I have a problem when installing games from other places than steam. First time I had it was when I wanted to play diablo 4 through the battlenet launcher (I do not own it on steam) so I installed battlenet through steam and then launched the launcher. Installed, played the game, no problem but the next time I booted the battlenet launcher Diablo 4 was gone. I did try it again and reinstalled and for some reason it just worked forever (untill I uninstalled it myself).

Now… I have another game with it’s own launcher that installs the game and keeps it updated and this happends over and over again. Since the downloading takes a lot of time I can’t even launch the game as it disconnects me. Every time I download the 54GB of data it just deletes it after I quit the launcher. I have tried Heroic, Steam and Lutris. Same thing every time. How can I tell linux to fuck off and let my game files be?

I am running Bazzite if that matters and I always install on my home directory.

  • nastyyboi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Where are you installing the game (on the disk)? Maybe it’s some kind of temp folder that gets cleaned after, try some dedicated ie. ~/Games/{game}. Also, do you keep game files in the prefix or outside it? I keep my game files outside the prefix, so if you decide to change it, you don’t have to reinstall if something goes wrong. I never had such issue.