SCS forum post:
Hi all, I am still struggling with this issue, though my results may be slightly different from what's discussed here... thought I'd add some data in the hope that someone will come up with a brilliant patch for this problem.
I am running on El Capitan (OSX) so OpenGL is my only option.
I do not see any degradation of textures in the visual environment outside the truck. The only problem I see is that the smaller size of font used in the Trip Advisor Screen and on the maps and job boards gets remapped to a filled boundary, that is, each character becomes a filled version of its glyph border. Example: an o becomes a rectangle, a g becomes a more complex shape made up of rectangular sections. This "redacted" look, once it happens, is irreversible.
I can trigger this bug in two ways. The first, or Worse version, happens as soon as I view the Job Market. The second, or Mild version, happens only when I am already in the Job Market and I scroll through the jobs offered to any page other than the first page. Once the font is gone, it's gone. After that the Trip Advisor and much of the menus and control panels are unreadable, and the only solution is to Quit and restart the game. This, for me, restores the font until I visit the Job Market again.
I have found that the bug comes and goes depending on exactly what mods are loaded and in what order. It is very hard to get any correlation with a particular mod. It almost looks (to an ignoramus about modding) like a memory management issue, i.e. something randomly stepping past an array boundary and clobbering a pointer to the font glyphs, that kind of thing.
I first noticed it with only ProMods loaded. Then I started adding more mods (but because I am a n00b, not in the recommended order). I put jazzycat's trailer mods near the end of the list, followed by Realistic Raindrops and Abasstreppas' Flare Pack and SISL's Realistic Flares. The bug was in Mild mode at that point. Then I made some change, I wish I could remember exactly what -- I removed SISL I think, because I was trying to figure out why the AI lights were on all day, not just at night.
The font bug went away! Hooray, I thought, somehow SISL's flare pack patch affects the problem. So I was all happy (except for a rather buggy area in Sweden near Stockholm, which I read today might be an interaction with jazzy's trailers)... until I tried to add RusMap 1.6. In the course of investigating RusMap I discovered that I had not been adding mods in the approved order, so I shuffled all my mods based on the best advice I could find by googling.
Oh boy, was that a bad idea. The fragile balance I had accidentally achieved was wrecked, and now the font bug is back with a vengeance, in Worse mode. I can't read the job board even on first opening it up. If I don't check the job board I will probably be fine, but checking the job board at all is likely to trash my font. The only part of the board that remains readable is the price per km
which does give me some idea of whether I want the job; so I can select a job on that basis, then Quit, then restart the game and have a fairly peaceful delivery run.So this is my $0.02 to add to this OpenGL bug discussion: 1) in my case it affects *only* the small/medium size font, all other textures and game features seem fine; and 2) its behaviour changed depending on the load order of mods, not just on the existence of any mods at all or which particular mods are loaded. Order, for some reason, matters. Now I really wish I had written down or screen captured the mod order I had that was not triggering the bug! I have been trying to reconstruct it w/no success. I have backed out one mod after another, restarting the game with each change, but the bug is persisting. I have got rid of RusMap entirely, I have tried to restore the mod order (I think) I had before, but so far no luck.
O how I wish there were a Mod Manager log file that recorded all mod changes with datestamp. Is there?
Thanks for your patience and I hope this little bit of detail may help.
