I saw this post on reddit and im banned there so I figured I’d post here for anyone who sees this and considers it.

I’ve directly tried this before, it was close to a year ago though or maybe longer so maybe things changed. But I’ve noticed when you try to launch a game that was previously running through wine on windows instead, it can completely stop the game from launching with wine in the future unless you reinstall the game (or maybe change install drive in steam?) or do some other fix im unaware of.

That’s not a problem for everyone, if you just wanna use that specific game only on windows then you’re fine, but i thought this should still be kept in mind in case people decide to do this to compare performance etc.

and also in order to run games off an ntfs drive you just need to set drive permissions in your fstab. Im on the shitter rn so maybe once im back at my pc ill grab the options and edit them into this. Sometimes the drive will stop giving proper access to it and all you need to do is run fsck on the windows drive then it should work on linux properly again its just some dumb windows shit.

EDIT: uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=022,fmask=133 these are the options to add to your fstab, replace uid and gid with your user id and group id of your user account. after that games should work fine on ntfs.

i used to have an entire drive that was ntfs just to store stuff between windows and linux now its just bcache formatted to xfs though cuz i never touch windows really.