READ THIS: How to change your in-game font back and restore your FPS!
Ok, so since this patch changed our fonts ONCE AGAIN, it has for me at least, dropped my FPS from a nice 110+ FPS down to like ~40 FPS.
I KNOW RIGHT? WTF?!
Whelp, my buddy -Needle told me that I can easily change the font back to what it was before the patch, and it literally RESTORED my FPS!
You too can do this and it is very simple and does not violate any of z8games T.O.S. so you are safe to do this.
Since I found the font file on a "bad" website, I chose to download the file and upload it to mediafire so you can all get it too. Here is the link to the default.ttf font file.
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?u2d2uldagncekry
How To:
Step 1 : Go to C:\Windows\Fonts and pick a font you would like to be displayed in game. Alternatively, you can use the mediafire link above to get the default.ttf file which is the old font for Cross Fire. You will need WinRar to open the file from mediafire. Get WinRar here
http://www.win-rar.com/download.html?&L=0
Step 2 : Go to C:\Program Files\Z8Games\CrossFire\rez\Fonts, there you'll see a font named as 'default', delete that font and Paste the font you want to be displayed and rename it as 'default'
Note : It has to be named as 'default' or else you will not see ANY font in CF; i.e. your name, lobby room names, descriptions, etc. Anything that would have font, will NOT have font unless you name the file default.ttf which it is named automatically.
Simply download the file from mediafire with the link above, and paste the new default.ttf file into C:\Program Files\Z8Games\CrossFire\rez\Fonts .
You can either delete the original default.ttf file in the Fonts folder and paste in the one you downloaded, or paste the downloaded file into the folder and when it asks you to Move and Replace the file(s), click yes.
Youre done!
Fire up CF and enjoy your high FPS once again!
EDIT:: ALSO! You can try compressing ALL of the sound files in the Snd2 folder of the Cross Fire folder to increase your FPS. I gained about 20 FPS overall by simply compressing the sound files.
This is how you compress the files.
Go to wherever you have CF installed, into the Cross Fire/rez/SND2 .
Once you are there, you must select each sound file inside of ALL of the folders in the Snd2 folder, right click on them, then click properties. I use Win7, and for me I clicked the Advanced Box when Properties opens, and click the check box at the bottom to compress the file(s) to conserve disk space.
Then click apply. Do this for ALL of the sound files and you will see a noticeable increase in FPS without sacrificing any of the sound quality.
I KNOW RIGHT? WTF?!
Whelp, my buddy -Needle told me that I can easily change the font back to what it was before the patch, and it literally RESTORED my FPS!
You too can do this and it is very simple and does not violate any of z8games T.O.S. so you are safe to do this.
Since I found the font file on a "bad" website, I chose to download the file and upload it to mediafire so you can all get it too. Here is the link to the default.ttf font file.
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?u2d2uldagncekry
How To:
Step 1 : Go to C:\Windows\Fonts and pick a font you would like to be displayed in game. Alternatively, you can use the mediafire link above to get the default.ttf file which is the old font for Cross Fire. You will need WinRar to open the file from mediafire. Get WinRar here
http://www.win-rar.com/download.html?&L=0
Step 2 : Go to C:\Program Files\Z8Games\CrossFire\rez\Fonts, there you'll see a font named as 'default', delete that font and Paste the font you want to be displayed and rename it as 'default'
Note : It has to be named as 'default' or else you will not see ANY font in CF; i.e. your name, lobby room names, descriptions, etc. Anything that would have font, will NOT have font unless you name the file default.ttf which it is named automatically.
Simply download the file from mediafire with the link above, and paste the new default.ttf file into C:\Program Files\Z8Games\CrossFire\rez\Fonts .
You can either delete the original default.ttf file in the Fonts folder and paste in the one you downloaded, or paste the downloaded file into the folder and when it asks you to Move and Replace the file(s), click yes.
Youre done!
Fire up CF and enjoy your high FPS once again!
EDIT:: ALSO! You can try compressing ALL of the sound files in the Snd2 folder of the Cross Fire folder to increase your FPS. I gained about 20 FPS overall by simply compressing the sound files.
This is how you compress the files.
Go to wherever you have CF installed, into the Cross Fire/rez/SND2 .
Once you are there, you must select each sound file inside of ALL of the folders in the Snd2 folder, right click on them, then click properties. I use Win7, and for me I clicked the Advanced Box when Properties opens, and click the check box at the bottom to compress the file(s) to conserve disk space.
Then click apply. Do this for ALL of the sound files and you will see a noticeable increase in FPS without sacrificing any of the sound quality.
Comments
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are you going to do this? if so, tell me what your FPS was now after this patch with its silly new font, and what your fps is after you change the font.
My FPS before was 120-150. Now it's 70+... I don't really care that much because I still don't lagg or anything. -
My FPS before was 120-150. Now it's 70+... I don't really care that much because I still don't lagg or anything.
I've noticed a considerable FPS drop too, but that might be because of the new map. I used to get 150-200 FPS, but now I only get 90. -
They changed the fonts cuz of the people doing the same name stuff. Like you I'm guessing. Who would name themselves TyIer lol.
Or Tyler was taken, but who knows. This will help for you to see ur name normal again, but everyone else will forever see you as TyIer. -
They changed the fonts cuz of the people doing the same name stuff. Like you I'm guessing. Who would name themselves TyIer lol.
Or Tyler was taken, but who knows. This will help for you to see ur name normal again, but everyone else will forever see you as TyIer.
Yeah you're right about that. I'm guessing it was done to prevent confusion amongst players. Any way I'm guessing there will be many name changes in the coming days.
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They changed the fonts cuz of the people doing the same name stuff. Like you I'm guessing. Who would name themselves TyIer lol.
Or Tyler was taken, but who knows. This will help for you to see ur name normal again, but everyone else will forever see you as TyIer.
Yes. I wanted to make my name Tyler, but as you can see on the clan page, there is some choob named Tyler who has not played the game in over 2 years. http://clan.z8games.com/charstat_cf.aspx?usn=12163
I wonder if one of the mods could delete this kids account for me since he has never deposited zp, and also has not played in well over 2 years so that I may have my correect name. since ive deposited well over $1000 in ZP and play regularly.
this is off topic anyway, so yeah. im stuck with a capital I in my name insteal of a lower case L.
Im glad this helped some of you. -
Yes. I wanted to make my name Tyler, but as you can see on the clan page, there is some choob named Tyler who has not played the game in over 2 years. http://clan.z8games.com/charstat_cf.aspx?usn=12163
I wonder if one of the mods could delete this kids account for me since he has never deposited zp, and also has not played in well over 2 years so that I may have my correect name. since ive deposited well over $1000 in ZP and play regularly.
this is off topic anyway, so yeah. im stuck with a capital I in my name insteal of a lower case L.
Im glad this helped some of you.
Mods don't have the power to delete accounts. Only GM can and I highly doubt they would because you never know when he might come back to play Crossfire. -
This is like they're second-third time changing it. When it first changed people complained that it made their FPS drop but now everyone's use to it. It looks sort-of weird because I'm not use to it, but I don't think it changed my FPS. If it does this thread is perfect.
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I don't see how a font can increase/decrease your FPS.
rory ninja'd me, at least I was right
You are NOT right, and neither is Rory. Maybe he should upgrade his potato to a tomato.
Every single person who complained about losing FPS changed their fonts back, and got their FPS back. So many people posted "thanks, this worked" in this thread, therefore, simply changing font back to what it was before resolves the issue, period.
Just because you cant explain WHY it fixes it Rory, doesnt mean it doesnt fix it.
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looks better x.x! 
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