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Basically the problem is that when I launch a game for example GTA V it gives me an error code:
/media/user/4688849E88848DDD/Steam/steamapps/common/Grand Theft Auto V/PlayGTAV.exe: 1: /media/user/4688849E88848DDD/Steam/steamapps/common/Grand Theft Auto V/PlayGTAV.exe: MZ����@��: not found/media/user/4688849E88848DDD/Steam/steamapps/common/Grand Theft Auto V/PlayGTAV.exe: 1: /media/user/4688849E88848DDD/Steam/steamapps/common/Grand Theft Auto V/PlayGTAV.exe: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting ")")
Ages of Empires 2 HD:
/media/user/4688849E88848DDD/Steam/steamapps/common/Age2HD/Launcher.exe: 1: /media/user/4688849E88848DDD/Steam/steamapps/common/Age2HD/Launcher.exe: MZ������: not found/media/user/4688849E88848DDD/Steam/steamapps/common/Age2HD/Launcher.exe: 3: /media/user/4688849E88848DDD/Steam/steamapps/common/Age2HD/Launcher.exe: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
While other games like Bioshock Infinite & CSGO launch normally.
Linux debian 4.19.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.67-2+deb10u2 (2019-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux
I'm a linux newb but as far as I can understand steam launches games with a syntax error?
How can I fix this?
I have tried verifying integrity of games files, re-downloading.
steam is using proton 4-11-9
/home/m5a78lm/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Moon Base Alpha/Binaries/Win32/MoonBaseAlphaGame.exe: 1: /home/m5a78lm/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Moon Base Alpha/Binaries/Win32/MoonBaseAlphaGame.exe: MZ����@P��: not found/home/m5a78lm/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Moon Base Alpha/Binaries/Win32/MoonBaseAlphaGame.exe: 2: /home/m5a78lm/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Moon Base Alpha/Binaries/Win32/MoonBaseAlphaGame.exe: Syntax error: ")" unexpected
The problem was that steam installed proton to my NTFS drive. I reformatted that drive to ext4(now theres another problem I can't seem to mount it as rw in fstab), I set my default download drive as /home/(user) which is the same drive that holds my OS, changed steam settings("Run with other titles to newest version of proton), re-downloaded the game to the local drive(/home/(user), then steam started downloading proton to that drive and the game launched just fine.
Thanks everyone!