I just started up Arcanum for the first time. I have the unofficial patch, high res fix, and town map fix. Chose the default font size for the high res fix. When Virgil talks to me, his text overlaps with mine, and it's quite difficult to see/tell what's going on. I tried creating a shortcut and adding -no3d and -doublebuffer, and running as administrator but that made my game crash. The colors of the menu screen were also bizarre and inverted. And running it with -doublebufffer and -no3d made my computer not respond. Assistance would be greatly appreciated. I'm running it on an integrated graphics card - I could play the demo just fine.

So I think it's a program with the high-resolution patch. Did a clean install of the unofficial patch and the HQ Townmaps, but not the High resolution patch, and there were no overlapping font problems. Any advice on how to optimize the high res patch so this doesn't happen>

What resolution did you chose during the pach instalation? I think it might be connected with the high video resolution that was chosen by you during the hi-res patch installation

I decided to go with pretty standard 1366x768 and 14 font size (game font style) and I have no issues with it.

I'd chosen 800 x 600, because I'm running it on my laptop. I changed it to 1280 x 800 (what my moniter's native resolution is), and once I got past the jarring startup screen (black bars on either side), everything seemed to work fine.

That was my problem. Thank you.