EarthWyrm

Best of luck. If you could please, post what step comes next in the sequence after "uninstall your anti-virus"? I was curious, but that was the point where I found a stable set of drivers and my ticket was closed.

Interesting. This is good because it may open up a slot for me to put somewhere else, which I'll need to slot up Energize.
This one, however, concerns me a little. It creates a playstyle conflict within the set.

One of the things /EA has always done in a unique way is manage aggro, via unsuppressed stealth in Energy Cloak. Solo and in small teams, you can be much more selective in what gets pulled and what doesn't. Being the "stealth brute" is kind of cool.

I don't have any objection to a taunt aura for /EA (is the taunt component being pulled out of Energy Drain, btw?). I'm a little curious about the logic of putting it in the mez protection toggle, though. If I want to be stealthy in the way the set is designed to allow, I have to give up mez protection? That seems like kind of a steep trade-off.

In large teams it won't matter, because everything is going to be aggro'd anyway. But this does create some conflicts in solo/small team play styles that don't exist for /EA brutes currently.

Slottable for defense this might be interesting. I'll be curious to see duration information.

I've been waiting for this. I just need to figure out where to scrounge enough slots to get this slotted "properly".

I really like the changes. I just hope some consideration will be given to putting the taunt aura in a toggle other than Entropic Shield/Aura, or moving the mez protection to a different toggle.

11.2 isn't a magic bullet for everyone. Unfortunately, it seems like different systems "like" different versions of the drivers. I'd suggest going back to 11.5 to see if that fixes things for you (making sure to first fully uninstall the 11.6 and 11.2 drivers, of course).

Freakin' brilliant is what that is. Major kudos to whomever created that billboard.

Even though the Server Status page says they are.

Actually, cognitive dissonance theory explains this behavior perfectly. People want their attitudes and their behaviors to be consistent with one another, in order to avoid cognitive dissonance. If an attitude is, "I hate this game," then behaviors that demonstrate hatred of the game, creating attitude-behavior consistency, are the most direct way to avoid any dissonance occurring.

I, on the other hand, am pleased with the direction the game has taken (in general) and therefore tend to engage in positive behaviors toward it. Dissonance avoided!

Understanding cognitive dissonance also allows wonderful manipulation of other human beings during situations like jury duty, but that's a topic for another day.

Win-flavored awesome.

With cream filling, even.

Well, the specs are up at the top - as you well know. =) If we were to invest in an upgrade, what would be a good card that would still fit with the system as designed? I can't buy now, because the nature of my job makes it such that I don't get a full paycheck again until September, but knowing what I'm looking for would be good. So, something probably mid-range and not ATI?

Now that I've built the systems, I'm much more comfortable with the idea of changing out something as minor as a video card!

It won't fix things for everyone, though. I tried it, and still got the freezes on occasion. Up next: 11.4.

I don't know. I have a laptop that also has Win7 on it, but it uses a much lower-grade video chipset and I never get freeze-ups on it. I probably just have to keep walking my settings down until it (hopefully) doesn't happen any more.

The upgrade to the 11-6 drivers didn't end up successful. After the two load-out freezes, I had another full freeze-up mid-BAF. In about 3 hours of play I crashed 3 times. On the flip side, my wife's computer, which is built with the exact same specs, was used as a second-account for everything but the BAF, and never froze up at all. However, she *has* gotten the freeze-up crash at other times. It just didn't happen today.

Thanks for the advice! I'll give 11-4 a spin. 11-3 is such an improvement over 11-5 that I'm kind of gun-shy on trying anything "newer". Worst case, I'll keep 11-3 on the desktop and can always uninstall 11-4 if it gives me problems.

Edit: Ah, they want me to go to the 11-6 drivers. Awesome. I guess I'm the guinea pig...

There are a number of threads from folks who have reasonable, well-above-minimum, systems, who are getting a lot of crashes right now. Mine is one of them.

I'm currently working through things with NCSoft's tech support. Unfortunately, their first-line suggestion is to run the game in Safe Mode and see if the problem replicates.

This is unfortunate because the default resolution in Safe Mode is frickin' enormous. The chat box takes up almost 25% of my screen! I know I can minimize it, but the problem only happens for me when I'm in teams, and not being able to see the chat box while I'm teamed is a real issue.

Last night I had a crash (while teamed) in which when the game froze, (a) my attribute monitor window was opened, (b) my "experience to next level" (which I track normally) went to a negative number larger than 2 billion (yes, it could have been -2^32, or whatever the big number that maxes the database is), (c) all my temp powers were greyed out, and (d) even though I wasn't in a TF, my team window was replaced by a SF window with the "Quit Strike Force" button. I suppose those could all be graphical glitches that happened when the game froze, but it seemed very weird to me.

Still, it was only one crash in three hours, which is much better than the six or seven over five hours that I had Monday night.