In-Game Text Distorted - Help?

[Smeller]

Hello,

I have an issue where my text in-game is distorted and it makes it hard to read. Here's a screenshot so you know what I'm talking about: https://i.imgur.com/Q5G1QQE.png

I researched a bit and found some threads where people were having an issue with their text being blurry - but this isn't the same problem I have. Their solution was to disable FXAA, but this didn't work for me.

If anyone knows a fix I would really appreciate it.

EDIT: If anyone needs to fix this: it looks like this may be some sort of save corruption bug because after clearing my settings files and reinstalling the game, this bug went away.

I renamed this folder
C:\Users\(YOURUSERNAME)\AppData\Local\inkle\Sorcery

This folder contains all of your game settings and save files, so renaming it backs it up for you and the game will make a fresh Sorcery folder with default settings when you launch the game.

I then reinstalled the game.

Now the text isn't distorted anymore.

[GoatOnATree]

It's supposed to look like that

[Smeller]

Originally posted by GoatOnATree:

It's supposed to look like that

Look towards the bottom of the text. It gets worse the further down you go so that some words are unreadable. I've seen other screenshots of the game and gameplay and it doesn't look like that. I've played before on another computer and it didn't look like that.

[lugia19]

I have the exact same issue - did you ever figure out a fix?

[oui oui baguette notre dame oui9]

try to disable anti aliasing or make it 8x

[squosh]

I have the same issue. I've tried many different things myself to fix it, but nothing makes any change to the issue whatsoever.

If anything I think the issue lies with the game itself: the calculation that modifies the text this way gives exaggerated results by mistake. The issue being unique to certain computers since that calculation is relying on a library, but that library isn't giving the calculation the correct information for it. That's a complete uneducated guess though and just based on what I've seen in other application issues, and makes the most sense to me on paper. Issue with all of that is I have no idea how to mod the game if it even can be modified, or how the hell I'm supposed to track down the specific library causing the issue if it is.

Completely confident the issue has nothing to do with anti-aliasing or FXAA. They are intended to blur edges to reduce standout pixels, but when applied incorrectly it can result in too much blur. None of this has anything to do with this issue. I tried changing it for the crack but unsurprisingly it didn't affect the issue at all.

[Progenitor]

I'm having this issue as well. There's some really bad instances of it that makes the text almost unreadable. Has anyone figured out any kind of fix?

https://imgur.com/a/QnKf2HG

[Angry Chicken]

I also have this issue

[Dusty Veteran]

Has anyone ever found a fix for this bug?

[Smeller]

Well I may have found something. I renamed this folder
C:\Users\(YOURUSERNAME)\AppData\Local\inkle\Sorcery

This folder contains all of your game settings and save files, so renaming it backs it up for you and the game will make a fresh Sorcery folder with default settings when you launch the game.

I then reinstalled the game.

Now the text isn't distorted anymore.
You can then probably move the save files back over to the original Sorcery folder, but I'm not sure if this will break it again.

[Dusty Veteran]

Thank you! I thought that I would never find an answer.

[Queen Ruby]

That didn't fix it for me, it's so annoying and weird! Hard to enjoy the game like this

[Good Sir Reginald]

Just in case anyone else is having this problem, I found a potential fix:

I have two different SSDs on my rig, a smaller one as my C: for my boot drive, and a larger one as E: for general game usage (though there are at least a few games on both). Reinstalling the game from my dedicated gaming drive to my boot drive completely fixed the issue for me.