Actually, I now do have some problems with 14.3 -- everything got terribly pixelated in CKII. I hope a non-beta relase will fix this, but it doesn't bother me that much.

Just to add some info -- upgrading to ati drivers 14.3 (most likely any 14 would work) from 13.12 seems to fix the problem. Now I can play the demo and finally seriously consider buying the game, yay!

I got around to trying other drivers. Installing the newer closed source ati-driver, version 13.12, did not change anything, the letters still did not appear. As for the open source driver... lets just say that it claimed that I have no screen and I was not in the mood to convince it otherwise. Now ...

Uh, maybe lets try doing this properly.

I get this problem running gentoo linux, kernel version 3.10.7, Mobility Radeon HD 5650/5750 with fglrx version 13.9 (maybe I should try the betas), fluxbox as the wm (might be relevant), libpng version 1.5.17-r1 (just including this in case the errors are ...

I can confirm this happens for me too, exactly the same as for Valkor. I am using gentoo 64bit with fglrx, tried only the demo. Before finding this thread I wanted to install some fonts, but it seems this wouldn't help. Any ideas what else I could try?

Oh, I also tried changing the locale, since ...