fontengine.dll testing - help needed (1 Viewer)

Holzi

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    You may have seen some screen corruption like text won't show up or disappear at all. This seems to happen when too much text is on screen and fontengine.dll run out of its limits.
    With this new fontengine.dll the limits are a bit adjusted and screen corruptions like you can see in the following screenshots should be fixed.
    1.jpg2.jpg3.jpg4.jpg5.png

    Again, this happens only if there is A LOT text on screen so it also could be that you have never seen it depending on the skins/plugins you use.


    Version 2012-04-15:
    • initial release - fontenginev2
    How to test:
    • backup current fontengine.dll
    • copy the attached fontengine.dll over the old one


    Known Issues:
    • none yet
    Testing Required:
    • check if you notice any negative side effects with the new fontengine.dll (e.g. crashes, videos/livetv begin to stutter, screen flickering etc.)


    Big Thanks to micropolis (dev of World Weather Plugin) for providing this .dll and helping me a lot with other stuff!
     

    Holzi

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    fontengine.dll attached.

    Screenshots added:
    standard fontengine.dll
    without patch.jpg

    new fontengine.dll
    with patch.jpg

    Youtube video added: (see right side down above spincontrols, or it could be that the whole text disappears like at 0:46 - these issues should be fixed with new fontengine.dll)


    Update:
    fontengine.dll (MaxNumfontVertices 40000).rar attached.

    It has set MaxNumfontVertices to 40000 while the previous one was set to 80000. (so it should take less "resources" but still fix the mentioned issues)
    Standard one got 8000.
     

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    • fontEnginev2.zip
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    • fontengine.dll (MaxNumfontVertices 40000).rar
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    Holzi

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    Please also report if you test this and see no problems. Thats the way we can get it in an official release maybe someday. =)
    Thanks!
     

    Helios61

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    Big Thanks Holzi & Micropolis! Made some tests and all is working fine :)! All issues with flickering in list views etc. are solved! Great work!

    Best regards
    Helios
     

    Micropolis

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    Dear community,
    thank you all for this reply. From my point of view it is very important to know, if the provided patch is working good with high- and low-end graphic cards. Please support us here and test the patched fontengine library, your system specs are necessarily to compare the test results.
    Only then we can find the best combination for a further official takeover.

    Cheers, Micropolis
     

    mrj

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    Hi
    This fontengine fixed flickering in music section with very long song titles.
    Using lap top with Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family GPU
    mrj
     

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