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Fix Invisible WINE elements
The Problem
When trying to run Titan Quest: Immortal Throne recently using WINE on Linux, the game loaded, but all the menu buttons were blank. Basically, no text was visible in the game, which used to work just fine.
Running Debug in PlayOnLinux, the following error came up over and over:
Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine to
use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than or equal to 2.0.5.
Of course, I was already running a version of FreeType much newer than that.
The Solution
The issue is not with Titan Quest, nor with WINE. Instead, the problem lies with PlayOnLinux. To fix it, navigate to: $HOME/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-x86/<wine-version>/lib/
Delete all libz.so files. 1)
See this post on the Arch Linux forums for more information.