Eu4 Zooms In Weirdly with Xubuntu

[PizzaHouse]

This thread is for those who understand xubuntu and its appendages, as I dont think this is an Eu4 problem

Installing Xubuntu, I downloaded Eu4 in hopes to play but unfortunately I was met with the Eu4 GUI acting extremely strange.

During the loading screen I noticed that the actual screen zoomed in on one spot and moving my mouse around the corners, moved the entire focus of the screen with it from one corner to another.

When finally loaded the start menu looks as though the actual geographical game map has been zoomed in (western Europe) and the menu screen zoomed again to one corner.

Again moving the mouse around helped shift the focus of the screen.

Clicking the buttons to start the game or to close the update notification dose nothing and is unresponsive.

What I have already tried

I went into the game files (settings.txt.) and set the bordered mode: fullscreen=no borderless=no

Nothing changed

I assumed it was a problem with the zooming feature in xfwm4 and so went on to disable zoom_desktop

Nothing changed

I uninstalled and reinstalled

Nothing changed

Verify integrity game files and even tried to run it with Proton and Steam Linux Runtime

Nothing changed

Please help me

 

[grotaclas]

AFAIK this is a Linux problem which is not specific to xubuntu, but I don't remember if anybody ever found out what is causing this. If you search the tech support and bugreports forum, you can find a few threads about this issue.
IIRC you can workaround the problem by configuring eu4 to use the full resolution of your screen. If you have a "~/.local/share/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/pdx_settings.txt" you have to make your changes there, because it overrides settings.txt. Otherwise settings.txt should work. I don't remember if borderless fullscreen is helpful or not. For reference my pdx_settings.txt for 1920x1080p borderless fullscreen looks like the following(of course you have to use a different resolution if your native screen resolution is no 1920x1080):

"System"={
        "language"={
                value="l_english"
                version=0
        }
}
"Graphics"={
        "fullscreen_resolution"={
                value="1920x1080"
                version=0
        }
        "windowed_resolution"={
                value="1900x900"
                version=0
        }
        "display_mode"={
                value="borderless_fullscreen"
                version=0
        }
}

(the windowed_resolution section is not used in borderless fullscreen)
The relevant lines from settings.txt are:

graphics={
        size={
                x=1920
                y=1080
        }

        min_gui={
                x=1280
                y=720
        }

        game_ui_scale=1.000
        refreshRate=120
        fullScreen=no
        borderless=yes
        shadows=no
        shadowSize=2048
        multi_sampling=0
        maxanisotropy=0
        gamma=54.000000
        vsync=yes
}

(fullscreen= and borderless= is what matters and the size= section and the game_ui_scale should be 1.0)

 

[PizzaHouse]

AFAIK this is a Linux problem which is not specific to xubuntu, but I don't remember if anybody ever found out what is causing this. If you search the tech support and bugreports forum, you can find a few threads about this issue.
IIRC you can workaround the problem by configuring eu4 to use the full resolution of your screen. If you have a "~/.local/share/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/pdx_settings.txt" you have to make your changes there, because it overrides settings.txt. Otherwise settings.txt should work. I don't remember if borderless fullscreen is helpful or not. For reference my pdx_settings.txt for 1920x1080p borderless fullscreen looks like the following(of course you have to use a different resolution if your native screen resolution is no 1920x1080):

"System"={
        "language"={
                value="l_english"
                version=0
        }
}
"Graphics"={
        "fullscreen_resolution"={
                value="1920x1080"
                version=0
        }
        "windowed_resolution"={
                value="1900x900"
                version=0
        }
        "display_mode"={
                value="borderless_fullscreen"
                version=0
        }
}

(the windowed_resolution section is not used in borderless fullscreen)
The relevant lines from settings.txt are:

graphics={
        size={
                x=1920
                y=1080
        }

        min_gui={
                x=1280
                y=720
        }

        game_ui_scale=1.000
        refreshRate=120
        fullScreen=no
        borderless=yes
        shadows=no
        shadowSize=2048
        multi_sampling=0
        maxanisotropy=0
        gamma=54.000000
        vsync=yes
}

(fullscreen= and borderless= is what matters and the size= section and the game_ui_scale should be 1.0)

I set the commands as this but the game wouldn't even launch for me, with me pressing the steam play button and nothing appearing. I didnt mess up the code in any other way.

I later ran it with Proton 6.3-8 and everything worked like a charm


Thank you!

 

[grotaclas]

I set the commands as this but the game wouldn't even launch for me, with me pressing the steam play button and nothing appearing.

So steam didn't even start the launcher? Did it start the launcher before or did it always immediately start eu4? Maybe one of the files broke in the edit.

I later ran it with Proton 6.3-8 and everything worked like a charm

That runs the windows version of eu4 which in my experience has much slower startup time.