Black Screen With Menus

[Superhoss]

Hey guys, having a bit of an issue with one of my alts. In windowed mode, the screen goes black. I can still see all the menus, as well as target things with the mouse. If I fullscreen, everything is fine. I've tried playing with the resolution with no luck. It happened randomly when I logged in, and hasn't happened to any of my other toons. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[Vaion]

Are you using a different eqclient.ini for the alts?

[Superhoss]

No, looks like there is only the one eqclient.ini file in my Everquest folder, so i'm assuming they all use the same one.

[Dreos]

What client are you using and are you using any third-party programs along with EQ?

[Superhoss]

Underfoot, and MQ2.

[Superhoss]

Fixed it. Just deleted anything with that character name in it in my EQ folder. Appreciate it, guys!

[Noren]

**EDIT** Nm you fixed it on your own

Probably this:
I'll explore other causes too, but I recall someone had a bad file that had different spell effect values and resulted in some harmless buff being interpreted by the client as Blind, which is exactly what you appear to be experiencing.

Probably not this, but maybe:
This is a long shot, but I suggest that you log in on your main, make sure all of the settings are correct (filters, etc) and then /camp (don't use /ex or /q). Then go into your eq folder and set the file properties of eqclient.ini to Read Only.

I had issues with simultaneous clients open where sometimes eqclient.ini was inaccessible for an alt and thus a new one was generated. Might be happening, and the newly generated one has some bad settings for your display.

Again, long shot, but I'd recommend to everyone to set their eqclient.ini to Read Only so that the game doesn't change your settings on you. (note, if you do so, no future changes will actually save until you turn off Read Only).