Windows updates , blah blah,. all sorts, even to the extent of changing every setting in Eq client INI back to using "tin man" type non luclin models
( human in plate armour looks like the tin Man from Wizard of Oz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de3mFKIKytw, look for Daze

then Thanks to a friend I was given his 'old' PC a couple of weeks later and it worked
then I find this thread
https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/ind ... ge.251657/
oh dear
LOL
