Linux Game launches on secondary display

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Marten B
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My setup on Ubuntu, my displays are primary 1920 x 1080 and Secondary 1200 x 1920 (portrait mode). The game no matter what I do launches on the secondary display in 1920 x 1080 and being as it is a portrait display I can only see a slither of the game screen. I cant even read the setting menu because it off the side of the 1200 wide portrait screen.


I now have close to a dozen linux steam games and this is the only one that insists on launching on a secondary monitor.


I've reinstalled the game. Reinstalled Ubuntu 14.04 / 15.04 and are now on 15.10. Same problem everytime.


This has been the case for me since beta. I just gave up on the game and check sometimes when I feel like playing and its still broken.


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Linux

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Scott Richmond Programmer & Producer
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Hey Marten,


I have made a special build of the game for you that hopefully fixes part or all of your issue. You can access this build by opting into our beta branch as instructed below.


Right click the game in Steam and go to Properties. In the Betas tab, type in the password 'publicpassword' and hit Check Code. Select the 'publictestbranch' in the dropdown box above and then close the window. Steam should perform an update.



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anonymous

Bumping tickets is fine it allows us to see whats been tried before ;)

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Rivia Kallestofeles

Thank you Marten.

Did just that. Sorry to bump an old topic here. :)

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Marten B
Quote from Rivia Kallestofeles

Hi Marten,


Thanks, but as I said, in-game options have no effect.

Sorry to hear that Rivia. All I can suggest is open a new bug. The instruction for the logs where on this post

https://forum.brightrockgames.com/threads/please-read-how-to-report-a-bug.4689/#post-51529




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Rivia Kallestofeles
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For me it was fixed in a patch months ago. Now in the display settings there is a select monitor option with 0,1,2 as settings. Try each one and you should find the correct number for your display.

Hi Marten,


Thanks, but as I said, in-game options have no effect.

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Marten B
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Hi,


Sorry to necro the old thread but the issue is back.

I have a 2-monitor setup with both being at 1080p resolution. Game always starts on the secondary monitor.

In-game settings do not matter, they don't change anything.


The only workaround I have found so far is that when I use the launch option: -show-screen-selector

Then when I select Windowed mode, it actually starts on the correct output and goes to full-screen automatically. Though, I would need to do this every time.


Please let me know what kind of logs are needed.

Current setup is:

Kernel: 4.10.1-1-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Arch Linux

Mobo: MSI model: Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918)

Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz


Thank you!

For me it was fixed in a patch months ago. Now in the display settings there is a select monitor option with 0,1,2 as settings. Try each one and you should find the correct number for your display.

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Rivia Kallestofeles

Hi,


Sorry to necro the old thread but the issue is back.

I have a 2-monitor setup with both being at 1080p resolution. Game always starts on the secondary monitor.

In-game settings do not matter, they don't change anything.


The only workaround I have found so far is that when I use the launch option: -show-screen-selector

Then when I select Windowed mode, it actually starts on the correct output and goes to full-screen automatically. Though, I would need to do this every time.


Please let me know what kind of logs are needed.

Current setup is:

Kernel: 4.10.1-1-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Arch Linux

Mobo: MSI model: Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918)

Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz


Thank you!

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Scott Richmond Programmer & Producer
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That's great news! Steam must not have properly downloaded the hotfix the first time. Hopefully this experience wasn't too painful for you, and thanks for helping us resolve it.


As an FYI - When v1.4 comes out, you will automatically be pushed off of the beta channel and into the default channel where Steam will automatically download and update your game. So no further action is required by you.

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Marten B

Well I switched back to the beta and it now works. Game launchs on the correct display and resolution.

Player.log


prefs


Settings.ini

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Scott Richmond Programmer & Producer

Hey Marten,


Would you mind uploading the log after trying to launch the beta game again? Seems the one above is cut off and doesn't have the entire log text in it.

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Stefan Furcht Programmer

This hotfix version does work for me in my Ubuntu virtual machine.
We thought it hangs for you only because of the weird 3K screen size setup
and thought by editing the settings it will work for you as well.