StarCraft display issues,why is WINE not saving my settings?

[havok1977]

Hello, im running Kubuntu 8.10 on my Sony Vaio Laptop; and have WINE installed from the repositories listed in this site.

Im trying to play StarCraft; and while the game does run, the screen is all messed up, instead of displaying full screen it only displays on the top left corner of my screen - It was actually displaying properly in full screen until a couple of days ago - something broke and i cant find what.

My xorg.conf file does have a valid 640x480 in my default color depth, which is the native resolution for this game; but its just wont take the full screen; *and* when i reconfigure WINE with winecfg to run in windowed mode to at least play it inside a tiny window, the setting just wont stick! The settings just go away for no apparent reason.

Oh, I also tried implementing an alternate X.org screen with no success at all, as documented here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=822888

Any comments will be appreciated

[Francesco85]

Ey I'm glad somebody else has the same problem.. Pls somebody help us...!

[vitamin]

Im trying to play StarCraft; and while the game does run, the screen is all messed up, instead of displaying full screen it only displays on the top left corner of my screen - It was actually displaying properly in full screen until a couple of days ago - something broke and i cant find what.

Make sure that 'xrandr' command lists all the required resolutions (with correct refresh rate).

[Francesco85]

wow thx for the sudden reply!
In my case the problem seems to be there (xrandr) somewhere, because I checked xrandr and there is only 1280x1024 available...
I tried this

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dcrabs@farnsworth: /home/dcrabs $cvt 1280 1024
# 1280x1024 59.89 Hz (CVT 1.31M4) hsync: 63.67 kHz; pclk: 109.00 MHz
Modeline "1280x1024_60.00"  109.00  1280 1368 1496 1712  1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync
[Mon May 12 21:43, Bash Version 3.2.39, 21 Commands, 0 Jobs, tty #0]

dcrabs@farnsworth: /home/dcrabs $ xrandr --newmode "1280x1024_60.00"  109.00  1280 1368 1496 1712  1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync

dcrabs@farnsworth: /home/dcrabs $ xrandr --verbose --addmode VGA  "1280x1024_60.00"

from http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/xrand ... nzufuegen/
but after the last line

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dcrabs@farnsworth: /home/dcrabs $ xrandr --verbose --addmode VGA  "1280x1024_60.00"

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i get this message: xrandr: cannot find output "VGA"

sry I'm such a noob maybe I am posting stupid questions..

[vitamin]

wow thx for the sudden reply!
In my case the problem seems to be there (xrandr) somewhere, because I checked xrandr and there is only 1280x1024 available...

Then you need to edit xorg.conf to list all the modes you need.
How? Well you better ask that on Ubuntu forum. Most distros have a handy tool for that.

[havok1977]

Sorry for the late reply, had not checked back in a few days...
my xrandr does detect the correct resolution:

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LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1280x800       59.8*+
   1280x768       59.9
   1280x720       59.9
   1024x768       60.0     59.9
   1280x600       59.9
   1024x600       59.9
   800x600        60.3     59.9
   768x576        59.9
   640x480        59.9     59.4

Perhaps the refresh rate is wrong? Would you know the correct setting?