A handful of 1.3 bugs

[AssumedPseudonym]

 Three of them, the first two of which are probably related.
 First, some of the longer lines are getting cut off in dockscreens:

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 Second, the font is… ugly. There’s no other way to say it. It used to be smoother in the 1.3 betas, now it looks like it’s badly in need of antialiasing.
 Third, the soundtrack won’t play for me in game. If I start the game with sound on, I get the intro theme, and that’s it. Alternately, if I start the game with music off and then turn it on once it gets to the main menu screen, it will pick a random piece out of the soundtrack and play that, and that’s it. Nothing else will play in either case if I turn the music off and then back on, either.
 It might should be noted that I’m running a Linux machine and running Transcendence through WINE, just in case that makes a difference.

[erik dela cruz]

If you're using Windows may I suggest you check your Personalization settings. This font appears if we set it on "Best Performance". Try customizing it or "Let Windows choose what's best".

Next, try turning off your all sound effects. It worked for me.

[Jeoshua]

AP, run Transcendence through Wine from a terminal session and tell me if you see any spammy error output. Post it here, or if it's what I'm thinking, at least a short portion of it.

[AssumedPseudonym]

AP, run Transcendence through Wine from a terminal session and tell me if you see any spammy error output. Post it here, or if it's what I'm thinking, at least a short portion of it.

 The entirety of the output from game launch, starting a new game, through the first Benedictine quest, roaming around through the Starton cluster of stations, and quit:

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fixme:mci:MCIWndProc support for MCIWNDM_ message WM_USER+110 not implemented

 …And even that popped up shortly after launch, before the game itself ever came up onscreen.

[Jeoshua]

Hmm, your log output is cleaner than mine! I thought for sure you were missing quartz or something.

[AssumedPseudonym]

 Okay, this is a weird one, and I wouldn’t bother even posting this here if not for RPC’s suggestion. It’s not one I expect would crop up for anyone who knows what they’re doing (which apparently lets me out, since I’m the one reporting this).

 In a random experiment earlier today involving the isError function and a bit of flubbed copypasta, I wound up installing a reactor on a ship via a bit of coding in the <Events><OnGlobalUniverseCreated> section. This would normally not be an issue, but I was mistakenly attempting to install said reactor as an armor segment. The game engine did not appreciate these antics and crashed on the spot. While I have not tested installing other devices as armor (or armor as a device, for that matter), I rather expect the game would say “lolno” under those circumstances, too.