[Bug 29479] New: Sins of a Solar Empire: can't change screen resolution

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29479

Bug #: 29479
           Summary: Sins of a Solar Empire: can't change screen resolution
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.35
          Platform: x86
               URL: http://www.gamershell.com/news_46837.html
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
    Classification: Unclassified

Created attachment 38160
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=38160
terminal output

In menu, options, video tab there should be a list of possible resolutions to
change, however the list is empty so you can't change anything.

This is with NVIDIA 9600GSO
Driver version: 280.13

[Bug 29479] Sins of a Solar Empire: can't change screen resolution

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29479

Pavel Ondračka  changed:

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joaopa  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from joaopa  2012-05-15 09:19:33 CDT ---
Bug still there.

Nvidia geforce 7600go, driver 295.49

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Christopher May  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Christopher May  2012-06-23 18:21:30 CDT ---
bug still present @ 1.5.6.

However during beta testing Sins Rebellion I was able to change resolution, on
my nvidia... so some magic combination of overrides fixes the problem. I'm not
sure I have the prefix anymore but will investigate further.

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Jason  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Jason  2012-06-29 20:30:12 CDT ---
I can't offer a fix, but I can offer two workarounds.

Edit rebllion.user.setting by hand. It's just a text file.
The two lines are:
VideoFullScreenWidth 1920
VideoFullScreenHeight 1080

The other is to enable 'Emulate a Virtual Desktop' with a resolution at least
equal to what you want to set. Once you set it and exit the game you should be
able to disable the option and have it start in full screen at the resolution
you want.

[Bug 29479] Sins of a Solar Empire: can't change screen resolution

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--- Comment #4 from Jason  2012-06-29 20:30:47 CDT ---
I can't offer a fix, but I can offer two workarounds.

Edit rebllion.user.setting by hand. It's just a text file.
The two lines are:
VideoFullScreenWidth 1920
VideoFullScreenHeight 1080

The other is to enable 'Emulate a Virtual Desktop' with a resolution at least
equal to what you want to set. Once you set it and exit the game you should be
able to disable the option and have it start in full screen at the resolution
you want.

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[e-mail]  changed:

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--- Comment #5 from [e-mail]  ---
As Jason mentioned the only thing you can do about this is edit the
rebellion.user.setting file. this problem is not caused by wine but by the game
itself.
1 think the last thing you could try is updating your game to the 1.82 Beta.
For steam right click the game click properties and you should find a beta tab,
click beta v.1.82 and it will update to that.

if this doesn't fix it just edit the config file like I do.

[Bug 29479] Sins of a Solar Empire: can't change screen resolution

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29479

--- Comment #6 from Pavel Ondračka  ---
Just wondering if all affected users are using NVIDIA proprietary driver?
This seems to work fine with mesa here (tested with i965, r300g and llvmpipe
drivers). Can someone with NVIDIA drivers try with nouveau and compare? I no
longer have the NVIDIA card I used when I reported this for the first time.

[Bug 29479] Sins of a Solar Empire: can't change screen resolution

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--- Comment #7 from [e-mail]  ---
I tested this on nvidea driver 331.38 and nouveau, windows with the newest
nvidea driver and on windows with AMD Catalyst 14.4 Beta and all show the same
problems when you try to change your resolution or some other settings.

On ubuntu it only gives you 1 possible resolution 9/10 times and when you are
able to choose it doesn't make any changes at all when you click apply.
This goes the same on windows except that it does show all the resolution.

my recommendation would be to stick to changing the rebellion.user.setting
file.

note: even the 1.82 beta appears to have these problems

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Pavel Ondračka  changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Pavel Ondračka  ---
(In reply to [e-mail] from comment #7)
> I tested this on nvidea driver 331.38 and nouveau, windows with the newest
> nvidea driver and on windows with AMD Catalyst 14.4 Beta and all show the
> same problems when you try to change your resolution or some other settings.
>
> On ubuntu it only gives you 1 possible resolution 9/10 times and when you
> are able to choose it doesn't make any changes at all when you click apply.
> This goes the same on windows except that it does show all the resolution.
>
> my recommendation would be to stick to changing the rebellion.user.setting
> file.
>
> note: even the 1.82 beta appears to have these problems

Just to be clear, the original bug behavior was that no resolutions were
displayed at all.

If I understand correctly from your last post, the problem with resolution
change not working is also on Windows (so not a wine bug), however if windows
reports more resolutions than Wine there still may be something going wrong on
the Wine side.
Just check with xrandr that the resolutions are even available on Linux.

BTW I don't have the SoaSE media at hand to test but the demo here works fine,
i.e. I can see the resolutions reported by xrandr (minus low resolutions like
800x600 which are probably too small) and I can successfully change it.

We should probably close this bug and move the workaround HOWTO into AppDB.

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Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Austin English  ---
Closing.