[Zakassis]

Since SOE's tech support isn't helping, and since they're being too busy suggesting other "solutions" that are based on improving quality rather than the actual problem, I'll take a shot at asking here.

2 days ago, I found out that something with my hotbar is causing my FPS to drop drastically, which is most likely the "faded" icons on it, since my videocard doesn't support vertex shading or hardware lighting/transforming.

I was wondering if it was all possible to make a modification to the hotbar so that when a skill can't be used, rather than making it dim slightly, it turns red, equivalent to the "out of range" effect. Also, rather than making a skill icon fade out completely and "refill" while it is on cooldown, if a small duration timer can be added somewhere on the icon and remove the fading from the icon.

Not exactly sure how much this would help my framerate, but I hope it's worth a try.