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0wlcyclops has Steam for Linux

2 Oct, 2024 @ 3:47pm

so how dose no files appear despite you downloading a game can happen?

I kind of need answers for this question , in advanced , thanks for the time to read this and sorry if I putted this in the wrong sub forum.
so the game is called "The Sin"by Baba Nura, Feodosiy and for some reason when I try to check the files to see what could be causing the game to give me the "missing game executable" error and there are no files, like with a big 0 in the files that are in the folder for this.

to sum up my question of what could be wrong, how do you get Files out of quarantine as some one who is Tech illiterate who is probably gonna break something on accident? or is the cause of my problem something else entirely?

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WarnerCK

3 Oct, 2024 @ 12:35am

The game developer has broken their configuration.

They've said that the game supports Windows, Linux & Mac, so the Steam client on each platform downloads the depot for each respective platform rather than saying "this game isn't supported on this platform."

Except, the game developer hasn't put any files in the depots that the game has for Linux and Mac. They've only included any files in the Windows depot. So the Linux & Mac Steam clients happily go "fetch file... done" without downloading anything.

The game dev needs to fix their stuff.

On Mac you'd be SOL till the game developer fixed it. On Linux, though, you have the built-in ability to fetch the Windows depot and use that in Proton. That happens automatically when you pick a version of Proton as the "compatibility tool" for that game.

Zyro

3 Oct, 2024 @ 1:49am

I'm not very used to SteamDB, but it looks to me like there should be one big file.

Here's your game:
https://steamdb.info/app/1543460/depots/

And this should be the Linux depot:
https://steamdb.info/depot/1543462/

So I'd expect one big file? Which wouldn't be working for starting the game, but would be more than 0?

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