2010-10-22, 05:34 PM
I wish you'd at least setup Ex to see if that text colour problem of yours still persists. I honestly can't think of any reason the text would be that way.
PS: Som draws every bit of text twice. First for the shadow effect, and then again (over the shadow layer) for the bright white colour. It may be only the shadow layer is being drawn somehow. Otherwise I'd have to guess the blending is somehow happening in the wrong order... like your graphics drivers are out of sync between GDI and D3D and the text is drawn, then black tint gets applied after. If that's the case then A) your drivers are buggy, and B) Ex in D3D9 mode should fix it. In fact I can't think of any way Ex in D3D9 mode would not work.
EDITED: It's pretty clear because Coin Owned is not darker, that only the text over the tinted menus is affected. In which case it's almost definite GDI is out of sync with D3D... driver maintainers tend to neglect the GDI compatibility requirements.
PS: Som draws every bit of text twice. First for the shadow effect, and then again (over the shadow layer) for the bright white colour. It may be only the shadow layer is being drawn somehow. Otherwise I'd have to guess the blending is somehow happening in the wrong order... like your graphics drivers are out of sync between GDI and D3D and the text is drawn, then black tint gets applied after. If that's the case then A) your drivers are buggy, and B) Ex in D3D9 mode should fix it. In fact I can't think of any way Ex in D3D9 mode would not work.
EDITED: It's pretty clear because Coin Owned is not darker, that only the text over the tinted menus is affected. In which case it's almost definite GDI is out of sync with D3D... driver maintainers tend to neglect the GDI compatibility requirements.