Missing Something: UI Not Working

[greyfin10]

I'm currently unable to load custom UIs. I've followed several threads here and on the Sony boards regarding EQ.INI settings, Custom file locations, etc, and it "seems" like I have everything right. I'm wondering if it has to do with how I reinstalled EQ2 on my machine. I had deleted all the files previously and had moved my girlfriends copy across the network onto my machine. This caused all sorts of havoc at first, but finally I got the game to load up and was able to play.

Unfortunately, my Profit18 interface that I'd been very happy with no longer seemed to work (she runs the same ui successfully on her machine currently). I blew that away and tried Profit Reborn with no better success. Here's the basics of what I do have:

Folder is created in C:\Program Files\Sony\Everquest II\UI\ProfitUI
EQ2.INI file reads:
cl_ui_skinname ProfitUI
cl_ui_subdir UI/

When I logged into a toon after blowing that characters UI ini file away, it offered to use the ProfitUI 1280x1024... I accepted thinking I'd gotten it to work. Unfortunately, what actually rendered was the default UI.

Another issue I had was I'm now having to run EQ2 as Administrator (this is XP Pro not Vista btw). If I try and run it as my local account (who is actually in the administrators group ironically) it fails when the patcher completes. Could this be effecting the UI? Has anyone seen this before? This might NOT be UI related at all, but I thought I'd ask. I'm going to post a similar question on the Sony boards to see if anyone has any ideas there.

Thanks for reading this... if I've left any vital details out (and I'm sure I have) let me know.

[gm9]

Does typing /loadui in game bring up a window that lists Default and ProfitUI? If it doesn't you installed in the wrong path.

[greyfin10]

It does not... /loadui only shows the default UI. Could there be a problem with Path resolution? For that matter, would it accept an absolute path? I assume you are referring to the path in eq.ini. Is there anywhere else where you "register" the path to the UI files?

[Landiin]

Do you have a directory in C:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest II\ that looks something like LP_REGION_XX_XX? If so that is the directory you need to extract ProfitUI into.

[greyfin10]

No, but thanks for the thought. This is a standard American version of Everquest. Unless there's a moving part that effects success other than the custom ui directory and the eq2.ini, I'm leaning towards this being some weird file permissions problem.

[gm9]

Assuming that the necessary files are in that ProfitUI folder, it still sounds like you are running the wrong EQ2 installation.

Try running the everquest2.exe in that C:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest II\ folder and see what happens.