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LarryP -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (6/29/2011 8:01:25 PM)

Are you using Windows-7 doing the above? I get no option to "install New Font."



MichaelCooney -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (7/5/2011 12:36:56 PM)

I'm using Windows XP.  I'll have to track down a Windows 7 machine...



PrinzHenrich -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (7/5/2011 6:39:12 PM)

I use Win7 but can'f find instal new font. I instal all font using eternal option in fonts. Click twice at new download font then file opened and have 2 options: Print and Instal.



LarryP -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (7/5/2011 6:44:28 PM)

So did install work?



PrinzHenrich -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (7/5/2011 11:28:24 PM)

Yes it is.



Alex777 -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (7/17/2011 4:52:50 AM)


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ORIGINAL: LarryP

I've tried at least ten different fonts and they just don't help. The text is unreadable in most places. It's sad because I really want to play this game, but I can't read tooltips most of the time, and menu information.

I have Widescreen monitors and Win7 on all my desktops. I don't know what else to try. The game is unplayable for me at this point. Yes I tried windowed mode and it helped none at all.


I had the same problem (in Win7 32-bit) but I solved it by turning off ClearType text in the Fonts section of the Windows Control Panel.



LarryP -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (7/17/2011 1:28:33 PM)

I tried that and it made no difference.



Alex777 -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (7/17/2011 5:07:30 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: LarryP

I tried that and it made no difference.


Are you running the program in Windows XP compatibility mode? That is what I use.



LarryP -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (7/17/2011 5:46:47 PM)

I just tried that, thinking hey, you may have something there. Nope, the tooltips that pop up are still unreadable. Dang, this is really maddening. I really appreciate your input here. That was a good idea too.

I have not been able to play this game since I bought it. All text is messed up. The only game this has ever happened to out of hundreds I've played. I have over 50 games on this machine and never had this issue.



spelk -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (4/25/2012 7:56:05 AM)

I have the same problems as the OP, with textual content in the game.

It seems on a Windows 7 laptop with a native 1600x900 resolution, even running in Windowed mode, the problem exists. With Georgia set as the font in the ini file, I had slightly better results by turning off ClearType - however the results weren't brilliant - seems to be parts of the font are not rendered properly, both with Georgia and Courier New. However the "bold" effect caused was removed, by removing ClearType effects. Shame it made using the laptop eye-wateringly painful for the rest of the time. And it didn't fully fix the problem with the games text. Sadly.

Here's the main menu - you can see some sort of tearing on the images there..
[image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q297/spelkUK/horsemusket1.jpg[/image]

Here's the main screen showing both texts, info panel and hove over names
[image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q297/spelkUK/horsemusket2.jpg[/image]

[image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q297/spelkUK/horsemusket4.jpg[/image]

Here's the popup menu in game, again you can see some sort of distortion in the text used there
[image]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q297/spelkUK/horsemusket3.jpg[/image]

And this is in a Windowed version of the game, where the resolution of the laptop shouldn't affect it. I've tried it with and without XP Compatibility mode.



LarryP -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (4/25/2012 2:05:50 PM)

Because of this game and a few others here at Matrix, I have become much more selective of what I purchase. This game has become shelfware for me. There are a couple of developers I won't buy from anymore because of their games not receiving the support I feel they should have. This is one of them.

Good luck with this game, as it looks better than it did for me.



Micha63 -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (4/25/2012 9:40:02 PM)

Hi Larry , i think the cause of your problem is direct draw like in many other older games. You need to found a programmer who creates a directdraw wrapper for this game.
This helped me for panzergeneral 3d scorched earth and people general.
I cant give you the names of the programmers because they has no time for other projects for the moment.
But i whish you good luck on your surch.



LarryP -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (4/25/2012 9:48:19 PM)

I have tried this game on Win7, XP, and Vista and the text is garbage on every platform.



Micha63 -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (4/25/2012 10:38:43 PM)

sTRANGE; FOR ME IT WORKS GREAT. I think its a problem of your graphiccard. A solution will need time. You should not count on help from the gamedevelopers.
When they cant make a lot of money anymore with the game the support runs to zero like in all old games, we must help ourselfes.



LarryP -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (4/25/2012 10:56:48 PM)

I've used three different graphic cards. I have spent weeks working with this game last year, I'm done.



Micha63 -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (4/26/2012 10:24:35 AM)

You shouldn"t give up to fast. Not many programmers are interested to help the fan comunity of older roundbased games.
But from time to time you can found such a good soul. Here is a directdrawwrapper which can help you maybe :

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=31583&sid=d2f426937c95952d1937b0675a87e169

Read careful the topic and put the draw dll and the configure file to your game mainfolder. For me it works good.

Micha



XLegion -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (11/5/2012 6:58:09 PM)

I had the same problem that Larry P had also with this game. Even worse in fact as the graphics were so crap for the troops on screen the game was unplayable. I tried every single one of the 'fixes' offered and none of them worked. This was a 'game breaker' for me. I haven't looked at this game in over a year but had some spare time today and decided to 'look in' to see what kind of support had been offered. Now I see. NOTHING!

I have pretty well written off Matrix Games now for anything. I have been burned too many times now. No support for "For Liberty" also. I'm out of here!




LarryP -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (11/5/2012 9:26:36 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: XLegion

I had the same problem that Larry P had also with this game. Even worse in fact as the graphics were so crap for the troops on screen the game was unplayable. I tried every single one of the 'fixes' offered and none of them worked. This was a 'game breaker' for me. I haven't looked at this game in over a year but had some spare time today and decided to 'look in' to see what kind of support had been offered. Now I see. NOTHING!

I have pretty well written off Matrix Games now for anything. I have been burned too many times now. No support for "For Liberty" also. I'm out of here!




For Liberty was a real bum deal for me too. I got tired of going into menus and NOT being able to click a Cancel button if I made an error. The devs stood by the fact that Cancel buttons were not going to ever happen. Among other things too, I gave up on the game.

H&M was an entire waste of money. Can't read the text at times. My gaming habits have moved on and so I'm seldom here at Matrix anymore.

Wish I had an easy fix, but I don't. [&:]



RFC -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (11/27/2016 1:21:07 AM)

Wished I'd read this thread before I purchased this product as I suffer from the same issues[&:] It's now approximately 4 years on from the last post on this thread and it seems nothing has been done to help those of us who have this issue.[:-]

The only consolation for me is that I bought it on sale[sm=sign0003.gif]



LarryP -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (11/27/2016 2:30:28 PM)

I gave up on this game the same time I posted in 2012. Sad.



RFC -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (11/28/2016 3:41:03 PM)

It's very sad. Maybe one day it will get the attention it needs [sm=innocent0001.gif]



LarryP -> RE: Text unreadable - game not playable for me (11/28/2016 4:56:36 PM)

If it hasn't by now, I doubt it.



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