menus in planet penguin racer appear as unreadable dashed lines

[Robert Persson]

Binary package hint: planetpenguin-racer

The menus in planet penguin racer are unreadable. They show up as dashes at various heights; some long, some short; some thick, some thin.

By moving the mouse pointer about and seeing what gets highlighted and when, it looks to me as if the dashes are level with the tops of the letters that are supposed to be in their place. I therefore assume that the lengths of the dashes correspond to the widths of the letters. Thus the dash corresponding to a "d" would appear higher than that corresponding to an "m", but would also be shorter.

This problem reminds me of a problem wine can have rendering pull-down menus if it is not configured correctly.

I know there are lots of games in the repositories with bugs, but I would be very grateful if you could give this one a slightly higher priority. This is because it is non-violent, not too frenetic, and doesn't require advanced motor skills. In other words it is one of the few 3D games in ubuntu that are suitable for young children.

[Michael Hirsch (mdhirsch)]

This is also the case for me on my AMD64 system running feisty. I have not found a workaround.

[alexey (alexey-wmd)]

I'm having the same problem after my upgrade to feisty. Before upgrade everything was working fine.
Now all labels are unreadable and the game runs much slower (~5-10 fps).
Reinstall doesn't help.

[Robert Persson (ireneshusband)]

I don't have the problem of the game running incredibly slowly. However today planet penguin racer launched with hardware acceleration disabled (due to a probably unconnected x.org bug) and the menus etc. were all readable. So it looks like an opengl thing of some sort.

I am using the x.org radeon driver.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

Possible duplicate of bug #99158

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.