Successfully installed Battlefield Vietnam at the second attempt, the first failing because I was camped on the CD drive with the terminal screen, preventing the first CD from being unloaded ... Ho hum! However, the screen text display is terrible ... but this was the case on XP until I loaded the right fonts that BV was expecting ... but I cannot remember which fonts, and I no longer install a font that I am not knowingly using, so bulk installation of fonts is out.
Does anyone know which font(s) BV / EA Games are expecting to use (my son has other EA games that we intend to try on Wine)?
Battlefield Vietnam Fonts
Battlefield Vietnam Fonts
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:06 AM, nadrach <[email protected]> wrote:
$ wget kegel.com/wine/winetricks
$ sh winetricks corefonts
If that doesn't work:
$ sh winetricks allfonts
Try:Successfully installed Battlefield Vietnam at the second attempt, the first failing because I was camped on the CD drive with the terminal screen, preventing the first CD from being unloaded ... Ho hum! However, the screen text display is terrible ... but this was the case on XP until I loaded the right fonts that BV was expecting ... but I cannot remember which fonts, and I no longer install a font that I am not knowingly using, so bulk installation of fonts is out.
Does anyone know which font(s) BV / EA Games are expecting to use (my son has other EA games that we intend to try on Wine)?
$ wget kegel.com/wine/winetricks
$ sh winetricks corefonts
If that doesn't work:
$ sh winetricks allfonts
Hi nadrach,
I have a tip to find out what are the font you need for your application :
Just copy the entire fonts folder from a real windows installation into your .wine/c_drive/windows/fonts folder. Then run your application with wine (it should have a correct display because you're using windows font files).
Then in a shell type :
$ lsof > result.txt
Now you should have a "result.txt" in your personal folder. Open it and search for each line that contain "fonts", especialy those where the path is in wine's directory.
You'll see all the files currently in use, so you'll find the font files you're looking for
I have a tip to find out what are the font you need for your application :
Just copy the entire fonts folder from a real windows installation into your .wine/c_drive/windows/fonts folder. Then run your application with wine (it should have a correct display because you're using windows font files).
Then in a shell type :
$ lsof > result.txt
Now you should have a "result.txt" in your personal folder. Open it and search for each line that contain "fonts", especialy those where the path is in wine's directory.
You'll see all the files currently in use, so you'll find the font files you're looking for
winetricks allfonts
sh winetricks allfonts fails.
First failure is with Tahoma.ttf, which a command tries to copy to directory "../windows/Fonts" instead of "../windows/fonts". I fixed this by renaming the directory, but then a download of "liberation-fonts.tar.gz" from www.redhat.com fails because of "sha1sum mismatch!"
Any suggestions welcome.
First failure is with Tahoma.ttf, which a command tries to copy to directory "../windows/Fonts" instead of "../windows/fonts". I fixed this by renaming the directory, but then a download of "liberation-fonts.tar.gz" from www.redhat.com fails because of "sha1sum mismatch!"
Any suggestions welcome.
Battlefield Vietnam Fonts
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:46 PM, nadrach <[email protected]> wrote:
or two ago...
Did you download winetricks today? That font problem was fixed a weeksh winetricks allfonts fails.
First failure is with Tahoma.ttf, which a command tries to copy to directory "../windows/Fonts" instead of "../windows/fonts". I fixed this by renaming the directory, but then a download of "liberation-fonts.tar.gz" from www.redhat.com fails because of "sha1sum mismatch!"
Any suggestions welcome.
or two ago...
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11351
If this is the same as Vietnam, which it is likely to be since the two games are very similar, I have tested installing allfonts with winetricks and it makes no difference.
If this is the same as Vietnam, which it is likely to be since the two games are very similar, I have tested installing allfonts with winetricks and it makes no difference.
Yes, allfonts now installs from an updated winetricks, thank you. Doesn't fix the fonts in BV.
The font display problem appears to be the same as in the fault report quoted by jeffz (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11351). Battlefield 1942 is from EA Games (my son has both games from the same multipack), so it may be something broken in Wine relating to an EAG characteristic.
Current wine version is 0.9.59-0ubuntu5 (Kubuntu 8.04 updated).
Time to sit back and wait for a fix, methinks.
The font display problem appears to be the same as in the fault report quoted by jeffz (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11351). Battlefield 1942 is from EA Games (my son has both games from the same multipack), so it may be something broken in Wine relating to an EAG characteristic.
Current wine version is 0.9.59-0ubuntu5 (Kubuntu 8.04 updated).
Time to sit back and wait for a fix, methinks.
