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game-warthunder: Discover the native Linux version - #24400

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War Thunder is native on Linux and Steam installs the Linux build there, which has linux64/aces instead of win64/aces.exe. Since win64/aces.exe was required, the game was never discovered on Linux.

On Linux the executable is now picked from what's installed: win64/aces.exe if the Windows build is there (game set to run through Proton), linux64/aces otherwise (it has an $ORIGIN rpath, so it finds the libraries next to it). The required file is aces.vromfs.bin, which both builds have.

Checked against a Steam install, both with the native build (linux64/aces) and switched to Proton (win64/aces.exe). Before this it wasn't discovered with the native build.

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