Wine games full screen

One additional fact I just noticed! Then I decided to go to the display resolution configuration screen, did not adjust anything and just pressed apply…. Started the game and it works when requesting full screen option… the setting will of course get lost shortly but really, What the F? To be honest, I have always found Wine to be a bit flaky when using anything but the most obvious MS Office type applications and, even then, can still act up a bit.

Wine is a good idea in principle. But, in my own experience, in practice it often falls short of expectations. When faced with MS Windows only games. I will, in order, try to find a Linux port of the game, run the game in Wine, run the game in Virtual-Box or run the game in a separate, dedicated MS Windows gaming partition that I can log into at the Grub boot screen.

Of all of the above, running the separate Windows partition is the one that is guaranteed to work every single time. But is the most hassle to set-up. Thanks for your feedback. The laptop was made for WinXp, so I imagine that I should try virtualbox with some pirate version of win Xp? Not that I am suggesting you should because that would be illegal…ahem , but you can be certain of downloading an old copy of, say, XP, if you go on any of the popular torrent sites. In all seriousness, though, be warned that they could contain Trojans etc.

Thus, if you intend to go down that route, ensure you always use it offline. In other words, if you intend to play on-line games on an MS windows partition, I would seriously recommend using a legit version of Ms Windows. Thanks Steve, I am not intending to use it online so will certainly go down that route. As said before the problem disappears when I go into display settings and only apply the existing resolution config.

So I went looking for the command behind it and came accross xrandr. In the man page I noticed that a dryrun extension is possible and when I reboot the laptop closed screen, external monitor connected on docking I confirm the windowing issue by opening the application through Wine. Maybe there is something going on inside the xrandr realm with the 2 screens etc. So my thought for a workaround is that if I create a batch file and let it run automatically after the boot of the desktop this should resolve the issue as well.

I hope there is a way to do this in Linux? Now the game will be invisible but I can hear the menu music and sound effects.

No matter if I set Virtual Desktop to x or leave it at x No visual representation of the game. Work around - Changing the resolution in-game, killing it, then disabling the virtual desktop. Cinnamon confirmed - I tested a game in Openbox with the Virtual Desktop enabled and the game appeared full-screen just fine.

I have 3 computers with Mint The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. I just installed Mint 18 and found that the virtual desktop bug still exists. I will do a few more tests, but I'm getting to the point where I'm not going to use the virtual desktop any more. Sorry, something went wrong. The problem is worse with certain older games like Sacred and Ghost Recon.

The initially run at x or x and when I try to set the resolution to match my Mint desktop the game is invisible. I can hear the game, but see nothing. The only solution is to kill the game and disable the virtual desktop. But some games like Ghost Recon has a menu stuck at x and impossible to navigate without the virtual desktop.

Joined Jan 28, Messages 12, 3. There may be a Wine setting to allow applications to go into full screen mode. Is it the machine in your specs with the ?

Edit: Hmmm, not explicitly. How about those other settings about letting the WM control the window? Aquinus said:. HTC said:. I suggest switching to the HWE stack and using either oibaf which is what I'm currently using and a little more bleeding edge or padoka which I used to use and is slightly less bleeding edge and sticking with regular AMDGPU provided by those PPAs which is what I'm doing with my That gets you the 4.

That also gets you Gallium 9 for DX9 apps, if that's important to you. Edit: I would like to just add that I've been using Ubuntu exclusively for at least a half and a half at this point and this is where I've ended up so far. Ubuntu only releases stable releases of things like amdgpu and mesa. The bleeding edge code has, in many cases, performed far better than the PRO driver. A lot has been happening lately with the newer kernels, mesa, and llvm that improve performance.

Stupid questions: what do i need to do to try the programs you suggested earlier? Do i need to uninstall anything and, if so, how do i go about doing it? Until last week, i didn't know that i could just re-load another kernel in the GRUB menu if the current one got borked so, when that happened and it did quite a few times , i re-installed Ubuntu from scratch erased the HDD. When starting the PC, i chose an earlier kernel 4. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages or specify a solution.

Joined Oct 2, Messages 2, 1. GoldenX said:. E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. E: Unable to lock the download directory.

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