Linux Blackscreen Fullscreen Bug Fix

[Jeremiah V]

When running Helldivers 2 on a Linux OS you may encounter a bug when setting the game to fullscreen mode. Once you set in the options "Display/Display Mode" to Fullscreen it may work fine until your restart the game. When you restart the game it will default to a black screen. If you Alt-Tab out of the bugging-out game then it may "mimic" whatever is currently shown on your monitor, thus it will no longer be black but just be a static copy of whatever is on your desktop. Thus it is no longer black, but is still the same issue.

To fix this issue you can try setting your "Display/Display Mode" settings to turn off fullscreen mode by editing the settings file directly and then next time you restart your game it should boot in a bordered window mode. After that you can go back into settings within the game itself and change it to whatever you want again.

The file location should be at:
/home/[***YOUR_CUSTOM_LINUX_USER_NAME***]/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/553850/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Arrowhead

The file to edit is the "user_settings.config" Within the above "Arrowhead" file.

Enter the file, with a text editor (like the "Kate" text editor) and find (hopefully near the top) the line "fullscreen = true" and set it to false ("fullscreen = false") and then save.

Restart game and that should hopefully fix it.

Enjoy.

[McKay]

Worked like a charm thank you, only thing to note is the number after “compatdata” will be different for everyone so you may have to do some digging in different numbered folders

[voltecrus]

thanks mate!

[Frosty]

@McKay It's not random, that's the Steam app ID.

[Sabrehawk]

oh i thought Linux was such a bugfree experience...according to all the apostles it runs flawlessly at 2 million fps and loads in one nano second and if it ever crashes it makes your farts smell like liilac and gooseberry

[Jeremiah V]

Your welcome all! The enemies of democracy are not going to "free" themselves lol.

[imts]

thank you!

[PriorFlyerDev]

You are an absolute life saver. Without you, I wouldn’t be able to spread managed Democracy.

[wt3000]

Originally posted by Sabrehawk:

oh i thought Linux was such a bugfree experience...according to all the apostles it runs flawlessly at 2 million fps and loads in one nano second and if it ever crashes it makes your farts smell like liilac and gooseberry

Fr this sucks

[Waxwax]

Thanks!

[BitUniverse]

Kinda wish this would be fixed by now

[Dextroz]

Hi folks, also hitting this issue. I wrote a very short bash script to disable the fullscreen option in the config file prior to launch.

I'm running on Linux Mint, so I'm not sure if the config may be located somewhere slightly different on your system.

Create the following file on your desktop: nano ~/Desktop/helldivers2_fullscreen_false.sh

Paste the contents below into it:

#!/bin/bash
# Author: Dextroz
# LICENSE: MIT

# Declare path to Helldivers 2 configuration file
CONFIG="/home/${USER}/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/compatdata/553850/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Arrowhead/Helldivers2/user_settings.config"
# Replace the fullscreen = true with false so the game launches
sed -i "s/fullscreen = true/fullscreen = false/" "${CONFIG}"
echo "Successfully patched Helldivers 2 configuration file to disable fullscreen."

Make it executable: chmod +x ~/Desktop/helldivers2_fullscreen_false.sh

Now, when you want to play, just double click on the script on your desktop and choose run and the config is set :)

Happy diving!