wine (osx) and juce fonts troubles

[donquixote]

hi,
when using wine in osx (wineskinserver), i use to see this fonts problem in juce plugins, https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=32926 , the user here is using linux and says it fixed somehow, couldn´t understand the last of his posts very well so i could do the same , i have the \drive c\windows\fonts folder full of fonts like his last pic (installed with winetricks), is he saying the fonts should be placed in subfolders inside \drive c\windows\fonts folder?

edit- quick test with playonmac and crossover trial. crossover seems to fix this.

2edit- fix it. checked for fonts folder under crossover app content (..share\wine) , could see it has a few more fonts that my wineskin app fonts folder under share\wine , copied and pasted and lucky one of the fonts fix it! The font folder under c:\windows\fonts doesn´t matter.

[will30uk]

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I came across your post and it gave me some hope I might get my issue fixed.

As you see my problem is the lack of text in the dialog boxes of a windows vst3 plugin running in wine.

I have tested and found the issue happening on OSX and Linux ( Debian).

I've spent more than a days worth of hours trying everything under the sun to get it working but no joy.

I know the plugin is made with JUCE.

I dont know whether the issue is because it can't find a font it needs, if the font is embedded in the vst3, if the issue is something else like the rendering of the plugin by wine. I've tried with crossover, wine , wine staging

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[will30uk]

I cannot believe it after over 12 hours I've finally figured this solution....

reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" /va

Latency issues are resolved by either using wineasio which works as of Ventura 13.4.1 or audiogridder and Logic Pro worked for me without wineasio ( handy if you want to record).

It was finicky to get going. I've only managed to get it going by running a cmd in the wine prefix, then calling audiogridderserver.exe . I don't know why but when try run the audiogridder icon in crossover it suffers with a loop problem or just crashes

UPDATE

I have further narrowed down the issue. The offending font is MS Sans Serif (sserife.fon)
The issue seems to be simply just that for whatever reason its entry in the above registry key is missing the full path eg Z:\System\Library\Fonts\sserife.fon . So to clarify update registry key from sserife.fon to Z:\System\Library\Fonts\sserife.fon

You can either amend the path or remove this font entry in particular ( I presume it then falls back on a copy of font it has within the binary)