I finally figured it out after realizing this wasn't specific to source games (and all of them at that). You MUST enable windows firewall. That's it! If windows firewall is disabled, applications won't be able to load custom TTFs and explorer gives misleading errors. Absolutely amazing work
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Dexter Haslem <dexter.has...@gmail.com> wrote: > After upgrading to windows 10 (from 8.1), Source games are not loading > custom fonts and I can't figure out why. > > I've tried a few source games, mainly Fortress Forever and NeoTokyo > and they both had the problem. No changes to ClientScheme.res were > done. There are console warnings right off the bat, like > > Failed to load custom font file 'd:\games\steam\steamapps\common\fortress > forever\fortressforever\resource\hudglyphs.ttf' > > Failed to load custom font file > 'd:\games\steam\steamapps\common\neotokyo\neotokyosource\resource\cs.ttf' > > And they all do not work in game. I thought at first it was > permissions being screwed up on this second D:\ drive where I have > steam installed, so I changed permissions for all files on disk to my > windows user but the problem still exists. > > Trying to open the font files in explorer gives the following error: > "The requested file <...> is not a valid font file." > > This is odd because I was able to open and view the contents of the > TTFs without issue before on windows 7 and 8. > > Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Any ideas? _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
