Linux Exprimental Support - share your experience here!

[Koobazaur]

EDIT: POTENTIAL FIX (kudos @AwfulUsername)

Open the prefs file in the folder ~/.config/unity3d/Unbound Creations/Headliner_ NoviNews/ and change the values of Screenmanager Resolution Height and Screenmanager Resolution Width to your native resolution. Please let us know if this did or did not work

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Hey folks!


We added experimental linux support to the game (it's not officially listed on the game page, but if you have Steam on linux, you should be able to download and play).

From some internal testing, we had confirmed working great with: Arch Linux, Fedora 29, Ubuntu 18.04, Solus (Kernel 4.18.16-96.current) and Mint. We had some minor issues with jagged sprites in a few cases, but nothing game breaking.

Can any other Linux users share their experience? I am chatting with one gamer on Ubunut 16.04 experiencing flickering blue screen on start. Would be great to hear from others

[Koobazaur]

If any Ubuntu 16.04 or 18 folks are experiencing problems such as blue flickering screen on launch, here's three terminal commands that fixed it for another player:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Kudos to Angelic Manslaughter for reporting and helping troubleshoot the issue :)

[Zyro]

Originally posted by Koobazaur:

If any Ubuntu 16.04 or 18 folks are experiencing problems such as blue flickering screen on launch, here's three terminal commands that fixed it for another player:

Those are the generic commands to get a clean system installation state, so... people should have it in the first place. :-) But it's nice you're sharing tios!

[onitake]

I'm having the exact same problem as well.
The game starts, I hear sound, but the screen only displays uniform colour flickering in white, grey, blue and green. I can still quit the game with Alt-F4.

The problem seems to be a misdetection of the screen resolution. The game's config file (at ~/.config/unity3d/Unbound\ Creations/Headliner_\ NoviNews/prefs ) shows that it tries to run at 1x1 resolution. If I change the file to the native screen resolution, it works perfectly.

This seems to be a common problem with several recent Unity games...

[Koobazaur]

onitake - thanks for the heads up! On first launch the game should pick the "native" resolution of your display (whatever Unity deems it to be), so it could be a built-in bug detecting that.

Hmm can also try opening the config.cfg in the same folder where the executable is stored and adding on the bottom (or changing if it already exists):

[QUALITY]
ResolutionIndex = 0
Fullscreen = False

[onitake]

Sure, I can try that.

In the other game where I experienced this recently (Sunless Skies), the developers forced the game to window mode on every start to work around the issue. Sadly, that didn't help against the resolution misdetection problem: It would still launch in a tiny window (not 1x1, as there's probably a lower limit imposed by the window manager) and require manual config file tuning to be playable.

I should note that I'm using the KDE desktop environment, so it may be related to that.

[Koobazaur]

Yeah the config tweak I mentioned should force the game to windowed + smaller resolution, but once you are in you should be able to set it via the settings menu. Lemme know if that works!

[cbones - LINUX]

Tested (and no problems) windowed or full-screen on:

Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit | Ryzen 5 1500x | GTX 1050, nvidia-410.78
Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit | Ryzen 5 1500x | GTX 1050, nvidia-396.54

[egrrrl]

I'm also seeing this 1x1 window issue with Unity not detecting the resolution correctly. Changing the resolution to my monitor's native resolution (2560x1080) introduces a different issue, though. See this screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/uLxcs1p.png. The game runs correctly in windowed mode.

[awesomestman]

Running Ubuntu 18.04.2. Tried both tweaks and still can't get the game to stop showing the flickering blue screen.

EDIT: Looks like I fixed the issue for myself. I opened up the prefs file in the folder ~/.config/unity3d/Unbound Creations/Headliner_ NoviNews/ and changed the values of Screenmanager Resolution Height and Screenmanager Resolution Width to my native resolution, and the game seems to be running fine!

[Koobazaur]

Originally posted by AwfulUsername:

Running Ubuntu 18.04.2. Tried both tweaks and still can't get the game to stop showing the flickering blue screen.

EDIT: Looks like I fixed the issue for myself. I opened up the prefs file in the folder ~/.config/unity3d/Unbound Creations/Headliner_ NoviNews/ and changed the values of Screenmanager Resolution Height and Screenmanager Resolution Width to my native resolution, and the game seems to be running fine!

Sweet, glad you got it figured out! I'll add your fix to the OP.

The game uses Unity 3D, which should auto-detect the resolution automatically and set it to native. Looks like it's messing up on Ubuntu specifically (no issue on Win/Mac/Other Distros). Wonder what is it about Ubuntu that causes this?

[onitake]

I'm positive it's not an Ubuntu, but a Unity issue.
Unity seems to have issues detecting the native desktop resolution, particularly on certain window managers. This must be a bug in certain recent versions of Unity, as older games are still working fine.
Just guessing here, but maybe it's this bug? https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-app-has-wrong-initial-resolution-after-upgrade-to-2018-2-4f1-and-newer.600193/

[Casidian]

I've also experienced the same issue with the blue flickering issue on Manjaro.

[furrykef]

Linux Mint 20.2 here. Had this problem, but the config file fix worked.

Might I suggest checking if the detected resolution is 1x1 and forcing it to 1024x768 if so? That's a resolution almost everyone can run, and from there you can just change the resolution from the options screen.

[ChildishGiant]

Yep my game also decided my screen is 1x1, not 1920x1080.