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Thank you so much Yuuko. Your suggestion actually worked. Changing my locale back to English and then again back to Japanese seems to have solved the issue. The text is showing correctly now... As for why locale wasn't changing, I didn't read your second message above but randomly unchecked this option (which is below the "language menu" in the change locale option). It was just a random action on my part but it seems to have done the trick. Once again, thanks to you, Yuuko. And of course, everyone else above who gave their suggestions.

How do you delete messages here? I made a mistake in my previous post so editing it now.

Yes, like I said in my second post on this thread, I have installed Japanese Supplemental Fonts. Yes, I did add the language pack. It was pretty much the first thing I did when I got the new laptop. I should add that I have the supplementary Japanese fonts installed as well. I read somewhere that it solved some problem regarding fonts for some person. It didn't for me, though. I suspect my problem has to do with something else entirely...

The reason why I haven't dropped any VN title is because I don't want to give the impression that my problem is specific to some particular VN. But I'll give an example: recently, I installed the VN "Hyakki Ryouran no Yakata". Long story short, I have two laptops, ok? I tried installing the said VN in both of these laptops to check if my problem is specific to my windows 10 laptop or if it occurs in the windows 7 laptop as well. In the windows 7 laptop when you finally run the game and click "start", it gives this error: This is resolved if you simply change your date/time settings to Japanese (besides the locale, of course). Now, in my windows 10 laptop, the game installs just fine but when you run the game and click start, it gives this error: It's basically unreadable but anyone would say that they are different errors, right? And unlike with windows 7, it isn't resolved even when I change my date/time settings to Japanese. I should add (again) that yes, my system locale is in Japanese. First of all, it's obvious that the problem lies somewhere other than the date/time or region settings. What I don't understand is why the hell does the text not show correctly even with the locale set to Japanese along with the date/time settings??? It seems to have never happened before with anyone......

Not doing any good, unfortunately. I just tried.

Actually, yes and no. The "gibberish" is the same, but the "placement" is wrong. The actual text of the novel and the title on the upper-left corner of the game window do show fine FOR THE VNs THAT DO RUN. The problem is, let's say, you click on the close window button on the upper-right corner. In this case, you would see a box pop up asking you if you really want to quit, right? So the text in that box would show like that "gibbberish". This and sometimes it happens that the text in the game setup windows/boxes would be unreadable (like, all of it). And you know how sometimes the setup finds an error during installation and tells you about it? In all those error boxes and message boxes, the text is like that "gibberish". Please note again that here I'm talking about a few novels which did run on my new pc. Some aren't running at all, presumably because of the same underlying problem. You see, the small issues which I've highlighted above shouldn't matter all that much in the long run; they are irritating yes but as long as I can read the main text of the novel, I'm cool. But the real issue seems much deeper than that, and it's affecting a lot of things. No, I did not. Everything was lost on my previous hard drive. Just to make sure, I'll do it again. But like I said, I've done it many times already. Like I said, my brother's old windows 7 laptop did not have this issue to begin with. All I did there was change the locale and the date format. Yes, I did add the language pack. It was pretty much the first thing I did when I got the new laptop. I should add that I have the supplementary Japanese fonts installed as well. I read somewhere that it solved some problem regarding fonts for some person. It didn't for me, though. Yes, I did.

Hey there. So, I've been following VNs and the community for almost 6 years now. During my initial years as a VN reader, I had a laptop with windows 7 in it, and I never ever had any problem regarding Japanese VNs. Just with a quick search on google I realised I need to set my locale to Japanese, and I did. But you know, some visual novels out there need an extra setting: Date and time format I think it's called? Well, when I came across those VNs, I again did a quick google search and found the solution to my problem. But it seems that no one has discussed my current problem online (as far as I have searched), so I thought about doing it myself. The laptop I talked about earlier with windows 7 broke a year and a half ago, so I got a brand new one with windows 10 in it. As I said in the title, my problem most likely has something to do with this new windows 10. The problem is that changing the format doesn't seem to have the effect that it should. Changing the format changes nothing. Some VNs are not running at all because of it, and the Japanese in the error boxes or the dialogue boxes or whatever they are called doesn't display: it's gibberish. Just to make sure, I changed not only the system locale and the format to Japanese, but all the "things" about my PC that I could: windows display language, date, clock, region, everything I could find. Of course, I have no knowledge of CS, so it was just a wild, random action on my part. It did no good. This one VN that's having problem in my pc runs perfectly fine in my brother's 8 years old laptop (I just checked) with windows 7 in it. All I had to do was change the locale and the format to Japanese. I am at a loss on what to do, so help me if you can; I'd be extremely grateful. Thanks in advance. And thanks for reading my awkwardly written post :).