Open luisalvarado opened 1 month ago
ashuntu
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1 month ago You should be able to add those paths to the Steam UI and have their games show up like they would with the Steam deb. You can have the snap and the deb installed at the same time, so feel free to test for yourself.
luisalvarado
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1 month ago Hi team Steam snap, here is a video to explain this further and help with testing it in further versions:
ashuntu
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1 month ago I don't have another drive, so I tested this on a flashdrive I had laying around. I created a steam folder on the flashdrive, added it as a storage drive to deb Steam, and installed Factorio onto it. I was then able to add the same steam folder from the flashdrive to my Steam Snap installation, and it picked up Factorio.
You likely will not be able to share the default install location of the Steam deb, but you should be able to use external drives/mount points. Did you try selecting your SteamLibrary folder instead of the entire drive for mounting? The folder you select should be the one with the steamapps directory. Also, even on the Steam deb, for me it wouldn't let me add a storage location unless it was in a subfolder (I called it steam) on the flashdrive, but I'm not sure if that was just because of my setup.
Failing those things, it shouldn't be a connections thing, but you can try making sure your snap connections steam look similar to mine:
luisalvarado
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1 month ago I was able to add the external ones, but there is no way of adding the steamapps folder from the home folder. It basically fails to get added, so any games in it dont show because the actual storage does not get added if that explains it. BTW, just tested several games. Performance is on par with DEB, including demanding games like spiderman remastered.
ashuntu
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1 month ago If you can add games from the Steam deb, you'll likely need dot-local-share-steam connected with snap connect steam:dot-local-share-steam from a terminal. However, adding a library like this isn't recommended anyway, you'd be better off using external drives or mounts for shared games instead.
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luisalvarado
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1 week ago It is still relevant and the workaround solution is in fsct a solution, but it affects users directly in a non intuitive fashion. So that should be taken into consideration. The issue could be marked as solved, but personally this needs addressing if a migration from DEB to Snap is something that would want to be done in an intuitive, friendly way.
This is not a bug, just a question about installing the steam snap version and making sure that it will see the games I have already installed. My particular case is that I have games installed in various storage devices as seen here:
So based on this, if I install steam snap, it will read the current installed games on those drivers and automatically be able to use them?
This is for a particular group of videos I will be making soon. Thank you.