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Freespace seriesFix for Unreadable Fonts on Freespace 2(9 posts)(9 posts)
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Posted September 13, 2008
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I purchased Freespace 2 but I was unable to play because the fonts appeared so disorted that I was very difficult to read anything.
After spending a lot of time searching for a solution, I found a fix consisting in adding a "DWORD Value" called "D3DTextureOrigin" and set to "1" to the following place in the registry:
If you have XP it should be here: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREVolitionFreespace2]
If you have Vista 64 it should be here: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeVolitionFreespace2]
IMO GOG should add it to the installer for compatibility purposes.
Source: http://www.freespacefaq.com/fs2-technical.html#text
Posted February 21, 2011
Thanks Ch3rokee, just what I was after for my Win 7 machine.
Posted February 21, 2011
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Ch3rokee: I purchased Freespace 2 but I was unable to play because the fonts appeared so disorted that I was very difficult to read anything.

After spending a lot of time searching for a solution, I found a fix consisting in adding a "DWORD Value" called "D3DTextureOrigin" and set to "1" to the following place in the registry:

If you have XP it should be here: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREVolitionFreespace2]

If you have Vista 64 it should be here: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeVolitionFreespace2]

IMO GOG should add it to the installer for compatibility purposes.


Source: http://www.freespacefaq.com/fs2-technical.html#text
If it it's a DirectX issue, you can try OpenGL instead. FreeSpace Open uses OpenGL anyway.
Posted June 22, 2011
It also works for Freespace 1 (Win7 32-bit)

Thanks man. I could not read anything until applying your solution. Why GOG did not add this change to the installer?
Post edited June 22, 2011 by Vel_Grozny
Posted June 28, 2011
I've sent an info about this to the support. They've said they'll look into it.
Posted July 19, 2011
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Ch3rokee: I purchased Freespace 2 but I was unable to play because the fonts appeared so disorted that I was very difficult to read anything.

After spending a lot of time searching for a solution, I found a fix consisting in adding a "DWORD Value" called "D3DTextureOrigin" and set to "1" to the following place in the registry:

If you have XP it should be here: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREVolitionFreespace2]

If you have Vista 64 it should be here: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeVolitionFreespace2]

IMO GOG should add it to the installer for compatibility purposes.


Source: http://www.freespacefaq.com/fs2-technical.html#text
This really helped. Thanks.
Posted August 03, 2011
Excellent fix. Thank you!
Posted August 04, 2011
I must add my thanks to you aswell.
This fix worked like a charm.
Posted April 15, 2012
Just wanted to say thanks, still a problem with the April 2012 version on GOG.

http://www.freespacefaq.com/fs2-technical.html#text no dead luckily it is archived at
http://web.archive.org/web/20090123104259/http://www.freespacefaq.com/fs2-technical.html

Someone suggested OpenGL, this is not an option with the GOG version (at least as of april 2012). The http://scp.indiegames.us/ open free space project is a possibility which may have been was was meant.


cross linking to http://www.gog.com/en/forum/freespace_series/freespace_1_distorted_text/page1
Post edited April 15, 2012 by clach04
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