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Game update/validation is not case-sensitive

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#12336 · opened 2025-09-21 by Samq64 · updated 2025-09-21 · 2 comments · github
SSamq64 2025-09-21 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 2025/09/09
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • Steam Logs: N/A
  • GPU: AMD

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I ran into this issue after updating Valheim where the valheim_Data folder was renamed to Valheim_Data (with a capital V) but only the case changed and Windows uses a case-insenstive filesystem, so the local directory was not renamed. This does causes problems on Linux though which crashed game on startup and validating the files did not fix any problems.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Change the case of a game sub-folder
  2. Validate the files
  3. Launch the game (it crashes)
Jjn64 2025-09-21 github

Can confirm. I had the Linux version of Valheim installed before 2025-09-17, with valheim_Data folder.

After the game update on 2025-09-17 which renamed the folder to Valheim_Data (in both Linux and Windows versions), my local install still has valheim_Data

Verifying the game files does not change the name.

Related #577, but important to note this affects updates, not just verifying

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-09-21 github

Hello @Samq64, this issue is functionally the same as #577. Feel free to add a note with your experience to the older issue report.

Closing as a duplicate.

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