Extremely illegible pixelated fonts?

redss · Post by **redss** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:50 pm

I installed and ran the windows game "Spore" but the fonts seem to be pixelated to such a low resolution that they are completely illegible. How can I fix this?

Here's a screenshot:
http://i653.photobucket.com/albums/uu25 ... C01534.jpg

shadowbit · Post by **shadowbit** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:50 am

I have that problem too. I think it's because of the graphic card. The odd thing is that it worked on Ubuntu 11.04 without any problems, but now I have Ultimate Edition 3.3 and I have the same problems as you. So, I'd try Ubuntu 11.04 or 10.04.

redss · Post by **redss** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:48 am

Well that screenshot is from running Ubuntu 10.04. So you think it would work on 11.04 because you saw the same thing? Unfortunately I stay away from 11.04 since I much prefer gnome to unity. Maybe I should try a different graphics card...

Post by **DanKegel** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:28 pm

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=13652
suggests you have to "enable S3 texture compression".
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=3792
says you can do this with driconf.

S3TC might not be available on all graphics cards, though.
What card are you using, and what driver?