When I launch Unity there is No text. Please Help!

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Ok so I recently got the free version of unity 4.5 and it took a while to download and after I installed it and all of that I opened it and all of the places to type and stuff are empty. I don't know how this happened but I hope you can help me. and it freezes a lot. Also when you type Nothing appears but it works as if your typing, so I know its a problem with text not showing up. I got a pic. alt text

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Answer by Pendrokar · Jul 23, 2014 at 08:16 AM

Unity uses the Tahoma font, see if you have it installed. Perhaps use "Character map" program and see if it is there. If I don't have the Tahoma font then I also don't see any text. Although this was with Unity running on Linux using Wine, which does not have a lot of fonts at start. But it still may be the answer to Windows users.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoma_(typeface)

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Pendrokar · Jul 23, 2014 at 03:41 PM 0

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But if there is a chance that a Windows user does not have the Tahoma font, then Unity Technologies should include it in Unity installer.

Feetsalot · Jul 23, 2014 at 04:27 PM 0

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I do have the Tahoma font and it still is broken, thanks for the advice though. Also Unity $$anonymous$$onodevlop seems to work fine, so it is just the editor that is broken, so I have no clue what the bug is?

Pendrokar · Jul 25, 2014 at 11:02 AM 0

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Then ask Unity Technologies for support, since this issue practically makes Unity unusable.

Feetsalot · Jul 25, 2014 at 02:19 PM 0

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Ya you are right, thanks for trying though!

Pendrokar · Jul 28, 2014 at 04:26 PM 0

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Be sure to report back if Unity Technologies are able to give you a solution and post that as an answer.

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Answer by xtron32 · Jul 24, 2014 at 12:32 AM

Looks like unity doesn't like your computer, or is missing some pre-requisites. Try installing unity on another computer, if you have one, if not, re-install windows and update fully.

Thanks.

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Answer by Feetsalot · Jan 20, 2015 at 08:17 PM

I finally resolved this problem by uninstalling the fonts needed for unity and reinstalling the latest versions of all of them. Also, I think the Unity 4.6 update may have fixed this.

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Answer by Xtro · Jul 23, 2014 at 03:08 AM

The only difference that I can see is your system font being too big. I have no idea about it but it's worth trying to lower your system font, restart windows and try again.

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Feetsalot · Jul 23, 2014 at 03:50 AM 0

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Unfortunately lowering the windows system font and re-starting did not work, thanks for the suggestion though.

When I launch Unity there is No text. Please Help!

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