Temple of Elemental Evil crashing on exit help?

breadbin · 05-04-2021, 07:22 AM

I am playing Temple of Elemental Evil and it plays perfectly apart from when I quit the game it crashes. It freezes and the only way to exit is to log into the tty1 and "wineserver -k". I used to be able to Alt+F2 to bring up the command box but I cannot now for some reason. I can press Alt+Tab to see the other apps running and I can scroll through them but it won't let me go to anything else hence the Ctrl+Alt+F1.

Using Linux Mint 20 and I think most packages are up to date.

I am using the most up to date Circle of Eight Modpack and I know that in itself will be hard to diagnose because it uses TFE-X and a java runtime and all this but just wondering because it is annoying to have to exit like this every time and then I have to adjust the screen resolution back to normal then too. I suppose I am lucky to have it running this well but would like it better thanks

smallpond · 05-04-2021, 10:01 AM

Code:

 I can press Alt+Tab to see the other apps running

So it isn't crashing or hanging. Most likely it is changing the display mode and not restoring it when it exits. What you can try is instead of running your game as:

Code:

wine game.exe

run a bash script instead which contains:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
wine game.exe
xrandr -s 0

this should set your screen mode back to the default when the game exits.

breadbin · 05-04-2021, 01:15 PM

Well maybe 'crashes' is not the right word but it definitely freezes. It leaves me in the menu and I cannot get out of the game unless I shutdown the wineserver. I can see the Alt+Tab menu but I cannot use it. Thanks for the suggestion of xrandr because that was my next question

Is there a quick way to set the desktop resolution instead of wading through the menus and pressing the same things every time.

smallpond · 05-05-2021, 09:42 AM

Yeah. My suggestion probably doesn't work because it never exits wine, otherwise wine would restore the display. It was just something to try.

You could see if yu are getting any errors by setting:

Code:

export WINEDEBUG=warn+all