FIXED! Screwed up fonts making things unreadable

[The Andy-Man]

do we realy have to delete them, i just got this PC and i dont really wanna screw it up......

[Purple]

Originally posted by The Andy-Man
do we realy have to delete them, i just got this PC and i dont really wanna screw it up......

You can temporarily move them to another folder. Or you can rename them, in which case they will still be available under the new name, but will not interfere with Civ3's use.

In either case do it one font at a time until you achieve the desired results.

[The Andy-Man]

how did they miss this problem anywho, they got the ****tiest selection of fonts on their PC's?

[marc420]

Any word on a patch for this game?

They did one patch 2 months ago. And that patch apparently screwed up something in the middle of the game so that on my machine the game crashes in every game at some point in the industrial age. This happens so often I've finally removed the patch and am now playing with the original CD version .... which of course has serious issues of its own which is why they patched it in the first place. Arrrgh.

I notice the Civ3 website hasn't been updated since December. The Infogames FAQ page is friggen joke. I picked this topic to bumb back to the top of the list with my "Where the heck is the patch to the patch question" because lots of people have had this problem. But apparently to Infogames there are no Frequently Asked Questions because they aren't updated their website info like this fix to the fonts. And I know they know about this problem, because I emailed this solution to them after I a) had this problem, b) got no help from InfoGames, and c) found this solution that worked out on the forums. In my opinion, Infogames is a bunch of useless #!@%@!%$^.

Please, Firaxis, at least patch the last patch so that I can use the solutions that you put into that. Or put out some word that someone over there is alive and well and is working on this and that there is a patch coming sometime. No date needed, I know how touchy those can be. But word that there is another patch coming and a list of things that are definitely fixed in the next patch (Because I hope someone is working on some bugs and has some already fixed) would be wonderul.

[Special Ed]

Thank You Very Much

I have been working with technical support from the firaxis web site on this problem for over a month. Every few days he emails me a new suggestion, but they were all to no avail. I am SOOOOOO VERY VERY HAPPY that your solution fixed the problem.
I suppose the detonator driver I installed added somefonts, because it wasn't until after I had installed it that the problems started to occur.....

Well none the less, we have a solution so that is good enough for me!!!!

[mantranet]

I also had loaded a testing program for the Network + exam. After that I had the font problems, uninstalled the Net+ testing software, all my problems went away!

[Gelondil]

Can we get a mod to sticky this please?

[alva]

What for ?

[coyotetw]

Hi all

I also have a problem with the FONT. But this problem only show up when I want to play PTW. Everytime I run PTW it said something like this

FONT ERROR
ERROR LOADING FONT (ERROR CODE 13)

Does anyone know what that mean? Does it mean that I have to do all the fiddlings with fonts that was discussed before? Thanks for any advice.

[Gelondil]

What for ?

What for to sticky it? It took me 20 minutes (or 6 months depending on how you look at it) to find this post, and this problem has been bugging me forever.

If you have a better way for people to find this solution easily please do it - there may be many others out there who are still having troubles. In the end I guess I dont really care because my problem is taken care of.

Also, as far as I could see, this specific problem wasn't listed in the "official bug list" - though perhaps I missed it.

[Marauder34]

Ok this is going to be a little light in the information side since I am not sure why this worked.

I have been having a problem with the fonts in Civilization III. The font has always been slightly bolded, and a little too high (almost one line higher than it should be).

I removed all the Lucidia Sans and lsans fonts from the directory, but that did not work.

I even moved the font that came with Civilization into the font directory, but that did not work either.

I ended up doing a search for lsans, and founs a folder named Oplimit in my C drive (c:\Oplimit). In this folder was a file called lsans.fot. At first I ignored it, but later in desparation moved it to my desktop just in case it was interfering. I ran the game and it still did not work, so I exited. Now the funny thing. The lsans.fot was back. Thinking I had clicked copy and not move I deleted the file, and tried again. The game still had the messed up font, and I exited once more. The file was still there. Turns out every time I ran the game it made the lsans.fot file in the Oplimit folder. I tried to put the file in the font folder, but was told by my computer that it was not a valid font file. I then stuck the lsans.fot file in the civ III directory and tried again. IT WORKED!!!

I also own PTW, and have been getting the font error 13 and 28. Now that I have fixed this problem I am going to reinstall PTW and see if that problem has been fixed.

I hope some other computer guru can explain what I did in better terms, but I do not even know why this worked.

[Marauder34]

I tried installing PTW, but it still gives me the error code 28 font error. I am going to try and play with some stuff, but at least I can play the game (without the multiplayer expansion).

[Marauder34]

Just another update here. I tried putting the lsans.fot file in the PTW directory, and it removes the files everytime I get the Font error Error loading font (error code 28)!!! message.

[coyotetw]

Hi Marauder34

I read your reply and did a search for LSANS.FOT. I found out that I have this file in my C drive, civ 3 and PTW folders. As far as I know these files are the same one (I have four of them each is 2KB). So I guess there isn't any point for me to move this file to PTW folder. I guess I am stuck with error 13 for now. I have had PTW for a week haven't had a chance to play. I have no idea what is taking infogames so long to reply my e-mail.

[Marauder34]

Hey Coyotetw, I tried putting the file in my PTW folder, but it did not work. I did get PTW to work without the new patch. I removed the 1.14 patch (the PTW patch) and also removed PTW. When I reinstalled PTW, I restarted my computer IMMEDIATELY after everything was done installing. When my computer booted up, I was able to play PTW. I tried installing the patch after this, but it did not work. One thing to note is that I opened the game and then exited before loading the patch. When the patch was installing, it gave some notification for some read only files it needed to edit. I gave permission to edit the files as needed, and then I got the error 13 again. When I removed the patch, the errors remained. When I also removed PTW, however, the error went away. At least it is working, even if it is not the latest version. I will play with it some more tomorrow. I'll post my results.

Key: Restart your computer right after installation...do not run the game or anything. That has worked so far (without a patch that is)