EQ2map not working with fresh NON-ENGLISH install

[Icebird]

After about 3 hours of pulling my hair, I managed to get EQ2map working...
My problem was that everything installed well, patched well, but nothing appearing ingame.
And

Reading the few post here talking about the same problem didnt help:

-eq2.ini is good
-the shortcut for EQ2 and EQ2maps path are the same
-the folders in UI/default are good
-there is no other installation of EQ2 on any of my drives

However, after much tinkering, I found a strange subfolder in my EQ2 directory: LP_REGION_FR_FR

Inside, was a COMPLETE installation of EQ2!! with another UI folder, Everquest2.exe, etc....


Changing the directory in EQ2maps was not enough to make it work, in addition I had to manually move the /UI/EQ2map folder (NOT /UI/default/EQ2Map !) to /LP_REGION_FR_FR/UI/


What happened, I guess, is that the new EQ2 downloader is totally stupid, downloading the game 2 times... One in english, and the other in the language of my country. It certainly explain why the download was so long... And when you launch the EQ2.exe in the original directory, it in fact launch the Everquest2.exe in your language directory.

I hope this info will be usefull to whoever have a similar problem.