Major text issues during login and char creation!

[Karyuu]

No problem :3 We have a guide to posting images in the forums.

[LeoKmari]

Ok, gf helped me out heh. Here's 2 pics in different resolutions of the setup.

1024 x 768: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/Leo_Kmari/ScreenshotofSetupin1024by768Resolut.jpg

800 x 600: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/Leo_Kmari/ScreenshotofSetupin800by600Resoluti.jpg

I've been trying this method with the game as well, and I do get close to where fonts are almost readable.

[Nurahk]

Haha Go Gunz!

800 by 600 looks fine...

[Karyuu]

That looks just fine :D Have you attempted to fiddle some more with the video drivers?

[LeoKmari]

Haha Go Gunz!

800 by 600 looks fine...

You'd be surprised. I have GunZ, Gunbound, Maplestory, MUonline (newest one I've downloaded thus far), Planeshift being the most recent of the bunch. I also got Golf King since it's also by ijji.

As for the pics, yes. The Setup window looks fine in 800 by 600, but this is outside the game. Inside the game, when you go to login and char creation is when the text is messed up. No matter how many different resolution combinations I do between my desktop and the game setup's resolution settings, I can't get the right match to have the in-game text fixed.    I came close though, got like the login screen words showing abit, but when it came to choosing a char and race, it was all cramped together again. 

*EDIT* No, haven't fiddled more with the video drivers. Also, my girlfriend wants me to go upstairs to bed, to play Pokemon together heh. (yea...me and her are in our 20s. I'm 21, she turned 20 on the 10th this month, and we're Pokemaniacs...well, I used to be one, but my gf got me into it again since she got me Leaf Green heh).

Sorry, but I think I should get goin. Thank you so much Karyuu for tryin to help. Perhaps we can continue this discussion tomorrow either on this thread, or a new thread, or wherever. I swear though, I will NOT give up on this without a fight. =P No game or computer problem has stood in my way, and has been victorious.....except for the random unexpected computer crashes, that problem still eludes me, but I shall track it down, tie it to a post, AND TEAR THE PROBLEM TO SHREDS WITH MY SUPER SHARP RUBBER CHICKEN BLADE OF DOOOOOOOM!!!  Ok, see ya'll tomorrow. ^_^

[LeoKmari]

Sorry, had to make a new thread today. Not getting any traffic on my old one anymore...

Anyways, Karyuu, if you happen to come by here, I've discovered something rather facinating.

Now, as you know I've been having text issues with the login and char creation screen. On my old thread, I kinda made a new reply today about something that happened, but so far no one seems to have noticed. I've started up the game, and closed it improperly using CTRL+ALT+DEL, had a few error complaints, yada yada, the usual. Then when I tried running the game again in Windowed Mode (with 800 x 600 Resolution on both my desktop as well as the Setup option for the game), I've had a series of errors (the type where you click either Close or Details, and then it asks if I wanted to save a log of the error, yes or no, I kept clickin Close and No, it was annoying, it did it quite a few times). After all those errors I've went through, the game was starting up, and at the top it said the game said I had no Hardware Acceleration (funny, cause I know I DO! Errors must've screwed it up). So the game's loading, that once pretty smooth picture was abit pixelated due to no acceleration. Then, when it loaded, I was shocked and in awe...cause for some STRANGE and WEIRD REASON, the text at the login screen was PERFECTLY READABLE!!!  The downside is I wasn't able to play the game lol. 

So, what does this tell me? Well, through some experimentation with my Graphics Card (btw, found the advanced options for my graphics card, it has 32MB just so ya know), I've lowered the acceleration twice (tried once, didn't work, but second time was a charm). Anyways, after rebooting with the new acceleration setting, I tried the game again with the same resolutions. Amazed and astonished, the text is FIXED!!!  The down side? I can't see character graphics or any textural details if any.  I was able to READ the char race names for once though, but whenever I clicked em, all I saw was like say...the lower half of a person's body (a pair of legs, and no bod, ouch).

Anyways, sorry for the really long post. I just thought I'd bring this to your attention and I wonder if I've gotten closer to solving this issue. I'd like to hear any suggestions anyone has to offer. 

[Karyuu]

Good to hear you making progress :] I still insist that 32MB on a card won't get you anything perfect (minimum is twice that, remember) so there isn't much that we can offer you from here unfortunately. At least nothing that I know of.

(Going to merge your two threads however - better to keep things organized into one.)

