Problem with the eXtremeUI
Hi,
I've only recently started playing Everquest 2 because I needed a change from the very time consuming raiding game WOW has become. And I really like what I'm seeing in EQ2. Crafting system is so much more intense and I prefer the less cartoony graphics vastly.
In WOW, I was a heavy addon user and I started looking through the mods for EQ2 and eXtremeUI caught my attention. The screenshots looked very nice and I decided to download and install it. A few minutes later, I was ready to launch my EQ2.
The problem was that as soon as the game world started to load, my screen got all "snowy". There's these white glitterings all over the screen (like when a television set has some problems) and at times I see things I can only describe as "colored lightning flashes" across my screen. It's interesting to note that this problem does NOT occur at the point where I get to the character selection screen (everything is still fine there) but as soon as I enter the real game world. This leads me to believe it is being caused by the eXtreme UI.
I then tried to remove the installation to fix the problem but have been unable to do so. I removed the entire eXtreme folder under UI and (based on something I read here) also the EQ2.ini file. When I then launch the game, a lot of the frames are still in the same place they were with the eXtremeUI installed (but, evidently, the frames just don't look good anymore). And the "snowy" problem is still there.
I have now removed the entire EQ2 installation and started re-installing. Seeing that I bought the game as a download, this is evidently taking a long time and I hope to continue playing tonight.
I have a few questions though :
1) Has anyone else encountered this problem with the eXtremeUI ? And how have they solved it ? I'm running EQ2 on a VISTA machine and have been running without any problems for a while already (I get a warning that "this version of Vista may cause crashes" and that I should download the latest SP for Vista, but to my knowledge the latest stuff IS installed, and as I said ... it's been running flawlessly for a while now). I use an nVidia 9600XT (or was it a 9800, I keep forgetting) graphics card with all the latest drivers installed.
2) How can I make sure I don't need to reinstall after something went wrong with an addon. In WOW, I could just remove the folder in the Addons folder. Can someone explain to me where/how the addon files for EQ2 are stored ?
3) More to the point of eXtremeUI, can someone tell me exactly how to completely remove the UI and return to the standard UI ?
Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to give me.
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