Doom3 1.3.1 causing screen resolution change on Ubuntu 8.10

iam_techno · 02-06-2009, 12:34 PM

Hello everyone,

I have an intersting problem with Doom3. I installed it and when I play it, my screen resolution on my desktop (after I close doom3) changes to 1024x480 and becasue of that odd resolution I cannot change it under System->Preferences->Screen Resolution.

I am running Ubuntu 8.10 with an ATI Radeon 9550 (yes it will run it, abit slowly) with fglrx 9.01 drivers. I would have posted my xorg.conf but I'm at my schools net connection bc I don't have one at home.

Another thing. I cannot get it to change back to a normal resolution until i use:

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

but then I cannot run anything because the default depth is 8. So i tried what wiki.cchtml.com said and used:

Code:

sudo aticonfig --initial -f

Which brings the resolution back to 1024x480 but it has a color depth of 8.

Any thoughts?

Mega Man X · 02-08-2009, 03:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iam_techno

Hello everyone,

I have an intersting problem with Doom3. I installed it and when I play it, my screen resolution on my desktop (after I close doom3) changes to 1024x480 and becasue of that odd resolution I cannot change it under System->Preferences->Screen Resolution.

I am running Ubuntu 8.10 with an ATI Radeon 9550 (yes it will run it, abit slowly) with fglrx 9.01 drivers. I would have posted my xorg.conf but I'm at my schools net connection bc I don't have one at home.

Another thing. I cannot get it to change back to a normal resolution until i use:

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

but then I cannot run anything because the default depth is 8. So i tried what wiki.cchtml.com said and used:

Code:

sudo aticonfig --initial -f

Which brings the resolution back to 1024x480 but it has a color depth of 8.

Any thoughts?

What happens if you simply logout and login again? Because that would restart the xserver and I think it would fix your problem. Doom 3 does not modify that file, so.

Well, for what it is worthy, I get the same problem as you do since, well, I started using Linux, years ago. Some applications (mostly games and emulators) running fullscreen fails to restore the old resolution. I don't know who is responsible here but that is a problem and it is there. It can happen with ATI/Nvidia cards, native games or games running through wine.

It does not happen with every game, but with enough games to be annoying.

My suggestion, which is not good, is to do what I do: Logout and login again when you are done playing a game

iam_techno · 02-11-2009, 01:46 AM

Thanks for the help, but I've switched back to Ubuntu 8.04 just because I've had good luck with it.

anurag_bhd · 02-16-2009, 12:32 AM

iam_techno,

This problem may arise when you are playing a game in a different resolution than your actual desktop resolution. Say, your desktop resolution is set to 1280x1024 and you are playing the game on 1024x768 resolution, then closing the game might end up changing the desktop resolution to the game resolution. This is because whenever you start a game in a different resolution, the desktop resolution also changes to game resolution in the background. So perhaps a non-proper quit of the game prevents the desktop to get back to its own resolution.

tommcd · 03-02-2009, 02:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Mega Man X

What happens if you simply logout and login again? Because that would restart the xserver and I think it would fix your problem. Doom 3 does not modify that file, so.

The same thing happened to me when I ran Doom3 on linux. I just hit ctrl + alt + back_space to restart the X server and my resolution was restored after I logged back in.