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Issues with games on secondary drive (lemmy.org)
submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 10 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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[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Are you logging your attempted game launches?

I wonder if the games are trying to search for files in a specific path, failing to find that path, and exiting. Or maybe something similar. The logs should tell you.

[–] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I did now, it says Unhandled exception: System.TypeloadException: Could not load type of field 'InstallerMesage.Form1+......' due to: COuld not load file or assembly 'Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, .....' or one of its dependencies.

Does this tell you something?

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it says it couldn't load an API-related windows file/group of files. So yes, either something is missing, or something isn't in the expected location.

If it can't load a file, and if that file does exist, something path-related needs to be fixed.

Other folks have responded with good advice about things to try, so I won't repeat any of it here. Hopefully once you get that fixed, your games will launch!

[–] ui3bg4r@lemmy.org 1 points 28 minutes ago

o have backported fixes on their VLC 3.0.21 package 11 times, I couldn't fix it, and also wasted a lot of time on it. In the end, I decided to run everything that works out of the box from the secondary, and those that give problems I move them to the primary drive. That way everything works. Ideally i'd have just all of them in one drive, but it's just not worth the effort to find out and fix each of them, it's some kind of nightmare. In the end, it's just a game location.

For those interested, from 13 games installed, 4 did not work in the secondary drive and 9 do. So it's not too bad of a %.

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