Very small font on linux

astsmtl · Post by **astsmtl** » 17 Apr 2008, 12:44

Hi. I compiled 0.76b1, seems like everything works, I can launch the game with springlobby, but the game interface fonts are very small. Screenshot attached.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 17 Apr 2008, 15:09

What distro are you using? And what graphics card/driver?

astsmtl · Post by **astsmtl** » 17 Apr 2008, 15:25

LordMatt wrote:What distro are you using? And what graphics card/driver?

I'm using Source Mage with nVidia proprietary driver. I have this problem on 2 different computers:

GeForce 4 + nVidia legacy driver 96.43.05
FX 5500 + nVidia driver 173.08

On the system with FX5500 I tried Spring on Windows XP and there is no such problem there.

astsmtl · Post by **astsmtl** » 18 Apr 2008, 05:05

Should I open a bug?

BrainDamage · Post by **BrainDamage** » 18 Apr 2008, 13:32

make sure your resolution is at least 1024 * 768, also there is an option entry to set the font size, but i can't find the name atm

astsmtl · Post by **astsmtl** » 18 Apr 2008, 13:50

Brain Damage wrote:make sure your resolution is at least 1024 * 768, also there is an option entry to set the font size, but i can't find the name atm

My resolution is 1024x768. I tried searching for such option in .springrc and didn't found anything for font size.

BrainDamage · Post by **BrainDamage** » 18 Apr 2008, 14:34

FontCharFirst=32
FontCharLast=255

are respectively minimum and maximum size iirc

astsmtl · Post by **astsmtl** » 18 Apr 2008, 16:28

Brain Damage wrote:
FontCharFirst=32
FontCharLast=255
are respectively minimum and maximum size iirc

I think these are not font sizes but character codes range available to game. I tried increasing FontCharFirst and small chars were still small, but some chars completely disappeared. :)

theHive · Post by **theHive** » 20 Apr 2008, 11:15

My equivalent to .springrc (on a Mac here) has 'FontSize' as an option. Just takes a 'number'.

astsmtl · Post by **astsmtl** » 20 Apr 2008, 11:46

theHive wrote:My equivalent to .springrc (on a Mac here) has 'FontSize' as an option. Just takes a 'number'.

Although my .springrc had no such option I tried adding it like FontSize=20 and it doesn't work.

astsmtl · Post by **astsmtl** » 21 Apr 2008, 01:44

Solution at the end of this topic helped me. Can anyone explain why setting FontCharLast to 185 makes font larger?

koshi · Post by **koshi** » 21 Apr 2008, 01:54

i'm afraid no. last i checked no one (including engine devs) knew why this seemingly unrelated option makes the difference (sometimes)

astsmtl · Post by **astsmtl** » 21 Apr 2008, 02:10

Anyway thanks for your suggestions!

P.S. I opened bug. Hope devs will fix it soon.

clericvash · Post by **clericvash** » 21 Apr 2008, 23:25

I also get small fonts and i will try out your solution

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