Report: Factorio #91
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Can confirm the Same issue on latest Parrot OS 5.1.2 (Security (I got bored in between stuff :( )) |
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I believe I got further using a much more updated Steam and Snapd version. It still won't launch properly though. Could you try with a more updated Steam and Snapd?
My "setup":
Game logs:
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Works correctly on Flatpak for me. |
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The reason this won't work is Snap won't read/write to private directories in the user's HOWEVER! It turns out there's a way to override this behavior https://wiki.factorio.com/Application_directory#Changing_the_user_data_directory In the Factorio directory (by default After that, do
This will allow the game to write its save data etc to its own directory under Note that I'm unsure how this affects modding, it may be prudent to go a level deeper and do I tried multiple things to make it just use |
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What is the double dots supposed to be? Also, i can not find the config.ini file. My steam library is on a 3tb harddrive that was installed on a previous steam version before i had to adopt this one while the steam installation itself is on the os m.2 |
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In the wiki ( https://github.com/canonical/steam-snap/wiki/Known-Workarounds#factorio ) it is stated that you may lose cloud saves. I simply created a symlink with the following command:
My game is installed on a zfs pool and bind mounted so the snap can see it so the installation directory is different. For a regular install I think the save directory would be in:
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When using the Steam snap, Factorio fails to launch with the error message:
Reported elsewhere here: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=102728
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