Common issues and how to fix them

[Frogmind]

1. BADLAND DOES NOT START

Make sure you have up-to-date graphics drivers:
- NVIDIA: http://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx
- AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

Update Steam client:
- Open "Steam" drop down menu
- Select "Check for Steam Client Updates..."
- Restart the Steam client after update has been applied

Try to disable all background programs which may interfere with the game:
- https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

Try to disable Steam Overlay
- Disable the Steam Overlay by right-clicking on the game title
- Click on "Properties" and go to "General" tab
- Uncheck "Enable Steam Community In-Game"

2. RESOLUTION IS WRONG, GRAPHICS SEEM BLURRY, VSYNC DOES NOT WORK...

By default the Badland queries desktop size from the operating system and starts the game in fullscreen using the width and height of the desktop. In some cases the query can go wrong.

I. Disable display scaling (Windows)

If your desktop has been scaled to over 100% DPI, the game starts with all the symptoms mentioned in the title. The fix for this is to turn on the "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" for the BADLAND executable.
- Click right mouse button on BADLAND title and select "Properties" from Steam context menu
- Select "Local Files" tab and press "Browse Local Files..."
- Windows File Explorer opens and shows the Badland directory
- Right-click Badland.exe and select "Properties"
- Select "Compatibility" tab and check "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings"
- Press OK

II. Disable second GPU / use nvidia-tools to set correct resolution (Linux)

Resolution might be detected to be too large in Linux systems with two GPUs.
- A user reported that resolution was corrected when he disabled the second GPU
- NVIDIA GPUs with certain drivers can be configured with "nvidia-settings" tool where you can set the resolution manually (note: this has not been tested by the developer).

III. Edit Badland configuration file

As a last resort you can try to edit the Badland configuration file, which is a plain text file. From this file the game reads the used screen mode (fullscreen/windowed). (Note that when "mode" is set to 0, the width and height values of the config.ini are ignored. The game instead queries the desktop dimensions straight from the operating system.)

Try to play in windowed mode:

Windows:
- Click start button and write the following to search box: "%appdata%/BADLAND/data" (without quotation marks). The file explorer should open in correct folder (usually C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\BADLAND\data)
- Right-click "config.ini" and select "Open with" -> "Notepad" from the context menu
- Change the "mode" variable from 0 to 1
- Change the "width" and "height" variables to 1280 and 720
- Save the file and try to start the game

OS X:
- Open Finder
- Choose Go > Go To Folder
- In the Go To Folder dialog, type ~/Library/Application Support/BADLAND
- Click Go
- Double click "config.ini"
- (If the file is not recognized, OS X asks you to choose application to open the file -> select some text editing program to open the file, for example TextEdit)
- Change the "mode" variable from 0 to 1
- Change the "width" and "height" variables to 1280 and 720
- Save the file and try to start the game

Linux:
- Open Terminal
- cd ~/.BADLAND
- Open the config.ini with some text editor (for example: "gedit config.ini")
- Change the "mode" variable from 0 to 1
- Change the "width" and "height" variables to 1280 and 720
- Save the file and try to start the game

Try to use forced fullscreen mode (Windows only):

This mode starts the game in fullscreen but it uses the width and height values of the config.ini file.

- Open config.ini
- Change the "mode" variable to 2
- Set the "width" and "height" to desired values for fullscreen
- Save the file and try to start the game

[damn]

Steam on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04).
1 Day (Dawn) - Clony. Giant ball starts too early in single and coop versions that makes level impossible to play without skipping checkpoint.

Compared "ball-trigger" with this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOqyy9-4KSY
And with version on iPhone 5.

[Frogmind]

Hi damirka.ru!

The GOTY version in Steam is redesigned for controllers, so the giant ball is purposely designed to behave differently. In this point you may want to push the analog stick or d-pad towards right (if you are using a gamepad) or press the right arrow (if you are using a keyboard). :)

[sanmal]

Graphics Card made within the last 5 years

Why 5? I am playing on 8800GT

[imark.skinner]

I have the issue on SteamOS where the resolution is set too large making the game bigger than my screen, I can only see the bottom left quarter of the screen. Editing the config makes no difference, this file gets overwritten after trying and I can't even change the resolution in game as I can't see it. I'm using the Alienware Steam Machine, no unusual hardware.

[[LINUX]INLinuxDude]

Originally posted by imark.skinner:

I have the issue on SteamOS where the resolution is set too large making the game bigger than my screen, I can only see the bottom left quarter of the screen. Editing the config makes no difference, this file gets overwritten after trying and I can't even change the resolution in game as I can't see it. I'm using the Alienware Steam Machine, no unusual hardware.

Same issue here... (except it's a home built machine with SteamOS). Nvidia 9600..

[Nagel ☮]

Any chance there will be a patch addressing the resolution problems? I can't access the .BADLANDS folder on my Steam Machine. Please fix this in a manner other games offer too - for noob linux users like I am :)

What about simply adding command line options one can edit in the Steam Client?

Like for example:
-mode 1 -width 1280 -height 720

This would be easy and a great help, thanks!

[den-shp]

The game doesn't even start. Tried all the tips in the header, didn't help. Do you guys have any suggestions? Thanks.

[h]

Originally posted by den-shp:

The game doesn't even start. Tried all the tips in the header, didn't help. Do you guys have any suggestions? Thanks.

It should be the problem of the installation of MSVC (library). Try exiting Steam and copying these dlls. For those who don't know, dlls are dynamically linked libraries.

http://freewisdoms.com/download-dll-files-commonly-used-by-games/

It worked for me, and I could finally play this game.

[Nagel ☮]

Ok I'm a Linux noob and tried to change the config.ini as described above. I used gedit to change mode, width and height and pressed ctrl+s to save the changes. When I reopen the file the changes are there. Then I change back to Steam and start BADLAND but the resolution changed back and when I go back to the desktop and open the config.ini it's back at 4K resolution :(

[imark.skinner]

Yeah been waiting for a reply on this forever. Developer admits linux version doesn't respect the config.ini so don't waste your time. Just accept that you've been scammed by a lazy money grabbing game developer, give the game a scathing negative review and move on.

[_Amnesia_]

Ничего не помогло игра не запускается

[den-shp]

Originally posted by alien-on-earth:

Originally posted by den-shp:

The game doesn't even start. Tried all the tips in the header, didn't help. Do you guys have any suggestions? Thanks.

It should be the problem of the installation of MSVC (library). Try exiting Steam and copying these dlls. For those who don't know, dlls are dynamically linked libraries.

http://freewisdoms.com/download-dll-files-commonly-used-by-games/

It worked for me, and I could finally play this game. :rage:

Thanks for help mate!

The problem for me was in the steam itself. After installing new os, steam library folder needed to be deleted from the hard drive as well, and then install the steam once again.

Cheers,
Denis

[Frogmind]

Hi all,

We are working on a better configuration support for Linux. Hopefully then the resolution problems are fixed.

[h]

I can't even start it on Arch Linux :(

[Frogmind]

Hi imark.skinner, INlinuxdude and Nagel!

One question: When the game starts in wrong resolution in SteamOS, does the config.ini report erroneously huge width and height? For example, 3840 x 2160, when it's supposed to be 1920 x 1080?