Counter-Strike 1.6: Missed all fonts

[ghost]

When i run Counter-Strike 1.6 on my Linux Mint 14 i do not see any text in game, even i can not see what i am writing in console.

My config:
Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 3001 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Linux Mint 14 Nadia (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.5.0-17-generic
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11300000
X Window Manager: Marco
Steam Runtime Version:

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 560/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version:  1.4 (2.1.2 NVIDIA 310.19)
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID:  0x10de
DeviceID:  0x1201
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.08" x 11.30"  (23.03" diag)
                                        51.0cm x 28.7cm  (58.5cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM Not Detected
Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 

Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC887-VD

Memory:
RAM: 7969 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 112675 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 94713 Mb

[DarkDefender]

What does "fc-match verdana" and "fc-match arial" say?
I think this might be because you those matches doesn't match .ttf fonts. I got the same problem when I tried to change the ingame font to a bitmap font (IE non-ttf font).

If this is the case then install "corefonts" (MS fonts) or "DejaVu fonts" they should be in you package manager.

[revo4ever]

in my case, the font is unreadable on Ubuntu RR

[julre]

I have the same issue with Half-Life on my Arch Linux System.

[DarkDefender]

@julre , @revo4ever please answer my question to help with debugging this problem.

[revo4ever]

@DarkDefender i just installed the MScore fonts but the cs chat font is unreadable

[DarkDefender]

Please paste output of the fc-match commands here.

[revo4ever]

@DarkDefender Here is the output from the terminal

DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

[DarkDefender]

Is that the output from verdana or arial?

Either way it should work. But you are not using the MS fonts.
If you were using the MS fonts it would say:
verdana.ttf: "Verdana" "Normal"
for verdana and:
arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"
for arial.

You can see which order the fonts are picked it by adding a "-s" flag. so for me the verdana output is:

fc-match verdana -s
verdana.ttf: "Verdana" "Normal"
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold"
DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Oblique"
DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold Oblique"
luxisr.ttf: "Luxi Sans" "Regular"
l048013t.pfa: "Luxi Sans" "Regular"
n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"
arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"
helvR12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz: "Helvetica" "Regular"
unifont.ttf: "unifont" "Medium"
LinLibertine_R.ttf: "Linux Libertine" "Regular"
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Bold"
DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Italic"
DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Bold Italic"
cu12.pcf.gz: "ClearlyU" "Regular"
cu-pua12.pcf.gz: "ClearlyU PUA" "Regular"
10x20.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "Regular"

[revo4ever]

@DarkDefender i installed the Microsoft fonts correctly
output fc-match verdana -s :

valve@valve-HP-Elite-PC:$ fc-match verdana -s
verdana.ttf: "Verdana" "Normal"
Verdana.ttf: "Verdana" "Normal"
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold"
DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Oblique"
DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold Oblique"
arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"
Arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"
n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"
l_10646.ttf: "Lucida Sans Unicode" "Normal"
tahoma.ttf: "Tahoma" "Normal"
Waree.ttf: "Waree" "Book"
KhmerOS.ttf: "Khmer OS" "Regular"
MuktiNarrow.ttf: "Mukti Narrow" "Regular"
NanumGothic.ttf: "NanumGothic" "Regular"
lohit_bn.ttf: "Lohit Bengali" "Regular"
lohit_gu.ttf: "Lohit Gujarati" "Regular"
lohit_hi.ttf: "Lohit Hindi" "Regular"
lohit_pa.ttf: "Lohit Punjabi" "Regular"
lohit_ta.ttf: "Lohit Tamil" "Regular"
Meera_04.ttf: "Meera" "Regular"
lklug.ttf: "LKLUG" "Regular"
wqy-microhei.ttc: "WenQuanYi Micro Hei" "Regular"
FreeSans.ttf: "FreeSans" "нормален"
ARIALUNI.TTF: "Arial Unicode MS" "Normal"
gargi.ttf: "gargi" "Medium"
Ubuntu-M.ttf: "Ubuntu" "Medium"
Rekha.ttf: "Rekha" "Medium"
utkal.ttf: "ori1Uni" "Medium"
FreeMono.ttf: "FreeMono" "нормален"
FreeSerif.ttf: "FreeSerif" "нормален"
opens___.ttf: "OpenSymbol" "Regular"
andlso.ttf: "Andalus" "Regular"
Gabriola.ttf: "Gabriola" "Regular"
segoeui.ttf: "Segoe UI" "Normal"
seguisym.ttf: "Segoe UI Symbol" "Normal"
Norasi.ttf: "Norasi" "Regular"
Rachana_04.ttf: "Rachana" "Regular"
fonts-japanese-gothic.ttf: "TakaoPGothic" "Regular"
Courier_New.ttf: "Courier New" "Normal"
Padauk-book.ttf: "Padauk Book" "Regular"
DejaVuSerif.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Book"
AGaramondPro-Regular.otf: "Adobe Garamond Pro" "Regular"
NanumMyeongjo.ttf: "NanumMyeongjo" "Regular"
REFSAN.TTF: "MS Reference Sans Serif" "Normal"
TibetanMachineUni.ttf: "Tibetan Machine Uni" "Regular"
Pothana2000.ttf: "Pothana2000" "Pothana2000"
AbyssinicaSIL-R.ttf: "Abyssinica SIL" "Regular"
GenBasR.ttf: "Gentium Basic" "Regular"
GenR102.ttf: "Gentium" "Regular"
DTHULUTH.TTF: "DecoType Thuluth" "Regular"
DTNASKH0.TTF: "DecoType Naskh" "Regular"
DTNASKH4.TTF: "DecoType Naskh Swashes" "Regular"
a_lcdnovaobl.ttf: "a_LCDNovaObl" "Regular"
Symbol.pfb: "Symbol" "Regular"
LiberationSansNarrow-Regular.ttf: "Liberation Sans Narrow" "Regular"
PrestigeEliteStd-Bd.otf: "Prestige Elite Std" "Bold"
M Unicode Hadeel.ttf: "M Unicode Hadeel" "Regular"
MTCORSVA.TTF: "Monotype Corsiva" "Normal"
AL-jass.ttf: "AL-jass" "Regular"
Al-Kharashi 58 Naskh.ttf: "Al-Kharashi 58 Naskh" "regular"
DecoType Professional Naskh Em Space.ttf: "DTP Naskh Em" "regular"
ALAWI-3-6.ttf: "ALAWI-3-6" "Agfa Alawi Hashim Bafageeh..."
ACS Yaqout Bold.ttf: "ACS Yaqout Bold" "Regular"
valve@valve-HP-Elite-PC:$

