Language randomly changing?

[Oopsorry]

After playing on a save game for more than 10 minutes my language will change to Italian or Spanish. Found a few threads on reddit but no solutions. Someone help please? I am hardly literate in English, and it is my first and only language.

[Oopsorry]

It appears to be cycling through languages. I change to french to get english, then the letters turn to square and I have to switch to polish and so on forever.

[DarthNudle]

Originally posted by Oopsorry:

It appears to be cycling through languages. I change to french to get english, then the letters turn to square and I have to switch to polish and so on forever.

Did u found the fix to it? I am having that exact issue and is over 2y from your post

[SomeKindaBliss]

2023. I just went Italian randomly.

Good to know the developers took a moment from developing 80 million DLCs in order to resolve this issue!

[Uchiha Itachi ∞]

I just had the same issue. on settings, all are in English option. but the UI is in spanish :3

[eM]

This is also happening to me, and after auto switching to a different language my game later on replaces all text with question marks.

Edited to add: I have not installed any DLC, and I only got the game today.

[KaLeu]

Also having that issue :) If someone have a fix, it would be awesome! :)

[BearSurgeon]

Likewise having this issue right now - super weird.

[SomeKindaBliss]

Is it happening to you guys generally, or did you all have it happen to you an hour or so ago?

[NatyreWolf]

Having the same issue right now and I got the game just today. Can't change it back to English, so weird.

[TorbIsThicc]

Happening on the Epic client as well just now right after I restarted the game.... assuming there was a hotfix on the server side that messed this up.

[Wolfdale]

Same symptoms here;
"First the language keeps rotating and eventually turns into squares or question marks"(depending on your supported fonts, its something unreadable anyway)

I managed to fix this by
1. Close the game.
2. Verify the game files trough steam (found no errors in my case)
3. Delete "C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Anno 1800\config\engine.ini"
4. Reboot the game and it should be defaulted to fresh boot settings (make sure to change settings again that you had changed before).

P.S
Even though the language was correctly set to english in the ini file, the very fact it was deleted and remade on game launch somehow fixed the issue for me.
Having rebooted the game twice and having played several hours since then no more issue appeared.

[Ubi-Pegasus]

Hey there everyone,

A bug like the one you're mentioning was reported a while back and should have been resolved in Game Update 2, as a workaround we generally advise that you close the game and change language manually, then restart the game.

Wolfdale Thank you for providing the details on the workaround you found to fix the changing language issue.

If anyone wants to try this I encourage that you do as it's a step I would have suggested myself.

If the issue does continue for anyone after this, I'd like to ask you to please capture a video of this happening for you and together with a MsInfo [www.ubisoft.com] and DxDiag [www.ubisoft.com] report, attach these to an email [www.ubisoft.com] case, so the team can take a closer look.

Thank you in advance, I apologize for any inconvenience caused!

- Ubisoft Support