Bill Z Bubba

Be well, man. Enjoyed your work.

Green Dwarf from Pinnacle will also be there.

Hmmm, two brothers, a tank and a scrapper, drinking Guinness...

Could be trouble.

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Just express it as one equation that fits all situations.

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Arcanaville's Grand Unification Theory on Defense?

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But try finding a food not found in California

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Having just got back from Fremont, CA a week or two ago, I can attest to this statement. The Mexican food there was the blandest garbage I've ever tasted.

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Come to Houston and get some Tex-Mex. (real mexican food is bland to me as well.)

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I live in Pflugerville. (Suburb of Austin.) I get all the good Mex I need!

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But try finding a food not found in California

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Having just got back from Fremont, CA a week or two ago, I can attest to this statement. The Mexican food there was the blandest garbage I've ever tasted.

Sounds logical.

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The problem would be people claiming his SG has an unfair advantage when others learn they have a dev on board.

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A much more real problem would be getting pestered by players thereby ruining his gaming experience. Who wants to bring their real life work to a game?

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There we go.

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Interesting. Pohsyb apparently does not qualify as a dev according to the tracker.

Kam

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Correction: the developers don't qualify as Pohsyb.

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Told ya.. he's a ghost in the machine.

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There's something obviously up when someone's been playing for 3 years and has no veteran awards...


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Huh? I'm confused. What's stopping BaB the player from having a normal account?

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I don't think I'll ever be able to attend any sort of get together in real life because I'd wouldn't be able to decide whether to go as BAB the dev or as my main character and be able to hang out with friends/SG mates.

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Hmmm, that would be a tough call. Were you a player before being a dev, or both all along?

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Pohsyb must be let out of the box. I mean, you can't keep him in there forever, right? No seriously.

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My box is toasty
Why would I leave such a box?
My box is wintry

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O.o

He's like some kind of all knowing, never speaking ghost, hovering just out of sight.

I'm looking forward to the meet n greet. Hopefully they'll still let me in.

Thanks for writing out the Modder instructions, Adar_ICT.

Maf,

You'll probably need to start with this:

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Laptop Video Card or Frame Rate Issues

Some laptop video cards (ATI Mobility, Intel 91x Chipsets) are having known issues with frame rates and other visual degradations to gameplay.

This TEMPORARY addition to your COH shortcut will force the game to render in a simpler rendering path, and should clear up some of the more serious performance issues until a more permanent solution is found.

Modify your City of Heroes shortcut (by right-clicking and choosing Properties) to include "-useTexEnvCombine"] (without the quotes) at the end of the 'Target:' line, so it should look something like this:

"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe" -useTexEnvCombine

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That will force the game into a simpler rendering technique and should help some.

The Xpress 200 is not a gaming quality card. It's barely an Outlook quality card. New or not.

With the settings I have laid out in the OP, here's what I'd change:

In the CCC: Disable FSAA, AF, Triple Buffering and Vertical Sync.

In game: Disable Water, Bloom, Depth of Field, FSAA, AF.

Test to see whether disabling Geometry Buffers makes any difference.

Apologies for not being able to give you more help than that.

After AMD's rewrite of the CCC, it has a smaller footprint. I have heard of some CCC users getting CPU spikes but haven't been able to reproduce them.

As for not loading the CCC at all and letting the game manage settings, my two issues would be:

Can't enable triple buffering for vertical sync, which I must run
And game managed FSAA always hit my performance, when I could get it to work without blacking out the world, far more than CCC managed FSAA.

But cool that you've got your ATI card working for you the way you like it. That's all that actually matters.

groooOOOOOooovy, man

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*lifts brow*

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He means make it like this.

(Don't let your browser resize it.)

That's disturbing and gorgeous. Yes, the story telling is perfect.

Graver keeps this up and he'll make it big time without issue.

I still have The Dance as my desktop on both of my workstations.

Oh crap... I never posted the final touchups from JTran.

Since this is a Yay, Graver thread, I'll put it here. No big changes, but JTran fixed the wing color and lit the cigar.

The resized one for quickie download.

Yummy is correct. I'd say she and Bill Z should hook up for some spawning, but they're probably related.

Booze, gamers, and NCSoft personnel...

And only 10 minutes from my house in P-Ville?

Oh there will be madness.

Thanks, Ex. For verification sake, those that already signed up and received confirmation for an event don't need to do so again, correct?

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EDIT: Oh and I only have 1 gig of ram.

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Double that. As soon as possible. You'll be happier on a few fronts. With only one GB of RAM, the game is being forced to use your swap file a lot. This kills performance.

As for settings, whenever you team with high particle count throwing teammates, the items that will beat down your FPS are:

Particle Count: Drop to 5000 or so when teaming
World Detail: Drop to 50%
Particle Physics: No higher than High

In the CCC, for your card and rig, I wouldn't go past 2X on FSAA and 4X on AF. If your eyes don't mind it to much, stay at 2X on AF as well.

What resolution are you running at? My 2nd rig is a P4-3Ghz-HT proc with 2GB of RAM and an X800XT. At 1280X1024 I can still tag 60FPS when solo without issue.
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Well, at least I could last time I checked.

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Bill, check out the windows pre-fetch. I found turning this down to "2-boot" was helpful for my performance.
link to pre-fetch info

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Nice catch. I don't think I've ever come across that before. Won't change much on my gaming rig since it's wiped so often and nothing gets installed to it, but for the workstation, heck yea.

Verified the popup is on my end.

<grumblegrumble> only happens when other people get on my friggin rig....<grumblegrumble>

Yea, yall should do more together. Good piece.

It's nice, yes... but why does clicking the image to enlarge it bring up a popup for winantivirus?

Drop World Detail to 50%. Drop FSAA and AF to 2X each. Disable Water FX.

The 1550 is a midgrade of the last generation. It's not a gamer quality card, so it can't push gamer quality settings.

The problem you describe of powers not firing off when they should, as in, stating that the aren't recharged when the icon shows that they are, that's caused by network lag and probably won't be affected by lowering your settings.