FIX RESOLUTION IN LINUX

[reeze]

I'm NOT going to unplug one of my monitors just because incompetent devs can't do it right. I have no way to change the game resolution. Not in windowed mode nor in fullscreen. It forces the highest res, which stretches over both monitors. Come on! I was contemplating running this game through wine instead, so I can force a window properly, but stopped myself as that's just too much effort.

Is there a way I can force resolution in a config file somewhere? If not, when is the fix coming out?

[Xpander]

same problem here.

no resolution options at all, just takes the max of my monitors and goes over 2 or 3 screens, depends how many i have enabled.

[spared_life]

On my AMD selecting windowed starts it in the middle of my two monitors, I just drag it over to one monitor and it is fine.

As for no resolution there is a setting in my Farsky, maybe you missed it.
Start the game, click options, select windowed, click play, When it loads select options, middle choice is graphics. But be warned setting the wrong resolution will be hard to fix.

[reeze]

I can't no, as even in windowed mode I don't have the ability to drag/change the size at all. It's difficult to explain as this was a while ago and I removed this terrible hunk of *"&£ from my hd! There are far better games to spend my time on. Why should I invest any effort in a game that's been abandoned by its own developer. Shamelessly terrible!

[Neia]

They try to autodetect supported resolutions, I think. And it doesn't work. There's a resolution picker but it only has one option for me -- one that spans both monitors and cuts off part of the image.

There's a config file, but it doesn't seem to have any resolution options, and it's not text-based anyway. It's a Java serialized object file.

I could try decompiling it and fixing the resolution stuff, but it's really not worth my time.

[reeze]

Yeah I saw that as well. Luckily I got this drivel in a bundle so I'm not too fussed about it. I don't mind technical issues at all actually, especially as I run linux, but only as long as the developer is committed to fixing them. This one clearly does not care.

[que movida]

why u no fix resolution picker!

(maybe theres a console parameter we can use or something?)

[Cy]

I have only one screen and it still starts with a certain offset, enough to keep any buttons off the screen and therefore unclickable WTF

[Darksoul71]

I can not speak for other cards but for NVidia cards using the propritary driver, the issue seems to be related to twin view in dual head configurations. I came across an entry in the arch linux wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Gaming_using_TwinView


Two monitors are "simulated" as one big virtual XScreen. In example: I run a dual head configuration of a 1280x1024 and a 1920x1080 monitor. The resultion of TwinView screen is thus 3840x1080, which also gets detected by Farsky.


From here I see three possible options:

1) Use Xrandr to switch to a single monitor of your choice for playing Farsky. This is what I did with a small wrapper around the Farsky shell script. Farsky does not need steam anyway.

2) Define an additional metamode where one monitor is marked as "NULL" (= disabled). Then Farsky should detect the screen correctly.

3) Run Farsky in it's own XServer (this is also mentioned over in the Arch wiki).


But anyway the screen resolution stuff in Farsky is bugged. Even in single head I am unable to lower resolutions (which could be a reasonable option for those with low spec hardware).


Call me cheap but after having bought nearly all Painkiller parts as bundle for under 6€, a buggy java game for which a dev wants to charge 15€ leaves a bad taste. Especially since the issues seems to be limited to Linux.


Java = OS independent....muahaha......

[Darksoul71]

Follow up for those with NVidia cards. Here can be found how to configure additional Metamodes for disabling one display:
http://http.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8178/README/appendix-g.html

[que movida]

Just let the developer fix it... sure it cant be that hard, cant it?

If he doesnt know how to detect resolutions properly at least allow to introduce the values manually.

I just turn down one monitor to play this and liked the game so far... the resolutions problem threads go back to the begining of 2014 and they haven't been addressed yet. I dont think developer is around or care anymore

[Darksoul71]

@que movida: It is actually funny that you say that the dev should fixed it and state in the next lines that the issues essentially exists one year :)

I talked to the dev via mail and it looks like the resolution issues will not be fixed. Farsky development is dead and so seems to be the will fixing things which are really broken for some of us.

Farsky makes fun but I really do not think that Joe Average who bought the game for the original price should tinker around with his GPU configuration just to play the game. This leaves a bad taste for Steam games under Linux.

[que movida]

it is really a shame... Im tempted to give it a thumb down because of this to alert others even if I liked the game enough to give it a thumbs up...

The fact that it is a very important bug and that it can be fixed in under an hour makes me even more sad. If he doesnt know how to fix it, he should just allow us to enter a parameter to set the resolution manually!! its like 3 lines of code

@darksoul71 would you mind sharing this thought with the developer in a mail? :)

[Darksoul71]

Yes, I can try. I already exchanged a few e-mails back and forth with Tim, the Far Sky dev. While he is / was very polite I do not know if he really understood the criticallity of this bug.

[que movida]

right... the fact that you can not set the resolution in anyway renders the game unplayable unless you unplug the monitor or turn it off in settings... which is terrible!!! some other bugs theres workarounds but unplugging the monitor is terrible enough to avoid playing this game until it is fixed!

[Darksoul71]

I talked to the dev one last time and my mail remained unanswered. I tried to outline that this resolution thing is a serious bug for us players on Pinguin OS but he doesn´t seem to understand.