Anytime im trying to open a certain game (The binding of isaac) it either doesnt launch at all or launches with a black screen that stays on forever, i moved to mint just yesterday and all my discs except main installation are NTFS, would i have to format all my partitions onto ext4 just to play games on linux?
#Problem regarding games
wanton sorrel
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you need ext4 drives. Please do not use NTFS on Linux, even if it appears to work.
NTFS is heavily reverse-engineered on Linux and may break at any point / cause data loss.
If you don't want ext4 on all of them (e.g. you want to recover data from another system), use exFAT. But for your gaming drives, ext4 is best.
Other than that, show inxi -Gxxx
wanton sorrel
you need ext4 drives. Please do not use NTFS on Linux, even if it _appears_ to w...
ah, so i dont think i should continue using linux at all, thank you for the advice 🙏
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ah, so i dont think i should continue using linux at all, thank you for the advi...
you should just back up ur data and then format the partitions
wanton sorrel
you should just back up ur data and then format the partitions
im not sure if i have the ability to back up all of my data somewhere sadly
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Other than that, show `inxi -Gxxx`
@wanton sorrel try doing this
run it in the terminal
and paste the output here
wanton sorrel
and paste the output here
there you go, i really would look forward to using linux so ill ask if you know a way to backup all my files before formatting them if i wish to?
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there you go, i really would look forward to using linux so ill ask if you know ...
you can back them up but you need somewhere to back them up to
try a cloud storage provider or smth
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the issue is also the fact that you're not using any GPU at all
go to the driver manager and download the recommended driver
wanton sorrel
go to the driver manager and download the recommended driver
i did that
a few times already actually
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disable secure boot
wanton sorrel
a bit ago it started showing me -1 error while disabling the system
wanton sorrel
disable secure boot
its off
wanton sorrel
the issue is also the fact that you're not using any GPU at all
also how is that even possible, i dont have any integrated gpu?
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what's your cpu
wanton sorrel
i5-11400f
wanton sorrel
well yeah thats what i mean
if im not using any gpu then shouldnt just the system not work?
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and probably the reason why your games aren't working other than the ntfs drive
can you show dmesg -l warn+?
wanton sorrel
but then i had installed drivers before and already, how would i fix that?
i will swap reboot into linux and do that
wanton sorrel
are you dual-booting?
oh yea, my apologies if i forgot to mention
thats important 😭
i was certain i did
wanton sorrel
Im not sure, but i think its off
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check
How to Manually Disable Fast Startup
Navigate to the Control Panel and select 'Power Options. '
Choose 'Choose what the power buttons do. '
Click on 'Change settings that are currently unavailable. '
Under 'Shutdown settings,' uncheck the 'Turn on fast startup' box.
When i click the unavailable settings the option just dissapears, ill probably have to check it in BIOS
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but is it enabled?
wanton sorrel
but is it enabled?
i cant see from the system, going into bios rn to tell u
wanton sorrel
i genuinely cant check it, because the option just dissapears and doesnt show me anything
sec i can record it for u rq
royal zealot
In windows open cmd as admin and type
powercfg -h off
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was about to say lmao
wanton sorrel
done
royal zealot
Then in mint go to the terminal and type
mokutil --sb-state
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reboot into linux
wanton sorrel
yaya
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Then in mint go to the terminal and type
mokutil --sb-state
it's off i'm pretty sure
wanton sorrel
also
royal zealot
no harm in checking
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i guess
wanton sorrel
that’s what i see booting off linux
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well
wanton sorrel
it appeared after i tried to download drivers from software manager
royal zealot
does it boot eventually?
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-1 means operation not permitted
wanton sorrel
Then in mint go to the terminal and type
mokutil --sb-state
SecureBoot disabled
Platform is in Setup Mode
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does it boot eventually?
that's during shutdown
wanton sorrel
does it boot eventually?
