wine users - Jul 2011 - Victoria 2 does not display text correctly

Hi, since Wine 1.3.22, text boxes in Victoria 2 display random letters rather
than the actual text ie. instead of "New Game" it displays
"f".

This makes playing the game almost impossible since it heavily relies on text
information and decisions taken, which are now incomprehensible.

I was hoping that someone could help me with this if it's a common issue
with other games, or how to debug and file a bug report for this since I have no
idea how to do that.

Thanks

Michelj wrote:
> Hi, since Wine 1.3.22, text boxes in Victoria 2 display random letters
rather than the actual text ie. instead of "New Game" it displays
"f".
> 

Have you used the winetricks script to install corefonts to see if this goes
away?

http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks has information on this script.

Michelj wrote:
> I can confirm that the same problem also occurs on the demo for me.
> 
> Also, just to clarify, the game had worked flawlessly before 1.3.22 and
displayed the text correctly - the game ceased to work after the update and has
not worked following more recent updates either.
Does reverting to the older version of Wine fix it for you? If so, run a
regression test and file a bug.  http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting