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Well....turns out I only have 3 gbs of ram, that driver you suggested didn't support this ancient thing, and that "outline hovered objects box" was indeed checked. I was just about to give up on this laptop when I decided to disable VBP and FBO, just so I could say that I tried everything......and IT WORKED!! Completely cured! Thanks for putting up with the ridiculousness of trying to get an almost decade old laptop to run, for two days! No honestly, thanks a million! I would have probably given up otherwise. Much appreciated!

Well I tried the clean boot, but the issue still persisted, then I read the minimum requirements.... Turns out the laptop doesn't actually meet them. It's processor is only a Celeron Dual-Core CPU T3100 @ 1.90GHz, and its graphics chip is a Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset. That shouldn't be causing the issue though. I've played games with computers below the minimum specs before, and all that tends to happen is the game doesn't run, or if it does, it does so with considerable lag and/or graphical issues. This issue is far to specific and strange to simply be the laptop not meeting the requirements. I mean, I can run the game fine with only a bit of lag, and sure there's some weird colouring, but that doesn't honestly bother me. I think the issue lies somewhere else, but I'm honestly not sure with what. Here's the config file anyway. I apologise in advance for how long it is. https://pastebin.com/04nnamsb

Thanks for all the suggestions, but I just realised I made a huge mistake in my original post. It's RIGHT clicking that doesn't seem to do anything in the game world. I don't know why I'm always mixing those two up! Just to clarify a bit, I can right click on anything within a menu eg, examine, equip, emote at items in my inventory. I just cant inspect/select anything in the game world. Also I forgot to mention last time that nothing is highlighted in the world, even when I hover my cursor over it. Anyway, I tried using the wired mouse from the computer, but there was no success there. My laptop has a touch pad but its quite unresponsive at the best of times, so I usually use a mouse alongside it. Neither of those worked either. Another thing to note is that it's only this game that it seems to be an issue with. I also tried your other suggestions, bar the clean boot, but I've had no luck. I checked the console log for my character, and dear god, the amount of errors! It turns out a "bad driver version" was detected, so I updated my drivers, but I'm still getting the same problem. Anyway, I'm going to upload my character's console log in the hopes that its an incredibly straight forward issue that I'm not spotting lol. If all else fails I'll try the clean boot, but I'm pretty sure that its not a case of "gunkware." There is practically nothing on this laptop. It's basically a glorified notebook for a bunch of pdfs, and apart from a few very old games that I've installed, I haven't downloaded anything else to it. I also cleaned it when I got it. Edit: Whoops just realised I didn't upload the file with this post, but um, now that I'm looking at it, how on earth do you upload anything to this forum? I'm not seeing anything that allows me to attach a file. I'm sure there's something incredibly obvious that I'm missing.

Just bought this game yesterday. I have a "home" computer, used by most of the family, and a much inferior laptop. I originally installed it on the computer, and it worked fine, but considering the fact I hardly get to use the computer I decided to install it on my laptop as well. Basically, I cant interact with the game environment/npcs/other players etc, whatsoever. I can move around, and be interacted with by other players, but I cant seem to highlight, or left click anything in the game world. The reason I say "game world" is because I can sort through menu's/statistics etc. just fine, and I can left click anything not in the world itself (such as the toolkit). It's incredibly odd, and I've tried a good few things to try and sort it out, but it makes it impossible to actually play the game, as all I can do is walk around and enjoy the sights.