How to force resolution in game arguments

I've got a game opening at a ridiculously small resolution (talking like 120x50). I've been googling for about 3 hours now, but I can't find any documentation on game arguments. Can anybody point me in the right direction here, please?

awake-maroon•1/27/24, 9:24 PM

it depends on the game and the developers of each game, most games don't have that option in the command line

one thing you can try is to use Gamescope and it will tell the game the screen resolution you want and if the game is nice it will use it

urgent-maroonOP•1/27/24, 9:28 PM

I'll give that a try. Legendary spits out a "Wine not found" error every time I use gamescope, but that's an entirely different problem.

nursing-lime•1/27/24, 9:34 PM

Logs and screenshots please

urgent-maroonOP•1/27/24, 9:38 PM

nursing-lime•1/27/24, 9:40 PM

What wine runner are you trying to use? What game? We need more context

nursing-lime•1/27/24, 9:40 PM

Everything from the game log #:pushpin: Read Me First | Frequently Asked Questions

urgent-maroonOP•1/27/24, 9:41 PM

Sorry, yeah. I'm trying to run Alan Wake 2 using Proton-GE-8-27, which worked literally a day ago. I'm trying to upload the lastplay log now

urgent-maroonOP•1/27/24, 9:43 PM

Okay, it's not letting me upload the file, so I'll figure that out after lunch

nursing-lime•1/27/24, 9:51 PM

You shouldn’t be using Proton or GE-Proton

urgent-maroonOP•1/27/24, 9:52 PM

That's great and all, except that Wine and Wine-GE don't run the game at all.

urgent-maroonOP•1/27/24, 9:55 PM

And yes, @termdisc , if you would like, I can create and upload log files for that too, once I figure out why Discord is blocking my uploads with a general error.

Uurgent-maroon And yes, @termdisc , if you would like, I can create and upload log files for th...

nursing-lime•1/27/24, 9:56 PM

Drag the log to the desktop or documents folder and upload from there. If that doesn’t work, just upload the contents to pastebin

nursing-lime•1/27/24, 9:56 PM

And if you paste a full log here, it’ll ask for you to upload as a file, where you can just delete all of the text afterward and it’ll have message.txt attached

nursing-lime•1/27/24, 9:57 PM

When switching to Wine-GE, you need to ensure you have the dependencies installed. There’s an automated way for this now

urgent-maroonOP•1/27/24, 9:57 PM

message.txt3.4KB

nursing-lime•1/27/24, 9:58 PM

"launcherArgs": "gamescope -f --",

This looks wrong as it appears that you are not using the gamescope tab in Heroic

nursing-lime•1/27/24, 9:58 PM

name": "Proton - Proton-GE-latest",

I already addressed this

nursing-lime•1/27/24, 9:59 PM

I see that you have stuff set in the tab now

nursing-lime•1/27/24, 10:00 PM

But having that in launcher arguments is wrong. Gamescope shouldn’t be invoked after the game command is called

dry-scarlet•1/27/24, 11:18 PM

fwiw wine-ge works fine with alan wake 2.. this runs perfectly for me at least.. you should clear out the uneeded options

Since you are on nvidia hardware you might want to enable dxvk-nvapi as well

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 5:14 AM

Thanks for the advice. I have a log from my latest (of many) crash using Wine-GE-Latest. Basically, any time I try to change a graphics setting or skip a cutscene, it throws up an exception and crashes. Also I'm getting like 10 FPS at medium settings with no ray-tracing, which feels wrong for an RTX 3070.

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 5:16 AM

message.txt97.32KB

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 5:20 AM

And I have dxvk-nvapi turned on by default

nursing-lime•1/28/24, 6:29 AM

Couple of thoughts: what file system is the drive that the game installed to?

nursing-lime•1/28/24, 6:29 AM

Also, have you verified that you have matching nvidia drivers and runtimes installed?

dry-scarlet•1/28/24, 6:33 AM

you're in a flatpak container, so might be worth it to follow the update advice in the readme first.. sometimes flatpak updates can.. break? heh

dry-scarlet•1/28/24, 6:34 AM

also turn the post processing effects to lowest setting, it gets very little visual gain for a lot of performance loss in alan wake2

Nnursing-lime Couple of thoughts: what file system is the drive that the game installed to?

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 7:55 AM

Interesting thought. It's an ext4 drive. I made sure to adjust access permissions accordingly in flatseal.

dry-scarlet•1/28/24, 7:59 AM

did you do the flatpak update stuff?

Nnursing-lime Also, have you verified that you have matching nvidia drivers and runtimes insta...

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 8:03 AM

Working on that now as well as testing Wine-GE-8-27 (apparently Heroic's definition of "latest" is a bit behind)

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 8:07 AM

flatpak update turns up the same crash as expected (still using ge-latest)

dry-scarlet•1/28/24, 8:09 AM

just to be clear this command tright

flatpak update && flatpak install --reinstall com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl

flatpak update && flatpak install --reinstall com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 8:11 AM

That's what I did. Still crashing any time I skip a cutscene or change a setting in-game

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 8:12 AM

Should I try the non-flatpak version just for kicks?

dry-scarlet•1/28/24, 8:12 AM

tbh i dont use flatpak

dry-scarlet•1/28/24, 8:12 AM

this works fine on my 3080 and radeon 6700xt

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 8:13 AM

I'll give the non-flatpak version a spin, then

dry-scarlet•1/28/24, 8:13 AM

you prob will want Wine Dependencies https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/master/WineDependencies.md

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 8:15 AM

Heh, I actually did that this morning

dry-scarlet•1/28/24, 8:17 AM

nodnod def will need it if you are going to use a non flatpak version

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 8:17 AM

Good to know, thanks

dry-scarlet•1/28/24, 8:30 AM

out of curiosity did you install anything with winetricks? or do you have automatically install wine tricks fixes enabled?

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 8:31 AM

The latter probably would have been smarter, but no I followed the instructions to install the two d3dcompilers and vcrun2022 that got posted on day 1

dry-scarlet•1/28/24, 9:06 AM

nodnod those should be all you need

Uurgent-maroon Working on that now as well as testing Wine-GE-8-27 (apparently Heroic's definit...

nursing-lime•1/28/24, 1:29 PM

Heroic’s definition is correct. wine-GE-8-27-LoL is for LoL, not general use

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 6:31 PM

Yep, that explains why it froze at the Remedy logo with that particular instance.

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 11:38 PM

Finally got to test non-flatpak. Same crashes. wine-ge-8-25

urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 11:38 PM

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urgent-maroonOP•1/28/24, 11:39 PM

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