Font Bug, what's the cause?

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dizzykiwi3
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Font Bug, what's the cause?

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I've noticed on a very few handful of occasions that a certain character in my typeface will appear glitched, as pictured above. However, upon restarting the program, the character is back to normal. This has happened a few handful of times, and every time restarting the game will fix it, even if I just started the game in the first place and the bug appeared.

Does anyone know what causes this? My game has a lot of scaling/camera work, could that be the issue?
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Pretty sure that's your GPU starting to fail, having it's memory getting corrupt on the fly; re: importance of good airflow through the case. Or maybe it's a faulty driver.
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Re: Font Bug, what's the cause?

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I remember there was a bug like this where some font data got corrupted. I think that was fixed a while back though. Are you on an old version?
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Re: Font Bug, what's the cause?

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bartbes wrote: Sat Jul 29, 2017 8:42 pm I remember there was a bug like this where some font data got corrupted. I think that was fixed a while back though. Are you on an old version?
The version was 10.1, I updated it now, I'll keep an eye out now.
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I believe 0.10.2 fixed that issue with this commit. At least, the symptoms look identical.
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Re: Font Bug, what's the cause?

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slime wrote: Sat Jul 29, 2017 9:49 pm I believe 0.10.2 fixed that issue with this commit. At least, the symptoms look identical.
That does seem exactly like it! Many thanks!
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