TF2 is rendering 16:10 outside of screen, AMD 4870 and Catalyst 13.1

steamclosed MOVED: Team Fortress 2AMD driversreviewed

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#808 · opened 2013-01-24 by DarkDefender · updated 2013-02-15 · 3 comments · github

DDarkDefender 2013-01-24 github

I have a 16:10 (1920x1200) computer screen and TF2 renders the game about 50-100 pixels below the monitor.
IE I have a bar that is about 50-100 pixels on top of the screen that is rendering garbage. And other problem this causes is that the mouse is not offset by that many pixels so I have to "aim" above the gui elements I want to select for it to work.

16:9 works but TF2 doesn't seem to save my settings so if I restart I'm back to 16:10 again. I've also tried other games to see if they had the same problem with the 16:10 aspect and the new 13.1 drivers. But the other games I've tried didn't have this problem.

However it seems like TF2 does render the the game in 16:10 because the screen shots I take with F12 are 1920x1200 and doesn't have this bar on top.
So it seems like only the position it's rendering the screen is wrong.
The same problem persists is I have it in windowed mode and make the window fullscreen (borderless). But in windowed mode the mouse offset is even worse.

Steam system specs:

Processor Information:

Vendor:  GenuineIntel

Speed: 3203 Mhz

4 logical processors

4 physical processors

HyperThreading:  Unsupported

FCMOV:  Supported

SSE2:  Supported

SSE3:  Supported

SSSE3:  Supported

SSE4a:  Unsupported

SSE41:  Supported

SSE42:  Unsupported

Network Information:

Network Speed:

Operating System Version:

"NAME=Gentoo" (64 bit)

Kernel Name:  Linux

Kernel Version:  3.5.7-gentoo

X Server vendor:  The X.Org Foundation

X Server release:  11204000

Video Card:

Driver:  ATI Technologies Inc. ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series        



Driver Version:  3.3.11672 Compatibility Profile Context

Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel

Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz

VendorID Not Detected

DeviceID Not Detected

Number of Monitors:  1

Number of Video Cards Not Detected

Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1200

Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1200

Primary Display Size: 20,39" x 12,76"  (24,02" diag)

                                        51,8cm x 32,4cm  (61,0cm diag)

Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:

Audio device:

Memory:

RAM:  3956 Mb

Miscellaneous:

UI Language:  English

LANG:  sv_SE.UTF-8

Microphone:  Not set

Total Hard Disk Space Available:  234143 Mb

Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  12137 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

Thu Jan 24 10:41:36 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20130124114134_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-01b00495-6c4c-4e04-a883-39e9b2130124''

ZZeXx86 2013-01-25 github

This bug not affecting me with 1920x1200 - Ubuntu 12.10 64bit, nVidia GeForce 8800.
I think it could be caused by some window manager which, for example contain panel in place of the screen offset you are observing.
What desktop environment do you use?

DDarkDefender 2013-01-25 github

Hmm after some more testing it seems like the offset/rendering error is caused by my window managers (AwesomeWM) title bars. It tries to put it on every floating window. If I disable the titlebar feature then this problem goes away.

However as I've stated before this problem doesn't occur with any other game under linux I've tried. Including the Half-Life 1 beta and CS 1.6. So I still think this is a problem with TF2.

Jjorgenpt 2013-02-15 github

Issue transferred to ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games#85.

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