BEWARE!!!!!! Advanced...Allow driver forced Anti-Aliasing

[Rick777]

<p>I just happened to be bored from LFG and was putzing around in my UI settings and saw this new settings under Advanced: Allow driver forced Anti-Aliasing.  Being the curious intrepid soul that I am of course I clicked it and thus began my hell.</p><p>On restarting the game I completely lost my UI, all of it, every single hotbar, chat bar, I even lost the ability to actually get into the options menu so I could not fix this.  After playing with it for a couple of hours (with a raid that evening so I was panicking) I finally found the solution and I'd like to share it to help you all out in case you step in this pile of SOE doggie doodoo, and also can SOE please look at this and figure out why this is even  in here?</p><p>In any case go into your Everquest2 folder and open (with notepad) your eq2_recent.ini file.  I don't have the exact name of the file that needs to be reverted from true to false, as for some reason once it's off it doesn't appear here anymore, but I remember it was the only file that started with something like aa_ .  You'll also notice at the bottom the switch for shaders 3.0 which may or may not have something to do with me losing my UI, but I turned it off manually just to make sure.</p>

[StormQueen]

<p>My post just a day before yours concerned the same thing. I gave up looking for aa.blit thing and just restored a backup point in my computer.</p><p>Tech support needs to see this and maybe disable it in game; it was really a pain to get rid of.</p>

[thecynic315]

<p>r_aa_blit</p><p>set that to false.</p><p>Glad this post was here as I made the same mistake</p>

[Araxes]

<p>Just out of curiosity, were you using a custom Ui (Profit, etc.) - or the default UI?</p><p>I use the default UI and did not have any issue when enabling forced aa with the in-game checkbox.</p><p>Ara</p>

[Tangletwigs]

<p>I had this happen but only after I removed a custom profile in the Nvidia control panel for EQ2. Once I disabled the profile and AA etc were at system defaults (none) the UI vanished on next log in so thanks for the tip <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Maybe that tick box only works correctly if the host system is set to do at least some AA processing ?</p>

[Amanathia]

<p>The allow driver forced Anti-Aliasing box is absolutely pointless if you have an Nvidia card.  Just leave it un-checked.</p>

[Rick777]

<p><cite>Araxes@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Just out of curiosity, were you using a custom Ui (Profit, etc.) - or the default UI?</p><p>I use the default UI and did not have any issue when enabling forced aa with the in-game checkbox.</p><p>Ara</p></blockquote><p>I was actually using the stock UI.</p>

[Araxes]

<p>Interesting, I just actually began to experience this bug.  Weeks later, now.</p><p>I unchecked the box, and voila.  No UI issue.</p><p>A strange bug.  I imagine it has to do with manually writing in the eq2.ini file, vs. using the checkbox -- do one or the other, but not both, apparently. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Ara</p>