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It seems this was a problem with wine, not Geneforge. On someone else's advice, I reinstalled wine, and I'm asked on startup what resolution to use now, after getting rid of the .dat file suggested above.

Sorry for the bother.

Removing that file doesn't seem to help, though. Let me see if I can make it clear what happens, for those who don't know anything about wine:

When I install a Windows program using wine, it is installed to "/home/xxxxme/.wine/drive_c/Program Files" (by default, Geneforge 5 would be installed in "/home/xxxxme/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Spiderweb Software/Geneforge 5").

The "registry" is in the files "/home/xxxxme/.wine/*.reg".

wine puts things for "My Documents" in "/home/xxxxme/.wine/drive_c/Documents" (this is custom).

I've deleted the whole Spiderweb Software directory (I hadn't any saved games yet) from "My Documents", yet Geneforge 5 still doesn't ask me what resolution to use when I start it.

When I rename my "/home/xxxxme/.wine" directory, make a new one, and install Geneforge 5 there (like installing it again after reinstalling Windows, if I were using Windows), I -am- asked what resolution to use when I start it.

The problem with just using a new .wine directory for Geneforge 5, though, is that I have other things installed with wine, in the old directory, that I want to keep, and don't really want to reinstall all of them.

Ah, I found the file now; I just wasn't looking in the right place. Thanks.

I can see from my hard drive search results that that's how they did it in 1-3. I have 4 installed as well, though, and don't see a .dat file that looks like it's related to either that or Geneforge 5.

On the other hand, the only things related to Geneforge 5 that I found in the registry are for the uninstaller. I guess if I have to, I can just create a new wine folder and move everything I have installed under wine there. When I tried that with just Geneforge 5 earlier, I was asked what resolution to use at startup.

I'm running Geneforge 5 (Windows version 1.0.2) on Linux under wine. It ran fine until I chose to have the screen resolution saved. Now it starts up with a black screen and no sound.

According to appdb.winehq.org, other people have had this problem. The workaround is not to save the resolution setting. Where are Geneforge 5's settings stored? I can't change them in the game, as I can't start it up.

No, rebooting doesn't help. Uninstalling and reinstalling the program apparently doesn't get rid of the settings, either. I've deleted the Spiderweb Software folder where I told wine "My Documents" was, but this also did not take care of it.