TrenchDigger Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Hi everyone Just got into combat mission(BB), and I am trying to find a fix for the "old" (my new) yellow text on white background. I tried all tricks from the trouble shooting guide from Battle front but nothing worked, but figured I try the walk around by editing the BMP files like what was suggested on the web site, but the link from Battlefront is not working.. can anyone post the instructions or email them to me? Or would the 3 patches fix the problem? something I havent done yet. Thanks sorry for bringing up this old issue. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panama Red Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Here is the ATI patch for all three games (and I originally had the same problem).Combat Mission Radeon_text_fix.zip 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrenchDigger Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 Thank you so much! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zane Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 Thank's very mutch for the ATI Patch Link. D/L the file and will get it a try. Lane 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panama Red Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 You are welcome and glad to help. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoFarmer Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Here is the ATI patch for all three games (and I originally had the same problem). Hey, thanks a lot for those, they fixed the problem, at least for me (see this thread). Can you (or anyone else) tell me whether this fix interferes with PBEM games? I'm thinking it shouldn't since it's basically just a modded bmp which only affects my computer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 You are correct. No effect on PBEM play. Do load the patches fro the better experience : ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbit Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Alas! After getting a new computer and reinstalling CMBB, I've fallen victim to the Radeon white text block problem. And not even yellow text in it... Tried the Radeon Mod txt fix, but that also had no effect. Installing older drivers works a bit - I can than paly on a low resolution. But hey, doing that every time I want to play is no option (for I want the correct driver for other programs). So does anyone have a solution to this? Using Vista 32 bit, with a ATI Radeon HD3450 graphics card. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucznik7 Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 I confirm the same problem with Radeon 3870. Is there any other solution? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cimeto Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 I was having problem with running this marvellous game with my HD3870 until i updated mi computer with the new ATI drivers (now i have Catalyst 8.11), but i still have the unreadable text problem, the same problem that some of you are describing. But instead the ATI text fix is a good solution for battle map, it is not for the briefing. Do you think mates, it is possible to mod it to another color that lend the game to show text both in combat and in the briefing? Thank you for the fix! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cimeto Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 After some testing, the problem is not the fix. It is a different problem, in some occasions i could repair it deleting the prefs file. But this is not a very sure method. Now i can play with readeble text, but with no briefings or text in buttons and quick battle sub-options. I hope this information could help someone as a clue to get to some solution to play one of the best tactical wargames (if not the best) in a computer with new ATI videocards. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cimeto Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 And after still more testing, i could resolve the problem of the briefing with ALT+TAB. Sorry for this kind of spamming (3 messages in a row) but i hope this could help to other people in the same situation as me. And, sorry for my bad english. I know i need a lot of practice. (geeeez) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Thanks for looking into this. It appears that the newest Catalyst drivers may have a 2D refresh problem with the static portions of the page (in combination with the earlier 'white' text problems). I'm not sure if there are any settings within the Catalyst control center that could help with this. In the past enabling Antialiasing seemed to aggravate the text problem. So possibly disabling some of the settings related to it may help. More than likely the Alt-Tab'ing out of CM and back in may be the method that works until ATI/AMD fix this issue (which unfortunately may take them a LONG time). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 How does the alt-tab thing work? I am running Vista with the Radeon 3400. I had to force on anti-aliasing and download the bmp zip to get this far. Battle map looks good, but the briefing screens are blank. When I hit alt-tab, it switches between desktop and CMAK, but still no text. What is the trick here? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cimeto Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 In my experience, that was the solution. I run the game and find that the text from briefings and other things (map editor, and the battle list has a problem at the beginning) do not show in the screen, i mean, you only see the game´s background, but not the text. I found that when i jump to desktop 'via' ALT+TAB or Windows key (from keyboard), and then, i switch again to the game, this text appears now as it should do. Now i must say which computer or O.S. i use. Pentium Quad 2.4, ATI HD3870 and Windows XP SP2. I hope you can find a solution and continue playing this. (God!, i was almost a year without playing it because of the drivers) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Hmm, that is what I am doing. Doesn't work for me. I am running Vista (w/ radeon 3400)though, and the desktop resolution is different than the game resolution. Seems like when antialiasing is forced on, I can't see the text. If it uses app defaults instead, I can see the text but the game crashes when it trys to load the 3d graphics. I just can't seem to make it happy. Maybe I need to pick my game out with AA off, read the briefings, then quit. Turn AA on, try to select that same game and run Any better ideas out there? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee_DiSantis Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 just wanted to say thank you. was having huge problems, was really frustrated, and just happened to stumble across this thread. you rock 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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