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Havok

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Screwy fonts in Mame
« on: March 19, 2008, 11:41:20 pm »
I'm not sure but I think this happened when I upgraded my video card in my test pc to an ATI Radeon HD2400. The fonts in Mame are all messed up:



I have changed the resolution to a lower one, but it still does the same. Also, I changed around a few ui.bdf font files, same thing, just a little different looking. This happens in a couple of versions of Mame, tried 120 - 123. I'm running XP with SP2. It happens with the driver that came with the card, and still happens after I downloaded the latest version from ATI. Once in the game, everything is fine, it's just the text that is screwy. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Re: Screwy fonts in Mame
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2008, 12:32:10 am »
I read something similar to this on MameWorld recently and Aaron Giles replied that "Some cards just do not render the font correctly".

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=146090

Not sure if it's the same thing  :dunno
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Re: Screwy fonts in Mame
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2008, 09:27:31 pm »
I have that same card, running MAME 110 under Win XP home sp2, and  my fonts are fine  ???
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Re: Screwy fonts in Mame
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2008, 10:18:56 pm »
I figured it out: I changed the video mode from Direct3D to GDI, and now it works perfectly. I first tried DirectDraw, and that worked better, but the font was blurry, however readable. Changed to GDI, and the fonts are nice and crisp.

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