eddybox wrote:Hi Dyram,
Bizarro. This is the first time we've had a font loading issue, GFWL or otherwise. Sounds like you've done everything right though...
Yes, well, I have a habit of breaking things... =) Spending most of your life around video games and computers, and having experience working with code has its advantages when things like this happen.
eddybox wrote:I just purchased Osmos on GFWL as though I were a regular customer (in order to do a proper test), and it works fine for me, font loading and all.
Aww... bugger. Well, I suppose that's good news for you guys since it's not so widespread.
eddybox wrote:Maybe the font file got corrupted during download. (Though it does work for you in other programs... hmmmm.) Still, could you try the following please?
- download and install the standalone demo (
http://hemispheregames.com/latest_osmos_demo), or the Steam demo if you prefer.
- rename the fonts directory in your GFWL installation, and copy the fonts directory over from the demo (Program Files\Osmos\fonts\)
Following the first time this happened, I tried playing with fullscreen and windowed and then also redownloaded and installed from GFWL. This was before I discovered the error in the log.
I did as you suggested, simply renaming the GFWL's installation fonts folder to 'fonts.old' and then copying in the new fonts folder directly from the demo's root path. Before doing this, I also tried the demo just to make sure it would work there and it did, flawlessly. Before I bought the game, the Steam demo had been fine, too. Absolutely no issues.
eddybox wrote:I'm not sure what else it could be offhand, since it seems like the .exe is loading the other files (in Textures and sounds) correctly.
Yes, it should seem so. I tried remembering each level of the tutorial from the demo and blindly stumbled my way through them in the full game and got myself my first achievement. Just had to mash the Spacebar and LMB until I could move in each level. ^_^
It's very strange indeed. The font does work in programs like Word, and it's very clearly properly named and in the correct place. When the game loads, as I've said, it's just the text in that font that isn't there. In the menus, the opaque black bar comes up, but the text that should be there is just missing. During gameplay levels, the messages that come up before a level, as they do in the tutorial, either show that opaque box or no box at all and I have to keep hitting Spacebar until I pass them all and get to gameplay.
At this point, since the game is still technically playable, I'm really just intrigued as to what's causing the error. Being in programming myself, I would love to figure this thing out, as it seems to be a unique scenario.
By the way, I'm running Windows 7 x64 (RC). Yes, I know, the RC is old and the full version is out... Maybe now that I have a short Christmas break, I will finally get around to actually installing my retail copy. Who knows, maybe the drive format will fix this issue? In any case, I don't think it is the operating system since the demo, both from this site and Steam, works flawlessly, but I figured it might help. I highly doubt it's a rights issue, as I'm the only account on the system with admin status and all of Windows' privilege-limiters turned off (no UAC, in other words).
I hope we can figure this out together. I very much like the game and would like to play it to its fullest.