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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok, my coffee fueled morning research:

Essentially, if you can install the game with Steam it works out of the box. According to Protondb (https://www.protondb.com/app/244210) the game has a Gold rating which means it works without any major flaws.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Legend! I'm saving this post for when I do finally get the motivation to switch.

The main mods I'm concerned about are Custom Shaders Patch and Pure, but I believe the devs are working on Linux versions of those as well.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If you do and run into any trouble, feel free to DM me. :)

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks. I will say, though, that still seems pretty lengthy and complicated to get working. ;) But I guess I only have to do it once.

Most of the other mods are simply cars and tracks, which I guess are just drag and drop like in Windows. The only other one that might be an issue is the 2Real traffic/pedestrian mods.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I will say, though, that still seems pretty lengthy and complicated to get working. ;) But I guess I only have to do it once.

Yeah it is. Though, if you're doing sim racing and also modding a game it isn't an inherently a plug and play situation even in Windows. :P

Most of the games I play are just 'buy, click install on Steam, press play'.

The only other one that might be an issue is the 2Real traffic/pedestrian mods.

It looks like you can run the install.bat file in the wine prefix via protontricks and then copy the csp traffic tool, car pack and traffic/pedestrian.json files in the appropriate folders.

You may have to click the 'Try to Fix' button in the taskbar in Practice mode to auto-install the traffic mods, but this seems like something that you have to do on Windows too.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah it is. Though, if you're doing sim racing and also modding a game it isn't an inherently a plug and play situation even in Windows. :P

True, but I'm at least familiar with it.

Most of the games I play are just 'buy, click install on Steam, press play'.

All my games are installed on a non-OS drive. Will I have to re-download them, or will Steam automatically detect them once I point it to the directory?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

All my games are installed on a non-OS drive. Will I have to re-download them, or will Steam automatically detect them once I point it to the directory?

The SteamLibrary folder will move over, no problem.

The drive being formatted as NTFS is the issue. Valve doesn't recommend this with Proton/WINE for reasons. NTFS isn't case sensitive, for example.

If you have the space to temporarily move your SteamLibrary elsewhere you can just format the drive to ext4 and move the folder back. (If not we are in one of those '30 different possible ways to solve the problem' situations that was mentioned at the top of the comment chain :P)

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

The drive being formatted as NTFS is the issue. Valve doesn't recommend this with Proton/WINE for reasons. NTFS isn't case sensitive, for example.

If you have the space to temporarily move your SteamLibrary elsewhere you can just format the drive to ext4 and move the folder back. (If not we are in one of those '30 different possible ways to solve the problem' situations that was mentioned at the top of the comment chain :P)

I don't, and I'm out.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

No worries, good talkin' to ya. :)