Beast of Reincarnation: No Text in Menus or Skill Tree
A reported bug where every piece of UI text is invisible. A developer has asked whether it is a hybrid-graphics laptop; the next reply in the same thread was from someone on a discrete GPU with the same symptom. No fix is published.
It is a known and unfixed bug, not a setting you have missed. Text disappears from menus, map, inventory and skill tree while the rest of the game renders. A developer has named hybrid-graphics laptops as one cause and says an earlier case was traced to the game running on the integrated GPU — but a player on a discrete RTX 4060 Laptop GPU reported identical symptoms in the same thread, so that explanation does not cover every case.
Where this is being asked · Steam Community, in the thread "I have no text pls help", opened by MrWalter on 5 August 2026 after reinstalling the game, restarting the PC and changing graphics settings without effect.
Evidence
The answer, broken into claims
A grade describes sourcing, not truth. Inferred means we concluded it and the reasoning is shown; unverified means someone asserted it and nobody stands behind it.
OfficialOne earlier case of this symptom was caused by the game running on integrated graphics.
Sam [developer] in the Steam thread, 5 August 2026, describing a prior report rather than this one.
UnverifiedThe symptom also occurs on a machine with a discrete GPU explicitly selected.
datrael in the same thread, about an hour after the developer’s reply, reporting an RTX 4060 Laptop GPU selected in settings. One reporter, untested by us.
InferredThe published explanation does not account for every reported case.
Follows from the two reports above sitting in one thread. It does not establish that the integrated-GPU cause is wrong, only that it is not sufficient.
OfficialIncreased text size is in the announced first patch.
GAME FREAK’s 5 August statement. Cited because it shows the team is touching text rendering; nothing connects it to this bug.
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What the symptom looks like
Not small text and not the wrong language — no text at all, while everything else on screen draws normally. The two reporters between them name the menu, the map, the inventory and the skill tree. MrWalter reports having already restarted the game, restarted the PC, reinstalled, and changed graphics settings, so the ordinary first moves are already ruled out by the person who filed it.
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The only explanation anyone has published
Sam [developer] replied asking whether the reporter is "using a laptop with an integrated GPU in addition to a discrete GPU", and said one prior report with the same symptoms turned out to be the game running on the integrated graphics rather than the dedicated card. That is a real lead and it is worth trying first: force the game onto the discrete GPU in your driver control panel or Windows graphics settings.
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And why it is not the whole answer
An hour after that reply, datrael posted the same symptom list — menu, map, inventory, skill tree — having explicitly selected a GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU in settings. So either the selection is not taking effect, or the integrated-GPU theory explains some cases and not others. Nobody has resolved which, and no developer has replied since. This is the part most write-ups of this bug leave out, and it is the part that decides whether the suggested fix is worth your evening.
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What is worth doing now
In order, cheapest first. None of these is a confirmed fix and we are not presenting them as one.
Force the game onto the discrete GPU in the NVIDIA or AMD control panel, and in Windows Graphics Settings, rather than trusting the in-game selector — that is the developer’s own lead, and one reporter has already shown the in-game selector alone was not enough.
Report it in the official bug thread with your GPU, driver version and whether the machine is a hybrid-graphics laptop. That is the one action with a published route.
Watch for the first patch: increased text size is one of its five announced items, which tells you the team is touching UI text rendering — though nothing says this bug is in scope.
Expiry condition
What would have to change for this answer to be wrong
An answer about a live-service game without this is an answer with a hidden expiry date.
A developer publishes a cause or a fix, or enough reporters post their hardware that the pattern separates hybrid laptops from discrete-GPU machines. Either would let this page name a fix instead of a lead.
Citations
Every source, with its date
A complaint posted before 30 July 2026 describes the playtest, not the game you bought, and a source whose publication date nobody captured cannot show that it postdates launch either. Both are flagged rather than quietly mixed in.
The symptom, the developer’s hybrid-graphics question and prior-case explanation, and datrael’s follow-up reporting identical symptoms on a discrete RTX 4060 Laptop GPU. Read 2026-08-06.
That increased text size is one of the five items announced for the first patch, and that a developer has said UI text rendering problems will be investigated. Neither statement names this bug. Read 2026-08-06.
Related questions
It is an unfixed bug. A developer has traced at least one case to the game running on a laptop’s integrated GPU instead of the discrete one, but another player reported the same symptoms with a discrete GPU selected.
