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Alistair Buxton
Asked: 2012-06-03 07:06:23 +0800 CST

How to run Humble Bundle V games on a system with Nvidia Twinview?

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When I run Amnesia: Dark Descent or Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery, the games are stretched across both my monitors, like this:

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Limbo crashes on start-up:

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How can I solve these problems?

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  1. Best Answer

    All Games work after some tweaking:

    Amnesia, Sword & Sworcery, Psychonauts, Super Meat Boy:

    These are SDL games, and like all SDL games, they will act strangely if you have two monitors. To run them on only the primary display:

    SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_DISPLAY=0 /opt/amnesia/Launcher.bin64 - note this will probably be called "Launcher.bin32" or similar on 32-bit systems.

    SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_DISPLAY=0 /opt/swordandsworcery/run.sh

    I didn't need to do any further tweaking with these and they seem to work perfectly.

    NOTE: To apply this tweak to all SDL games such that they can be run this way from the dash, just add

    SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_DISPLAY=0

    to /etc/environment on a new line and then reboot.

    Limbo:

    I had a lot more trouble with this game. With dual head enabled the game crashes with a segfault. Normally this can be avoided by running wine in explorer virtual desktop mode (I have to do this with almost any wine game) however, in this came, Limbo is bundled with a custom wine where explorer mode doesn't work. I had to use the distro-supplied wine instead, and then it works correctly, but you have to run it with the normal startup scripts once to get the ~/.limbo directory created, so:

    /opt/limbo/launch-limbo.sh - if this works, great, if not:

    sudo apt-get install wine1.4

    cd ~/.limbo/limbo/drive_c/Program\ Files/limbo/ - you MUST cd or the game will crash

    wine explorer /desktop=limbo,1920x1200 limbo.exe - replace 1920x1200 by your desired resolution

    To start the application like this when launched form the dash:

    sudo gedit /opt/limbo/launch-limbo.sh

    comment out the existing code and add:

    cd ~/.limbo/limbo/drive_c/Program\ Files/limbo/
wine explorer /desktop=limbo,1920x1200 limbo.exe

    Again, replace 1920x1200 by your desired resolution

    Bastion

    You can launch it in windowed mode at pretty much any resolution by adding options while launching:

    cd /opt/bastion/Bastion/
./Bastion.bin.x86_64 -windowed -x 1680 -y 1000

    (My monitors have 1680x1050 & I subtracted 50p for the Unity top bar - so its kinda fullscreen)

    To launch the game in windowed mode with the dash-shortcut:

    cd /opt/bastion/Bastion/
sudo gedit bastion64.sh

    And add " -windowed -x 1680 -y 1000" (without quotes, with desired resolutions) after "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=lib64:. ./Bastion.bin.x86_64".

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  2. The solution for Limbo didn't do it for me. What did it for me:

    1. Install wine

    2. Install Directx9

      winetricks directx9

    3. Open wine config

      winecfg

    4. Change d3dx9_43 to "(native,builtin)" in Libraries tab

    5. Follow steps in other answer

    Taken from “Limbo” game has no sound

    Altough it says 'fix for sound' I had to install directx9 to get the game itself running. (and now I even have sound).

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