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Is Mar 26, 2013 @ 6:29pm
Need help! Game text is unreadable for me! Squares replace letters!
Started up the game and it runs fine, but there are no letters in the text. It's replaced by squares and completely unreadable. I thought it was supposed to do this (never played a Bioshock game before) but it's not.

Game is fine and so is audio, but it's not playable for me because I have no idea what the text says.

Anyone else come across this? I haven't seen anything about it.

Update: Here's how to fix. Validate the game cache files. Pretty simple. You have to wait but it's worth it. Or it's from a glitch that was patched. I fixed it now and finished the game! It's awesome! :)
Last edited by Is; Mar 27, 2013 @ 5:10pm
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Is Mar 26, 2013 @ 6:41pm 
Help!
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David Mar 26, 2013 @ 6:48pm 
I have the same problem. I can't read it at all.
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justmajors Mar 26, 2013 @ 6:54pm 
Same issue here!
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OneAlice Mar 28, 2013 @ 4:50am 
I did all but nothing happened ;( can you help me otherwise please?
Last edited by OneAlice; Mar 28, 2013 @ 5:44am
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Flyte Mar 29, 2013 @ 8:40am 
Same problem here .. Verified game cache and it still didn't work.
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Flyte Mar 30, 2013 @ 5:47am 
I've just deleted the entire game and reinstalled and I still have the problem. Can't find any information online about this, and I can't play the game at all :(
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Flyte Apr 1, 2013 @ 5:36am 
ok, I fixed this - I had the game on my D: on which I was using an ext2 filesystem. I moved the game files to my Steam library on my C: (NTFS) and edited the app manifest to point to the new location. Hey presto, it worked :)
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Mangosteen Apr 1, 2013 @ 1:07pm 
Wait, how? Can you do a step by step thing? My game file is already in my C: unless its something else.
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Flyte Apr 1, 2013 @ 3:55pm 
Yeah, I'm not sure it's going to help in your case. Perhaps just verify, then delete and reinstall if it still doesn't work.

* Exited Steam fully
* Moved the game directory from "D:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\BioShock Infinite" to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\BioShock Infinite"
* Moved the appmanifest_8870.acf file from the SteamApps dir on D to the SteamApps dir on C
* Edited the appmanifest_8870.acf file to contain the correct directory structure (there's a path in there)
* Started steam
* Played game
* Completed game :)
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Is Apr 1, 2013 @ 4:04pm 
Originally posted by Flyte:
Yeah, I'm not sure it's going to help in your case. Perhaps just verify, then delete and reinstall if it still doesn't work.

* Exited Steam fully
* Moved the game directory from "D:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\BioShock Infinite" to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\BioShock Infinite"
* Moved the appmanifest_8870.acf file from the SteamApps dir on D to the SteamApps dir on C
* Edited the appmanifest_8870.acf file to contain the correct directory structure (there's a path in there)
* Started steam
* Played game
* Completed game :)

That's awesome that you figured it out! I guess I just got lucky! But at the very least, we added awareness to this problem, because there wasn't much information about it online.
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