[LeoKmari]

Good to hear you making progress :] I still insist that 32MB on a card won't get you anything perfect (minimum is twice that, remember) so there isn't much that we can offer you from here unfortunately. At least nothing that I know of.

(Going to merge your two threads however - better to keep things organized into one.)

Heh thanks Karyuu.  Alas, though, if I have to accept that my computer is...crap-tastic, then I guess I can't play it...OR, I could just create some RANDOM char (without the ability to read the char races or family trades and such), and just test the game =P I'll laugh if the gameplay will be smooth and the text bad lol. It would just mean I would have to be an anti-socialist then in the game lol 

[Karyuu]

You can get a Geforce 6200 (with 128MB DDR) for $35 Newegg.com - unless you'd like to wait more and splurge on something much higher

[LeoKmari]

You can get a Geforce 6200 (with 128MB DDR) for $35 Newegg.com - unless you'd like to wait more and splurge on something much higher

*After some pain-staking time and effort* Nah, that's alright, I don't think I need that. ^_^ Why? Cause I GOT THE GAME WORKING!!! ^_^ WOO!!! SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ARE NO MATCH FOR MY CRAP-ARSE PC!!! Lol! 

Anyways, to anyone that may suffer the same problem, how I did this was simple. I first turned my graphics acceleration off. Can't play the game that way, no sir. It lagged creating my char, but at least the text was readable. After char creation, and entering the game, I've exitted (had it in windowed mode, closed it using the X in the upper-right). Afterwards, I turned my graphics back on, went back on the game, and as I suspected, the text was scrampled again, but the graphics were back to normal. Once entering the game, I was struck by massive lag. Is it cause my computer sux? Not necessarily. More like, the starting town is HEAVILY OVER-POPULATED!!! X_X Happens to me with every MMO. =/ Also, the text was still scrambled with the buttons on the top and such, managed to mess with the in-game options at least to help me abit (managed to read a few). Afterwards, I walked as far away from the area, and entered a new area (went through a loading screen). MIRACULOUSLY, after going into that new area, I was LAG FREE, frame rate is high, the game actually runs at a decent pace for me (almost perfectly smooth, but not 100% smooth, but it's not unbearable lag). ^_^ On top of that, after loading into that area, ALL the in-game text is FIXED and READABLE!!!  Now what I don't understand is...why is the text scrambled when I'm in the starting area, but the other area I entered fixed all the in-game text on buttons, chat, and everything? O_o? o_O?

Just thought I'd let you know...wondering if the text problem is a possible bug on the game's coding part on the start...which only super-computers can somehow by-pass it without even noticing, while lower-end PCs have a hard-arse time going through it. =/

Anyways, just wanted to let you know the game WORKS! ^_^ And I'm gonna go try it now, try to figure some stuff out, see if it's just my computer, or if it's really just that area where char's are created.

[Karyuu]

Your entire ordeal boggles the mind xD

A small note: no town in PlaneShift is currently heavily populated The number of players online around this time of day floats around 120, and they're not all in the same area. There are two starting towns as well - a desert-looking city of Enkidukai, Ojaveda, and a larger city of Hydlaa with a red Laanx Temple and a separate library district and a plaza with a statue in the middle, etc. :]

[LeoKmari]

Well, turns out text works whenever it wants to. It usually fixes itself after loading into a new area. Anyways, I've fallen to my death, fun. I can't get out of death realm, even more fun. =P Yea, I majorly suck lol. Overall though, this game brings back fond memories of when I played EverQuest...*Sighs* Though, I think I'll wait for a more powerful PC before really playing this game, cause there are still some other issues besides text (like not knowing how to play the game, and the text only works when it wants, so in-game help isn't an option for me, thus why I'll wait for my new PC) ^_^ Anyways, thanks for your time Karyuu, and your help. Seems though that I sorta solved this issue myself heh. At least, if anyone else complains about this sort of thing, just refer em to my thread lol. =P

Anyhoo, doodles! And as for the massive lag, I guess it's my computer whenever I'm in town, cause I don't lag much in the wilderness (but I couldn't find anything to kill, pooey). 

[Elvicat]

a small suggestion to the drivers, i think you tried the 81.xx series drivers for 9x/me and your card is not suppored with those...
the last drivers that supported the tnt2 series was 71.84 and i found them for you if you wish to try

us english once 10mb
http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/71.84/71.84_win9x_english.exe

and the international once 18mb
http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/71.84/71.84_win9x_international.exe