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Freedom Force first start shows black screen (8880 8890)

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ValveSoftware/Proton#132 · opened 2018-08-22 by pprotonrep · updated 2022-02-14 · 1 comments · github
Ppprotonrep 2018-08-22 github

Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich display a black screen when started for the first time (opening a single issue as they seem to use the same engine under the hood).

Starting the games with launch option -w (windowed mode), selecting the native resolution, starting again with -w with that resolution and then starting the game again without the -w launch option allows the game to run full screen without issue.

  • Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (64 bit 4.15.0-32-generic)
  • GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2 (396.51)
  • Proton 3.7 (default configuration)

System information from steam

Ttechmouse 2022-02-14 github

The game has mouse acceleration hard-coded on. There doesn't seem to be any way to disable it.

I tried every trick I could think of. Like switching from windowed to fullscreen and vice versa. I tried different polling rates on my mouse (125, 250, 500, and 1000). I messed with the values for MouseSensitivity, MouseThreshold1, and MouseThreshold2 in user.reg. None of that made any difference.

A lot of googling took me to exactly one other person who had the same problem. It was on the official forums and the others there said that person was the first to experience it. Now it seems I'm the second.

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