Just a follow on, yes using the 32bit version with that library from the patch does fix the problem. So the problem is definitely with the newer version of libfreetype apparently.

Guess I'll have to switch to the 32bit version to try that. There doesn't seem to be a patch for x64.

Yes the above screenshot is pretty much what I'm running into. I've run through all of the available resolutions and have this issue with all of them.

I just acquired Uplink via the Humble Bundle and am trying to start playing it on my machine (Linux x64). When I run the tutorial the text box that pops up is only 3 lines tall and keeps wrapping text out of the box. It doesn't appear to register any scroll wheel requests so I can read all of the te...