Slow loading times on native games running from a NTFS partition

  • Games don’t launch
  • Games don’t launch correctly
  • Games crash
  • Games have lower performance
  • Games have issues writing to disk
  • Steam says game file is corrupted (but they aren’t)

It’s on a game-by-game, a proton-by-proton version, and a wine-by-wine version basis. It’s just too much of a headache to deal with. You can search “NTFS” on /r/linux_gaming if you want. A lot of people have issues with it.

What do you mean? If you get an SSD, just format it to ext4?