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Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
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Can't launch games from VeraCrypt container #5466

Closed ghost closed 2 years ago

ghost commented 2 years ago

No games launch with Proton from my NTFS partition which is encrypted with VeraCrypt. Direct ports work just fine, and same can be said about applications used with Wine. Proton log returns the following:

wine: cannot find '/path/to/game.exe'

System info: Steam build date: 2021-12-16 22:39:26 (stable, not beta) Distro/kernel: Arch/5.15.10-arch1-1 Driver: nvidia 495.46-6 Window system: x11 VeraCrypt mount options: uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0000,fmask=0000,dmask=0000 Proton version: doesn't matter, issue exists in all of them Wine version: 7.0rc3-1

How to reproduce:

  1. Encrypt (NTFS, unsure if matters) partition with VeraCrypt
  2. Try launching games with Proton
kisak-valve commented 2 years ago

Hello @sneakysnakeX299, Proton (and wine) are known to be finicky with NTFS partitions, regardless of encryption or not. This is a long standing issue being tracked in several issue reports and it's not really worth pondering if VeraCrypt causes additional trouble.

The general recommendation is to use a Linux native filesystem with Proton. Closing in favor of the older issue reports.