How to play full screen in Linux under Wine? -- SOLVED

[GoldenX]

You have to create a key inside wine's regedit, open in with just "wine regedit" in the terminal.

I think your full screen problems are Unity's fault (the desktop that comes with Ubuntu), maybe you should try other desktops, xfce or Mate for example.

 

[HTC]

You have to create a key inside wine's regedit, open in with just "wine regedit" in the terminal.

I think your full screen problems are Unity's fault (the desktop that comes with Ubuntu), maybe you should try other desktops, xfce or Mate for example.

Other desktops?????

 

[GoldenX]

This is Linux, baby. You don't like the desktop environment? You change it.
The "best" ones are Gnome (it's going to be the default one in the next Ubuntu version), KDE in Kubuntu, xfce in Xubuntu, Mate (this one is a fork of the old Gnome 2, argentinian, my current one) and LXDE in Lubuntu.
Try them in a virtual machine or another computer, Unity is officially dead so it can help to see the alternatives. I don't recommend it but you can also install them and change them in the login screen, sudo apt install gnome-shell or something similar, problem is you will get in a testing frenzy and bloat the instalation.

 

[Regeneration]

Try unchecking "Allow the window manager to control the windows" in winecfg.

 

[m0nt3]

I would also open winecfg (you caa run form terminal or probably launch it from the ubuntu menu) and make sure
"emulate a virtual desktop" is not enabled. It is under the graphics tab. I also recommend padoka stable, which uses the current stable branch of mesa, as git tends to have regressions and breakages (although not always it certainly happens, this can be seen at phoronix benchmarks recently where several game benchmarks failed to run). Padoka Stable. Also, for wine gaming, with the open source drivers, like padoka, I would recommend wine-nine. For instance, in Diablo 3, I was getting double the fps of my friend with same Ryzen 7 1700 only he has a GTX 1080 and I have an RX 480. The difference can be quite drastic, but it is only for DX9 games.

 

[HTC]

I'll try @Regeneration 's suggestion 1st. The guide for Grim Dawn's install specifically states that i should leave that on, though it also states "allow the window manager to control the window" should also be checked. Will test both, just in case, but not @ the same time.

Both Oibaf and Padoka seem to break VLC (or is it the other way around?) but, with Padoka, it's more severe, or so it seems.

@m0nt3 : Wine 2.18 also seems to enable the usage of CSMT.

 

[GoldenX]

CSMT is great for DX10/11 and OpenGL games, but gallium nine is the best at DX9 games, use it if you can, you need to use wine-staging-nine for that, and not use AMDGPU-PRO.

 

[HTC]

CSMT is great for DX10/11 and OpenGL games, but gallium nine is the best at DX9 games, use it if you can, you need to use wine-staging-nine for that, and not use AMDGPU-PRO.

Ever since i learned about oibaf and Padoka, i never installed AMDGPU-Pro again.

@Regeneration and @m0nt3 : those suggestions i mentioned i was gonna try in post #31 don't work Also tested them @ the same time but also don't work

 

[pcwizzy37]

I'd recommend XFCE desktop environment, and Manjaro Linux, as XFCE is light, and vastly more customizable and compatible, and Manjaro is based on Arch, so it's a rolling release, which is way better than any *buntu distribution.

 

[GoldenX]

True, you always have the latest, and if that is not enough yo can use the AUR.
Steam requires following the Arch wiki, thou, only *buntu works out of the box.

 

[HTC]

UPDATE

I asked in "AskUbuntu" about this and it turns out @m0nt3 was right after all. It just so happens that i was changing the winecfg settings of the WRONG winecfg, which is why it wasn't working ... DUH ...

Just tried it and finally, FINALLY it's in full screen!!!!!

Thanks all for the help!