Hi there - just installed spring on a new machine but the in game text is unreadable - I refer specifically to the minus energy or metal values and the text on the order buttons for all units.
On the buttons some of the text just seems too small to read but in the case of the energy and metal usage the text is so pixellated that I cant make the text out.
Things I have tried so far:
Changing screen smothing types in windows,
Changing in game resolution from 800/600 to 1024/768.
Neither of these have helped, and solutions are greatly appreciated as microing any units and my economy is pretty much impossible.
In Game Text Unreadable
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This isn't a final solution, but you can change the TTF font for another one in the spring directory ( I copied Rockwell to the spring directory, renamed fluxi.ttf to fluxi.bak and renamed the font I had copied over to be fluxi.ttf)... also, on some displays the menu text you speak of is completely invisible... I have made a bug reportabout it... if they change the menu items to images it would solve both our problems.
EDIT: Also, don't run spring at 800x600 unless your computer is garbage... I have a p2.4 and 512 ram and a Radeon 9200 and I have no problems with 1024x768
EDIT: Also, don't run spring at 800x600 unless your computer is garbage... I have a p2.4 and 512 ram and a Radeon 9200 and I have no problems with 1024x768
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mother: it did. There are minor artifacts from JPEG compression, but the blocky, pixellated text actually looked like that. I have the large, unreadable PNG to prove it.
Its most notable in the lower left hand corner.
Anyway, its not an issue anymore.
I tracked down the problem being to the default resolutions: I have one of the "new" wide-screen laptops, but the default resolution settings only support the standard resolutions. After I manually input a resolution that allowed for the extra width the text was no longer scrunched together, although it still is, in certain places, unusually "small," but not illegiable.
Thankfully I figured it out myself. I don't think I could have done it with the help of the community.
Its most notable in the lower left hand corner.
Anyway, its not an issue anymore.
I tracked down the problem being to the default resolutions: I have one of the "new" wide-screen laptops, but the default resolution settings only support the standard resolutions. After I manually input a resolution that allowed for the extra width the text was no longer scrunched together, although it still is, in certain places, unusually "small," but not illegiable.
Thankfully I figured it out myself. I don't think I could have done it with the help of the community.