sf::Text Rendering problem

[fbvims]

Hi,

I have a strange Text rendering problem with SFML 2.2 on Windows 7 64bits.

The fonts are garbled whatever font settings I choose. Same with SFML 2.0.

Here is the minimal code to reproduce the problem.

See attachements for the results (standard OpenGL example included too).

Did anybody see this before ?

#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>

int main()
{
    sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode(800, 600), "Draw Text");
       
    sf::Font font;

    if(font.loadFromFile("arial.ttf"))
    {
        sf::Text text("Foo", font, 50);

        window.clear();
        window.draw(text);
        window.display();
        Sleep(5000);
     }
       
        return 0;
}

NOTE: I use the static libs built with Visual Studio 2010.
No other problems noticed so far.

[Laurent]

Are you using SFML 32 bits or 64 bits?

Are your graphics drivers up-to-date? What's your graphics card?

[fbvims]

I use the 64bits version.
With recent NVIDIA drivers (340.62).
(I use various cards: GT 520, GTX 780 Ti and GTX 980)

[Laurent]

You can try the 32 bits version, just in case

[fbvims]

Yes, the problem persists with 32 bits version.
(Both static and dynamic builds).

[eXpl0it3r]

I guess the next step would be to throw out SFML and test text rendering with freetype directly. Maybe you can find somewhere some simple example?
Did you try other OpenGL based games (which use freetype)?

[fbvims]

NeHe FreeType Fonts in OpenGL tutorial  works fine here.
I'll dig on the FreeType side however.