Adobe OpenType Fonts, Windows Xp sp3 and Nvidia
- these are the ingredients for some big big trouble
basically i could not use any OpenType Fonts (otf).
my system installed with Windows Xp sp3 said the fonts are either not there or damaged. i could use normal truetype fonts (ttf) but no otf.
after hours of search i finally stumbled across that on some systems with sp3 and ati cards there could arise these problems.
i had drivers installed from laptopvideo2go.com which are newer then the drivers samsung provides for my laptop (samsung r70) which has a nvidia 8600gs. version was forceware 175.xx.
I resolved the issue with installing the drivers from samsung which are forceware 101.19 from last year. they are freaking old!
i will try some other versions, i read somewhere 16x.xx series should do.
the bug itself seems to be in the driver and in the engine windows uses to render (postscript based) otf fonts witch they licensed from adobe. nice team work guys!
- how the fuck can such things happen and why cant you find anything about it!
- why the hell i can only get drivers from my laptop vendor and why are they so freaking old?
another problem i have (or had) is tearing mostly bad not only in videos.
its also hard to understand why it seems to be impossible to use directx on dual head, means games or movies.
i will certainly look at other operating systems again now…
Thanks! I had to de-install the whole lot but thanks to you it didn’t take some hours.
Comment by Hennie — June 26, 2008 @ 5:48 pm
Have the same problem. Cant render otf fonts with 17x.xx drivers. But what is the reason? My friends have the same drivers and the same OS and it works fine for them.
I’ll be very grateful for help.
Comment by A1taiR — November 1, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
this is a problem with a certain windows patch level and a certain nvidia driver version (there are also problems with ati drivers). newer drivers should fix that issue. look at this: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16866
Comment by Jonas Lerch — November 12, 2008 @ 11:50 am
I had the same problem (no Open Type Fonts with Windows XP Pro) with a Lenovo SL500. Installing this driver fixed it for me:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/drivers/xp/178.15
Comment by Patrick — November 22, 2008 @ 4:13 am
Just wanted to let any one know with the type 1 font installation issue - the issue is with the NVIDIA driver. This is only on systems with XP and does not effect Vista. Windows expects the NVIDIA device driver to be a certain size (maximum). The NVIDIA driver is slightly larger than expected. A simple registry entry resolves the type 1 font issue in XP. To resolve the issue, complete the following:
Open the registry editor (START, RUN and type regedit and click OK)
Navigate to the following key - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSessionManagerMemoryManagement
Add a new REG_DWORD Value - Change the name of the value to SessionImageSize with a value (decimal) of 20 and then reboot the machine.
You will now be able to install your type 1 fonts and have the latest proper video driver as well.
Comment by Mohammed — March 2, 2009 @ 11:31 pm
Thanks Mohammed! It works!!
Comment by Gaute — March 12, 2009 @ 9:32 am
Thanks a lot Mohammed, it works for me too! Just remember to restart~ else it will still feel the same. Cheers!
Comment by pxd — July 1, 2009 @ 10:48 am
Thanks and good wishes to Mohammed. His solution fixed my issue and I can now install opentype fonts on XP SP3 with an Nvidia Card.
Comment by BrokenCrust — September 8, 2009 @ 6:04 pm