Fixing Path of Exile's Mangled Text Bug

Rip Tleev

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hahahaha typical pointer problems :D
KranglingKearKames
https://i.imgur.com/zB2RgAs.mp4
https://imgur.com/a/mafhrmH
GIGACHAD Ben
Huzzah! - best reference ;p
Thanks for the write-up!

Also curious about which solution was chosen and why, or whether discovering the cause of this bug has led to any further investigations. Please do keep up the in-depth dev posts; they are always some of the best forum content.


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Forcing every font to use the same script cache immediately produced this upon starting the game

Waits for the bug to gloriously re-appear on a future April 1st ...
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TeJki wrote:
cool, what about headhunter fix?


Beyond the patch that popped in my launcher? Or was that the fix you were after? No sealioning I'm genuinely curious. I finally got one two days ago thanks to Harvest card sacrifice/dupe!
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Pehr wrote:
Thanks for the write-up!


Waits for the bug to gloriously re-appear on a future April 1st ...


This pls, a glorious day it would be!
I want to rock right meow
yay!
As a programmer, i know what the bug hunt can be like.... great job finally finding this one and squashing it.
Thanks man, that was really interesting to dig into. Good stuff.

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