Monday, October 19, 2015

Fix for Pillars of Eternity Blank Screen on OS X

Here is a quick fix for the blank/non-responsive screen in when going full screen in Pillars of Eternity on OS X (El Capitan). Note that you will have to do this before you run the game each time as it will reset the settings with bad ones each launch.

  • First open up the game and take it out of Full Screen mode if it in that mode.
    • Press Command+F to take it out of Full Screen.
    • Exit the game or press Command+Q.
  • Press Command+Space to start Spotlight Search.
  • Start typing Terminal and launch the Terminal application.
  • Copy the following text as a single line into your clipboard.
defaults write "unity.Obsidian Entertainment.Pillars of Eternity"  "Screenmanager Is Fullscreen mode" 0 && defaults write "unity.Obsidian Entertainment.Pillars of Eternity"  "Screenmanager Resolution Width" 2560 && defaults write "unity.Obsidian Entertainment.Pillars of Eternity"  "Screenmanager Resolution Height" 1440
  • Click over to the Terminal window and Past the copied text.
  • Press Enter to runt he command.
  • Launch the game as normal.
Somewhat inconvenient granted; you could make a script to do it but I don't want to post any executable code online.  Also this above code will not require a password or generate and output when executed even though it works.

Also, you may need to change the width(2560) and height(1440) if your native resolution of your monitor is different.

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