Penumbra Overture: It is possible to set the game screen resolution higher than the screen supports

steamclosed reviewed3rd party game

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#470 · opened 2012-12-30 by eggman314 · updated 2013-01-22 · 2 comments · github

Eeggman314 2012-12-30 github

Monitor supports resolutions up to 1680x1050. The game still allows resolutions up to 1920x1200. If this is selected the game will display a black screen on restart, and I have to switch to a console (CTRL+ALT+F1) to kill the game (killall -9 penumbra.bin). Then have to edit or delete the file ~/.frictionalgames/Penumbra/Overture/settings.cfg to be able to play the game again.

Using Unity desktop.

Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 3101 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.5.0-21-generic
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11203000

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GT 530/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version:  4.3.0 NVIDIA 313.09
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID:  0x10de
DeviceID:  0xde5
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1680 x 1050
Desktop Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Primary Display Size: 18,62" x 11,65"  (21,93" diag)
                                        47,3cm x 29,6cm  (55,7cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 2048 MB
Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device:

Memory:
RAM: 5951 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_DK.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 142979 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 72880 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:
Sun Dec 30 12:07:45 2012 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20121230130740_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-0f4a24e0-daf1-4478-afe5-e14b72121230''
Sun Dec 30 13:48:48 2012 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20121230144846_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-11a1f1af-65bc-45c6-b69e-d61862121230''
Sun Dec 30 13:48:49 2012 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20121230144848_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-5b47c707-9ff7-40ed-b23f-bda132121230''
Sun Dec 30 13:48:51 2012 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20121230144849_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-bb7a6295-c879-4791-b3b9-4763a2121230''
Sun Dec 30 13:48:53 2012 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20121230144851_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-1654868a-c586-4d1c-80af-9e90a2121230''
Sun Dec 30 13:48:55 2012 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20121230144853_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-d9bff86c-314d-4e57-9b8e-bfbc92121230''
Sun Dec 30 13:48:57 2012 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20121230144855_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-042efd27-1e0e-424a-847f-fd63b2121230''

Uurkle 2013-01-06 github

This is actually caused by the XrandR extension advertising 1920x1080 as a valid resolution (albeit interlaced). So SDL simply advertises it as a valid resolution, however when it attempts to set the resolution it fails and you get the result you are seeing.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-01-22 github

So this is an XRandR problem? As this does not appear to be related to Steam this issue will be closed.

Nothing extracted yet.