Yes
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that's during shutdown
wait nvm
wanton sorrel
that's during shutdown
its also during startup, but way shorter than that
royal zealot
Ok, show us driver manager window
wanton sorrel
what driver did you download?
can i see the history of downloaded drivers?
wanton sorrel
Ok, show us driver manager window
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wtf?
royal zealot
You did downloaded it, and it was simple )) you even installed it
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are windows and linux on the same drive?
royal zealot
Ok ok... in the terminal type
inxi -SGrxxx
wanton sorrel
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Ok ok... in the terminal type
inxi -SGrxxx
llvmpipe is the renderer
wanton sorrel
also just a funfact, i have a 165hz monitor
but the system says my display is unknown at all
and works in 60hz im p sure
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yes because no gpu is manageing it
wanton sorrel
that makes sense but it still doesnt make sense why
royal zealot
I see you already got additional ppas....
royal zealot
ok, then type
dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
royal zealot
a mess it is
royal zealot
Let's see.... type
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ppa-noble.list
sudo apt update
wanton sorrel
royal zealot
sudo apt purge '*nvidia*'
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why everything?
wanton sorrel
`sudo apt purge '*nvidia*'`
royal zealot
why everything?
to have it clean
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i guess
royal zealot
dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
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does it show the gpu in the driver manager?
wanton sorrel
royal zealot
sudo apt purge libnvidia*
dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
wanton sorrel
install the recommended one and reboot
thats what i did before im pretty sure
i dont know how it ended up like this ngl
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sudo apt purge libnvidia*
dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
yeah do this first though
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autoremove
wanton sorrel
cmd not found
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apt autoremove
wanton sorrel
autoremove libnvidia* ?
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just sudo apt autoremove is fine
wanton sorrel
i already got autoremove
royal zealot
ah.... because they're 32 bit components...
try
sudo apt purge libnvidia*:i386
royal zealot
hmm... check with
dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
again
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they did
royal zealot
oh, missed that
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this is while drivers are installing
looks fine
wanton sorrel
alr i gotta restart pc
royal zealot
yeah ok, wait until they're done installing, then restart when asked
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once into the session, run inxi -Gxxx && glxinfo | grep renderer
royal zealot
After restart do
inxi -Gxxx
wanton sorrel
royal zealot
now it's good
wanton sorrel
guys is software manager the best way to download steam
or should i do it somehow else
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valve's repo or ubuntu's package is fine
royal zealot
just search steam in there
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just NOT flatpak
royal zealot
just NOT flatpak
flatpak steam is not official and doesn't show in software manager by default
wanton sorrel
i fear i corrupted my steam somehow
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what
wanton sorrel
you already have steam
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run steam
wanton sorrel
royal zealot
hold on, let's check
dpkg -l | grep steam
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yeah maybe let's do that first
wanton sorrel
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type steam
royal zealot
mishmash again
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and run it
royal zealot
hold on
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as expected
royal zealot
sudo apt purge steam-*
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yes
royal zealot
and then
dpkg -l | grep steam
wanton sorrel
royal zealot
interesting
royal zealot
sudo apt purge steam-installer steam-launcher steam-libs-amd64 steam-libs- i386:i386
wanton sorrel
royal zealot
oops
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space
royal zealot
sudo apt purge steam-installer steam-launcher steam-libs-amd64 steam-libs-i386:i386
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do not remove the directory.
then, i'd say:
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-stable.list
sudo rm /usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg
then re-install steam_latest.deb
and let it do its thing
or get the Mint package
wanton sorrel
royal zealot
then re-install steam_latest.deb
no, just do
sudo apt update
sudo apt install steam
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no no don't remove that directory
wanton sorrel
alright
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no, just do
sudo apt update
sudo apt install steam
i guess the purge script removed the repo
wanton sorrel
no, just do
sudo apt update
sudo apt install steam
on it
no space
i might have to allocate more space
wanton sorrel
around 60
royal zealot
type
df -h
wanton sorrel
wanton sorrel
need atleast 100
i just thought ill use it as a partition system
and then keep my files on other disks
but theyre ntfs and it doesnt work that well and i want to keep using windows
yet i dont know where i can back up my files so i can switch to fat
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first, let's fix steam
royal zealot
first, let's fix steam
you can't - there's no space to download \ install
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after allocating more
wanton sorrel
you can't - there's no space to download \ install
if i trashed current steam i would have more than enough
isaac and proton is 5gb itself
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you'd lose games though
royal zealot
Well then you won't have enough space to download the game back
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you're going to benefit from more space anyways
wanton sorrel
Well then you won't have enough space to download the game back
can i allocate more space in linux
or do i ahve to boot on windows
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you should probably do it on windows
royal zealot
windows doesn't understand ext4, you need to do it from live mint usb
wanton sorrel
windows doesn't understand ext4, you need to do it from live mint usb
but i can switch to fat and have it on both right?
i want to stay on dual boot
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can you lsblk
wanton sorrel
windows doesn't understand ext4, you need to do it from live mint usb
but i can split volume
so it’s unallocated space
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i have no idea how your drives are set up
wanton sorrel
can you `lsblk`
im on windows rn
royal zealot
What's on those partitions anyway? The large NTFS and 1gb one?
