[SUPPORT] [LINUX] Steam + Ubuntu 14.04 + windowed = issue

Big Pharma Pharma Support
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I’m running BP (now with added Malpractice, yay!) through Steam on Ubuntu 14.04 (with a dual monitor setup), and I’ve been having a recurring issue in that the game always runs itself in full-screen mode, even though I have selected windowed. It’s running fine (essentially; the mouse icon is a bit weird, but nothing major) and this is not a huge problem, but it’s irritating that I can’t move it from the primary monitor to the secondary where I would prefer it to go.

Strangely, I have no such issues with my laptop running Linux Mint 17.3, which is built on Ubuntu 14.04.

Player.log follows.

[code]ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/home/philip/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
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Setting maxVSyncInterval to 4
GL: disabling shadows on Intel 9xx (buggy)
GL: disabling framebuffer blit, antialiasing, SRGB on Intel
GL: Detected 0 MB VRAM
Total system RAM: 7878 MiB
Initialize engine version: 4.6.0f3 (30840d631a27)
AudioManager: Using ALSA: default
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Hmm, very strange. Perhaps we can force it by editing the config.ini here:

…\Big Pharma\Big Pharma_Data\GameData\Settings\config.ini

Add the following:

[DISPLAYSETTINGS] RESOLUTIONHEIGHT=XXX RESOLUTIONWIDTH=XXX FULLSCREEN=0

And change the resolution to the one you are looking for. It’s a long shot but worth a try.

Other than that then I am really stumped. The game is built with Unity and I just use the in-built methods to switch to windowed mode. I don’t have any control over the specific implementation on an operating system by operating system basis.

Tim

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Maybe its windowed but maximized?

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Well, it’s the weirdest fix I’ve done in a long time, but it’s fixed! I changed the FULLSCREEN variable from 0 to 1, ran BP, then I changed it back from 1 to 0 and I got a proper windowed mode. We’ll see whether it sticks now, but at least I know what to do! Thanks!

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Ah, yes I can see why this might work. Unity keeps its own config files somewhere so that it starts up in the same resolution and windowed/fullscreen mode as when you last shut it down.

My little config.ini overrides this setting within the first few seconds after launch. So it’s possible some sort of strange interplay between these two has allowed it to work. I hope it lasts!

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Just an update on this: it fixes it temporarily but then reverts, presumably once BP over-writes the file. Weird! Thanks for trying; it’s playable as is, so don’t waste time on it. :slight_smile: