The video card BIOS is likely one that sacrificed the 8x14 font to free up space for VESA or other things. Try the FIX8X14 utility here (didn't link developer site because it appears to be secured at the moment). This worked, thanks a lot for the help. Unrelated to the issue, but SimEarth will not …

SimEarth running at VGA resolution of 640x480 makes some text and the menu bars unreadable. This problem doesn't occur at lower resolutions. The computer is a Windows 98SE with a Pentium III at 933 MHz and 512 MB of RAM. The graphics card is some sort of ATI Radeon with 256 MB of VRAM. I don't have …