http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22912
Summary: Half Life 2 and Portal subtitles unreadable Product: Wine Version: 1.1.44 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: c_winehq@selador.com.au
After installing Steam in a new profile and then using it to download and install Portal, the game runs perfectly except for unreadable dialog captions. (see attachment Portal-glitch02.png)
The screenshot illustrates how the sound effects captions in white are fine, only the dialog captions in red with italics are affected.
I've tried reducing all graphics options and resolutions, to no avail. It looks like something specific to font rendering - the bounding box for the characters is not taking into account their italicization, so the rightmost pixels are being truncated.
The exact same problem was described more than 2 years ago against Half Life 2 (which uses the same core engine) here: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2890 (post titled 'Font rendering oddness' by John Flatness on Thursday November 1st 2007)
It's also been reported downstream in the Crossover bugtracker and they've confirmed the bug but have been unable to take it any further for nearly a year: www.codeweavers.com/support/tickets/browse/?ticket_id=742458;