Full-Screen Broken after patch

[Luke]

Before the patch, I couldn't go to any resolution higher than 1680x1050 without part of the game being cropped (couldn't see skill bar, etc.). Now, post patch I can't get the game to run in full-screen at all.

I enjoy the game so far, and would love to continue to play it, but I don't want to play it in a tiny window. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.

If anyone knows of any tricks, please pass them my way.

OS: Win 8.1
VC: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M (lastes driver: GeForce 335.23)

[reverendloc]

Hey Lonewolf40000! We've actually patched this... Twice! It has fixed the issue for most people, but not all.

If our known work-arounds aren't working for you I can recommend two other things:

Try changing your monitor's resolution before launching the game.

If using multiple monitors, try just connecting a single monitor.

I hope that helps!

[lonewolf40000]

http://imgur.com/a/Ja9o9

No juice :/

In normal 1920 x 1080, 125% DPI, setting -windowed -noborder -x 2400 -y 1350, the screen size is correct but severely offset

In 1280 x 720, the screen is fullscreen but the bottom gets cut off entirely.

I can also try kicking back down to 100% DPI, but that kind of had the same problem - it seems that for whatever reason I can't get it to work properly.

WHen setting -windowed, i also noticed I can't 'move' the window at all either. Plus the 'resolution' list in settings is entirely blank.

Let me know if I can provide anything like logs or such that might help. I poked around the folders and couldn't find anything that looked helpful

[Sard Caid]

lonewolf,

When you make these changes, ae you logging off and back in? Some scaling effects require a reboot of windows to take effect.

No scaling will help you if you are keeping your base windows resolution at UHD. Given my PC is for gaming, I decided to drop to 1920x1080 windows resolution and haven't had issues since.

Hope this helps,

SC

[Soüp]

From what I can tell fullscreen is broken because the game simply does not have a fullscreen mode. Setting fullscreen either through the menu or through the launch options uses borderless windowed mode. This is unfortunately of great detriment to me since games stutter badly in windowed mode on my PC and this one is no exception.

Are there any plans to address the lack of true fullscreen mode in the game? I don't recall having the same issue with Bastion.

[lonewolf40000]

@Sard, yeah log off when changing scaling back to default of 100% - the game size is better, but not ful-screen. For whatever reason I just can't get the game fullscreen.

@Soup - this makes sense, because there are no listed resolutions in the game menu (for me at least).

@Developers - is there anything else you guys can do here? I'm grateful for the advice so far, but if its an issue thats persisting two patches later, maybe its worth revisiting? I honestly have been waiting for a sale to buy this game and support your studio, and feel rather let down right now.

Edit: So if I change the resolution of my screen to 1388 x 738 or whatever that odd resolution is, its *almost* fullscreen. But the borders are horrible and its not 1080P., Latest drivers didn't fix anything either.

More Edits: So I have two monitors: A 42" TV hooked up via HDMI, and my 16:10 21.5" monitor hooked up via DVI. Both have the same issue - the game will not scale to 1080P. Even with a single monitor hooked up and all that jazz.

[reverendloc]

@Soüp

We do have a real Fullscreen mode. Setting Fullscreen in the in-game options, or launch options, is True Fullscreen.

That is why you have to manually set launch options to get a borderless window.

@lonewolf40000

Have you tried setting your 1920 x 1080 display to 1920 x 1080 with launch options? It may also help to ignore DPI scaling when doing so.

Can you also try: Disconnecting all but one monitor, then rebooting your system?

Another thing to try: Locate Profile1.xml and delete this save file. It's possible that you have some corrupt data stored in your profile save file that is setting an unexpected resolution. You can find this file in Steam\userdata\<USER_ID>\237930\local

[Soüp]

Originally posted by reverendloc:

@Soüp

We do have a real Fullscreen mode. Setting Fullscreen in the in-game options, or launch options, is True Fullscreen.

That is why you have to manually set launch options to get a borderless window.

I know what the game says, but it behaves like borderless window rather than fullscreen.
1) G-sync does not activate on my monitor, which I have set active globally for every game and only functions in fullscreen mode.
2) My aforementioned performance issues with windowed mode games, which Transistor exhibits.
3) I do not get the brief telltale monitor flicker that a game going into fullscreen mode causes when this game starts up.

I don't know how it's programmed in the game engine, but it definitely isn't fullscreen as I understand the term and does not function the same way as fullscreen mode in other games.