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games?
wanton sorrel
What's on those partitions anyway? The large NTFS and 1gb one?
personal files and games
im going to diskmgmt rn
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wait.. you installed linux on your personal files drive?
wanton sorrel
wait.. you installed linux on your personal files drive?
kind of
my C: is full and im not gonna setup my system on hdd
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this is a mess lol
wanton sorrel
i can split my volume into 48gb more for unallocated space
wanton sorrel
this is a mess lol
oh i know
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guys i have to do my duolingo and have dinner i have to hop off for a moment
wanton sorrel
u good twin LMAO
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i'll be back
wanton sorrel
okay :3
royal zealot
go back to mint and type
lsblk -f
royal zealot
no
wanton sorrel
my bad, your nick is very polishcore
royal zealot
25 years ago I thought that's how maniac is spelled
royal zealot
I meant in English
wanton sorrel
ok i got it parted, going to linux
royal zealot
ok
royal zealot
let's see.... your linux partition is sdc4 and efi partition is sda2 so we can remove sdc3 and expand sdc4
good good. Now boot into mint usb
wanton sorrel
good good. Now boot into mint usb
like the way i installed it?
bios into boot menu?
royal zealot
yes like when you installed it....... just don't run install again
wanton sorrel
let's see.... your linux partition is sdc4 and efi partition is sda2 so we...
sdc3 is apparently efi system partition
1024mb, i remember creating it when installing linux
i did it off youtube
but sdc3 isnt even mounted
so im wondering what it was for
royal zealot
sda2 is your efi partition currently
royal zealot
sdc3 isn't used, so we can remove it save some headache
royal zealot
ok
Gparted program should be preinstalled, so run it and select sdc then screenshot
or photo
royal zealot
Ok, remove sdc3 and then change size of sdc4 to cover freed space you made
wanton sorrel
Ok, remove sdc3 and then change size of sdc4 to cover freed space you made
Can i merge it into sdc 4?
or do i have to make it separate
royal zealot
that's what we're doing
wanton sorrel
that's what we're doing
I don’t see a way to merge them
royal zealot
Did you remove sdc3?
wanton sorrel
Yes
royal zealot
Then right click sdc4 and choose resize
royal zealot
photo
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i'm back
wanton sorrel
royal zealot
welcome back
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what's up
wanton sorrel
we are merging partitions rn
royal zealot
That is fine I think. click the green checkmark button
royal zealot
ok
wanton sorrel
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yes this one's fine
royal zealot
let's check
df -h
just to be sure
wanton sorrel
royal zealot
yeah, that should be fine
wanton sorrel
ill ask one more time though, is it an issue to use ntfs files on linux in 2025?
is it really highly unstable?
cause i need dual boot and i cant afford to use ext4
royal zealot
It is an issue with steam specifically
wanton sorrel
It is an issue with steam specifically
ive been told here that "NTFS is heavily reverse-engineered on Linux and may break at any point / cause data loss."
royal zealot
I wouldn't go that far. You can read and write on ntfs, but ntfs doesn't understand linux permissions, which makes it not recommended to use with steam.
wanton sorrel
I wouldn't go that far. You can read and write on ntfs, but ntfs doesn't under...
i get it
thank you then, i might keep using ntfs
royal zealot
you're welcome
wanton sorrel
you're welcome
interesting, steam doesnt see 2 of my dlcs for isaac
i think the dlc is released on windows only
from what im reading it works with proton though
okay im booting the game up and lyk if it works
royal zealot
Maybe they didn't download because you ran out of space, run game files verification
wanton sorrel
Maybe they didn't download because you ran out of space, run game files verific...
Gotcha
wanton sorrel
Maybe they didn't download because you ran out of space, run game files verific...
Its not about not downloading, its just gone
Like i didnt have it at all
It says manage my 2 DLCs and i have 4
wanton sorrel
Maybe they didn't download because you ran out of space, run game files verific...
The game had turned on, had black screen and turned off
Perhaps its because on the ntfs disc?
do i have to modify my fstab?
royal zealot
perhaps, install it on ext4 and try
wanton sorrel
perhaps, install it on ext4 and try
On it
wanton sorrel
perhaps, install it on ext4 and try
The game booted on ext4
I couldnt get it to boot even on ext4 before
wanton sorrel
it works
it does, now i gotta look if there is a way to boot steam games on NTFS partition
royal zealot
Good luck. It's easier and less problematic to use ext4 for this