Tried all previous solutions - still have font problem

[Vellocet]

Civ3 Conquests. I got error 28, renamed LSANS.FOT, started as administrator and the program will run. But, I still have a font problem, there's something wrong. There are pixels missing from the top of many letters. This is quite hard to read. I am using the game's original 1024x768 resolution, I haven't touched the .ini file. What could be causing this?

Perhaps these photos can do a better job than me. Notice how in the number '5', the top half and bottom half do not connect. There's a gap there. Likewise the '2' has one tiny part disconnected. 'o' and '0' have gaps at the top, and so on.

 

[Vellocet]

There are also font problems in text boxes. This is from the scenario selection screen.

 

[Vellocet]

The Civilopedia is also messed up, the font is too large and falls off the bottom of the screen.

 

[Puppeteer]

Have you at any time changed the font size in Control Panel -> Display ? (On Win7 there are three radio buttons: 100%, 125% and 150%. On Win8.1 there's a slider, or the radio buttons appear if you click a check box.) I don't know if this is your problem, but these type of text alignment problems are typical when you fool with those font settings. Put it back to 100%, reboot and try again.

Otherwise, is there any other sort of display trickery going on? Is this anything besides standard Vista or later with standard video drivers, standard DirectX and a cable-attached monitor?

I was going to ask if your display resolution matches your monitor resolution, but if that were the problem the screenshot would look OK.

Edit: Oh, see if you have Lucidia Sans font in your Windows fonts. I haven't messed with the fonts issue much, but I think LSANS.FOT needs to be installed into Windows fonts and removed from the Civ3 folders...but I might be remembering incorrectly.

Edit 2: Your civilopedia entry for Rome appears to be double-spaced, and mine isn't.

Edit 3: Hmmm, someone else seems to have had your exact problem back in April, and my font-size idea didn't help them: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=494370 . I haven't had this problem myself. They are using Steam...are you using Steam?

 

[Vellocet]

The control panel is on "Smaller - 100% (default)"

I do (did) have Lucidia Sans in my fonts. I copied the LSANS.TTF from Civ's folder into \windows\fonts, replacing the existing file. I don't do any typesetting on this machine so I didn't care about my font. The LSANS.FOT file was renamed in both the main Civ3 folder and Civ3/Conquests.

It's Windows 7 Ultimate. I haven't messed with any video drivers or such. It all "just works" and I never touch it. No trickery.

Not using Steam.

 

[Puppeteer]

The only other thing I can offer is that I have installed Civ3 many times and never had the font error after a clean install; I only encountered the font error after having updated the OS after installing Civ3. You might try uninstalling and reinstalling Civ3.

I also just noticed your forum location and wonder if the PC or game localization settings make any difference. I am in the USA, and my PC and game are set up for US English. Clearly your game text is English; I wonder if the PC localization settings would make a difference? But it's just a thought; even if that were a problem I wouldn't know which setting might fix the problem.

 

[Vellocet]

It's Windows 7 Ultimate that was changed to English mode. Everything has worked quite well, remarkably. I haven't had a single problem with it. Shocking when you consider it's a Microsoft product. I just expected to have weird problems, but it hasn't happened.

Fonts always were my weak point of Windows system knowledge.