EAC not working on game drive
I recently made the switch from Windows to Bazzite. On the whole it's been a pretty seamless switch.
I do have one minor issue that i am hoping for help with. I don't like putting games on my boot drive and I have a separate SSD just for games. I tried to install the Finals and Halo Infinite on my game drive, but when i tried to launch i get a error saying "unable to find process path".
I moved the games to the main drive and they launch and play no issues. I tried to move the anti cheat program from my main drive to the games drive but error came up again.
Any help would be appreciated.
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What's the format of your external drive?
It's internal, but i formatted to btrfs
and if it helps, this is desktop so not on steam deck or other handheld
Interesting, let me dig around and see if I can find any additional info
thanks! i put a post on the r/linux_gaming and at least one other person said they had the same issue
did you install the Proton EAC runtime in Steam?
yes. i installed that. it installed on my boot drive and when i tried to move to my games drive i got the same error
can you show screenshots of the error in question?
also, run the game with
PROTON_LOG=1 %command% in the launch options and upload the log herei'll have to move the game so it'll be a few mins but yes
it's moving now, but i just tried the MCC and both options booted without issue. MCC is on my game drive
In the meantime can you give us:
cat /etc/fstab | fpasteshould i put that in the terminal? sorry, i'm a bit of a linux noob
Yep
Can you send us the output of that command?
This line is probably your issue
sudo nano /etc/fstab
On that line, move exec to the end
Like so:
Then saveso just add that line to the terminal? or am i putting that somewhere else?
You're editing a file
which file?
Just put the one sudo nano in the terminal
That's the file and the command to edit it
Then make the change and save it
Be very careful not to mess up the formatting
so enter sudo nano /etc/fstab in the terminal and then the line you recommended just swap in what you wrote
Or make the same change to the existing line, yes
sorry how do i save?
Should say at the bottom
execute?
Huh?
Control + O
Control + X
I have a feeling that EAC stuff wasn't installed into the prefix properly. I'd delete the prefix and let it retry installing EAC stuff
Without this fix nothing in the prefix is executable
So let's check this first
@CommanderSzym once that's saved, restart
And try Halo
restart the whole pc?
Yep
Need the drive to be mounted anew
that worked!
is this for all games now or was the specific for Halo?
all, you got bit by the KDE partition tool being a bit shitty
if exec is present before users, it's overridden and not applied
so nothing could be executed from your drive
so this is KDE specific? if i had gone gnome no issues?
so far that's been true, yep
but it's fixed permanently for you now, not like it's gonna come back
just a problem with how it makes the fstab entry when you mount a drive
thanks! i was wondering because i have another pc i plan to swap over sometime soon. it's a htpc one so i was going to try the steamos like version for that so i just want to know which is best for that one
Saving this for later.