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Font Problem - Missing Letters & Numbers (640x480)

by amaranthia · in Torque Game Builder · 03/30/2007 (3:50 pm) · 1 replies

Hi Guys, I figured I should post this...

I'm using a custom font for my game. When I have users play the game in 1024 x 768 mode, the words and numbers in my GUIs show up fine. However, on some machines when the game is played in 640 x 480 mode, some letters and numbers don't appear in my GUIs. The most troublesome letters seem to be R, z, Z, and (').

-When this problem occurs with letters, the letters don't show up at all.
-When this problem occurs with numbers, the custom font is replaced with Arial or the numbers don't show up.

-I've swapped out the custom font with another custom font (both TTF), but the problem still persists.
-I've disable Unicode support in an attempt to fix the problem.

Here are some screenshots of the problems that I've encountered:

www.amaranthia.com/images/errors/GH_1.jpg
www.amaranthia.com/images/errors/GH_2.jpg
www.amaranthia.com/images/errors/GH_3.jpg
www.amaranthia.com/images/errors/GH_4.jpg

#1
03/30/2007 (8:01 pm)
Amanda, hrm ... what are the specs of the machines this fails on? I tried the Grimms Hatchery demo on my machine and did not notice any problems like that ...

Can you give us a hardware/driver list of problematic machines?