97" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI" PARTUUID="4906c8c"
/dev/sdc2: UUID="537-31f6e0a6c8ea" TYPE="bcache" PARTUUID="7a5e4"
/dev/sdc3: UUID="b7d99c2" TYPE="bcache" PARTLABEL="Linux filesystem" PARTUUID="5f2940e"
/dev/sdc4: UUID="80f387d8" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="1bb5ee5"
/dev/sdc5: UUID="4XXXXXX743EA" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="76062731"
/dev/sdc6: UUID="5FFFFDSDADASDSA6" TYPE="ext2" PARTLABEL="Linux filesystem" PARTUUID="c484aebf"
copy the UUID add that to fstab with all the additions I wrote, just remove the Quotation marks, name the windows directory like you want, then make the directory with mkdir .
Just be very careful because if you edit fstab wrong, you could end up with an unbootable system, edit that line and before rebooting run this command:
sudo mount /windows_dir_name_hereif it runs cleanly it's set up correctly, if it does not then you either have the wrong UUID or something else is wrong .
( Then to synchronize the save data the only way to do it correctly is with the steam cloud )
Thanks for trying to help me but this one is a lost cause for me.
Have you tried disabling quick startup and hibernate in your Windows 10 and then shutting down windows and booting back into linux?
1. Mount the partition/drive that contains the installed game(s)
2. Start Steam
a. I have had an issue for a few months where the Steam icon shows up in my top panel (Ubuntu 18.04) but
the UI does not start and while I can get a right-click menu from the icon, no selection does anything.
b. In this case, right-click <exit Steam> and restart Steam.
3. Steam does not see that the games are installed at this point.
a. Navigate to the /path/to/install/steamapps folder, and move /steamapps UP one level.
b. This should be instant, as the folder pointer just updates, no files are moved around.
4. Start the game install, navigating to /path/to/install and it should create a new /steamapps directory.
a. I let the .NET install finish (~500MB) but just letting Steam create the basic folder structure might be enough.
b. I let the game (Killing Floor 2) begin the install but as above, that might not be needed.
5. Exit Steam
6. Delete the new /steamapps folder
7. Drag and drop the original /steamapps folder into its original location (/path/to/install/steamapps)
8. Start Steam and it sees my installed games! Currently, Ark and Killing Floor 2.
9. Profit.