I like the post, and have experienced similarly after moving to GOS. What I also like is I could put some apps that I still need (but dont really like) just in case in a Private Space (eg Whatsapp, or banking), this way is always closed and just check it once a day, with a specific purpose. No notifications from there whatsover. Most people (the important ones anyway) know they can reach out immediately if needed via Signal.

I couldn’t fix it, and also wasted a lot of time on it. In the end, I decided to run everything that works out of the box from the secondary, and those that give problems I move them to the primary drive. That way everything works. Ideally i’d have just all of them in one drive, but it’s just not worth the effort to find out and fix each of them, it’s some kind of nightmare. In the end, it’s just a game location.

For those interested, from 13 games installed, 4 did not work in the secondary drive and 9 do. So it’s not too bad of a %.

Update: I managed to create the symlink with the entire steamapps folder, to the point that Steam recognized the game as installed in /home while it was actually on /mnt. However, it failed to launch in the same way as it did when the symlink was not there.

I did now, it says Unhandled exception: System.TypeloadException: Could not load type of field ‘InstallerMesage.Form1+…’ due to: COuld not load file or assembly ‘Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, …’ or one of its dependencies.

Does this tell you something?

PS: To clarify it is a rather long text that I get via the terminal when launching said game

I did now, it says Unhandled exception: System.TypeloadException: Could not load type of field ‘InstallerMesage.Form1+…’ due to: COuld not load file or assembly ‘Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, …’ or one of its dependencies.

Does this tell you something?

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Linux mint, and I run the games via Steams. Indeed, I am aware of the DRM but the interesting part it only is a problem on the secondary drive and not on the primary drive. That must be pointing to the root cause… i just dont know what.

Hey thanks. It does look complicated indeed. Maybe I did something wrong and I think I created a symlink and not even know where/how to remove it. I am not sure I am capable of that. I hope that someone has an idea of the root cause for this strange behaviour (I dont mean about the symlink, but rather why games need the primary drive to run)

I see. When I tried the last step to move the game from /mnt to /home, it told me that it couldnt move because the folder already existed (the one i created in Step 1)

Thanks for the explanation, i will try. On Step 3, shouldn’t the game be installed in /mnt isntead of home?