At wits end...Titanium vs UF
 

Would love to get the expert opinions here. I losing my @*^*# mind trying to upgrade from the titanium client to UF. I cannot get the UF client to run at all and I am 90+% sure its a video issue. I am even using the exact same eqclient.ini file on both installations and titanium works fine and I can't even get to a login screen on UF. What is the best way to troubleshoot this issue? Thanks much in advance (goin crazy on this one).

You remembered to change the eqhost.txt file right?

for Titanium:
for UF:

Yes, thanks...made sure I changed that one.

Try installing eqlive and getting that version of directx.

I have had that solve the issue with UF in the past.

I think I'm a bit closer now to the answer. It is indeed a DirectX problem. I created a VMWare virtual machine and the Underfoot client ran fine as there was only DX9 in the virtual guest. But the problem is the host is Win 8.1 with DX11 and UF won't work with that. I also tried loading DX9 in addition to DX11 and while it look like it installed, Underfoot still wont run :(

Any ideas of where I go from here?

I had to delete the eqclient.ini on my underfoot client, letting the client recreate it from scratch, before it would run.

What happens when you run DirectXTest.exe? It is in your EQ directory.

It comes back with a dialog box that says "Congratulations, you're all set for the DirectX 9.0c upgrade". What does that message mean? That 9.0c was successful?

Just tried deleting eqclient.ini and letting it recreate it. It created a new one but the client crashed with the same "instruction reference memory error".../sigh

this is all it placed in the new client.ini file. I saved the old one to revert back to.

[Defaults]
GraphicsMemoryModeSwitch=1
APVOptimizations=TRUE
DisableWestBugFix=0
Sound=TRUE
CPUAffinity0=0

You have install the Directx June 2010 I dont care what OS you have that PC is missing it is why you getting errors install it problems vanish.

I installed this release of DirectX also and it didn't change the outcome, still crashing on start. Thanks tho.

run options editor change resolution to the lowest it go sometimes that causes crashes and once in game set back what want

tried 640x480, it crashed. tried 800x600, it crashed :confused:

Is there anything in the Logs folder, specifically, dbg.txt that is saying anything about an error?

If you get me a memory address, I can take a look at it.

There are two copies of UF obtained through illegitimate plundering. Are you using your own Steam install, or one of the two? The one you want is by "battleb".