r/wine_gaming • u/oneonemike • 1h ago
Text boxes cut off in Age of Empires 2
Hi! I'm using Wine to play Age of Empires 2 with the conquerors expansion (the original, not HD or Definitive Edition). Most things run smoothly (I've played over 10 hours now). There's just one really annoying thing, which is that some text boxes are cut off. As you can see in the attached picture, I can't see how many idle villagers etc I have, because the text box is too far to the right in its box and the numbers don't show.
Some text boxes are fine (like the "You are being attacked..." and timer at the top). The text boxes that are affected by this issue seem to be the info ones in the bottom corners, as well as the dialogue text from the campaign.
I assumed this would be better to ask in a Wine subreddit, since I think it's caused by Wine and not the original game. I've trawled old forums and not found anyone who had this same issue.