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captaincurrie

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From: /dev/random

Registered: 2013-11-01

Posts: 82

Steam - Install-game only fetches 1MB

Hello,

I have Steam installed in a 32-bit systemd-nspawn container inside my 64-bit machines
Install runs fine.

When i got it running, i purchased a game (Divinity - Original Sin) and installed it. It downloaded the
full game (about 10GB).

Then i encountered an error, which i thought was due to me not prefixing the original systemd-nspawn command with `linux32`

Anyways i preceded to delete the enitre contained and do it all over again

However, when i got steam running, now when i try to install the game, it will only download 1MB and then says its finished
the download. That is obviously not correct since the game is not installed. Thus when i try to play the game it says

  'missing executable'

Anyways, just wondering if anyone else has come across this issue?

Any ideas?

XDarkAngelX

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Registered: 2014-01-08

Posts: 62

Re: Steam - Install-game only fetches 1MB

This behavior usually happens when you run steam on 32 bit machine(or environment) and you try to install 64-bit game , Divinity - Original Sin seem to be a 64-bit game  so I guess you need your container to be 64-bit

captaincurrie

Member

From: /dev/random

Registered: 2013-11-01

Posts: 82

Re: Steam - Install-game only fetches 1MB

. I will try this.

At the onset, this does conform with my diagnosis that i forgot to prefix the booting of the container with linux32.

Thanks

captaincurrie

Member

From: /dev/random

Registered: 2013-11-01

Posts: 82

Re: Steam - Install-game only fetches 1MB

@XDarkAngelX

Thanks again, that was exactly the issue. I didn't know that some games are only available as 64bit.