Screen Font Corruption

[HotEye]

I have an intermittent problem with Windows 98 where the screen font becomes un-readable. This effects all text on the screen including Menus, Icon names and other text.

I've found that making a DOS Window full screen and then Windowed again fixes the problem, for a short while sometimes!

 

[gunthnp]

its sound like a video problem try the basic 1st update video card etc. So long and thanks for all the fish.

 

[HotEye]

I checked the S3 site and I'm using the latest driver, bar a beta. So I reinstalled the driver I have and I'll try that. It's been OK so far.

Thanks for the suggestion.


... and me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.

 

[jgoodman00]

I have encountered a similar phenomenon whereby something seems to change my screen fonts. I have never actually isolated it exactly, but it occurs on installation of VS6, so I am guessing something within this changes all of my fonts.....


To make it more annoying, if you select a desktop theme, everything changes perfectly (fonts included) until you resort to the standard windows theme, at which point it screws up the fonts again.... James Goodman
j.goodman00@btinternet.com

 

[HotEye]

The problem still exists on my system... and I do have VS6 installed.

I have not used the desktop theme option (yet) but if it fixes the problem then I might try one.

 

[nolapeck]

I have seen this problem on NT. Especially if the user has a large file as the background image. Changing the image also works.