Hi, thank you so much for this script. I'm using it with XLCore and it's working flawlessly! :) GitHub Star +1!

I wonder what the proper way is to update the GShade and the presets via the menu?

./gshade_installer.sh 
Welcome to GShade!  Please select an option:
	1) Check for an update to GShade
	2) Install to a custom game
	P) Update presets
	F) Attempt auto-install for FFXIV
	B) Create a backup of existing GShade game installations
	S) Show games GShade is installed to
	L) Change GShade's language
	R) Remove game from installed games list
	D) Delete GShade from game and remove from list
	0) Redownload compilers
	Q) Quit

I am currently doing these in order:

1) Check for an update to GShade
P) Update presets
F) Attempt auto-install for FFXIV

It's probably overkill, but the menu isn't clear about which ones are supposed to be used for updates. For all I know, maybe F already does a "update GShade and Presets and update the game folder". Heck, maybe Check for update and Update presets also already auto-install, so F is unnecessary.

Without reading the script in depth, I can only speculate what the proper update method is...

Perhaps the text labels in the menu can be rewritten a bit to clarify the update-process without users having to refer to external sources such as this GitHub ticket. :D

Anyway, thanks again for this beautiful installer. I love having it natively handle without needing to use Wine to run the GShade.exe. <3

Just some suggestions from my own experience with this script.

First, it didn'T work for me. I have a FFXIV install I moved from Windows ('blank' install -- no mods installed) but my install is in ~/Games/ffxiv/drive_c/SquareEnix/FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn/. The install kept on trying to install itself in ~/Games/ffxiv/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/SquareEnix/FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn/.

I ended up opening the script in a file editor and mass-replaced the wrong path with the right path. But figured I'd report my experience.

EDIT: I was using the auto-detect function (F).

Hello.
I just ran the installation script for ffxiv. it detected the wineprefix and the game location correctly. the installer said that it installed everything successfully. However since the install, the launcher starts as normal, but it no longer launches the game. the launcher window disappears as normal, but the game window never shows up. I read this is normal with the 32 bit version, but xivlauncher is using the 64 bit version.
I wish I could provide better info, like logs, but I am not sure where to find them or which logs would be relevant. I'll happily provide more information when you tell me which information you need.

I'm something of a newb with Gshade and Linux so it will probably be the case that I'm just being stupid but I'm trying to install Gshade on my Pop!_OS system for the game Kingdom Come Deliverance but when I try option 2 (install to a custom game) I input the location of the WINEPREFIX $HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/379430/pfx but a message is returned saying that the directory does not exist.

I have a reshade installation in my Kingdom Come folder which I could fall back on but it is currently being overridden by Gshade in-game but there are not settings/presets available because they haven't actually been installed.

I can't physically delete Gshade from my computer because I initially placed the installer in it's current location using root # rather than $

Could anybody give me any advice?

Thanks in advance.

I'm not sure that currently when you install gshade to a proton prefix this script can deal with the fact that ffxiv might not be located at the default steam ffxiv location c://programfiles....etc etc., for example if you run xivlauncher and set your ffxiv install to somewhere outside of c://

I say this because i tried to install gshade to my prefix and while gshade is installed and works, I can't find the gshade presets

Since the Developer of GShade got banned and his GitHub got deleted, this script no longer works.
You can archive this now. Good job for making this script.

I'm not sure this script can do anything about this issue, but GShade itself doesn't have an issue tracker. I posted this on their Discord too.

I am playing with Proton 5.13-5 via Steam, but I just tested with the FFXIVQuickLauncher version on Lutris and it happens there too. (Weirdly I get constant seconds-long temporary freezes with that which I never saw with Proton. Haven't bothered to troubleshoot that.)

Certainly not an important issue, since the user should already have the script downloaded and has no need to visit the homepage to download the update. But I'm wondering if there could be an easy fix/workaround for this, or is the link making some system call that's unsupported by Wine? Should I file a bug on WineHQ?

