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steam tropico 3 fullscreen ?

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  1. dem

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    Hi,

    TOday I received free version of tropico3, from humble store.

    The problem is that I cannot switch the game to proper full screen.

    If I set POL wine options to "emulate a screen" in windows display tab, the game appears windowed. If I don't check the "emulate screen" option, the game appears stretched without windows borders, but the linux windows manager stays visible.

    I tried both unity (ubuntu 14.04) and XFCE, same problem remains.

    Thanks for your help.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    I check "virtual desktop" in Wine Configuration, then set the desktop resolution to 1024x768
    Then in-game, I will adjust the resolution to match my Linux Desktop. The game should appear fullscreen from then on.
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    I believe "virtual desktop" is "emulate screen" in wine options, right ?

    If it's what I think, I already tested it. It doesn't work ;)
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Yes
    Strange, I use it for almost every game I test in PlayOnLinux.
    If you don't use it, I recommend lowering your Desktop resolution and then matching the game resolution to it.
    You still might want to use the checkbox "Capture mouse in fullscreen windows"
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    I made new tests tonight, I still cannot play tropico3. Same graphics problems. The weird thing is that tropico3 retail version is supported by POL officialy.

    But I cannot manage to make the steam version work. I tried several versions of wine, and wine settings, it didn't work (and I probably corrupted the POL virtual drive of it, because now when I launch it, I directly obtain a critical error).
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Did I already ask you to disable the Steam In-Game Overlay?
    It causes all sorts of problems in Wine/PlayOnLinux

    It might be time for some debug outputs to see whats going on.
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    Yes overlay is disabled (in fact everything I can disable like advertisements, alerts, etc...in steam is disabled).

    I'll make a new try and post debug tonight. thank you !
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    you can post the debug here if you want... it is related

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