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Title: FS2 Text Corruption - Help!
Post by: morganus on September 04, 2003, 04:47:07 pm

Just re-installed FS2 and was hoping to actually play through and finally beat the game. There is a slight problem however, as there is quite a bit of text corruption or something occuring to all the text in the HUD in game, and in the briefings and elsewhere. I've looked and looked but I haven't seen anyone else with this same problem.

Here is a picture of what it looks like:
http://mikeyb.network54.org/fs2-screen.jpg

Here are my specs: Full FS2 install, Athlon XP 2100, Geforce 4 Ti4200 with latest 45.23 NVIDIA drivers. No AA and no AF at all. DirectX 9.0b, WinXP Pro SP1. Running FS2 at 1024x768 32 Bit D3D

I've tried running FS2 in Win95/98 compatibility mode to no avail. I've also tried every other resolution and I still experience the exact same corruption.
Any ideas, suggestions, and help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

edit - I'm running patched version 1.20 in case that matters

Title: FS2 Text Corruption - Help!
Post by: WMCoolmon on September 04, 2003, 05:46:02 pm

Try getting the latest version of fs2_open (http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/fsscp) and enable the GeForce fix in the launcher. That should solve your problem. :nod:

Title: FS2 Text Corruption - Help!
Post by: karajorma on September 04, 2003, 06:01:20 pm

Ah. The Famous GeForce 4 garbled text bug. WMCoolmon has posted one solution but if for some reason you want to stick with the standard FS2 .exe for now (I do reccomend the FS2_open exe) there is a solution to the problem in the technical section of my FAQ (link below).

Title: FS2 Text Corruption - Help!
Post by: Taristin on September 04, 2003, 09:09:57 pm

Heh, thats not nearly as bad as what happens to my fonts when FS2 goes luny...

Title: FS2 Text Corruption - Help!
Post by: morganus on September 04, 2003, 10:47:52 pm

Aaah ok thank you all very much for your help. Works fine now :)

Title: FS2 Text Corruption - Help!
Post by: Turnsky on September 04, 2003, 10:52:22 pm

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Originally posted by morganus
Aaah ok thank you all very much for your help. Works fine now :)

who's got the welcome beam?:)

Title: FS2 Text Corruption - Help!
Post by: Rictor on September 04, 2003, 11:08:07 pm

I do. Welcome morganus and enjoy your stay.






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