windows 11 has become linux??

[cretsiah]

so now in steam i have same issue in windows 11 that i have in linux .

 

click play, gme goes to launch, then just stops and play button comes back.

 

thought id try a gog game no online requirement for the game get an error

- make sure my-name personal is running on your pc, then try again -

 

believe this error is related to onedrive ( from what i could find on the internet ----- why in the hell do i need onedrive running to run something already on my hard drive and doesnt need internet access to run it????

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

3 minutes ago, cretsiah said:

so now in steam i have same issue in windows 11 that i have in linux .

 

click play, gme goes to launch, then just stops and play button comes back.

 

thought id try a gog game no online requirement for the game get an error

- make sure my-name personal is running on your pc, then try again -

 

believe this error is related to onedrive ( from what i could find on the internet ----- why in the hell do i need onedrive running to run something already on my hard drive and doesnt need internet access to run it????

Do you have your Steam library on OneDrive or something? What makes you think that's the culprit?  

[Gegueure]

42 minutes ago, cretsiah said:

 why in the hell do i need onedrive running to run something already on my hard drive and doesnt need internet access to run it????

Alright, so, yes this is stupid and should be done better. Here's a pointer, it'll only be useful if this is related to OneDrive at all.

 

When you have your documents synced with OD, what would normally go into

C:\users\you\Documents

now goes to

C:\users\you\OneDrive\Documents

 

If OneDrive is enabled post-install, it will initially move the stuff from the former to the latter, unless you told it to not sync that particular folder.

 

If OneDrive is running but you are offline, this is still accessible and will sync when you're back online.

If you outright stop OneDrive or it is otherwise not running, however, it isn't accessible.

Some games will store data in there though, such as saved games and mods. So if the game verifies that it is able to read and write those things before letting you play, that would be problematic.

 

Another thing that can happen, and this has caused a little stress with an important piece of software at work, is that some software will look for a file using an absolute path. So if a file was previously found in C:\users\you\Documents and OneDrive later was enabled and moved that to C:\users\you\OneDrive\Documents the software will not find it. In the case of our incident at work, the software would not launch and not offer to browse for the new location of the file, so the only solution was to copy it from C:\users\you\OneDrive\Documents to C:\users\you\Documents so the software would launch and we could then point it to the new location.

 

So it's not that you need OneDrive to do this, but if you had OneDrive enabled in the past and you've now disabled it without going through the full process of copying your stuff to the "traditional" location and cleanly removing OneDrive, that's likely to cause issues.

 

Good luck, I hope that helps.

 

[cretsiah]

On 8/13/2023 at 10:46 AM, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Do you have your Steam library on OneDrive or something? What makes you think that's the culprit?  

for steam no

 

the issue appeared to be the multiple redistributals i needed,

- [dot net ] 3.5 through to 4.8.1

- directx runtime end-user

also turning on legacy option

 

On 8/13/2023 at 11:20 AM, Gegueure said:

Alright, so, yes this is stupid and should be done better. Here's a pointer, it'll only be useful if this is related to OneDrive at all.

 

When you have your documents synced with OD, what would normally go into

C:\users\you\Documents

now goes to

C:\users\you\OneDrive\Documents

 

If OneDrive is enabled post-install, it will initially move the stuff from the former to the latter, unless you told it to not sync that particular folder.

 

If OneDrive is running but you are offline, this is still accessible and will sync when you're back online.

If you outright stop OneDrive or it is otherwise not running, however, it isn't accessible.

Some games will store data in there though, such as saved games and mods. So if the game verifies that it is able to read and write those things before letting you play, that would be problematic.

 

Another thing that can happen, and this has caused a little stress with an important piece of software at work, is that some software will look for a file using an absolute path. So if a file was previously found in C:\users\you\Documents and OneDrive later was enabled and moved that to C:\users\you\OneDrive\Documents the software will not find it. In the case of our incident at work, the software would not launch and not offer to browse for the new location of the file, so the only solution was to copy it from C:\users\you\OneDrive\Documents to C:\users\you\Documents so the software would launch and we could then point it to the new location.

 

So it's not that you need OneDrive to do this, but if you had OneDrive enabled in the past and you've now disabled it without going through the full process of copying your stuff to the "traditional" location and cleanly removing OneDrive, that's likely to cause issues.

 

Good luck, I hope that helps.

 

yeah when i re-looked at it....

 

the desktop shortcuts had been altered to point at one drive ..... so ive deleted them  WARNING for others though

 

if file is identified as being in one drive and you delete it, it deletes all copies of the file from everywhere ( everywhere it is aware of )

- so you know need to be weary of deleting files, you may not find that file on your system.

 

 

thanks to both of you