Wait for the download to finish all of about a few hundred MB (Steam does not download the entire game, just the base part of it and the launcher).ĢA - At this point in time if you have the game installed on another drive (such as a Windows drive) I recommend taking the “game” and “boot” folder and removing them from the game files install of your new fresh install on Linux and then copying it over. Step 2: Install the game Go to your games Library. Checkbox the option to enable Steam Play for all other titles and hit ok. You can right click the Steam icon on your task bar, dock, or system tray (depending on your Desktop environment) and then go to “Settings.” From there go to “Steam play” section. exe without the -issteam launch command that runs by default on the steam version' - ShadowĪfter installing Steam you will want to go to your settings to enable Steam Play for all titles. You can use it to intercept the launch of the game and point it back to the. 'If you want to use your non-steam account with the steam version you can use Steam Tinker Launcher. Per the comment below from them in the comments section: Apparently you can use the non-steam version with Steam proton. As I do not have a non-steam Final Fantasy account I have no way of trying to get the non-steam version to run, but for getting it to run without Steam proton many have stated they’ve had luck with Lutris.Ĭredit to Shadow from the comments section below for this remark. Note: This guide is for the Steam version only and running it through Steam Proton. Using the steps from this guide I am writing I was able to get FFXIV to run through Steam Proton on the following distributions: True, I could post this guide on protonDB in the comments, but as they are just comments this guide would likely fall down to the wayside when new comments are posted. So you use Linux and want to play Final Fantasy XIV on it? Then you’ve reached the right guide. non-steam version or using Lutris instead of Proton to launch it, I will not be updating the guide to go in-depth into them. Since these options involve doing things outside of official steam stuff, e.g. Non-steam people can still use this guide at this time along with the argument of 'NOSTEAM=1 %command%' as the launch arguments. Once linked people have been runing the windows version of Steam in the background of their Lutris wine container and launching it from Lutris. For now, most people are using Windows on another PC or Virtual Machine to do the steam account link, which REQUIRES windows to work. I am keeping the guide here for historic purposes, and may update it as I see fit once things have settled and a surefire way to launch the new official launcher from within proton has come about.

Update Mach 12 2022: Due to the March 2022 update which forces Steam users to use the new launcher this guide will no longer work.

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