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This is a workaround for running Helldivers 2 on flatpak Steam version that has the fullscreen issue where you have to be in borderless or windowed mode in order for the game to start.

  • Find where the user_settings.config file is located for Helldivers 2 and copy to a user destination

  • In my case I put it in my user bin folder. You will have to replace <user> with your username

    cp /home/<user>/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/553850/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Arrowhead/Helldivers2/user_settings.config /home/<user>/bin/

  • Make sure it has borderless_fullscreen set to true and fullscreen set to false in user_settings.config

    audio_device = 2
audio_volume = 1
maximized_window = false
voice_chat_volume = 1
framerate_limit_enabled = false
fullscreen = false
music_volume = 0.13223141431808472
dialogue_volume = 1
aspect_ratio = -1
sfx_volume = 1
borderless_fullscreen = true
hostability = "000080c100009c3400000003000000065917fa5a"
prev_audio_device = 0
adapter_index = 0
enable_resource_lock_debug = true
version = 15
render_backend = 0
prefer_hdr = false

  • Have Flatseal change to add other files with destination of user config setting

  • Since I have steam installed as a flatpak. I also have Flatseal installed to add directory permission to my helldivers 2 scripts

    sudo apt install flatseal

    Under Filesystem in Other files add your directory that has your script and user_settings.config file. In my case its under “/home/andronicus/bin”

    Flatseal

  • Create a simple copy script in your folder that you now have permissions in: Mine is called reset-diver that copies the user_settings.config file to Steam’s Helldivers 2 folder

    nano reset-diver

    this is what is copied into the text editor

    #!/bin/bash
cp /home/andronicus/bin/user_settings.config /home/andronicus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/553850/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Arrowhead/Helldivers2/

    then make sure its executable

    chmod +x reset-diver

  • In steams launcher option for Helldivers I have it set: “<location of reset diver script> ; %command%”

    Steam Launch Option

  • Also, create a script to copy destination file into personal directory: this is if you make changes in game and want to save

  • I created a copy script called copyhelldivers. You will need to replace <user> with your username

    nano copyhelldivers

    #!/bin/bash
cp /home/<user>/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/553850/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Arrowhead/Helldivers2/user_settings.config /home/<user>/bin/
sed -i '/borderless_fullscreen/c\borderless_fullscreen = true' /home/<user>/bin/user_settings.config

    chmod +x copyhelldivers