[HL25] Font rendering doesn't work on linux using Proton when your system has the original Tahoma and Trebuchet MS fonts Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/issues/3863. @PonyRoleplayer posted on 2024-11-14T03:08:44: I know no one's probably going to bother with this bug, but here it goes. For some reason, font rendering doesn't work when your system has installed the ...
[HL25] Font rendering doesn't work on linux using Proton when your system has the original Tahoma and Trebuchet MS fonts Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/issues/3863. @PonyRoleplayer poste...
Looks like the problem ist caused by the libSDL2 in the steamapps/common/Half-Life directory. Deleting both, the so-file and the symlink, fixes the problem.
The highest Proton version that doesn't produce the hw.dll error when I start with a fresh compatdata/70 folder is Proton 5.0-10. If I switch to a higher version of Proton and then switch back to a lower version of Proto...
I don't know whether this is a clue to what is going on or not, but it might be. Half-Life stopped loading on Proton 4.11-13 a few days ago. I downgraded to 3.16-9 and it started loading again. That got me thinking that ...
And even if the dependencies aren't strict, distros will choose versions of libraries that work well with the kernels they support, and vice versa. It's just generally a better idea to use system libraries.