Solve : battlefield 1942 cannot read words?

1.	Solve : battlefield 1942 cannot read words?
Answer» when I play battlefield 1942, it starts up fine, but I can't read anything on the main menu. the letters APPEAR as little squares. thanks point rewarded.Need to know full computer specs.OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name YODA System Manufacturer Micron Electronics System Model Transport GX Plus System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel ~1002 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Micron Electronics 4.0 R6 07VN, 5/12/2001 SMBIOS Version 2.31 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" User Name YODA\john Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 256.00 MB Available Physical Memory 36.62 MB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 617.77 MB Page File C:\pagefile.sys this good enough What's the video card? Has the game every played properly on your system? Have you downloaded the latest updates for the game? Have you downloaded the latest DRIVERS for your hardware? Looks like you're running very low on available memory, 36MB of 256MB, which might be part of your problem, but looks like you still meet the minimum system REQUIREMENTS for BF1942.Sounds like the graphics card it not supported/too old. I had the same problem with NFS: Most Wanted, when I ran it on a 32MB TNT2 Couldn't see any of the gauges, roads or textures....just geometric objects Quote from: quaxo on April 18, 2009, 09:49:24 PM What's the video card? Quote from: Kurtiskain on April 22, 2009, 01:15:44 AM Sounds like the graphics card it not supported/too old. Or the opposite. Me and my mate used to love playing Battlezone II against each other and online, and it worked fine with my old GeForce2 MX and his early Radeon card (don't remember what model), but when I upgraded to a newer card (ATI Radeon 9600), the text all started APPEARING as squares instead of letters.it could also be a missing font... Quote from: BC_Programmer on April 22, 2009, 01:46:02 AM it could also be a missing font... That does make sense, when I restored my computer with a restoration disk for xp last month, it mentioned that it could not find my fonts. same thing happens for microsoft word, but not for notepad or wordpad. maybe when I restored it, it only restored fonts for built in applications rather than added applications I downloaded later. is that possable? anyone know the font type for battlefield 1942?I would just reinstall it from the diskThe text in Battlefield 1942 becomes really BLOCKY and hard to read when you set the resolution up past 1024x768 and there is no way around it. What resolution are you running it at?

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when I play battlefield 1942, it starts up fine, but I can't read anything on the main menu. the letters APPEAR as little squares. thanks point rewarded.Need to know full computer specs.OS Name   Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version   5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer   Microsoft Corporation
System Name   YODA
System Manufacturer   Micron Electronics
System Model   Transport GX Plus
System Type   X86-based PC
Processor   x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel ~1002 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date   Micron Electronics 4.0 R6 07VN, 5/12/2001
SMBIOS Version   2.31
Windows Directory   C:\WINDOWS
System Directory   C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device   \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale   United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer   Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name   YODA\john
Time Zone   Pacific Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory   256.00 MB
Available Physical Memory   36.62 MB
Total Virtual Memory   2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory   1.96 GB
Page File Space   617.77 MB
Page File   C:\pagefile.sys

this good enough
What's the video card?
Has the game every played properly on your system?
Have you downloaded the latest updates for the game?
Have you downloaded the latest DRIVERS for your hardware?

Looks like you're running very low on available memory, 36MB of 256MB, which might be part of your problem, but looks like you still meet the minimum system REQUIREMENTS for BF1942.Sounds like the graphics card it not supported/too old.

I had the same problem with NFS: Most Wanted, when I ran it on a 32MB TNT2

Couldn't see any of the gauges, roads or textures....just geometric objects

Quote from: quaxo on April 18, 2009, 09:49:24 PM

What's the video card?

Quote from: Kurtiskain on April 22, 2009, 01:15:44 AM

Sounds like the graphics card it not supported/too old.

Or the opposite.

Me and my mate used to love playing Battlezone II against each other and online, and it worked fine with my old GeForce2 MX and his early Radeon card (don't remember what model), but when I upgraded to a newer card (ATI Radeon 9600), the text all started APPEARING as squares instead of letters.it could also be a missing font... Quote from: BC_Programmer on April 22, 2009, 01:46:02 AM

it could also be a missing font...

That does make sense, when I restored my computer with a restoration disk for xp last month, it mentioned that it could not find my fonts. same thing happens for microsoft word, but not for notepad or wordpad. maybe when I restored it, it only restored fonts for built in applications rather than added applications I downloaded later. is that possable? anyone know the font type for battlefield 1942?I would just reinstall it from the diskThe text in Battlefield 1942 becomes really BLOCKY and hard to read when you set the resolution up past 1024x768 and there is no way around it. What resolution are you running it at?

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