I've cloned the repo from github and tried to run the ffxiv autodetect, but I get this output:

$ ./gshade_installer.sh ffxiv

Lutris install found!find: ‘/media/poldovico/Games/Lutris/final-fantasy-xiv-online\n''/drive_c’: File or directory does not exist

	Prefix location: /media/poldovico/Games/Lutris/final-fantasy-xiv-online
''
	Game location: 
Install? y
Installing...  ./gshade_installer.sh: riga 476: pushd: $'/media/poldovico/Games/Lutris/final-fantasy-xiv-online\n\'\'': File or directory does not exist

There seems to be a random newline getting in there from somewhere, but I can't figure out where from.

It seems like $installDir is not set, since its trys to install to /gshade-presets, which just doesnt seem right

Welcome to GShade!  Please select an option:
        1) Check for an update to GShade
        2) Install to a custom game
        P) Update presets
        F) Attempt auto-install for FFXIV
        B) Create a backup of existing GShade game installations
        S) Show games GShade is installed to
        L) Change GShade's language
        R) Remove game from installed games list
        D) Delete GShade from game and remove from list
        0) Redownload compilers
        Q) Quit
Performing backup...cp: cannot stat '/GShade.ini': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/gshade-presets': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create directory '/gshade-presets': Permission denied
Updating presets...SSL_INIT
SSL_INIT
cp: cannot create directory '/gshade-presets': Permission denied
Done!

I have used gshade_installer.sh(https://github.com/Mortalitas/GShade-Bash-Installer) to install, but failed, gshade_installer.sh only work for the sims 4 launched with crossover, but a Native Macos App.

I have a very crude script that looks through all Steam install locations to make some symlinks. It's ugly, but maybe you can use some of what's there to make the XIVInstall find FFXIV no matter where it lives?

https://github.com/screwylightbulb/SteamCompatLink

I guess I could submit a PR also, but I don't want to mess with your script. My bash is not great.

EDIT: I have made the change and tested on my own and my partner's systems. Below is the chunk of code that changed:

  # create array of steamdirs first
  steamdirs=("$HOME/.steam/steam")
  readarray -t steamdirs < <(cat ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/libraryfolders.vdf | grep "/" | awk '{ print $2  }' | sed s/\"//g)

  # find the one containing ffxiv
  for dir in "${steamdirs[@]}"; do
    compatdir="${dir}/steamapps/compatdata/39210/pfx"
    if [ -d "${compatdir}" ]; then
      ffxivDir="${dir}"
    fi
  done

  if [ -d "${ffxivDir}/steamapps/common/FINAL FANTASY XIV Online/game/" ] && [ -d "${ffxivDir}/steamapps/compatdata/39210/pfx" ]; then
    WINEPREFIX="${ffxivDir}/steamapps/compatdata/39210/pfx"
    gameLoc="${ffxivDir}/steamapps/common/FINAL FANTASY XIV Online/game/"
    printf "\nSteam install found!\n\tPrefix location: %s\n\tGame location: %s\n" "$WINEPREFIX" "$gameLoc"
    if (yesNo "Install? "); then
        if ( ! yesNo "Use $gapi instead of dxgi?  If you are having issues with GShade when using other overlays (Steam or Discord, for instance), you may wish to try dxgi mode instead." ); then gapi=dxgi; fi
      printf "\nInstalling...  "
      installGame
      printf "Complete!\n"
    fi
  fi

When run, the script gives

user@Linux-PC:~/gshade_installer$ sh gshade_installer.sh 
gshade_installer.sh: 26: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Script downloaded by cloning the github repo.

$ ./gshade_installer.sh update
Restoring any applicable GShade.ini settings...  ./gshade_installer.sh: line 227: printf: `D': invalid format character
Completed!
GShade-v4.0.0 installed.

$ git describe --all --long
heads/master-0-g6559b8a

It seems that line 227

  confFile=$(printf "$(<$iniFile)")

assumes that the content of $iniFile is a format-string?

Hey there,

I've been following the guide over at https://github.com/seathasky/FF14-MAC_ModSupport for running XIV over Crossover. I have the game running and am trying to get gshade working using your script per step 5.

Unfortunately I'm hung up on running the script due to:

Creating... The following necessary command(s) could not be found: wine
,%

I have Wine 5.0 installed in addition to Crossover so I'm not sure why there's a wine command missing. Advice?