[lonewolf40000]

Originally posted by reverendloc:

@Soüp

We do have a real Fullscreen mode. Setting Fullscreen in the in-game options, or launch options, is True Fullscreen.

That is why you have to manually set launch options to get a borderless window.

@lonewolf40000

Have you tried setting your 1920 x 1080 display to 1920 x 1080 with launch options? It may also help to ignore DPI scaling when doing so.

Can you also try: Disconnecting all but one monitor, then rebooting your system?

Another thing to try: Locate Profile1.xml and delete this save file. It's possible that you have some corrupt data stored in your profile save file that is setting an unexpected resolution. You can find this file in Steam\userdata\<USER_ID>\237930\local

Yeah, I've tried these things - just sent an update e-mail to your info@supergiant e-mail.

It seems like the game defaults to some wierd settings in that \userdata\ folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ConfigOptions>
<FireOnSelect>true</FireOnSelect>
<Subtitles>true</Subtitles>
<UseLowResAssets>true</UseLowResAssets>
<UseMouse>true</UseMouse>
<X>1344</X>
<Y>840</Y>
</ConfigOptions>

@Soup, can you check that file and see if your settings look similar? I'm seeing a 20% reduction in the default resolution, no matter which EXE I run (x64 or x86), regardless of ignore DPI scaling issue, regardless of using -x <x> -y <y> - running -windowed -noborder will override to a certain extent but the screen begins offsetting very badly.

[Soüp]

Originally posted by lonewolf40000:

@Soup, can you check that file and see if your settings look similar? I'm seeing a 20% reduction in the default resolution, no matter which EXE I run (x64 or x86), regardless of ignore DPI scaling issue, regardless of using -x <x> -y <y> - running -windowed -noborder will override to a certain extent but the screen begins offsetting very badly.

Ah perhaps I should post in a different thread. I'm not having the screen offset issue, just performance problems due to the lack of true fullscreen mode. I don't see anything out of the ordinary in my config file.

[lonewolf40000]

Yeah thats fine, just curious in general.

So far it seems like *something* in the interaction between the game engine and the hardware seems to think my system needs to have a ~20% reduction in resolution, as well as low-res assets. This is regardless of the settings in the profileX.xml file, and regardless of DPI scaling.

Setting the file to read-only doesn't help - it *does* throw errors when I try to change settings. So the profileX.xml IS being used, but its where resolution is *recorded*, not calculated, as far as I can tell. Something happens at start up to decide the resolution that is misreporting things.

@Developers : is it normal for the 'Resolution' settings page to be unpopulated?

[Eric the GM]

I started having this issue today - immediately after downloading newdrivers for my GeForce GTX 660 Ti.

[minieyke]

Yeah, I couldn't go full screen either
I know it was one of the earlier tips, but the one I tried last was setting my launch options to -x 1280 -y 720 and that worked.
The resolution seemed a bit low, but the game played fine.

[sirocyl]

I believe I fixed this problem, by removing all launch options in Steam, then going to the game executables (one "TransistorVideoSetup.exe" under the main steamapps/common/Transistor directory, and one "Transistor.exe" each in the x86 and x64 subdirs), and right click, properties, compatibility, and disable scaling for high DPI displays. This should prove to be a quick fix for those who, like me, had the same problem in the first launch of the game.


Information for curious minds, devs and QA staff: Microsoft Surface Pro 1 stock hardware, Intel i5-3317U/HD Graphics 4000 and 4GB of RAM. Windows 8.1 with most recent current updates, Transistor AppID 237930 BuildID 446120 (current as of 2015-01-02), Intel HD Graphics driver 10.18.10.3958, native resolution 1920x1080@60, game resolution 1366x768@60 (for performance reasons), DPI scaling at "Default" on "PC Settings" app; "Larger" from Displays in Control Panel.

Not tested with external display; free to do so on request, if needed, over DisplayPort to HDMI, or via Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter (Miracast-capable), with any dual-display configuration.

I'm also free to provide any further information and am subscribed to this thread.

[Skelter]

Setting text to 100% size fixed the issue for me!

[LordOfDarkFlame]

Right click the steam game within your Library > Properties > Local Files tab > Browse Local Files > x64 Folder > Right click 'Transistor' file > Properties > Compatibility tab > Change High DPI Settings > Check box the 'Override High DPI Scaling Behavior.'

DONE!