submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by baxster@sopuli.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I would like some help with playing pirated and steam games on Linux. I am comfortable with Linux bit not a super god and English is not my best.

I have a duelboot with Linux on a small 125 gb sata SSD and Windows on a 1TB NVMe SSD. I have my games installed on a separate 2tb HDD (NTFS) and this works fine on Windows. But I want to play the same games that I have already installed on my HDD. All the games is installed using Windows. When using lutris I get a lot of "can't create file" errors but I can create files in the filemaneger in linux so I have read-write.

I have tried to search online and some say that heroic game launcher is better but that one spits out "program got a serious problem" error.

I use Pop 22.04 jammy AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics @ 16x 3.8GHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 16GB ram

i have tried Lutris and heroic. i got Age of mythology retold to launch but not read dead redemtion 2.

if you guys need more just ask, i am quite new to linux gaming :D

I can post logs in a moment but really happy if someone can help out a bit.

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[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Windows writ locks NTFS drives, it's a hibernation glitch, to fix:

Unmount the NTFS drive
in terminal run sudo ntfsfix /dev/DRIVENAME
remount the drive

A lot of Linux distros have ntfsfix installed but you may have to add it yourself via apt, dnf, or yum depending on your distro

https://superuser.com/questions/1394263/ntfs-file-system-read-only-by-ubuntu-remount-doesnt-work

[-] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 months ago

It's not actually a glitch, it's Windows's Fast Startup feature. It sort of hibernates the system rather than shutting it off. The running state of the system is partially retained and the drives aren't cleanly unmounted. I don't know anything about ntfsfix personally, but it probably cleans this up just fine. If you're gonna be spending a large amount of time using Linux, however, you're probably better off disabling fast startup altogether. If you only use Linux a little, though, I think holding shift while you shut down also forces a full shutdown.

[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah I say glitch because there are reports that, despite disabling it, and fully shutting down your PC, it still doesn't release the lock, it does that for me. I guess really I should call it intentional malware.