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Old 01-21-2018, 01:02 PM
Kioti Kioti is offline
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Ive been playing under Linux for quite some time with no real issues. The one problem I am having however is running the login, server select, and character select in fullscreen. The game will run fullscreen just fine but, if I exit to the character select or try to start the game up it will crash if not in windowed mode. Anyone else run into this or have a fix? Thanks
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Old 01-21-2018, 01:07 PM
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Personally I just run windowed mode.

If you set the windowed resolution correctly in your eqclient.ini (ie. to your screen resolution, minus maybe 20 from the X and maybe 140 from the Y, although you'll have to play with it to find the exact values) you can make it so the game fills almost the entire screen, saving only a tiny bit of screen space for the task bar and window title. This gives you 95-99% of the benefit of full screen, while making it super easy to Alt +Tab and just avoid issues like your's.
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Old 01-21-2018, 10:55 PM
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Personally I just run windowed mode.

If you set the windowed resolution correctly in your eqclient.ini (ie. to your screen resolution, minus maybe 20 from the X and maybe 140 from the Y, although you'll have to play with it to find the exact values) you can make it so the game fills almost the entire screen, saving only a tiny bit of screen space for the task bar and window title. This gives you 95-99% of the benefit of full screen, while making it super easy to Alt +Tab and just avoid issues like your's.
Hold ctrl+alt+left click and drag the window up to hide the title bar.
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Old 06-10-2018, 10:11 PM
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Kioti, I run windowed mode and KWin. I can use the window manager to switch to fullscreen and scale up/down the window this way.
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Old 06-15-2018, 12:31 AM
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The one problem I am having however is running the login, server select, and character select in fullscreen. The game will run fullscreen just fine but, if I exit to the character select or try to start the game up it will crash if not in windowed mode.
The main menu always tries to run at a resolution of 1280x720. If the system can't switch to 1280x720 fullscreen, the game crashes.

There are a few different ways to work around this:
  • Only run in windowed mode.
  • Enable the "emulate a virtual desktop" option in winecfg.
  • Use a monitor+output combination which supports 1280x720 via EDID.
  • Add a 1280x720 custom resolution to the current monitor+output combo.
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