The saves folder located in .factorio is empty and I disabled cloud sync. Factorio can load and play these saves perfectly fine but I have no idea where they are. according to my computer they dont exist at all, searching yields nothing.
#I dont know how but my saves are somehow in a C drive despite being on linux.
gentle helm
proper flax
isnt it located in user\appdata\
gentle helm
no, linux doesnt use that directory
I am running factorio with proton, maybe that is messing with the pathing, but I doubt it
bitter horizon
Quite likely proton is messing with the path.
gentle helm
yes, proton has a hand in it
now it recognizes the single save I put in the saves folder
bitter horizon
So that windows games can run on Linux, it must be emulating a windows file structure. As far as factorio is concerned, you are running on Windows and hence that path exists.
gentle helm
ok, it moved all of my saves back to the saves folder
gentle helm
So that windows games can run on Linux, it must be emulating a windows file stru...
yeah looks like it
didnt know proton emulated the file structure too
bitter horizon
There is a native Linux version of factorio. I recommend using that as it should work better (lower overhead from system calls).
gentle helm
It's not perfect, Ive been trying to get it to cooperate better with wayland but it doesnt like to
it performs better with proton
bitter horizon
That sounds suspicious.
Like something is misconfigured that proton is bypassing.
gentle helm
yes, its a known problem with kde plasma I think
switching the driver to X11 helps, but I sometimes get tiny performance hiccups
sometimes ups will dip to 57, sometimes down to 50 at the worst. I'm not really sure what is the culprit, maybe its natural
yeah performance is definitely worse without proton
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=674942
maybe something in this forum