[db2005]

Hi Quib,

Thanks for your very prompt response.

Originally Posted by Quib

db2005, my first suggestion would be to go to your custom UI folder, find eq2ui_mainhud_map.xml and delete it, then re-run the auto-updater. I've experienced trouble with the auto-updater properly updating this file.
Quib

I did actually try this, as I'd noticed this was one of the files with a date stamp that corresponded to when the problems started. I have since retried without much success. The version of eq2_mainhud_map.xml that was autoupdated (as recently as a few minutes ago) is only 4641 bytes long - significantly smaller than (recent) previous versions - I have located some backup versions that were 43904 bytes (last week) and 50278 bytes (yesterday) in length.

The 50278 byte version *doesn't* work. It seems to be an internationalised version of last week's - for example "'" (single quote) characters were replaced by "'", and various other minor changes.

Rolling back to last week's version (43904 bytes) fixed the problems I reported in my previous message.

However, [and isn't there always a "however" :-)?] the autoupdater always replaces it with the much smaller 4641 byte version. On inspection of the latter xml code, I notice that it attempts to explicitly include files such as:
eq2map/core_process.xml
eq2map/core_overlay.xml
eq2map/core_mapstyles.xml
which *don't* exist in my eq2map directory - nor are they located and updated by subsequents runs of the autoupdater. The effect of this *new* problem is that when I start EQ2, and arrive in, say, North Qeynos, the main screen image is almost entirely blank. While bag contents and chat windows display ok, the main part of the screen - where you expect to see the fair city of Qeynos, yourself and all the animated NPCs - is blank. The map command displays at the expected size and coordinates, but the contents look like a screen dump of someone else's game. Truly, truly wierd.

Anyway, for now, my fix is to let autoupdater do its thing, then copy back the week old eq2_mainhud_map.xml. The above problems disappear with the displayed maps and POIs restored to their former glorious appearance.

I will shortly try totally removing the eq2map software and reinstalling it, to see if that prompts the autoupdater into loading the missing xml files. I'll backup the files first - just in case :-) - so I can report what actually changes if it would help.

Please let me know if you'd like more detail - or quite a bit less :-)

Thanks for everyone's ongoing help.

Best Regards, David