Freeblood player model missing

[Nashal]

<p>The freeblood race doesn't show up at all. When someone else with a freeblood character is selected, it shows as if you simply selected a null object. When creating a freeblood character, it gives you no options for customizing appearance, and if bypassed, just joins in as a null object (Or as if nothing is there, in other words). I've checked my files in the patcher, and it can't find anything wrong with the game. The only option I can see is a complete reinstall, but before taking that step, I want to find out if there is anything else I could do to make the freeblood player model appear.</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Nashal@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The freeblood race doesn't show up at all. When someone else with a freeblood character is selected, it shows as if you simply selected a null object. When creating a freeblood character, it gives you no options for customizing appearance, and if bypassed, just joins in as a null object (Or as if nothing is there, in other words). I've checked my files in the patcher, and it can't find anything wrong with the game. The only option I can see is a complete reinstall, but before taking that step, I want to find out if there is anything else I could do to make the freeblood player model appear.</p></blockquote><p>basic question - did you buy the character race unlock through station cash? Until febuary that is the only way to create a vampire. If not that would answer the second portion on creating one.</p><p>As far as the first goes trying doing a complete scan on the install</p>

[Nashal]

<p>Yes, I bought the race through station cash. Unfortunately I have already done a full scan and it turned up nothing. Perhaps I should have worded my first post better, I thought I mentioned I had already done a scan and bought the race in the marketplace..</p>

[p3t3rl1]

<p>Hey I am glad you brought this up because I have the same problem! I updated my graphic card drivers and my EQ2 exe version is from Dec 22.</p><p>Anyone know a solution? (Btw Graphic card is ATI 5770)</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Nashal@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Yes, I bought the race through station cash. Unfortunately I have already done a full scan and it turned up nothing. Perhaps I should have worded my first post better, I thought I mentioned I had already done a scan and bought the race in the marketplace..</p></blockquote><p>Another couple of basic questions -</p><p>are you using a custom UI or the stock SOE supplied one?</p><p>are you using the streaming launcher or the full download one? </p><p>On a long shot, take a look in the eq2 directory and locate the UI error log file o see if anything is hsowing up in there.</p>

[Nashal]

<p>As far as I know, the stock SOE UI, I haven't put in anything different in that aspect.</p><p>I believe I'm using the streaming client.</p><p>Checked the error log files and all I could find in all of them were issues related to being disconnected, which is normal and has been happening since I started playing years ago</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Nashal@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>As far as I know, the stock SOE UI, I haven't put in anything different in that aspect.</p><p>I believe I'm using the streaming client.</p><p>Checked the error log files and all I could find in all of them were issues related to being disconnected, which is normal and has been happening since I started playing years ago</p></blockquote><p>just really sounds like the video files are not available. I don;t use the streaming client so don't know really force a full file scan on the product.</p>

[Nashal]

<p>Seems there's no easy fix. I did a complete reinstall, and can see the player model</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Nashal@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Seems there's no easy fix. I did a complete reinstall, and can see the player model</p></blockquote><p>when you did the reinstall - did you go into the drive and actually delete the directory that the game was installed in? sometimes a uninstall leaves some directories behind. There are directories used for caching and temporary files, if the problem is in this directory then it would have still been there</p><p>I think the directories are</p><p>assetcache</p><p>cache</p><p>logincache</p><p>logincache-us</p><p>lp_temp</p><p>There mayu also be directories in the Program Data directory. This is a hidden directory that is part of the security model for windows 7. It is used by anything that is installed in the Program Files directory. This is one of the reasons I always create a directory for games at the root level of the drive, seems like there are less problems with EQ2 and the other onlyine games that I play.</p>

[TSR-MattG]

<p>Any user experiencing graphics corruption or missing graphics files after a full scan should try deleting their cache files, loading times will be a bit slow as your caches are built back up but I've seen this clear up many a graphical issue, delete these folders:</p><p>assetcache</p><p>cache</p><p>logincache (all versions)</p><p>lp_temp</p><p>The easiest way to find your EverQuest II installation folder (and these subsequent folders) is to right-click your shortcut for EQ2, choose properties and click find target (for XP) or open file location (for Vista/7)</p>

[p3t3rl1]

<p>found the solution. I had both the paks folder (from old non steaming client) and the new assetcache folder. I removed the paks folder and the game updated the freeblood models. </p>