Apollyon Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 Emp starts up fine as always, all the gameplay options work. Indeed the only thing that doesn't work is the text display: 90% of all text, including buttons, housenames, menus, etc, are garbled and totally unintelligible. I recently installed a new motherboard and processor and suspect that has something to do with it. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 I remember hearing about this problem before in the last 2 months. check some older threads.It might have to do with video card needing to be updated.Or reinstall video card drivers.http://www.dune2k.com/forum/index.php?topic=15962.0similiar problem? Think installing newer vid drivers fixed it. Or reinstall and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollyon Posted December 10, 2004 Author Share Posted December 10, 2004 Thanks for answering, Andrew.I tried:1. Updating drivers from my older version -> no effect2. Then I tried the Omega drivers. Again no effect. :-EDIT: Incidentally, though, that is the exact problem I have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollyon Posted December 10, 2004 Author Share Posted December 10, 2004 Ahah, I installed the game the same way the guy in that thread did. Maybe some bizarre kind of protection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 You mean it is now working properly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 instead of updating drivers for gfx card, try downdating them. It worked for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaekwon01 Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 i8 had the same problem with the textinstead of "quit" there was sumthin like "emperor" and the font was kinda weirdthis happened to me after i installed the directx version which is on the emperor cdwhen i deleted this one and reinstalled the (older) version on my w2k cd everything was fine againi hope i could help u Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apprentice Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 I'm having the exact same problem but I'm a little reluctant to downgrade my graphics driver and Direct X version, since that game works normally on my sister's computer which is identical to the one I have, only she runs Windows XP and I run Windows 2000. As graphic card, weboth have an NVIDIA GF4 Ti4400. Any idea's other then downgrading the drivers ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfk9003 Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 I've got the same problem, but even with my oldest graphics drivers installed, the menu is still unreadable.any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfexrun Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 Just a tidbit, I saw this same behavior when I copied the direct3d DirectX 8.1 dlls into the Emperor directory to try and correct a different issue. Something that occurs to me, in your cases, is to try and downgrade DirectX, preferably to whatever your OS shipped with, then upgrading it again. It may also be worth your time to re-apply any service packs. My gut feeling is that you've ended up with a mixed bag of old and new DirectX files. Might also be a good idea to run the system file checker, which is sfc /scannow in the run box.Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollyon Posted June 2, 2005 Author Share Posted June 2, 2005 I fixed it a while back by updating my VGA drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megashrap Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 instead of updating drivers for gfx card, try downdating them. It worked for him.Thats exactlly what works, I had the same problem way back and the only thing that worked was downgrading graphics driver. You don't have to downgrade Direct-X or anything else just graphics driver vers. is all. The newer Nvidia drivers don't enhance Gforce4's anyway so it's not like you will loose anything. I actually changed to the Omega drivers I think the vers. i'm using now is 15672a. But that is for my 5200 SE. Any newly updated drivers I tried always made the buttons look out of wack, so using one of the older ones will fix that problem, wether it's Omega or Nvidia. Remember, your not downgrading your video performance, just the driver. Long story short, older cards really don't benefit much at all from newer drivers with added features that it can't utilize anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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