Fonts in Cedega

[a13x]

I'm trying to play Age of Empires 2: Conquerors but it seems that Cedega uses the wrong font. It's way to bold and hard to read. How can I change it ?

[ac_dispatcher]

May not be too much help but have you tried Point2Play?

 

It uses its own version of Cedega. You just open it open select the "Versions" tab and then click "Download Microsoft Core Fonts"

 

It works great for me...

[VeeDubb]

FIrst, I, and many others think that point to play sucks ass.

 

You can get the microsoft core fonts installer WITHOUT p2p.

 

Also, you can figure out what the name of the font the game is using is, and set up a font alias in your config file for it. I could explain how to set up a font alias, but it's easier for me to tell you where they are, and I'm sure you can figure the syntax out for yourself.

 

look at the text file /home/'username'/.transgaming/config

 

read through that file and you will find a section with font settings and some common font alias's set up allready. Just make a new one for the font the game uses. Actualy, there's probably a font alias already, that points to an ugly font. Anyway, you'll figure it out when youlook, and if not, come back and let me know.

[a13x]

I don't know what font the game uses. In it's directory there is a folder called Fonts but there are 19 fonts over there. I don't understand why cedega doesn't use those fonts if the game supplies them.

[Ed the N00B]

It might be worth a try to copy the game fonts into

~/.transgaming_global/Fonts

(You might want to put fonts from a Windows installation in there too I guess).

 

I haven't tried this with Cedega myself yet, so no guarantees, but I did a similar thing with WINE when my fonts in Photoshop were unreadable and it fixed it all up straight away.

 

I just copied fonts from a Windows install into the fake 'C:\Windows\Fonts' folder (var/lib/wine/windows/Fonts) and WINE picked them up.

 

Edit: Just tried this with Cedega. Copied all files from a Windows install in 'C:\Windows\Fonts' into

~/.transgaming_global/Fonts

And all the fonts in Everquest were back to how they are supposed to look. I'd never bothered fixing this before as they were perfectly readable.

 

My guess would be that your trouble is due to the lack of fonts which the game expects to find in C:\Windows\Fonts rather than any problem getting the special fonts from the game's own directory.

 

Of course this doesn't help if you don't have a Windows install nearby. :P

Also, I expect this is a very inelegant solution, but I tried getting my head around all those font aliases when dealing with WINE and I just found this a lot easier! :P

Edited August 25, 2004 by Ed the N00B

[VeeDubb]

Ed is dead on target. If the incorrectly displayed fonts are ones that the game supplies for you, you should either copy or link them to the directoy he listed. That "should" fix the problem. However, I have to tell you that I have experienced consistent and fatl font related problems with certain games.

 

Good luck. let me know how it comes out.

[a13x]

I copied all the fonts from Windows and AOK to the fake windows/fonts directory and nothing happened. The game font is still ugly.

[ac_dispatcher]

Should have tried Point2Play

 

 

./flame vest

Edited August 25, 2004 by ac_dispatcher

[VeeDubb]

i won't bother flaming about p2p, I'll just say again that it's crap and move on. If anyone cares why, start a different thread and I'll rant for a page.

 

Well, since that didn't work, what iwould do is head over to http://www.transgaming.org/forum and search there. I know you are not the first person with this issue. Not by a long shot. And don't forget, you realy should go to transgaming and get the MScore fonts installer just in case. After it installs, you run the cmand 'tg_font_install' from a command line.

[ac_dispatcher]

 

 

Hey VeeDubb have you ever tried Franks Winex Game Manager?

 

http://franksworld.net/wgm.html

 

Its kind of dated now. Not sure if it works with Cedega now. When I didnt use P2P I used Franks WGM. It did a good job.

Edited August 26, 2004 by ac_dispatcher

[a13x]

I guess I'll have to try Point2Play............

[VeeDubb]

You will be very unhappy with point to play. It installs each game on it's own virtual hard drive, which makes expansion packs and updates useless. It installs it's own seperate instance of cedega and reduces performance noticably. There is absolutely nothing that P2P will gain you that you can't do without it.

 

i strongly suggest you follow my last suggestion by going to http://www.transgaming.org/forum There is a rather active forum there that discusses nothing but cedega and p2p and I can guarantee you with absolute certainty that you are not anywhere near the first person to have this problem, and I can say with 98% certainty that point2play will not fix the problem.