Posted May 30, 2018
As the subject states, in BG:EE 1&2 fullscreen is not working properly under Ubuntu 18.04.
First thing to get out of the way: It's not a missing driver issue. I am a BG and Linux veteran, and I have had these games working fine on several computers running Ubuntu 16.04 for years.
Under Ubuntu 18.04 BG runs fine in"windowed mode, but in fullscreen mode it only shows a black screen with the BG "finger" cursor. Sound is running and the actual game is there in some sense, because I can click around the black screen and it makes the standard BG clicking sound, and if I click in the general area of where I know the "Quit" button is, the game shuts down as expected. So you could say the game is "running", it just isn't showing any video.
I have experienced this on two different computers, one laptop (Intel graphics) and one desktop (nVidia graphics). Both of these computers previously had BG:EE 1&2 installed under Ubuntu 16.04, and under Ubuntu 16.04 fullscreen worked fine. The one computer in the house that still has Ubuntu 16.04 is still running BG fine, but the two machines that have been ugraded to 18.04 are just getting same the black screen.
To clarify, these were fresh installs of Ubuntu 18.04, with (obviously) fresh installs of BG:EE 1&2. I also made sure to have latest versions released from GOG. I have tried changing a few settings in Baldur.lua to no avail.
Since this is happening on very different machines with different video chips - one laptop with Intel integrated and one desktop with nVidia discrete (gtx1060) -- it makes me think this is probably a widespread problem and is affecting others as well.
So, can anyone else confirm this bug?
Or of equal interest, if you have gotten BG:EE fullscreen working on Ubuntu 18.04, please post your hardware specs and Baldur.lua.
First thing to get out of the way: It's not a missing driver issue. I am a BG and Linux veteran, and I have had these games working fine on several computers running Ubuntu 16.04 for years.
Under Ubuntu 18.04 BG runs fine in"windowed mode, but in fullscreen mode it only shows a black screen with the BG "finger" cursor. Sound is running and the actual game is there in some sense, because I can click around the black screen and it makes the standard BG clicking sound, and if I click in the general area of where I know the "Quit" button is, the game shuts down as expected. So you could say the game is "running", it just isn't showing any video.
I have experienced this on two different computers, one laptop (Intel graphics) and one desktop (nVidia graphics). Both of these computers previously had BG:EE 1&2 installed under Ubuntu 16.04, and under Ubuntu 16.04 fullscreen worked fine. The one computer in the house that still has Ubuntu 16.04 is still running BG fine, but the two machines that have been ugraded to 18.04 are just getting same the black screen.
To clarify, these were fresh installs of Ubuntu 18.04, with (obviously) fresh installs of BG:EE 1&2. I also made sure to have latest versions released from GOG. I have tried changing a few settings in Baldur.lua to no avail.
Since this is happening on very different machines with different video chips - one laptop with Intel integrated and one desktop with nVidia discrete (gtx1060) -- it makes me think this is probably a widespread problem and is affecting others as well.
So, can anyone else confirm this bug?
Or of equal interest, if you have gotten BG:EE fullscreen working on Ubuntu 18.04, please post your hardware specs and Baldur.lua.
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