Issue with running a game

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#1

Hey,

I recently found out Bottles. I really like its UX and decide to give it a try.

The best thing is that I can have many apps in single bottle, so I don’t have to create multiple prefix for every single one of them. The problem is that I can’t set up different settings for every installed program.

However, my main problem is related to a game. I installed a game that is perfectly running with Lutris but I get an error when I run it via Bottles. The error is that it needs Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime.
But I have installed them from “dependencies” tab.

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I’m not sure why it doesn’t work…
I’m using Flatpak version with custom bottles path in my secondary HDD in /mnt.

#2

Which game it is? Can you update the title with the game?

#3

Hmm, very strange. I deleted my bottle and recreated it. This time everything works as expected.
I just noticed that last time the windows directory was about 600-700 mb, now it’s 1.4gb.
I suspect that the problem was caused by the Flatpak sandbox, but actually, this is the main reason I decided to move to Bottles.

As I said, I use my secondary HDD which is mounted in /mnt, so in Bottles preferences, I chose a custom bottles path. Is this OK? I’m asking because it says “This will break the sandbox!”. How does choosing a custom bottles path break the sandbox? I want to use the sandbox functionality for sure.

#4

This breaks the sandbox because your next bottles are placed outside the Bottles path, So your bottles could potentially access external files too

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#5

Okay… so there is no way to move my games in an external HDD and keep the sandbox at the same time?

#6

You can reduce risks just exposing the single path instead of the whole device

#7

I don’t use Flatpak at all and I’m not familiar with it. By “exposing” you mean “Other files” option in Flatseal?
I set up it like this:
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So, I gave it access only to this specific “Bottles” folder, right?

#8

Yes, it should be enough

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