Rectangles for text...

[Hungry4info]

I suspect you guys are going to beat me senseless for this, but I'm having what appears to be a font problem in Celestia on my new laptop.

> Toshiba Satellite P775
> 2.50 GHz processor.
> 6 GB RAM
> 64-bit Win 7 Home Premium

All the text in Celestia appears like solid blue rectangles fitted to the size of the letters that should be there. There's some other issues such as the star flares not showing up. So it sounds like a graphics problem, but the graphics don't look bad. I can get ring shadows on Saturn and mie in Earth's atmosphere. To be sure, I tried to update my video drivers but I seem to be at the latest version (or windows's Device Manager fails at finding newer drivers).

So maybe it's a font issue? I modified the .cfg file to verify that the font it was using was in Celestia's /fonts folder. I even tried changing the font to the default.txf font, but it did not work. Cycling through render paths did not work either. When I go to Help -> OpenGL info, I get

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Vendor: Intel
Renderer: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
Version: 3.1.0 - Build 8.15.10.2430
GLSL version: 1.40  - Intel Build 8.15.10.2430
Max simultaneous textures: 8
Max texture size: 8192
Point size range: 0.500000 - 10.000000
Supported Extensions:
GL_EXT_blend_minmax
GL_EXT_blend_subtract
GL_EXT_blend_color
GL_EXT_abgr
GL_EXT_texture3D
GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements
GL_SGIS_texture_lod
GL_EXT_rescale_normal
GL_EXT_packed_pixels
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color
GL_ARB_multitexture
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine
GL_EXT_bgra
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate
GL_EXT_secondary_color
GL_EXT_fog_coord
GL_EXT_texture_env_add
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix
GL_ARB_texture_env_add
GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat
GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays
GL_NV_blend_square
GL_ARB_texture_compression
GL_3DFX_texture_compression_FXT1
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp
GL_ARB_point_parameters
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3
GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
GL_ARB_shadow
GL_ARB_window_pos
GL_EXT_shadow_funcs
GL_EXT_stencil_wrap
GL_ARB_vertex_program
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle
GL_ARB_fragment_program
GL_EXT_stencil_two_side
GL_ATI_separate_stencil
GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
GL_ARB_occlusion_query
GL_ARB_fragment_shader
GL_ARB_shader_objects
GL_ARB_shading_language_100
GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two
GL_ARB_vertex_shader
GL_NV_texgen_reflection
GL_ARB_point_sprite
GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow
GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate
GL_ARB_depth_texture
GL_ARB_texture_rectangle
GL_ARB_draw_buffers
GL_ARB_color_buffer_float
GL_ARB_half_float_pixel
GL_ARB_texture_float
GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object
GL_EXT_framebuffer_object
GL_ARB_draw_instanced
GL_ARB_half_float_vertex
GL_EXT_draw_buffers2
GL_WIN_swap_hint
GL_EXT_texture_sRGB
GL_ARB_multisample
GL_EXT_packed_float
GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent
GL_ARB_texture_rg
GL_ARB_texture_compression_rgtc
GL_NV_conditional_render
GL_EXT_texture_swizzle
GL_ARB_sync
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GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float
GL_EXT_transform_feedback
GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit
GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample
GL_ARB_framebuffer_object
GL_EXT_texture_array
GL_EXT_texture_integer
GL_ARB_map_buffer_range
GL_EXT_texture_snorm
GL_INTEL_performance_queries
GL_ARB_copy_buffer
GL_ARB_sampler_objects
GL_NV_primitive_restart
GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map
GL_ARB_uniform_buffer_object
GL_ARB_depth_clamp
GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra
GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex
GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters
GL_ARB_compatibility
GL_ARB_vertex_array_object

I searched on the forum for threads that might help but I didn't find any that were helpful.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. It would be nice to have Celestia portable

[selden]

It sounds to me like it could be a bug in the graphics driver.
You'll need to manually download the most recent graphics driver installer from Intel's Web site.

[John Van Vliet]

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[Fenerit]

Try to set as "application controlled" the antialiasing and the antialiasing-transparency within the graphic card's control panel.

[Chuft-Captain]

This sounds similar to the problem I observed when shopping for a laptop awhile ago. As far as I remember, this affected the Infotext at the top left of the screen on some, but not all, laptops.
It seemed to be certain brand/graphic chip combinations that were affected, but there was just too many combinations to be sure of the cause.
I assumed it was due to certain OEM's not having latest drivers installed, so I suggest that you first make sure you have the very latest driver for your chip.

Sorry, that's all I can suggest.