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  1. Actually, I'll bet he has trouble. That's a BTX board. I doubt a double-wide video card will fit. The case likely lacks the extra back slot and the fan shroud will probably interfere with the CPU.
  2. Looks good on the whole. Nitpick-wise, I'd suggest changing the memory a bit. Right now you have six 1GB sticks. Odds are that's all the memory slots in the machine filled. You might consider changing to say three 2GB sticks. That will leave room open for future upgrades if you ever decide you need more memory. 6GB total is good and may well be enough for the life of the system, but just in case... And you could consider a bigger HDD. Storage is generally cheap. But if you don't think there's any chance you'll fill it, don't bother increasing it. As an alternative to bigger, you could also look at a faster HDD.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cerulean_Shadow View Post
    One last question -

    Is there any benefit to getting this card as opposed to the one that's $10 cheaper?

    First card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150443

    second card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150476

    The first one support the eyefinity thing, which I don't care about since I only have one monitor. (Though I guess it wouldn't hurt to have it if the card has any other benefits.) The first one also talks about the double lifetime guarantee, but I thought all XFX cards had that?
    Not much that I can see. Other than one is available and the other isn't. Though the available one I'd guess is a refresh as it is PCIE 2.1 while the unavailable one is PCIE 2.0. Otherwise they seem identical to me in all other respects. And I do believe XFX does the double lifetime deal on all their stuff. Newegg just didn't include it in their description.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cade Lawson View Post
    Just so...and (I'm sure X or Saist will correct any error here) the memory of the card itself really is the last line consideration. It's not going to matter that much until every other limitation has come into play. People just like bigger numbers.


    Oh...by the way...Imma buy a 5970 >.>
    Buy me one too?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cerulean_Shadow View Post
    I managed to figure that out myself (about the six screen setup) after I posted that, so maybe there's hope for me yet!

    Okay, I've decided, I'm ordering the 5870 1GB card. As far as I can tell, that should be a good card for CoX and just about anything else I decide to play in the near future. Newegg has a variety of them for around $400, which was kind of my self-imposed ceiling, so now all I have to do is figure out which brand. (Diamond, XFX, Sapphire, PowerColor, Gigabyte...)

    In the listing of the stats, there doesn't seem to be much if any difference, which makes sense since it's essentially the same card. That said, the Effective Memory Clock seems to vary quite a bit, anywhere from 1200MHz to 4800MHz. What's that about?
    Basically, the 1200 number is a single one-way data transfer speed. The 4800 is the cumulative speed number. It's technical and I can't come up with a simple way to explain it right off. Perhaps someone else can but essentially 1200 = 4800. It's just two ways to say the same thing. The number to actually pay attention to is the core clock. Anything above 850MHz means it's a factory overclock model. Otherwise, yes they are all essentially the same card. The real differences come in brands, their quality, extras in the box, warranties, etc. I like XFX, some like Sapphire, Gigabyte should be good, not too certain beyond that.
  5. The 2GB 5870 should be the new Eyefinity version that's designed for a six-screen setup. Unless you seriously plan to try and run CoH on that kind of scale, I'd doubt you will have any need for it. Also, I'm not sure you *could* get CoH to do that. But if you have deep enough pockets to try, let us know how it works out.
  6. Your monitor's refresh rate will restrict your max FPS. Most top out around 60 as I understand it so that's most likely about the best you're gonna get.
  7. The 480 is overkill most likely. The 5850 will do fine. I have one and run UM with all the bells except the ambient occlusion right now since it doesn't play nice with FSAA. Once they fix that, I expect to turn it on too and be ok. I get good FPS everywhere I've tried so far. And the 5850 is a released card. Been out for a bit actually. Why you're showing preorder is beyond me though there have been some supply issues keeping up with demand I think.
  8. So you have a modular PSU. Those are nice. The model of the PSU should be on a label on the PSU itself. If you're lucky, it will be the side you can see. That will tell us a lot about what we're dealing with. Once we know that, we can determine how many rails it has and what the strength(s) are. That will determine if any plugs need realigning.
  9. Well it's equally possible they just don't know squat about video cards. So...
  10. Well let us know how it goes. Given both drives had the issue then you're right to look elsewhere. Sounds like you're on the right track to finding the problem.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Doc_OBay_Jr View Post
    MAJOR HELP NEEDED HERE!

