Victoria 2 does not display text correctly

[Michelj]

Hi, since Wine 1.3.22, text boxes in Victoria 2 display random letters rather than the actual text ie. instead of "New Game" it displays "f".

This makes playing the game almost impossible since it heavily relies on text information and decisions taken, which are now incomprehensible.

I was hoping that someone could help me with this if it's a common issue with other games, or how to debug and file a bug report for this since I have no idea how to do that.

Thanks

[jjmckenzie]

Hi, since Wine 1.3.22, text boxes in Victoria 2 display random letters rather than the actual text ie. instead of "New Game" it displays "f".

Have you used the winetricks script to install corefonts to see if this goes away?

http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks has information on this script.

[DanKegel]

I tried running Victoria 2 demo on a system with 2GB of RAM, and it
choked every time... then I got a clue and looked at the appdb page,
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... ngId=56100
winetricks dsoundbug9612 got me past that problem.
After that, I didn't have any problem. The demo seems to display text fine here.

Can you reproduce it with the demo,
http://www.fileplanet.com/215199/210000 ... ria-2-Demo
?

winetricks corefonts might be a good idea, not sure if the game uses those fonts though.

[Michelj]

Hi, I tried the corefonts before posting this, that didn't work so I tried allfonts which didn't work either. The game does display text, just not the correct text. Screen:



The screenshot is in windowed mode, but the same error occurs in fullscreen.

I had done dsoundbug before installation since, as DanKegel says, the game won't start without it. I'm downloading the demo now to see if I can replicate it.

Thanks again.[/img]

[Michelj]

I can confirm that the same problem also occurs on the demo for me.

Also, just to clarify, the game had worked flawlessly before 1.3.22 and displayed the text correctly - the game ceased to work after the update and has not worked following more recent updates either.

[dimesio]

I can confirm that the same problem also occurs on the demo for me.

Also, just to clarify, the game had worked flawlessly before 1.3.22 and displayed the text correctly - the game ceased to work after the update and has not worked following more recent updates either.

Does reverting to the older version of Wine fix it for you? If so, run a regression test and file a bug. http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting