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If you locate the config.ini file for Sid Meier's Pirates and change Fullscreen = 0 to Fullscreen = 1, you should be able to get fullscreen and unlock higher resolutions. Note, to avoid it looking a bit stretched, the nearest 4:3 resolution is 1440:1080

While I'm thinking about it, you'll also need to do some hardware checking: i) Ensure the HDMI cable from your computer to the AV unit, and from the AV unit to the TV are both HDMI 2.0 compliant. If only HDMI 1.4 you will not get 4K @ 60Hz whatever we do. ii) Ensure that the HDMI cable from...

OK, next thing - I'd like to see your current Xorg.log. It'll be easier all round if you attach it as a file, so: sudo su cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log /home/daniel/. chown daniel:daniel /home/daniel/Xorg.0.log Then in your next reply, select "Upload a File" and upload /home/Daniel/Xorg.0.log Next...

OK, that makes sense. At around revision 364, nVidia enabled support for kernel modesetting, but in true nVidia style, they didn't use a lot of the kernel infrastructure but rolled their own. Among the problems are lack of support for the fbdev high resolution framebuffer. What this means for...

SATA cable? Or if you're going old-school, then just ATA or IDE cable

EDIT: OK, so you have 4K at the moment with 340 drivers - your concern is that you can't use 370s, yes?

Short answer is because you already had mint-meta-codecs and libdvdcss2 installed. The other files are harmless - I'd leave them for now. Thanks for that. I couldn't find a 46" HiSense H6D, but did find reference to a 43" HiSense H6D. All this tells me is that they're no longer sold. Anyway...

To some extent, they do. nVidia only provides a single kernel module for all its generations of graphics card. In trying to support older cards, it will eventually get too big, too unwieldy, too hard to maintain and thus too bug prone to support all older generations of card. So, nVidia's...

Great stuff! Using a different screen and still seeing some natural light is far superior to just closing the curtains - on that path lies madness If I have any spare brainpower, I'll have a think about D~'s 4K problem. I think it's related to changes in the nvidia drivers between 340 and 370...

Where graphics drivers are concerned, AMD and Intel have gone one way, while nVidia has gone another. AMD and Intel both embraced the Gallium driver model in Mesa, and contributed a lot of developer time and code, plus working firmware, to getting their graphics working well under Linux. The...

Are you happy at this point, or do you need to look at nVidia drivers for gaming as well?

OK, so now see if you can play DVDs

In a few years time, today's kids will grow up and be nostalgic for PUBG or Overwatch, or (shudder) minecraft. My eldest doesn't really understand why I keep playing my favourite game, which is now 20 years old (and no, I'm not telling you what it is), which plays perfectly well on current...

You could as well, if you wanted to - add the developer repositories, install the sources for particular libraries/applications/whatever, then configure and build them, and package them up into their own .deb files so that the application manager can manage them. It's just easier to let "the...

OK, so VLC itself seems to be complete. Now I vaguely recall from the release notes that since Mint 18, it no longer installs certain libraries and codecs by default. We can just instruct the system to install them - if they're already installed, it'll just skip the packages safely. sudo...

You missed a "-" dpkg -l | grep -i vlc

Sorta, but I think it's been blown out of proportion: - at this time, no distro, including Ubuntu, is removing the ability to execute 32bit binaries from their kernel. - Ubuntu has decided to stop building and installing 32bit compatibility libraries as part of its main repositories (however...

OK, when you next reboot, there's a brief pause between POST completing and booting actually starting when the Grub screen momentarily flashes up. In that period, you can hit the letter "e", which will allow you to edit the command line used to boot the kernel. Scroll down (arrow keys) until...

OK, we're closer. VLC is actually installed, just, for whatever reason, not working correctly. Can I see which vlc packages you have installed already? Run dpkg -l | grep -i vlc ...and post up the output.

More questions, as I'm a little unclear as to whether you've been unable to install VLC at all, or whether you've got it installed but it fails to run. You should just be able to install VLC from Software Manager. If not, try from the command line: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-cache search...