Bill Z Bubba

I've mentioned before that 3d renders don't strike me like good old pencils and inks, but I gotta say, I really like this one DJ.

Two threads, same post:

I love his work. Gorgeous.

Two threads, same post:

I love his work. Gorgeous.

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I rolled back to the old Catalyst 7.6 drivers and so far everything looks great (way better than 7.7).

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So 7.7s no good for Vista. Thanks much!

As much as I talk crap about this game's performance and bugs, you will NEVER hear from me that it's an ugly game.

I think that's half the reason I keep playing. It's just so damn pretty sometimes.

It is gorgeous.

It would be even better with FSAA turned on.

Hero/Villain: All
Server: Pinnacle
Time: Since last patch - The one to fix lag issues. Broke it giving me lag issues.
Mission Name: All missions, all zones.
Description of bug:
See this thread

Running the 7.7s? I thought someone said they fixed the pointer issue.

Gaul, what video card and what operating system are you using? And that's with the 7.7s?

You can ignore the warning of older drivers. That's a problem on Cryptic's side of things. Nvidia users have the same problem.

I'd be curious of a good driver wipe and reload of the 7.7s leaves you with the same lockup when clicking on Bloom.

Changed what settings to high? The graphics slider? If so, that should never be used with any ATI card.

But then you state that when you click Bloom, it crashes. So you must be using the advanced settings.

What drivers are you using? The 7.7s? Are all your other settings exactly as I have them in the OP?

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(You're always welcome to PM typos to me)

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Where's the fun in that?

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1/10th of the zones on any server are PvP zones. Just stick to the other 9/10ths and you won't get ganked.

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But that's the point, I don't have to worry much about that now getting Shivans or Nukes, why should we be exiled from content because we have no desire to deal with the ganker attitude?

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I don't care about any of that. I just don't want the population levels on Pinn and Guar to go up at all.

I now exist on Guardian and Pinnacle. I very much hope that all the PvPers move to one server. And I hope that server is not Guardian or Pinnacle.

Austin. Dave and Busters. BOOOOOOOOOZZZZZZEEEEE.

Right on. I'm there.

What fog? Do you mean Depth of Field? That's within the advance graphics settings in game as per the OP.

If you mean the "fog of war" that leaves your map black until you fly over an area, then no.

If you mean the fog in Dark Astoria, the answer is also no.

I'd a like to touch on that a moment.

For anyone that is considering buying a new video card, if CoH/V is your main game, I advise going with Nvidia.

There are two reasons for this:

Compatibility: Yes, using my settings you can get this game to perform well with some very pretty eye candy. But if you deviate, things fall apart. Hell, even WITH (and because of them as well) my settings, task switching is hosed.

Performance: The 8800GTX is the best card on the market for gamers right now. The performance between the 2900XT, the 8800GTS and the X1950XTX are so close they can be written off as negligible. This means that ATI has NOTHING on the market that can compete with Nvidia's current flagship card. Will this change when ATI releases the 2950XTX? To be honest, I doubt it.

Will future driver rewrites rid we CoH/V players with ATI card of all the incompatibilities? I have no idea. But after 3 years of no changes, I see little reason for hope.

Perhaps the pendulum will swing back ATI's way with the release of Nvidia's 9*** series and ATI's 3*** series. Perhaps not. Perhaps AMD's taint will doom ATI to the place of eternal second place.

What drivers did you have installed prior to upgrading?

I've NEVER been able to alt-tab without issues beyond one or two shifts. I gave up.

But it's obvious that it is one of my settings that is killing it completely.

So what all did you change in the CCC when you got the new drivers loaded?

More info:

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when I try to roll back to the old drivers

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If you tried to use XP's driver rollback, I'm not surprised that things are now frelled. When AMD took over ATI, they did a complete overhaul of the CCC which, I'm assuming, meant a rewrite of the drivers. At least the sections tying into the CCC.

So rolling back to pre-current CCCed drivers means that everything is fragged as the two won't be communicating with each other properly.

The only way to roll back would be to follow the steps outlined in the OP.

I'm currently alt-tabbing without issue, but I had to completely disable FSAA and AF, and remove the -renderthread 1 flag from my coh/v shortcut's target line.

Obviously, I can't play like this. I lose performance from having the game run on only one core, and playing any game without FSAA makes me twitch.

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Sarix morphing into her true demonic form

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If they'd only let us change body type and height at the tailor such things could be in game.

That's a good question.

In general, my answer is always yes. The 7.6s did give me a slight performance boost from prior revisions, but every now and then a driver writers will put one out that just plain sucks. Either by causing issues, or by decreasing performance.

Every month, ATI.. err, AMD puts out a new driver. usually the Catalyst version number corresponds to year/month, but sometimes they'll throw in two in a month and mess that up.

7.6 = 2007/June

So every month, I will load up the latest version and see what's what, always going through the steps I outline above to purge the old ones.

Unless something hops out at me as broken, I'll stay with the latest.

That would be very cool.

I-RAM means smooth as butter. Didn't improve performance much if at all, but never writing to a hard drive has made moving through zones SOOO much better.

To your questions:
Across the gaming industry, there are only a few titles that show any performance increase from SLI or Crossfire.

That may change in the future, but right now, you're only going to see benefit when pushing into extreme resolutions.

DoF is the verboten! Kill it. KIIIILLLLLLL IT. Hit my rigs and settings link to see what should die in a fire and what's ok to run.

Also, there's a new sticky in the tech forum that's about as up to date as I've got on ATI settings that I should probably link to in my sig, but I don't have any more room to do so.

AG,

I'm pretty sure that the cause of the massive stuttering while the contact list loads the first time is specifically related to the contact images. They aren't static as one would expect. Remember the bug where your contacts would occasionally have auras?

Static pictures wouldn't have that problem.

ATI drivers under XP are ATI drivers under XP. You should experience everything on a WIntel Mac under bootcamp XP that a normal WIntel box without bootcamp would.

I'd be shocked if there were any differences at all.

Nice clean lines there.