Cannot play game: font completely garbled

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xaphod
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Cannot play game: font completely garbled

#1 Post by xaphod »

Heard about, and downloaded freeOrion for the first time -- 7641.

This is what I see -- v 7641 (29. November 2014 -- no idea why image is upside-down). Game is completely unplayable, unstartable.
This is on win8.

Could someone fix this?
thx
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Geoff the Medio
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Re: Cannot play game: font completely garbled

#2 Post by Geoff the Medio »

All I can suggest is updating your video drivers. When possible, that often fixes the text rendering looking like that.

I don't recall seeing any posts about rendering upside down, though.

It's also possible that these issues would be resolved by using SDL instead of Ogre, but the SDL branch isn't yet playable.

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