Sunday, October 17, 2010

ATI crash solution: "triple buffering" issue.

If you have recent ATI card and have trouble launching The Polynomial, check your driver options. Disable the "triple buffering" setting. It is not compatible with standard. I'll try to see if I can workaround in game, but of course the correct solution is for graphics card manufacturers to stick to the OpenGL standard.
Posted by Dmytry at 11:43 PM

5 comments:

  1. IdzunaOctober 18, 2010 at 1:11 AM

    Hi Dmytry, thank you for your hard work fixing everyone's problems! I am greatly enjoying the game! I have a question, is it possible to change the font which the game uses (DejaVu Sans)? Or, to ask differently, is there a way to make the game display Unicode text? My music titles and scoreboard name do not display correctly right now because they are in Japanese.

    Keep up the good work!

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  2. DmytryOctober 18, 2010 at 1:17 AM

    Unicode is supported - works for my Cyrillic and Lithuanian ;-)

    Hmm maybe put some other TTF font with same name? I think my version of DejaVu Sans lacks Japanese.

    Or edit style.txt in the data folder and replace the font setting here. Possible to set separate font just for the playlist. Make sure you write about changes, can be useful for others!

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  3. IdzunaOctober 18, 2010 at 7:41 AM

    Thank you Dmytry, I edited style.txt to point to a different font file in my system directory and everything displays correctly now!

    I don't know if this is the appropriate place to put the information, but I will write it here in case it helps anyone.

    You need to open style.txt, which is by default in Steam\steamapps\common\thepolynomial\data\, and then search within and find "font_name=$$data/DejaVuSans.ttf;" near the beginning of the file.

    Edit this with a path to an appropriate font on your system for your language, in my case it becomes: "font_name=c:/windows/fonts/meiryo.ttc;"

    Make sure that the path contains forward slashes instead of backslashes, otherwise the game defaults to a basic font which is very limited.

    I don't use Macs so I can't say how this works on a Mac system.

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  4. IdzunaOctober 18, 2010 at 7:45 AM

    I'll put the instructions in Japanese as well, in case someone needs it. Again I don't know if this is an appropriate place to put it, I hope you don't mind.

    ザ・ポリノミアルのスコアボードや曲名などが文字化けする場合には、以下の手順に従ってみてください：
    １．メモ帳または同じようなテキストエディタを実行し、style.txtという設定ファイルを見つけて開きます
    　（デフォルトはProgram files\Steam\steamapps\common\thepolynomial\data\にあるはずです）
    ２．style.txtの内容から「

    font_name=$$data/DejaVuSans.ttf;」を検索します
    ３．日本語を含んでいない初期設定のフォントを置き換える必要があります。指定できる日本語と互換性のあるフォントはシステムによって異なるのですが、例を挙げます：
    　　　例：（Vista・７）



    font_name=c:/windows/fonts/meiryo.ttc;
    　　　例：（XP)　

    font_name=c:/windows/fonts/MSMINCHO.TTC;
    　　このように編集します。
    　　（注意：バックスラッシュ『\』じゃなくてスラッシュ『/』と入力することを必ず確認してください。そうしないとエラーが発生します）
    ４．ファイルをセーブしてゲームを再実行します

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  5. IdzunaOctober 18, 2010 at 7:49 AM

    There's some unnecessary whitespace there, sorry. It's hard to edit in this small comment box :]

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