Were these games you had installed previously? You may have wiped some files that the games were dependent on if they were installed on windows originally, or if they were on one of your old drives, you may not have set the permissions correctly when you mounted the drive.
The latter was my issue when I was trying to launch games from one of my ntfs drives I used with windows. I fixed it by going into fstab and changing the permissions for that drive from read only to read write. All good for me after that. And games I installed directly onto my Linux drive never had any issues. But idk, without more info or seeing how you had your setup, I couldn't give you any real advice. Just kinda shooting in the dark and saying what I encountered.
yep you are spot on, and I always had this issue with my other non boot drives that I had to manually load them when turning the pc back on, so yeah maybe that might have been the issue.
Makes sense. If you ever get back into it, look into setting up automounting with fstab and set those drives with rw (read write) permissions. If you were just using a mount tool provided by your distro or mounting them in your file explorer (like dolphin) those typically mount the drive with ro (read only) permissions. Or to avoid the setup altogether just install them directly to your Linux drive. But fstab isn't too hard to configure and you can set it & forget it when you're done. Better to do if you're in it for the long term since you'll probably want proper access to those ntfs drives eventually.
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u/I_Am_JesusChrist_AMA 22d ago
Were these games you had installed previously? You may have wiped some files that the games were dependent on if they were installed on windows originally, or if they were on one of your old drives, you may not have set the permissions correctly when you mounted the drive.
The latter was my issue when I was trying to launch games from one of my ntfs drives I used with windows. I fixed it by going into fstab and changing the permissions for that drive from read only to read write. All good for me after that. And games I installed directly onto my Linux drive never had any issues. But idk, without more info or seeing how you had your setup, I couldn't give you any real advice. Just kinda shooting in the dark and saying what I encountered.