Reporting back!

Reformatted with btrfs, steam now does this when I open the game (didn’t before):

anddd it works! Can’t believe this whole headache was just exfat all along lol!

Thank you for your help :D

I think you’ve just pointed me in the direction of a solution…

The comment you’re referring to seems to be this one:

mv Launcher Launcherbak
ln -s bin Launcher
ln -s ./bin/bg3_dx11.exe ./bin/LariLauncher.exe
cp ./Launcherbak/*.dll ./bin

creating a symlink to trick steam into thinking it’s running the launcher when it actually runs the game. BUT … my SSD is formatted as exFAT, which doesn’t support symlinks, so I can’t do this.

So I’m guessing proton is trying to create a symlink at pfx/dosdevices/c when it installs .NET, but fails, which is also probably why everyone else seems to have a breezy time with it. Not sure why my other games haven’t run into this though… maybe they haven’t needed to install anything there?

I will report back after reformatting my entire SSD lol

I think you’ve just pointed me in the direction of a solution…

I tried to create a symlink “c:” pointing to …/drive_c, but I couldn’t. “Operation not permitted” I then got ptsd flashbacks to the last time this happened - turns out it was because my SSD is formatted as exFAT, which doesn’t support symlinks.

I’m guessing proton is trying to create this symlink when it installs .NET, but fails, which is probably why everyone else seems to have a breezy time with it. Not sure why my other games haven’t run into this though… maybe they haven’t needed to install anything there?

I will report back after reformatting my entire SSD lol

Ohh, is the “c” just a symlink to the drive_c folder?

I need STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH because my proton is installed in a different steam library than the game, all of my proton games use this. I tried to remove it anyway and try just ‘–skip-launcher’, but now the game doesn’t launch lol

The command likely won’t work for you because you don’t have proton installed at that location

Still the same error unfortunately.

Interestingly though, when I try to install .NET manually via protontricks-launch -v --appid 1086940 /home/user/Downloads/windowsdesktop-runtime-6.0.35-win-x64.exe I get the following error:

/media/user/T7/Main/Games/SteamInstalled/steamapps/compatdata/1086940/pfx/dosdevices/c:/windows: No such file or directory

Going down that tree I see the entire path is there except for “/c” at the end. I manually added a “c” folder, but then I get stuck at this error:

protontricks (ERROR): Active compatibility tool was found, but it's not a Proton installation supported by Protontricks.
Proton installation could not be found!

I know my proton installation works because all my other games use it fine. Proton is on a different drive than BG3, could that cause issues?

I already skip the launcher but this error still happens. My launch args are STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata %command% --skip-launcher

I see!

I installed protontricks and read through the usage instructions

I’ve done protontricks-launch --appid 1086940 /home/user/Downloads/windowsdesktop-runtime-6.0.35-win-x64.exe

but it looks like it’s stuck?

pressure-vessel-locale-gen: Missing locale en_US.UTF-8
pressure-vessel-locale-gen: Generating locale en_AU.UTF-8...
pressure-vessel-locale-gen: Generated locale en_AU.UTF-8 successfully
pressure-vessel-locale-gen: Generating locale en_US.UTF-8...
pressure-vessel-locale-gen: Generated locale en_US.UTF-8 successfully
pressure-vessel-adverb[101880]: W: Container startup will be faster if missing locales are created at OS level
0084:err:file:init_redirects /media/user/T7/Main/Games/SteamInstalled/steamapps/compatdata/1086940/pfx/dosdevices/c:/windows: No such file or directory

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, I’ve never used protontricks before

Edit: using protontricks 1086940 dotnetdesktop7 seems to get past that point, but then I get another error

protontricks (ERROR): Active compatibility tool was found, but it's not a Proton installation supported by Protontricks.
Proton installation could not be found!

my proton is installed in a different steam library than BG3, could this cause issues?

Or maybe they have the ability to make you weaker

Yep it’s not near finished. This is one of those projects that’s sat in my “keep an eye on it” bookmarks for a good while, I figured I’d post it to get some attention on it, because it does look very promising.

I found some here: https://docs.spacebar.chat/setup/server/#setup

Note that the attacker needs to already have access to your Microsoft 365 account to do any of this. Fuck copilot and all, but this isn’t something they couldn’t achieve before.

Love how the free spot is “no conclave update” lol

Got hit with this in the middle of work. We only have one customer using CrowdStrike, and only staff PCs, no infrastructure. But this one is REAL bad, caused by turning your PC on, and cannot be patched - each affected PC needs to be manually fixed. Would not be surprised to see Linux usage go up after this.

One attendee and the shooter are dead

It depends entirely on the company you work for. Even then, I wouldn’t exactly describe the work as “chill”

I patched together some version of this using nested dictionaries:

var abilities: Dictionary = {
	AbilityData.Trigger.BEFORE_ATTACK : {},
	AbilityData.Trigger.ON_ATTACK : {},
	AbilityData.Trigger.ON_HIT : {},
	AbilityData.Trigger.ON_KILL : {},
	AbilityData.Trigger.ON_DEATH : {},
	AbilityData.Trigger.ON_JUMP : {},
	AbilityData.Trigger.PASSIVE : {}
}

with each value being another key:value pair of { "ability_id": <ability-node> } so I can keep a reference to the Ability node and use dictionary functions like .has() to check if a character has a specific ability:

func has_ability(ability_data: AbilityData) -> bool:
	if abilities[ability_data.trigger_type].has(ability_data.id):
		return true
	return false

Then when a trigger fires, it calls this (I omitted the return code):

// Activates all abilities with the specified trigger type. Returns an array containing each ability that was activated this way.
//trigger_type is an enum
//data is just a resource containing things like position, target, ability owner, etc
func trigger(trigger_type: AbilityData.Trigger, data: AbilityActivationData) -> Array[Ability]:
	var abilities_to_activate: Dictionary = abilities.get(trigger_type)
	
	// Loops through the list of Ability nodes.
	for ability in abilities_to_activate.values():
		ability.activate(data)
		abilities_activated.append(ability)

This seems to work, but it still gives me that tickling sensation that it could be a little cleaner.

I think I understand…

Instead of the player iterating through and calling all of its abilities, the ability just connects directly to whichever signal it needs on the player?

My current setup is to add each Ability as a node to the player, so right now it follows the “call down, signal up” adage that I hear everyone say. What would be a good way to implment the other way? I assume I should rework my current setup otherwise it’d be “signal down, signal up”?

Win11 doesn’t let you past setup if you dont have an internet connection.

Epic, I generated a film summary for fun: