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Torque3D - Font Disappearing

by Tetragrammaton · in Torque 3D Professional · 09/23/2012 (2:45 am) · 2 replies

I've posted another thread about it longer ago, but I'm still having this problem.
It actually occurs on my PC, which is from around 2003.

The problem:
When Torque3D.exe(the game) starts, then all fonts are disappeared. No fonts in buttons, no labels, etc. the same goes for the World Editor/Gui Editor.

Specifications of my PC:
Operating System: Windows XP, Service Pack 3.
Mainboard: P4SD-VX by Intel.
CPU: Intel Pentium 4, 2.80GHz, with hyper-threading.
Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce FX 5600 with 128MB DDR SDRAM. (Yes, I know that's really old).
RAM: 1080MB

I've tried everything already, like looking inside the code or searching up the font files. Everything is normal and it actually "should" work.
I also did reinstall Torque3D for about 5 times. Nothing helped.

Then I've thought the problem was lieing on the graphics card. It was outdated. So, I downloaded driver updates from 2009. (Last one for GeForce FX 5600).
Still... the same result.

Someone have an idea, what could cause this "font disappearing" problem/bug?

#1
09/23/2012 (7:25 am)
Try updating directX to the latest version.

Just to note your GPU is below minimum specs for T3D.
#2
10/11/2012 (9:36 am)
Thank you, Steve.
But it didn't really helped. I did bought now a new PC, because you were right about the part that my GPU didn't had the minimum specs for my PC.

It works everything now again!