Invisible text.

James Lock · Post by **James Lock** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:59 am

About a day after I installed the 1.05 patch for Halo, I could no longer see any of the white text.

I can still see the "Double Kill", "Triple Kill!" and "You are on a killing spree!" etc...

What I can't see is the chat text including

[CC]Slither: blah blah
new001 was killed by [CC]Neo
[CC]Knux committed suicide.
[CC]Raiden: hog.

That is what I can't see. And when I type something a translucent box still comes up to say I am typing, but when I press the keys nothing comes up. When I press enter to submit what I typed it dissapears like normal.

I've tried:

Reinstalling Halo
Uninstalling, then installing Halo.

Any help would be appreciated.

[TG]Omega · Post by **[TG]Omega** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:57 am

1. You Are Playing In Safe Mode.
2. Your Patch is Fucked, Re-Download
3. You Have Edited Your Text Colour

shadow wolf · Post by **shadow wolf** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:24 am

i have had this problen 2

1) Not in safemode
2) Re-dled patch, no luck
3) Its not the text colour, because the text actually isnt there :s
(otherwise it would show when i play on sidewinder then bg)

James Lock · Post by **James Lock** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:34 am

I have already redownloaded the patch obviously when I reinstalled Halo.

It doesn't ask me if I want to play it in Safe Mode, and I know Windows is not in safe mode because I know what Safe Mode looks like.

supergamer · Post by **supergamer** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:39 pm

This problem is a common occurance in Halo, in every version, trial, CE, original, many people have it, although it is more common in CE than regular I believe. Supposedly, it's something to do with alt+tabbing, alt+f4, quick exits basically-I don't know if this is nessicarily true but I had the problem before and I fixed it.
Try:

-Reinstalling the game-Forget this, you already did. Try copying new Font Files from the CD to the area in the halo folder.
-Get the font editor. Use it, and make a backup of your fonts. Then edit the fonts you already have, change the colour to white, and see if everything checks out. Try different fonts too.
-Use the backup fonts instead of the first ones
-Try a different version of halo and see if it works (trial, CE). If so, use their fonts.

{XS} Shaggy · Post by **{XS} Shaggy** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 3:29 pm

Make sure Halo is the only thing you're running. No messengers or other programs. If you do, that'll make the text invisable.

kaptainkommie · Post by **kaptainkommie** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:49 am

Search please. This problem has been solved before. It has something to do with a corrupt MSXML installation. I can't remember the details as it never happened to me. Just search our forums.