Note: This is hard to describe so please see the screenshot crops below.

Steps to reproduce the bug:

• Set the game to run at 2560x1600 resolution (available in 30" monitors), setting the resolution to 1920x1200 or lower will not produce the bug.
  
• Play a match or a challenge as the fonts look fine when you first start the game.
  
• Play another match (or two) and notice increasing degradation with more missing/corrupted character bitmaps.

While the issue appears minor, the font bitmap corruption is indicative of a memory buffer corruption, a severe problem that could be related to some of the errors/crashes many others are experiencing.

Hardware specs:

• CPU: Intel Core i7 920@4.0GHz
  
• RAM: 6GB DDR3@2.0GHz
  
• Motherboard: ASUS P6T Deluxe V2
  
• VGA: 2x EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 SLI
  
• Sound: Creative PCIe SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro

Software specs:

• Windows 7 x64 Ultimate SP1 fully patched
  
• Latest 270.61 WHQL NVIDIA drivers
  
• Latest Intel Chipset drivers
  
• Latest Creative Soundcard drivers
  
• Steam fully patched
  
• BRINK (Steam pre-order) fully patched and files verified

Screenshots:

[img]http://i54.tinypic.com/6qdsti.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i55.tinypic.com/2prbak1.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i51.tinypic.com/syp4j4.jpg[/img]

I too can confirm these issues. I initially thought the game was attempting to l337 5p34k but most of it was garbage. Sometimes, the correct message would appear but mostly it's random characters.

As the OP says, this is only at 2560x1600. Any lower resolution is fine. System specs as OP but VGA is ATI 5870 in crossfire.

Happens to me too.

I beg to differ, I've had this problem happen to me last night while working my way through challenge modes. I'm running at 1920x1200. Seems to have started after downloading the patch.

Is your highest resolution 1920x1200 by any chance? If so, could it be that the bug appears when using your max resolution, and not less?

Also, how much VGA ram do you have?

I should point out that the bug was there since day one and is still there after the patch.


VGA memory, system memory, and swap file size can all be factors.

The guys over at SplashDamage are aware of this one as I reported it to them

Thank you for reporting it and for letting us know. I'm a customer and fan of Multiplay for good reasons