Corrupted Text

[Mr. Cryptic]

Well, I am playing, and all of the sudden, my screen goes black, BL freezes for about 30 seconds, then when it come back, all my ice cream is Chinese or Japanese. Now how The F*** is change this back to english. Please post promptly on this topic. I don't want to reinstall.

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[Spartan300]

Your whole computer reverted languages?
Well, at the bottom right corner, where the task bar is, you should see small, white, 2 letter word.
Not really a word, but this indicates which languages your keyboard is in.
I'm assuming it is set to English, since you can type just fine.

Next, your whole computer.
1. Start
2. Control panel
3. Language and regional options
4. Advanced
5. should be the first option there, change it back to English (where ever you live)

If that's not the problem, please explain better.

[Mr. Cryptic]

The Game Itself change language automatically. I restarted BL and it switched back to english. Then 20 minutes later while playing BL, it crashed my computer. Either I have a virus or something, or my computer don't like the lights of BL!

[TheCannon187]

Is there something wrong with your video card? There must be if the computer doesn't like Blockland's lighting system.

[Mr. Cryptic]

I said I think. My Computer is like 5-7 yrs old so. I would expect it to not like it. It don't like alot of game though. Just so This don't go on forever, Anyone know were i can learn chinese, or Japanese for free? My dads friends son work in thialand as a teacher, but he sorta half way around the world!

[Mr. Cryptic]

This screenshot, is the video card i am hopeing that needs updating right?

[Wedge]

Torque doesn't support Asian characters.

But I can't really tell unless you take a picture of them.

But I've had a problem similar to this before, and I'm pretty sure those aren't Asian characters, there is either something wrong with your drivers or graphics card that is scrambling your text. This happened to me in AoT a lot. Just open up the options menu and change the resolution, and it should be fixed. Although that is just a quick fix, you should update your graphics card or get a new one eventually.

EDIT: If your computer is five years old, it is probably your graphics card. Getting new drivers probably won't help if it doesn't meat the minimum requirements for Blockland. You'll probably need to get a new graphics card.

[Space Guy]

http://www.blockland.us/smf/index.php?topic=17230.0 Second Picture
http://www.blockland.us/smf/index.php?topic=16559.0 First Picture
http://www.blockland.us/smf/index.php?topic=15145.0 First Picture

If it's what I think it is, is the problem like the chat in the above topics?

This happens, occasionally, in every Torque game - BL0002, Marble Blast demo, etc. It goes away when you restart the game, usually happening when a "bad" script is executed or when you spawn in a server with brick errors. Sometimes it goes away on its own.

[Packer]

Ether you've alt+tab'd some how or your GFX is dyeing a slow and painful death.

[TheCannon187]

Those are called "Artifacts", and they are the result of your graphics card's extended lifetime. Get a new one.

As you live in Canada, I can tell you that you can get an ok model for around $190 if you use PCI-E (16x), or for $135 if you use AGP (8x).

[Rolland]

Torque doesn't support Asian characters.

Torque uses files for fonts, just make a Torque-usable font file with Asian characters and it'd work...You mean Retail

[Badspot]

There are screen artifacts showing up and that means that your video card is dying. 

The geometry corruption problem that Space guy is talking about is a different problem.

Torque 1.3 doesn't do asian fonts because it only supports single byte characters.  Many asian fonts have more than 255 characters and that won't fit in a single byte.  TGE 1.4 and later has support for unicode which allows any font to work up to something like 64k characters, but porting that back to Blockland is no small task.