You said you're using a couple of font styles... do you create the handles once, then draw all your frames using those initially created font handles.... or do you recreate the handles every "frame" as you're drawing your credits?

If you're recreating the fonts EVERY frame, then the problem is you aren't also destroying them at the end of the frame. If you continually create fonts without destroying them you'll get a SERIOUSLY nasty resource leak. When you run out of resources future calls that request resource creation will fail (which is why it starts drawing in the system font.. your font creation calls are failing).

Windows is horribly unstable after it runs out of resources... which also explains your crash.

So just destroy your font handles at the end of every frame and you'll be fine.



P.s.
I was very surprised to realize I knew the answer to your question


Edited by - Sorrow on February 22, 2002 12:33:16 AM

np Used to run into that with some of the GDI stuff I do at work when I forgot to release a single font or something... it''s a very distinctive kind of bug.