No Text on Menus?

[Incarnal]

Hey there everyone, I did a quick search and didn't find anything for this problem, but I thought I'd ask and see if anyone knows what I might be doing wrong.

When I launch Warzone 2100 2.1 on my Laptop (Vista, Intel Core2 Duo, some crappy integrated card, 1200x800 but this fails at any resolution I've tried) I fail to get any text on the launch menu. So, at first I thought that something was failing to launch, but after playing around with it for a few seconds I found out that the buttons are really there, I just can't see them. The music in the background is still playing, the buttons still move to a new invisible menu (or exit if I click exit) if I click them, and the buttons still make the right sound when clicked, but I just can't see them. I haven't been able to navigate my way into the game yet, but it appears everything is working fine except the invisible text.

Anyone have any ideas as to how I can fix this or should I just try to redownload/install it?

[Phoenix666]

go into WZ's directory/fonts
and copy fonts files into your Windows folder for fonts(ex: C/Windows/Fonts)

[Incarnal]

Interesting.

I loaded the fonts, into the Windows Fonts Folder, but I could not load the fonts.conf into there. I launched the game again and still no text.

Thanks for the idea though, I'm still going to keep tinkering around and see what comes up. Maybe I need to bring that .conf file someplace else.

[Phoenix666]

you only need to copy Fonts files(dont need to copy .conf file)
sometimes need to reboot system

try to use compatable mode

[Incarnal]

Yeah, I did all of that and still no change. I'm starting to think that this may be a real bug. I suppose I should report it.

Thank you very much for your help!

[Phoenix666]

hmm...very strange

[stiv]

on my Laptop (Vista, Intel Core2 Duo, some crappy integrated card

Integrated graphics chipsets tend to have poor OpenGL support. Standard drill for fixing display problems is:

* turn off compositing window managers ( like aero or compiz )
* update (or rollback ) video driver
* turn down hardware acceleration
* reduce color depth

[Tiger]

Updating my driver fixed the problem completely.

[Killian]

I have got exactly the same problem, but i am running it on Mac OS X 10.5.6. on an Intel iMac 2,4 GHz 2 GB RAM 128 Mb Video RAM (ATI 2400)
Does anybody know how to fix it on a Mac?

[theotherhiveking]

Exactly same problem, under ArchLinux.

[EvilGuru]

Exactly same problem, under ArchLinux.

Make sure the DejaVu fonts are installed on your system.

Regards, Freddie.

[theotherhiveking]

Oops, the dejavu i had installed was a python object-mapper of something, that fixed the problem.

Thanks

[EvilGuru]

If you got the package from the ArchLinux repositories then you should complain to the package maintainer/file a bug report on the issue.

Regards, Freddie.

[theotherhiveking]

If you got the package from the ArchLinux repositories then you should complain to the package maintainer/file a bug report on the issue.

Regards, Freddie.

No, i used aur.

I wrote: yaourt -S dejavu. (the correct package is ttf-dejavu)

And i installed:

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aur/dejavu 1.5.0RC1-1 [installed] (1)
    Dejavu is thread-safe Object-Relational Mapper for Python applications

:p

My fault.

Anyway i think that you should pack the fonts with the game.

[Zarel]

Anyway i think that you should pack the fonts with the game.

I agree.