After installing feisty fawn (Ubuntu linux 7.04) The game fonts are messed up

[Jenya]

Hello,

After installing feisty fawn (Ubuntu linux 7.04) The game fonts are messed up.

Any help in regards to this would be appreciated.

[Caarrie]

read #7 on this page hope it helps http://vaalnor.mine.nu/psdoc/?q=node/39

[Nurahk]

If that doesn't work try sending my the picture of your background.

That should do it <.<

[Xordan]

If that doesn't work try sending my the picture of your background.

That should do it <.<

Me too >.> And the rest of your photo collection.

[Pyx]

Hi After my upgrade to Feisty Im left with the exact same problem.
Ive tried reinstalling mesa like this guide said http://vaalnor.mine.nu/psdoc/?q=node/39
But it didnt work for me. Does anyone have a clue of what might be the problem?

[Caarrie]

did you

Solution: Font multitexturing has been broken, try the following:
Open up the file Planeshift3D/data/config/r3dopengl.cfg in a text editor, and find this line:
Video.OpenGL.FontCache.UseMultiTexturing = yes
and change yes to no.

[Pyx]

Yes Ive tried that too, without any luck

[Zwenze]

I had no luck either. PlaneShift is the only reason for me not to switch to feisty   
Strange thing is that this problem did not occur with my laptop (sis 630). I think it is somehow related to the ati driver.

[Serge]

Yup  -same here. Unfortunately nothing works - waiting for 'cure'

[bilbous]

Try downgrading your graphics drivers if you have the latest now. I know for my nvidia onboard the most recent drivers for it do not work with PS, I am using older ones that do. Fortunately nvidia has theirs older one available but I do not know about ati.

[Serge]

So the problem is still unsolved... I have Ati card with standard drivers (i didn't install them  -they are  standard in ubuntu 7.04) so I will never play this game ;/

[anasazi775]

I have the same problem. I found a workaround.

If I switch to the ATI driver (fglrx) then the game text on that login page will appear correctly. Unfortunately then you can't use desktop effects.

So it seems like a problem with the open source ATI driver.

Can anyone else confirm this?

Anasazi

[kougaro]

Hello, i've got the same problem with a Ubuntu feisty 7.04, and a Radeon 9100. However i can't try the workaround anasazi proposed, because there is no fglrx driver for my card (in fact, there is one but only with 2D support  )

[gigasoft]

The same problem here..
ATI Radeon 9250

I need to use the desktop effects applet with AIGLX so I can't try to install the shitty ATI official drivers

Please developers, help us, Planeshift is the only game that have to fix this

[Induane]

I"m fairly certain this has something to do with some bugs in the mesa implementation.  Some newer mesa doesn't seem to like freetype for fonts, which is something not that many games use.  The reason switching to other drivers like the nvidia driver or the fglrx driver work is because they use their own gl implementation instead of mesa.  Sure ati's is bad but it works okish. 

Now why do you NEED desktop effects? Is it something you simply can't live without?