[ghost]

fc-match -s
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold"
DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Oblique"
DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold Oblique"
n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"
Waree.ttf: "Waree" "Book"
KhmerOS.ttf: "Khmer OS" "Regular"
MuktiNarrow.ttf: "Mukti Narrow" "Regular"
NanumGothic.ttf: "NanumGothic" "Regular"
lohit_bn.ttf: "Lohit Bengali" "Regular"
lohit_gu.ttf: "Lohit Gujarati" "Regular"
lohit_hi.ttf: "Lohit Hindi" "Regular"
lohit_pa.ttf: "Lohit Punjabi" "Regular"
lohit_ta.ttf: "Lohit Tamil" "Regular"
Meera_04.ttf: "Meera" "Regular"
lklug.ttf: "LKLUG" "Regular"
FreeSans.ttf: "FreeSans" "нормален"
KacstArt.ttf: "KacstArt" "Medium"
gargi.ttf: "gargi" "Medium"
Ubuntu-M.ttf: "Ubuntu" "Medium"
Rekha.ttf: "Rekha" "Medium"
utkal.ttf: "ori1Uni" "Medium"
FreeMono.ttf: "FreeMono" "нормален"
FreeSerif.ttf: "FreeSerif" "нормален"
opens___.ttf: "OpenSymbol" "Regular"
KacstOne.ttf: "KacstOne" "Regular"
Norasi.ttf: "Norasi" "Regular"
Rachana_04.ttf: "Rachana" "Regular"
fonts-japanese-gothic.ttf: "TakaoPGothic" "Regular"
Padauk-book.ttf: "Padauk Book" "Regular"
DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf: "Droid Sans Fallback" "Regular"
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
DejaVuSerif.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Book"
NanumMyeongjo.ttf: "NanumMyeongjo" "Regular"
Purisa.ttf: "Purisa" "Medium"
TibetanMachineUni.ttf: "Tibetan Machine Uni" "Regular"
Pothana2000.ttf: "Pothana2000" "Pothana2000"
AbyssinicaSIL-R.ttf: "Abyssinica SIL" "Regular"
Sawasdee.ttf: "Sawasdee" "Regular"
Kedage-n.ttf: "Kedage" "Normal"
wqy-microhei.ttc: "WenQuanYi Micro Hei" "Regular"
Symbol.pfb: "Symbol" "Regular"
LiberationSansNarrow-Regular.ttf: "Liberation Sans Narrow" "Regular"

[calexil]

resolved?

[sim590]

I am getting the same issue here. Here is screenshot of what I'm getting:

In order to go around it, I have to go (blindly) through the interface to find the options for changing the resolution and this restarts the game and texture and text now don't disappear.

However, once the game is restarded, I can't join any server as the server lists are all empty (see #2895, or my comment on this issue). As I'm explaining in this comment, I can sort of go around the issue by joinging a server blindly with the interface that has text gone as the interface is still functional. However, I never know what game I'm joining. I normally order them by ping (blindly) and select the first one.

However, if I once hit the keys shift+tab, then the bug is triggered again and all textures and text disappear. When in game, it shows like this:

So, in summary, I can still "play" if I'm cautious with the keys I'm hitting and if I don't care the server I'm joining and if I don't mind having to restart the game several times (changing the resolution), but that's quite annoying.

System info

• OS: Archlinux
• Archlinux' Steam package version: 1.0.0.61-4
• Counter Strike version: I don't know...
• Graphic card: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Broadway XT [Mobility Radeon HD 5870]

UPDATE (2020-05-25)

I can confirm that I can play without this issue on an intel integrated GPU based system. However, the restart issue (#2895) still occurs.