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Screen resolution reset in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Dec 21, 2012 akpraha link
Running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and when I run the vendetta client, it launches and updates fine. I adjusted my screen resolution in the game options, and all seems OK. However when I quit the client, my screen resolution is reset to 800x600, which is pretty annoying.

Any hints?
Dec 22, 2012 Pizzasgood link
That sounds like the game isn't exiting cleanly, which can result in it not saving the settings. Maybe the ~/.vendetta/errors.log file has relevant information about why that would happen.

You should be able to manually adjust the settings by editing ~/.vendetta/config.ini
Dec 22, 2012 vskye link
You didn't install the game as root (sudo) did you?
Dec 26, 2012 akpraha link
I switched over to the Windows 7 version, since all of my boxes are dual- (or triple-) boot. I didn't install as root, and it was installed to ~/.vendetta as expected.

Just checked errors.log, and there aren't any entries indicated that it didn't exit cleanly.
Dec 26, 2012 abortretryfail link
Mine did this a couple of times too. I don't notice it very often though since most of the time I play with VO in a window. I'll have to check it when I get home and see what happens.
Nov 16, 2014 Death Fluffy link
I am having this problem as well. I tried changing the settings in wgaf.cfg and that had no affect. However, the setting is unchanged in the file after running the game. However, the settings seem to have no affect and I am having to change the resolution every time I play.

set rHUDxscale "1280.000000"
set rHUDyscale "720.000000"

Below is the start up from the errors log.

Setting up signal handlers...done.
Using multithreaded rendering.
Using 0 physics worker threads.
[Sun Nov 16 20:00:07 2014] Found driver: "OpenGL Reference GKGL driver". Type 5, Version 108.0. Load @0x02208580
[Sun Nov 16 20:00:07 2014] Instantiate address: 0x7fbd61d9ea90
[Sun Nov 16 20:00:07 2014] Found driver: "ALSA driver". Type 1, Version 10.1. Load @0x02209ed0
[Sun Nov 16 20:00:07 2014] Instantiate address: 0x7fbd619108d0
[Sun Nov 16 20:00:07 2014] Found driver: "Open Sound System driver". Type 1, Version 10.1. Load @0x0220b820
[Sun Nov 16 20:00:07 2014] Instantiate address: 0x7fbd611bf1a0
ALSA initialized: 44100Hz, 16bit stereo, 92ms latency (16 periods x 256 samples)
Starting game thread.
/dev/js0: No such file or directory
Found joystick 'Logitech Logitech Extreme 3D (/dev/input/js0)'
numaxes = 6
numbuttons = 12
Nov 17, 2014 Death Fluffy link
Strangely, this problem was resovled when I switched from my laptops inbuilt wifi to a direct connection to the router.