    I am Not computer smart, got into this game as soon as I even got an e-mail account.

    When I got this HP I showed two techs the minimum requirements page for the game, now it says ATI Radeon 8500 series, both techs at two different stores told me the ATI xpress 200 series is almost twice the power of the 8500 so I got the laptop.

    I've tried everything, went back to normal HP update which I've had the best/lest lag in game, loaded Catalyst Control Center 6.4, updated to 10.1, then 10.2, then 10.3 and even 10.4 = all cause More lag and less picture sharpness.

    At the normal HP updates I have nice picture/less lag on live and a nice moving/frame rate on Test = of my Auras, I see Only auras and names over player's heads, going with Any of the catalysts I get to see everything but frame rate so bad can't move.

    What am I doing wrong or what have I missed doing?
    Well either they know nothing or they lied. The Xpress 200M is a pretty wimpy integrated GPU. It's below the 8500 in specs. So no surprise to me you're having issues. Unfortunately, I can't see any way for you to really make it better. What laptop did you get?
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    I really don't have anything that I've actually modified in the game, to be honest. Just saved settings and screenshots. I have a few costumes, but those are based on models currently in the game that I can dump the costumes out of. I may have had arcs at some point, but both of mine are currently uploaded, and I assume I can save a copy off those... Right?



    Isn't that DirectX 9, though? It says "Version: 9.28.1886." Not that I specifically need anything over 9 (like, say, DirectX 11), but now that I've finally switched over from XP and into 7, I thought I might as well. I'll try that download anyway. As far as I'm aware, DirectX won't patch itself to an older version even if I tried to make it.
    I'd save the arc stuff just in case. That DirectX should be the latest and greatest.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DocArcus View Post
    The 2 pin mystery plug is not for power, it connects to the sound card if the setup requires it for the HDMI.

    I keep thinking that they power supply is the issue here. It seems like the +12 Amps are a bit on the low side. Most of the 285s that I have looked at need at least 40 amps.
    Aha. I thought there was something familiar about that cable pictured for it. Just didn't hit me what. Yup, that's a sound cable all right.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Well, the power unit in my PC is about as powerful as they were offering, and I don't think I can plug anything more into the card. Is that even fixable without serious expense? I mean, the guys at the shop assured me it would be enough.
    Well one of the issues these days is the power of the 12V rail(s). If your PSU has multiple rails, depending on their outputs, you may have to balance the load across more than one. I don't suppose you could get us the exact make and model?
  13. I wonder how old the Seagate is. In any case, I'd run a scan for bad sectors on it. I suspect you just have a bad drive. It does happen, can happen, and will happen. Hard drives are far from immortal. Now if the new drive starts doing this, then there's definitely something else in play here. Or is that what has happened?
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja View Post
    Actually, once I set my Desktop Theme back to one of the Windows standard themes, I never had another problem with Aero and Alt+Tab'ing again.
    I tried that myself and it never worked for me.
  15. You pretty well hit all the stuff worth keeping. Also if you have AE arcs or whatnot, save that too. Pretty much anything you may have modified in some way. Beyond that, you can do an nunistall and then delete anything left over to be sure you got it all. Then run the updater and let it do it's thing. I'd avoid putting anything customised back right away just in case the problem originates there. It shouldn't, but you never know.

    As for the mystery plug for sound, I'd assume that has to do with HDMI. I didn't know HDMI needed it's own power before. My card doesn't need it. But I have a Radeon so there's bound to be some differences. That being the source of your issue seems a bit unusual to me but maybe? I'd also make certain the PSU you think you have is what you have, just to be certain.

    As for DirectX, I think this might be what you're looking for. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eislor View Post
    Is that correct? Looking at HP's website, the GTX 285 is NOT an option for that model computer.

    Check the size of the Power Supply they gave you, the standard PS for that model according to HP is 300 watts, which is about half the power you need. When you ordered the GTX 285 they should have upgraded the PS to 550+ watts so you can actually use the card as intended.
    Hm. That is interesting. I hadn't looked into that but it is correct from what I find. Though COH Helper does state it is indeed a 285. What is your PSU rating? Perhaps that is part of the problem.
  17. Realistically, the best idea I can suggest at this point is to try a clean install of the game. You can salvage your binds and such for later if you salvage those files before deleting but it's the best way to be sure it's not your local game client causing the issues.

