Installation issues/questions under Proton 9.04

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Question: the first thing the game asks me to do is select the folder where to install Eve Online.
- it opens up a file browser using Windows file structure. It wants me to absolutly put in a drive name and the path where to install it. All my games are installed under /Games/. I tried to point it there and it shows z:/Games/Eve I had created the Eve folder in my /Games but installation never sees it. I believe it is installing elsewhere and giving me a false installation folder information.
- if I go in the configuration button and select to browse Game files, an error pops up telling me "There is no WIndows program configured to open this type of file"
- it shows the shared cache location is z:/Games/Eve

Problem:
- I had disabled the hardware acceleration, restarted it and then selecting DirextX 11
- started the installation and told it to install the whole Eve content.
- installation failed after 5-10 min telling I no longer have any disk space. But I have 340GB+ free on my /Games (it points to a different partition)
- there is no /Games/Eve folder
- I checked the ../Steamapps/Common/Eve Online/, and it only had about 399Mb.
- Again this seams to be pointing to a different installation location than my /Games/Eve

Any suggerstions?

[Browser_ice]

I figured out how this is happening.

Whatever path I give to the initial installation question is not used here.

The installation is done somewhere along a temporary folder named something like /home/..../.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/2805730/pfs/drive_c/... That is how they seam to have created installation of Windows games under ProtonDB.

My root partition is on the partition I had created for Ubuntu and is about 128GB.

Once installation is done, the whole folder structure is moved back into where my Steam is installed: /Games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compdata/8500/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Application Data/EVE Online.

So if would have asked to install also the full client packages, its normal it would have run out of disk space because it had about 90GB free and I am assuming the whole client data is more than 90GB. Good thing this time I installed without ths option.

This time it installed without errors.

So I assume if I now tell it to download the whole client data, it will download it my /Games/..../Eve Online folder where I have 340GB free.

I will try it out but first I want to see if the game will start without downloading the whole client data. If it works, then I will tell it to download it and start the game.

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Game ran without any issues running it without downloading the whole client data

But this morning, during an update, again it said I ran out of disk space. It said I need 32GB of free space. But I have enough room on both my Ubuntu partitions (root and /Games).

I tried with the launcher to generate reports, open log folder but it fails because it says there is no Windows application that can open these. So I figured its again using a WIndows like path that Ubuntu cannot opened.

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I recreated the Swap partition and doubled it to 64Gb. I was not properly being used.

Started the game, waited for it to finish its update of 4.80GB (51050 files) but it failed on extracting around 51040.

I doubled the size of my root partition from 128GB to 256 GB but it still fails at the same place.

I have no idea where its downloading/extracting the updates. There is no where on my Linux partition where there is not more than 32GB.

I think that its installing/extracting in some temporary folder and once finished, moves them all to a Steam folder where all Windows games have their data.

My /Games/SteamLibrary/.../Eve Online folder is still 399.4MB.

[added comments]

I found install log files at /Games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/8500/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/EVE Online/logs

Editing the last one, I see at the end the error:

2025-01-14 18:32:14.853    app     info:    [server-manager] Unpacking files, this may take a while. Extracting file 51036/51050
2025-01-14 18:32:14.915    app     info:    [chunk-unpacker] Unpacked chunks, and wrote 51050 files (8.24 GB) in 1 minutes, 48.58 seconds
2025-01-14 18:32:14.915    app     info:    [chunk-unpacker] Average unpacking speed: 76.3 MB/s
2025-01-14 18:32:15.034    app     info:    [manifest] Excluded 3006 files from the manifest, leaving 0 entries
2025-01-14 18:32:15.034    app     info:    [server-manager] Downloading 0 prefetch files (0 B)
2025-01-14 18:32:15.035    app     warn:    [download-from-manifest] The manifest contained no entries to download    { cdn: 2 }
2025-01-14 18:32:15.035    app     info:    [download-from-manifest] Downloaded 0 files (0.00 B) in Unknown time
2025-01-14 18:32:15.035    app     info:    [download-from-manifest] Average download speed: 0.00 B/s
2025-01-14 18:32:15.373    app     info:    [manifest] Excluded 48040 files from the manifest, leaving 66588 entries
2025-01-14 18:32:15.373    app     info:    [server-manager] Downloading 66588 prefetch files (34.5 GB)
2025-01-14 18:32:15.376    app     info:    [server-manager] Downloaded 0.00 B/0.00 B at 0.00 B/s
2025-01-14 18:32:15.378    app     info:    [quasar-elg-events] Queueing event    eve_launcher.electron.eve_client.GameClientUpdateFailed
2025-01-14 18:32:15.385    app    error:    [ipc-requests] Server manager encountered an error Failed to update client for eve-online/Tranquility (2789628)
Insufficient disk space for 'eve-online' on volume 'Z:\'    v [ClientUpdateFailedError]: Failed to update client for eve-online/Tranquility (2789628)
Insufficient disk space for 'eve-online' on volume 'Z:\'
    at v.from (Z:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Eve Online/app-1.7.10/resources/app.asar/.webpack/main/index.js:8:2383392)
    at st.startAsync (Z:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Eve Online/app-1.7.10/resources/app.asar/.webpack/main/index.js:8:2181648) {
  cause: T [InsufficientDiskSpaceError]: Insufficient disk space for 'eve-online' on volume 'Z:\'
      at L (Z:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Eve Online/app-1.7.10/resources/app.asar/.webpack/main/index.js:8:2148780)
      at async st.downloadFromManifestAsync (Z:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Eve Online/app-1.7.10/resources/app.asar/.webpack/main/index.js:8:2187560)
      at async st.downloadFullClientAsync (Z:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Eve Online/app-1.7.10/resources/app.asar/.webpack/main/index.js:8:2183583)
      at async st.startAsync (Z:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Eve Online/app-1.7.10/resources/app.asar/.webpack/main/index.js:8:2181096) {
    requiredSpace: 34472458462,
    availableSpace: 7872761856,
    volume: 'Z:\\'
  },
  requiredSpace: 34,472,458,462,
  availableSpace: 7,872,761,856,
  volume: 'Z:\\'
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Doesn't make sense it says I only have about 41GB on my /Games partition.

(The Z: drive is added by Steam Proton installation)

Doing a DF command to see how much free space I have:
Filesystem      1K-blocks   Used  Available  Use%   Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p6  392,390,564 2,241,98,160  148,186,780  61%   /Games

I have more than 41GB of free disk space.  Again, no idea why it cannot see the real amount of free space ....