UI bugged?

[Conray]

Hello everyone. I am brand new to Everquest (I have never played whatsoever). I just started yesterday, but it seems that my UI is bugged/missing; I am unable to see the names of items in my inventory unless I go to a shop and place the item in the vendor box. I don't know what the UI is supposed to actually look like, but surely I am supposed to see the names of my items?

[Grimgor]

This bug is fixed by restarting your computer. Not shutting it down; it has to be a restart. Not entirely sure what causes this or why restarting works, but it does.


You can also see what items are by holding down right click on an item or alt+left clicking it.

[mcoy]

There's a thread that explains it in detail, but in brief - it's all thanks to a counter overflowing. EQ polls your system asking for how many milliseconds (or whatever) it's been running but somewhere over ~40 days that value is beyond what the client recognizes so some stuff gets wonky - including mouse-over text.

Starting in windows 10 "fast startup" is enabled by default. This turns a shutdown into not-a-shutdown. Restarting isn't changed - hence why shutting down won't fix it but restarting does.

In your power options (under "choose what the power button does") you can uncheck "Turn on fast startup" and then shutdown will work the way you expect it to:

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-Mcoy