Dom3 font issue on Linux
 

Hi there,

I have an ugly font issue with Dominions 3 on Debian sid:
The menu fonts look blurred/skewed. The same problem happened on Ubuntu Dapper Drake.

I have scoured these forums for a solution but couldn't find any. Also, I have changed font resolutions without success. As an example, please view
this screenshot.
It shows Dom2 and Dom3 running side by side in windowed mode. As you can see, only Dom3 is affected. Dom2 looks just fine.

Any ideas?

ps: I created a support ticket on Oct 19, its status still is "Awaiting Response".

Re: Dom3 font issue on Linux
 

Have you tried changing Video Preferences? I think Filter settings, at least, might have an effect.

It does seem to be a bug, though. It looks like the text is drawn twice, the second being a little off from the first.

Re: Dom3 font issue on Linux
 

Wont some of the switches affect that?

--filtering X Quality of OpenGL filtering 0-3 (default=2)
--texqual X Texture quality 1-5 (default=3)
--noglext Don't use any OpenGL extensions
--renderpath X Use different optimizations 0-1 (0=good for low mem cards)
-x --fastgrx Faster graphics (use 3 times for best performance (-xxx))

Im sure that I turned some of those on when I wanted to capture sprites with no fading around the edges.

Re: Dom3 font issue on Linux
 

Gandlaf has some good ideas there. Likely only --filtering or --noglext may help. Try them out.

Re: Dom3 font issue on Linux
 

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!

Setting Filter Quality to Low improves the font rendering considerably. Not perfect now but still...

Now I only need it to run in fullscreen mode. ALT+Enter doesn't help. There are no corresponding options in the video settings, and I couldn't find a command line switch. I did reinstall and quickly test Dom2 just to rule out faulty driver installations etc.

Oh well, life's a ... witch and then you die http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Dom3 font issue on Linux
 

Use -u to start in fullscreen

Re: Dom3 font issue on Linux
 

Thanks. I found the -u switch yesterday in another thread, using it does not make a difference though.
Strangely, the -u switch is not being listed at all (dom3 --help).

Someone more knowledgeable than I am might find a hint in the debugging info. Again, Dom2 works just fine on this machine.

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> $ dom3 -d -o -u

-------------------------
----- DOMINIONS ---------
-------------------------

Version version 3.01 (301)dbglevel 1 pc_endian
datapath='/usr/local/games/dominions3'
confpath='/home/rude/dominions3'
savepath='/home/rude/dominions3/savedgames'
modpath='/home/rude/dominions3/mods'
mappath='/usr/local/games/dominions3/maps'
localmappath='/home/rude/dominions3/maps'
temppath='/tmp/dominions3_14233'
-- InitGLStuff --
Init OpenGL extensions
Renderer (Mesa DRI ProSavageDDR 20050829 AGP 1x)
Vendor (S3 Graphics Inc.)
Version (1.2 Mesa 6.5.1)
supported_ARB_vertex_buffer_object = 0
supported_ARB_multitexture = 1
supported_EXT_texture_env_combine = 0
supported_SGIS_generate_mipmap = 0
supported_ARB_texture_compression = 1
supported_GLX_SGI_swap_control = 0
domdata_path = /usr/local/games/dominions3
Max texture size = 1024
Not a sgi pic, 0
Not a sgi pic, 0
InitPrint
Not a sgi pic, 0
reaver_texshrink 1
Reaver file version 1040
Reaver highestrmod 42 (filemods 43)
Reaver highestrtex 44 (filertex 45)
LoadReaver, time 510
Reaver file version 1030
Reaver highestrmod 78 (filemods 36)
Reaver highestrtex 88 (filertex 44)
Not a sgi pic, 0
-- sound_init --
Init sound
open /dev/dsp
success
-- general_init --
-- start -- </pre><hr />

Re: Dom3 font issue on Linux
 

Might be the combination of the newer version of the SDL library and your particular graphics card.

Try using the SDL library from Dom2 (1.2.7.0) with Dom3 (1.2.11.0), and the other way round. (backup the old files, or zip them up, first, o.c.)

Re: Dom3 font issue on Linux
 

As of 3.02 -u didn't run in full screen on Linux for me either. It uses a maximized window, but not full-screen.
Nor was there any other way to get to full-screen.

-u and Alt-Enter both worked in the initial release.

Re: Dom3 font issue on Linux
 

I run it with --fullscreen and it works wonders.