[Linux] Black screen after first run + "fix"

[guppy]

Once I run the game once starting it againg will cause a black screen to cover the game and the "shift tab to activate steam overlay" message smears across said blackness when it scrolls out of view.

This also hold true for "start in safe mode" one run and all start ups after gives you the black screen.

When played over steamlink the blackscreen is pure green for what ever reason.

The "fix" is to navigate to

~/.config/unity3d/Monomi Park/Slime Rancher/

and delete the files;

prefs
slimerancher.prf

This makes the start up slower but it actually works now.

Please fix that, it is *very* anoying!


Ubuntu 16.04 ( 64bit )
Kernel :L 4.4.0-43-generic #63-Ubuntu
Nvidia GTX 970
Driver version : 361.42

[guppy]

"Thank you for reporting this bug, we will look into it"


no?

[Silvyy]

Im getting this bug on osx to havent tested he fix yet

[MoonLS]

Really thank you for this fix.

[Zen]

< new linux user. Where is this .config folder you are speaking about?

[guppy]

Originally posted by Zen:

< new linux user. Where is this .config folder you are speaking about?

in linux "~" is a shortcut to your home folder

any file or folder that starts with "." ( like .config ) is considered to be hidden and will not show up unless you ask for it.

Since you are new I'll assume you aren't using the command line, so start up your file browser and press the [CTRL] & [L] keys this should open a prompt with something like

"/home/zen"

in it

here you can simple paste "~/.config/unity3d/Monomi Park/Slime Rancher/" and hit enter to be taken to that folder.

if you press the [CTRL] & [H] keys the file browser should reveal hidden files and you can navigate there manually - but I do not recommend it the files are hidden so the average Joe does not accidentally muck with something he should not.

[ℒ𝓸𝓵𝓸 ♡]

thank you so much. it stinks that i gotta do this fix everytime i start up the game

[Monomi Park]

We have been unable to reproduce the behavior you describe. If you could provide the specific prefs and slimerancher.prf files you are having to delete between games, these may be helpful in recreating the circumstances you are seeing.

If you prefer, you can email [e-mail] as well. We'll do our best to fix it.

[guppy]

Originally posted by Monomi Park:

We have been unable to reproduce the behavior you describe. If you could provide the specific prefs and slimerancher.prf files you are having to delete between games, these may be helpful in recreating the circumstances you are seeing.

If you prefer, you can email [e-mail] as well. We'll do our best to fix it.

I only just now notice this, I will get back to you as soon as I can - I've not even had a chance to test if the science update fixed my issue, but I'll mail you the files once I do.

[guppy]

hmm could've sworn I wrote back here..
At any rate the "science update" appeares to have fixed the issue

[NightKid]

The exact same issue started happening to me some time around Ogden’s Wild Update.

The game seems to be unable to set the screen resolution correctly in full screen mode. On the very first run, it breaks resolution; on consequent runs, it's just black screen. Changing to windowed in .config/unity3d/Monomi Park/Slime Rancher/prefs makes it run again:

<pref name="Screenmanager Is Fullscreen mode" type="int">0</pref>

If you're suffering from this, you can also change the file to read-only to prevent it from being overwritten, until Monomi release their fix :)

chmod 444 ".config/unity3d/Monomi Park/Slime Rancher/prefs"

[NightKid]

Forgot to mention that i've faced this on two different machines running Gentoo Linux with the Nvidia drivers 340.104 (latest legacy). My graphics chips are NVS 4200M and 9800GT . Rusty is the word :)

Another useful workaround: when you get <quote>the black screen to cover the game and the "shift tab to activate steam overlay" message smears across said blackness when it scrolls out of view</quote> - simply press alt+tab, right-click on SR's window in the taskbar, and change it from fullscreen to windowed (KDE experience). The game successfully changes to windowed mode and recovers all rendering, you can even go back fullscreen right away. If your windows manager doesn't support changing the fullscreen attribute, try alt+enter. Otherwise, refer to your desktop environment's documentation :)

[Belisama]

There's a fullscreen-on-Linux bug in the current version of Unity3D. The workaround is to play windowed. Loads of games are being affected by it, unfortunately; I've been playing *all* Unity3D games windowed just to save myself the grief of finding out the hard way which ones are affected.

[Caos Danzante]

Originally posted by NightKid:

<pref name="Screenmanager Is Fullscreen mode" type="int">0</pref>

this fixed it for me, it also solved another problem that at the start I would see the menu for a split second and then it disappeared, so I couldn't actually start the game