Team Fortress 2 Forum

I am playing TF2 on a black mid-2007 Macbook with 2GB of RAM. I have found that playing in a window at 1152 x 760 is very playable with none of the texture problems I was experiencing with TF2 under bootcamp. The only bug I can detect in the setup is that the chat text is unreadable. All other fonts and text are perfectly fine. I do have my models set at medium and textures set at low (tried medium to see if that was affecting text, but no). I'm pretty happy with this. On a similar note, as a Team Fortress nut, I must report that TFC plays flawlessly in fullscreen with all the graphical goodies turned up. I also like Fortress Forever but it has sever font / menu rendering issues. IF you can figure your way through by clicking where you think you're supposed to, you can get the server browser up and get into games, it would be nice if you guys were able to get that one running as well as TFC. Overall, very happy - but please see if you can figure out what is up with chat text in TF2.

I will file a bug on this issue. So far, no work-arounds are known. It only happens on OS X (both Tiger and Leopard) currently. Linux users will not be affected by this bug.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=602239

If you use that, you can see the chat font, but I can't see the fonts in the menus for options and server lists still, which is an equally large problem.

I installed this mod last night and can verify that it does indeed work. Thanks for the link.

Mickey Caulfield wrote:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=602239

If you use that, you can see the chat font, but I can't see the
fonts in the menus for options and server lists still, which is an
equally large problem.

Awesome - thanks for the suggestion. It absolutely does work. I have no font problems in TF2 after installing this.

I want to mention one other thing I've noticed - the load times for both TF2 and Half-Life 2 seem really really long under Crossover. I seem to remember reading something about how load times in general have been optimized for Leopard but is there anyway you guys can give us an alternate Tiger-optimized build?

Mickey Caulfield wrote:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=602239

If you use that, you can see the chat font, but I can't see the
fonts in the menus for options and server lists still, which is an
equally large problem.

Thanks that worked perfectly.

To get the menu text to show up, follow the instructions in this thread:
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=1168;forum=1;msg=7319

Nick, how were you able to get TF2 to run using boot camp? I can get it to run up until it attemps to connect to a server then it gets a hl2.exe error every time. I would really appreciate a hand. Thanks

Brian wrote:

Mickey Caulfield wrote:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=602239

If you use that, you can see the chat font, but I can't see the
fonts in the menus for options and server lists still, which is an
equally large problem.

Thanks that worked perfectly.

To get the menu text to show up, follow the instructions in this
thread:
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=1168;forum=1;msg=7319

A) I downloaded the chatfont.rar file, how do I extract this in Mac OS X? What software do I need? AND where do I put the extracted files?

B) The link you provide is blank.

To get main fonts working in Team Fortress 2, use Run Command from CrossOver's Programs menu. Select the bottle with Steam in it. Type the command "regedit" and click Run. In the registry editor, navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\hl2.exe\Direct3D] and add a new string value with the name "tf2_alpha_hack" and value "-game tf;-game ep2;-game portal".

Ken Thomases wrote:

To get main fonts working in Team Fortress 2, use Run Command from
CrossOver's Programs menu. Select the bottle with Steam in it.
Type the command "regedit" and click Run. In the registry editor,
navigate to
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\hl2.exe\Direct3D] and
add a new string value with the name "tf2_alpha_hack" and value
"-game tf;-game ep2;-game portal".

I already have that written in there, it was written in by default because i never touched it.

This is supposed to fix the in game text not being readable?

Right, I was trying to apply the tf2_alpha_hack into the registry editor but I can't find hl2.exe, only hl.exe . Something missing?

The registry key should fix the fonts of the main menu and the options dialogs, etc. The in-game chat text is a different problem. Although I haven't tested it, the downloadable font linked above is supposed to fix that. To extract files from a RAR archive, you'll need an extraction program. Search macupdate.com or versiontracker.com for "rar" to find one.

Yes, sounds like something is missing. There was a bug in earlier versions of CrossOver so that initial bottle set up was sometimes incomplete.

I would recommend that you create a new win2000 bottle, install Steam into that, and then transfer your games over. To transfer a game:

1) Start downloading the game in Steam in the new bottle
2) As soon as you get past the point where Steam creates the shortcut file, you should pause the download
3) Repeat steps 1 and 2 for each game you have in Steam
4) Exit Steam
5) Copy or move the .gcf files from your old bottle to your new bottle. You should copy/move the contents of ~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/<bottle name>/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps.
6) Launch Steam in the new bottle; all of your games should be available

If you don't care about having entries for your games in CrossOver's Programs menu and the Programs folder (~/Applications/CrossOver), you can skip steps 1 through 3.

Once you're satisfied that your new bottle is working as it should, you can delete the old bottle.

Mickey Caulfield wrote:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=602239

If you use that, you can see the chat font, but I can't see the
fonts in the menus for options and server lists still, which is an
equally large problem.

That did it for me as well, woot!

One more step in being able to play in crossover... now I just need to be able to pay in bigger than 1024*768 windowed mode.

Mickey Caulfield wrote:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=602239

If you use that, you can see the chat font, but I can't see the
fonts in the menus for options and server lists still, which is an
equally large problem.

My game did not show menu text as well, but reinstalling has seemed to fixed it