| noam`   Junior Member
 
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			|  Penumbra: Overture via Steam: won't start in higher resolution 
 
				Hello,
 I just bought the Penumbra series in native linux Steam on Ubuntu.
 It started normally on 800x600, so I set it in-game to 1920x1080, my monitor's native resolution. The game asked me to restart, so I quit the game. Exiting the game did not brought me to a 800x600 desktop, so I set the resolution manually and restarted the game. It started again on 800x600, so I did the entire process again. Now when I try to start the game, it shows me a mouse cursor over a black screen (at 800x600), and the only way to quit is to execute kill -9 from a terminal.
 
 How can I solve this issue?
 
 I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 on a rather new computer (is complete spec necessary?). I use the native nVidia graphics driver. In the past I was able to run native Amnesia with no issues.
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	| 02-15-2013, 03:13 PM |  | 
	
		| Urkle   FG - Associate
 
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			|  RE: Penumbra: Overture via Steam: won't start in higher resolution 
 
				Try editing the resolution in the ~/.frictionalgames/Penumbra/Overture/settings.cfg file. if it doesn't exist, then the game is for some reason not exiting correctly, and you'll have to copy the default from the game directories config folder (default_settings.cfg).
			 
 Developing away on one ofMultiple Macs running 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9.
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	| 02-15-2013, 05:00 PM |  | 
	
		| noam`   Junior Member
 
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			|  RE: Penumbra: Overture via Steam: won't start in higher resolution 
 
				I changed the resolution to 800x600 and the game loaded correctly. Then I tried a few more resolutions and they all worked and reset the desktop resolution correctly on exit. 1920x1080 works too, so it seems all works correctly now.
 Thanks!
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	| 02-15-2013, 05:37 PM |  |