STAR WARS™ - Dark Forces

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[Whitelist] Star Wars: Dark Forces proton closed

• kisak-valvemaintainer · 2019-06-08 · STAR WARS™ - Dark Forces fails to launch
  Hello @Spacexplosion, looks like the discussion has become a rehash of the interaction issues with NTFS that are tracked in several issue reports (#11 / #104 / #1824). We're not going to support FAT32 (#2439). It would b...
• madewokherd · 2019-06-08 · STAR WARS™ - Dark Forces fails to launch
  I think transferring to a bug report (or relabeling this one?) would make sense, since it's not specific to this one game. @kisak-valve ?
• Spacexplosion · 2019-06-08 · STAR WARS™ - Dark Forces fails to launch
  Yep, the GUI seems to let you set a library at any valid path. 
• madewokherd · 2019-06-08 · STAR WARS™ - Dark Forces fails to launch
  Putting the config directory in a non-POSIX filesystem isn't supported by Wine generally. There may be other problems, such as inability to create symlinks or set the "read only" flag. Is this a configuration you were ab...
• Spacexplosion · 2019-06-08 · STAR WARS™ - Dark Forces fails to launch
  So that upstream decision breaks support for running Wine with its config directory in a shared non-POSIX filesystem. Or possibly any shared directory... I'm not sure it would work for multiple users even if I made a spe...
• madewokherd · 2019-06-06 · STAR WARS™ - Dark Forces fails to launch
  I think at the time we were having problems with users running Wine as root and ending up with a default prefix in $HOME that they can't access.
• aeikum · 2019-06-06 · STAR WARS™ - Dark Forces fails to launch
  No, Wine actually checks ownership and refuses if you don't own the directory, see https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blob/4d5c874f42e27ac992f361c71490985d7553571a:/libs/wine/config.c#l330 This was added in commit 65...
• Spacexplosion · 2019-06-06 · STAR WARS™ - Dark Forces fails to launch
  @dreamer Steam-dos works like a charm, and is a much more elegant solution than running a Windows build of Dosbox through Wine I might add.