Button Text Unintelligible

Text Bug

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I'm getting this strange garbled text for all of my buttons...i can't do anything with the game like this. I installed the update and have tried different resolutions on my card. I'm using the latest driver.

My language settings are the standard US Windows XP install for English. I haven’t changed any of the language settings from the XP install.

I'm running 1920 x 1200 wide screen resolution, but I changed to 1600x1200 and it didn’t help any. The same problem again.

I’m using ForceWare Release 80
Version: 81.98

Nvidia video drivers.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
What's the date on those drivers? That screams old drivers.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
The Official date from nVidia on their site.

ForceWare Release 80
Version: 81.98
Release Date: February 7, 2006
WHQL Certified

Just to be 110% sure, i reinstalled the driver again. No change.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Ok, i was investigating issues relating to my own system that are unique, since other people weren't having this issue, from what i could see on the forum.

I use a font management utility called Suitcase and i was looking at what fonts i had installed (or uninstalled). Turns out i had two versions of the Font Gal Civ 2 uses: Bank Gothic. I have several True Type and several Adobe Type 1 fonts installed for the type face Bank Gothic. I uninstalled the Adobe fonts, leaving only the True Type fonts loaded into the system and this resolved the issue.

Not sure if there is a more robust way you can select a particular font for use in the game but i would look into this, since i've never had this as an issue in all the years i've been using this font management utility with other games.