Font anti-aliasing is missing

[Kutabe]

After installing Mod Organizer 2 font anti-aliasing didn't apply. I assume it wasn't applied to wine prefix, or something didn't work, though I haven't noticed any errors/warnings during install. I ran winetricks fontsmooth-rgb to enable anti-aliasing, if it is not configured by default during install, I think it is worth adding to prefix configuration step.

[TassieDevyl]

@Kutabe thanks for posting this. I also found the font rendering without font smoothing applied difficult to read. I applied the fix you mentioned using Protontricks. The results afterwards are definitely an improvement.

[MageInBlack]

For some strange reason it worked for me fine on GNOME without this tweak, but on Plasma it needs this to be more readable. Applying smoothing fixed it on Plasma

[kleshas]

Thanks for the fix Kutabe. It was fine last OS install, but for some reason I needed this fix this time round.

[gbdrbob]

For anyone unfamiliar with the command line, this is what I ran to switch on font smoothing in my Fallout 3 prefix on steam deck:

flatpak run com.github.Matoking.protontricks 22370 settings fontsmooth=rgb

If you're not using the flatpak version of protontricks, then the command would instead be:

protontricks 22370 settings fontsmooth=rgb

For other games just replace the 22370 with the appropritate AppID. You can find it by running the protontricks GUI and looking at the number next to the game name in the list that appears:

or via the command line with the --search parameter, for example:

(deck@steamdeck ~)$ flatpak run com.github.Matoking.protontricks --search "Fallout 3"
Found the following games:
Fallout 3 - Game of the Year Edition (22370)

To run Protontricks for the chosen game, run:
$ protontricks APPID COMMAND

NOTE: A game must be launched at least once before Protontricks can find the game.

As pointed out by @genericanimegirl in #695 you can also change the setting entirely via the GUI by selecting the game in the GUI list, then choosing "Select the default wineprefix", followed by "Change Settings" before enabling "fontsmooth=rgb" in the list of settings:

[bytes-commerce]

For me the problem is also with the size of the font on a 4K display, its just very small and cannot be scaled with Winetricks, whatsoever.

[EXCIDIVM]

For me the problem is also with the size of the font on a 4K display, its just very small and cannot be scaled with Winetricks, whatsoever.

Actually, it can. Default DPI is 96, increasing it makes it larger (for example to 120 or 144). To do so, just launch protontricks, select the game, select default prefix then start winecfg. Under "graphics" you can set the DPI.