kieranmillar
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All the fonts in the 5.1.1.483 exe seem to be offset for me and the height calculations are wrong. Most notable is the main menu but all the fonts in e.g. the level editor are too high up.

Happens in the Steam version too.

kieranmillar
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The culprit is the SDL2_ttf.dll packaged with this version.

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This does not seem to affect Steam GatEB.

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When I said Steam I also meant Steam GatEB, where it does happen for me.

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I tried all the main holds (except TSS which I don't own on Steam) and the menus are fine for me. It updated automatically about a week ago, and I don't think has updated since.

I manually updated GoG TSS today (after .459 crashed, losing three rooms of progress) and I see this problem there.

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I ran into this exact problem a while ago when working on the OS X version, it's caused by the newer version of SDL2_ttf. I didn't manage to fix it then, so I stuck with the old version.

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I've reverted the SDL2_ttf version and updated both DROD steam builds.

Things are looking good on my end, but I don't think I saw the problem earlier.

Please check to see whether this issue is fixed now.

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I downloaded the new Steam update 5.1.1.498 and don't see any font issues any more, hooray.

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Quoting from another thread for anyone using non-Steam builds:

hyperme wrote:
The font issue is caused by one of the dll files DROD uses, so using a different executable won't help.

For now, you should downgrade the SDL2_ttf.dll to version 20.0.14, which is available here. (Specifically the SDL2_ttf.dll file in bin/x86)