Game progress loss when ran with lutris?

[u/DressCurious9416]

Hello guys. I have posted the same question in r/SteamDeck already but I'm gonna put it here as well just in case.

So basically, Im trying to play a visual novel using Luna Translator to translate it and the way I've been doing it is running both the game and LT .exe files in the same wine prefix with lutris. It worked fine before but I've used a windows laptop for some time and partially played the game on there. Now when I try to run the .exe file with lutris it seems to not be able to access steam save files or something and I lose my progress. It's not a problem when I open the game with steam, but then I can't use LT as it doesn't see the game.

Is there any way to let the game's .exe access its steam save files? Or a better way to make it work as a whole?

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[u/Flamekorn]

I dont understand its steam save files but you using lutris? Why not just use steam?

If you need to use lutris then just copy the save files from where steam saves to where lutris saves.
It will be 2 different folders.
They both save inside their own prefixes and its why you are not seeing them.

But if a game runs in steam well, just run steam.

[u/DressCurious9416 → u/Flamekorn]

Thank you, I will try that out!

The reason I can't just use steam is because I'm playing on steam deck and linux prevents the game translator from interacting with the game if I run it normally, so the only way I managed to make it work is by running them both in the same prefix.