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.

  • baxster@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    thx for the replies! the fix from @candyman337@sh.itjust.works did not fix my problem :/

    as for the other replies do you guys mean i need to install the games i want to run on linux with linux on my HDD and games i run on windows with windows on the same HDD?

    • lime!English
      91·
      2 days ago

      don’t mix them, is my advice. keep them separate and you won’t have issues.

      • baxster@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        But it should not be a problem to install them in a separate folder on the HDD?

        • lime!English
          5·
          2 days ago

          if the drive is using a non-native filesystem like ntfs, you’re going to keep having problems. a secondary partition is recommended.