    If that still won't fix it, contacting Support, your manufacturer and/or whoever sold you the thing may be the only option. Because if the client isn't it, given everything else is brand new and fresh, then I'd almost have to say the problem is your network somehow or the PC itself. I suppose the network is something you could look into as well. Make sure you're getting a consistent fast connection to the server. I think the in-game command is /netgraph 1 or maybe /shownetgraph 1. Something like that anyways. It should give you an idea of how good your connection is. If you're seeing a lot of lag spikes and such, that could be at least partially the problem.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Coolio View Post
    If you did a clean install, remember once you fix this to do windows updates to SP3 and beyond...

    BBC News:
    Microsoft to patch 17-year-old computer bug
    Infected XP owners left unpatched

    I would quote but easier to read from the site, in context.
    /signed. Never go anywhere without your patches and protection.
  19. What I would love to see is you guys show up at a con I could actually go to. Like something more in the center of the US. You guys are West Coast I know but if you can hit East Coast stuff, how about something in the middle? Something I don't need a plane ticket to get to? I live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and we have all sorts of sci-fi/anime/fantasy/comic cons roll through here all the time. Heck, hit the right ones and you can hobnob with folks from Star Wars.

    Fundamentally though, you guys really need to get the word out there more. Hit cons all over the place even if it's just with a small crew to raise visibility. Be loud and proud of what this game is and refuse to ever let some upstart like CO steal your thunder. Get into the comic and gaming shops more. Sceam it from the rooftops if that helps but get the word around however you can.

    And frankly, if you guys were paying the fees and providing the swag and perks, I'd bet you could get plenty of volunteers to run booths at cons you can't get a big official presence at. Send out a lackey to help coordinate and keep things official and you'd be good to go I'd bet.
  20. Possible solution: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=328934

    Your scenario sounds like what that KB article describes.
  21. General procedure is to download the new drivers so you have them ready. Then uninstall the old ones using the uninstaller for them. Reboot system to safe mode and run a driver cleaner. http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/ is a free one. That will scrub off any remaining bits. Then reboot and install the new drivers.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Thank you. Using this, I cleaned up all nVidia drivers, but there doesn't seem to have been any result. The game still loads its textures slowly on the log-in screen, where it didn't before, and this has me concerned. To elaborate, City of Heroes on a GeForce 9800 GT with 4 GB of RAM and a Quad Core processor on Windows XP loaded its textures faster than City of Heroes does on a GeForce GTX 285 with 8 GB of RAM on an I7 (I believe 8-core) processort does on Windows 7. I suspect this speaks to some kind of underlying problem, because I saw almost no performance gain in the switchover between the two systems, where there should have been LOTS.
    To be slightly pedantic, the i7 is a quad-core with Hyperthreading. So it's four physical cores but acts as eight logical ones. Moving on. Is the game install fresh or did you copy from the old rig? If it isn't fresh, try removing and installing a fresh copy. Also make sure the game isn't running in any sort of compatibility mode. Check the properties of your shortcut and .exe files for that. Furthermore you could check the Nvidia control program and see the settings there. Generally speaking, everything should be set to application controlled or words to that effect. It's possible something there is set wrong. If it has any section for overclocking or otherwise modifying the clock speed of the card, make sure that isn't screwed up somehow either.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    *edit*
    Oh, by the way:



    Purely mathematically speaking, subtracting a finite number fro from infinity and dividing infinity by a finite number still results in infinity. As well, infinity calculations are largely restricted to calculating limits and, as far as I'm aware, don't really factor into regular calculations. Just a small tangent because your sig intrigued me
    Actually, the quote refers to dividing a finite number by infinity. But... Anyways, it seems clear you've never read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. That's a quote from the series. I recommend giving it a read.
  23. Well you're in luck as I17 will fix the ATI/CoH issues. Go hit the test server if you want a preview. The issues on Live stem back to the old partnership with Nvidia which caused the game to be more optimized for Nvidia cards and left ATI users out in the cold to a certain degree. Once I17 hits Live, you should see a nice improvement in performance.