EDIT: The issue was caused by my SSD being formatted in exFAT, which doesn’t support symlinks. I backed up my SSD & reformatted it to btrfs, and then I could install .NET without hassle & the game runs!
Original Post:
I’m having an issue running this game on linux, every time I click play in Steam I get the following popup:
“you must install .NET desktop runtime to run this application”
Clicking “yes” takes me to download a Windows .exe which of course can’t run on linux. I manually installed the .NET runtime following linux instructions here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-debian but the game still gives me this error.
Other things I’ve tried:
- Reinstalling BG3
- Completely deleting every file from steamapps/common for BG3 & reinstalling
- Reinstalling Proton
- Skipping the launcher
- Tried with proton experimental, 9, 8, 7
My launch args are STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata gamemoderun %command% --skip-launcher
On protondb everybody else seems to be running the game fine, but I don’t understand how to get past this error.
It is possible, can you confirm the filesystem your steam install is on? The T7 mount looks like an automatic user mount, is it a standard ext4 or btrfs partition? Also, why is it mounting there, not in a fixed location denoted in your /etc/fstab file? If it is just automatic mounting there are some possible issues that could come from that, it may be worth testing another windows game through proton installed in the same steam library folder.
That all said, you definitely need to have proton installed. If you go to your steam library you should be able to search for proton there. I would recommend installing the current version, the experimental, and if it is there proton-ge. I haven’t used Debian for a while so I don’t know what is in your repos but searching for proton-ge there may also have results.
Once you definitely have the latest and experimental versions try switching version, testing with protontricks. It should show up both versions and allow you to switch between them without problems. You may also need to define your proton prefix as an environmental variable, something like PROTONPREFIX=/path/to/your/T7/proton/prefix/
If you can’t get that going consider jumping on to a matrix channel for more second by second help, tonnes of people are happy to help you get wine/proton working correctly.