Font in Spring Game is messed up

[LogicalCondition]

Hi, when I run spring.exe the words/font are blocky and appear blurred so I cant read what they say, they sort of resemble words and letters. All the text seems to have this problem.

[Jazcash]

Well, I've had this problem with the Chickens control panel for over a year:

[klidifia]

For me too, all text, does anyone have any ideas?

[Jazcash]

For me too, all text, does anyone have any ideas?

Lol that looks retro

[abma]

try new/different drivers + attach infolog.txt if you want more help

[DaTubaKid]

Hello, I am having a similar problem. I have a black macbook running Windows 7 via boot camp, with a Intel 945GMA card. I have the latest drivers. Is there any solution to this problem (other than get a real computer with a real gaming graphics card)?

[abma]

try this: http://springrts.com/wiki/FAQ:trouble#Intel

you're driver looks old... spring says, it is 8.14.10.1930

the crash on exit is already fixed in the current developement version.

[DaTubaKid]

Hi adma,

Thanks for the reply. I've tried to both automatically update my driver and look through Intel's website to find an update, and I can't find anything newer than my current driver. The only one I can find on the Intel site is dated 10/02/2009, which is the one I currently have installed.

Previous versions of spring ran fine without text problems, are there any settings that I could tweak to remedy this problem? Or other driver ideas? I'm fresh out of ideas myself, and am not really in the market for a new computer right now. Thanks for any help!

Also thanks for mentioning that crash on exit, I had noticed that and been wondering, but wasn't too worried about it. Good to know that I didn't need to anyways.

[DaTubaKid]

I noticed a new version of spring is out, I still have the same text problems. Any new ideas?

[abma]

this is a driver problem, we can't fix anything in spring, as we don't have the resources for such bugs.

try a different driver, maybe an older one
you could try different dpi settings in windows (was just an idea)
try change settings in spring

[MidKnight]

I've noticed the same issue with my Compaq tc4400.
It actually looks pretty neat, but it makes reading things impossible.
It doesn't effect ChilliGUI element text, interestingly.
Should I try testing with previous versions of Spring?

[abma]

you could try bisecting if you want:

find a build that works:
http://springrts.com/dl/buildbot/default/master/

take a build that doesn't work.

take a build from middle of both, if it works take an older build from that, if not a newer build from middle... that way you should find a build that works close to the commit with ~10 tries or so...

but i'm unsure if it's fixable and the list of builds is incomplete... i'm unsure if its worth a try...