Text in Steam mangled after March 14th

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Steam.exe causes the problem every time it starts.

The expected output is text from steam websites viewed via the steam client. 
What I see is mangled pixels. The interesting thing is that if you look 
closely, you can see what the text is, it just looks like the sub-pixel 
rendering has shifted the text so that parts are red, parts are blue, etc.

0.9.1 on windows 7 home premium. Using the current version of steam.

Please provide any additional information below. Screenshots always help.

For screenshots, email me at joshua.curtis.smith0@gmail.com, and I'll get them 
to you asap, since I apparently cannot attach a screenshot to this bug report.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by joshua.c...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2012 at 7:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

The issue looks like this here:
http://tinypic.com/r/20fbvyp/5 (direct link: http://i39.tinypic.com/20fbvyp.jpg)

As you said: It's the stuff from the Steam websites; the library etc. is shown 
without errors. So maybe this bug is related to issue 214 
(http://code.google.com/p/gdipp/issues/detail?id=214)?

Workaround: Exclude Steam in the gdipp_setting.xml 
("<process>steam\.exe</process>" works here).

PS: 0.9.1 on Win 7 Pro x64

Original comment by HomiSite on 17 Mar 2012 at 3:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the quick response. The issue has been resolved.

Original comment by joshua.c...@gmail.com on 17 Mar 2012 at 3:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

I don't see that problem in my Steam. Have u tried to disable "Enable 
DirectWrite for improved font smoothing and kerning" under 
View->Settings->Interface.

Maybe that could help....excluding it in the xml works too

Original comment by end...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2012 at 5:36

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

I excluded it in the xml, and the issue was resolved. I haven't re-enabled it 
to check if it works again, but I'll do that this weekend.

Original comment by joshua.c...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2012 at 5:50

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

@Joshua
Why do you say it is resolved, it hasen't been resolved has it, unless you 
consider excluding steam as resolved, but that's a workaround isen't it?

Original comment by kelm.edw...@googlemail.com on 23 Mar 2012 at 11:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Steam Overlay is effected as well

Try Blacklisting GameOverlayUI.exe in the mean time

Original comment by dan...@enemyplanet.geek.nz on 28 Mar 2012 at 2:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

This issue is related to the rendering issues with Chromium engine. Steam 
changed its rendering to Chromium after Match 14th.

For more information, take a look here:
http://code.google.com/p/gdipp/issues/detail?id=182

Original comment by zonc...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2012 at 5:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Sorry, but i am having the same issue, but how do i go about excluding Steam in 
the gdipp_setting.xml.

Original comment by the.game...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2012 at 8:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

I also had this issue. Half of the text in steam was unreadable with exception 
of the library.

I can confirm that modifying the gdipp_setting.xml by adding 
<process>steam\.exe</process> indeed solves the problem.

I'm using Windows 7 ultimate x32

Original comment by pockey_c...@aol.com on 6 Aug 2012 at 11:31

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

I can confirm this issue is still present.
Using Windows 7 64bit.

Original comment by AMemh...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2013 at 4:11

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Text in Steam mangled after March 14th #216