graphics/text placement issues

[section9bateau]

I just discovered this game via recommendation from a friend on steam and bought it. I have been sad to say it is unplayable at the moment, I tried both it installed via steam, and by installing via the download for 1828 from this site.

Attached is what I get for the main menu after login, just a snippet due to the file size limits, showing the blank buttons and the text above them. The text in the top left changes as I mouse over the buttons.

System is windows vista x64 ultimate, fully patched.
graphics cards are ATI Radeon HD 4650 (x2, I tried both with crossfire enabled and disabled, no difference).

Output of dxdiag is attached.

Interestingly I also get an error about being unable to save display size when tarting via steam, in red text, and the initial screen where I select what profile to load displays fine.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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[Vice]

Not sure I can recall that issue before. I'd like to take a closer look at your system, please follow the steps here: http://www.starwraith.com/evochronmercenary/faq.htm#8

[Maarschalk]

Hi Section9bateau, well come to the forum and hopefully the game once you get it working!.....Hope to see you out there some time!.....

[Vice]

The solution for this issue involved just placing a proper sw.cfg file in the save data folder (c:\\sw3dg\\EvochronMercenary), which I've attached to this post. For whatever reason(s), this user's system had an invalid version of the file.