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Personally I'd go for the graphics card first. Then grab the processor second. Somewhere in between that I might also grab some more RAM and possibly upgrade to Windows 7

Most of the specs are in the "ok-ish" range. But the big issue here is the video card. CoH doesn't play nice on Intel's integrated cards. For that matter any integrated cards. But especially Intel's. Horrible horrible video cards.

You could try updating the drivers for the video card (They look corrupt), but I doubt you'll get any sort of a reasonable boost out of it.

The 5770 is equivalent to the GTX 275. Give or take of course. A quick search on Google should find you some comparisons between the 2 cards (The GTX 275 and the 5770). You could also read some comparisons between the 5770 and the 5870

I noticed this as well. It's actually happening on all auras in the character selection screen, not just the electric one. It started happening after the Updater was....updated.

This isn't a new bug. It's been happening for a while.

You have all of the updates from Windows Update? You don't have Service Pack 2 installed. Once you've done that, if the problem persists (And it really shouldn't as the updates to Windows and the video drivers have supposedly rid us of these types of crashes) there is a thread near the top that deals specifically with this type of an issue.

Here's a link to the thread.

I would recommend RealTemp or CoreTemp personally. They've both come in super handy since I upgraded to a Quad Core

First step is to post a CoH Helper log.

Do you have all of the latest updates to Windows? Are you running the absolute latest drivers for your video card? The CoH Helper log will help answer those questions

I use pre-paid credit cards (Or gift credit cards) with NCSoft all the time. In fact, that's how I generally buy my game time and all the extras such as booster packs etc.

Hey guys. I had a bit of an issue last night (not related to CoH) and I would really love to get some insight as to what it might have been.

I was in CoH yesterday and I opened up my nVidia Control Panel to check something out and the machine locked up. So I forced the machine down and started it back up. The "Starting Windows" screen came up but the little animation didn't start. After a few minutes I realized it was completely frozen. So I restarted it again and this time attempted to boot into Safe Mode. It wouldn't. It froze on Classpnp.sys. Unfortunately, this could mean that either Classpnp.sys itself was corrupt or the file being loaded directly after it is. So I started my research...

I looked up some information on issues with Classpnp.sys and it looked like it may in fact be the culprit. Unfortunately, it's one of those issues that you find a million people with but no one with any real answers. Each one has resolved the issue with a different solution so it's nearly impossible to know what the actual cause is without trying it all out yourself. Fair enough.

I won't bore you with the million things I tried (such as unplugging all USB devices, swapping memory etc) as they're generally the things you start with in these cases. Eventually I got around to thinking about what changes I had made over the last few days. I installed some updates from Windows and I upgraded my nVidia drivers. Excellent. Now if I could only get into Safe Mode, I can remove those things and see if it will work! What a fantastic idea, if only I could actually get into Safe Mode!

I took a risk and decided to pull out the video card and run the integrated graphics to see if it was nVidia specifically (Remember it froze when I tried to open the nVidia Control Panel). BAM. Windows came right up without so much as a second thought.

Interesting. So I took the opportunity to go in and restore to a few days prior. Which it allegedly did successfully. After it's done I shut the machine down and pop the nVidia card back in. Hangs at the same spot. So now I'm getting ticked because what seems like an easy fix is turning into something really annoying. I decide to read a bit more and I come across some people who have swapped out their Classpnp.sys file from either a clean install or an older OS. So I decide to boot into an Ubuntu Live CD to rename the Classpnp.sys file and go from there. Ubuntu's first screen comes up and asks if I want to try Ubuntu without installing, I say yes. It hangs. Yay!

I remove the nVidia card again and go back to integrated graphics and the Ubuntu Live CD boots up just fine (But of course!). I go in, rename the Classpnp.sys to Classpnp.bak. I then shut down, put the card back in and start it back up. This time, the Starting Windows animation starts up, get's half way through it's swirling and promptly reboots. So I try to load into Safe Mode. Now, we hang at drive.sys. At this point I'm really getting irritated and I start to think the video card is bad and I'm cursing under my breath (Ok, I was really cursing loudly).

So I went into the BIOS (which I had done before) and looked over the settings again. I decided to reset to defaults (something I swear I did last night), restart and low and behold here I am typing this post. It should be noted that I haven't touched the BIOS in like 2 months and the changes I made back when I was in there were stupidly minor and really had nothing to do with anything other then maybe the boot sequence.

So I go and look.....and Windows didn't even restore back to before this issue. Just as a side note. Everything is running just fine now.

Any thoughts? Ideas? It's ok to laugh at me too

I have a GTS 250 and PhysX does not work no matter what software/drivers I install. CoH was never programmed to function with anything other than Ageia's PhysX card. I do however see things like mailboxes exploding with letters, leaves falling etc. These are just side effects of having a card capable of those extra high settings. In your graphics settings "Ageia PhysX" is not greyed out?

I was standing in Atlas in the AE building and I lost connection to the map server. Now it says my toon is still logging out.

Update: Aaaand now it's working again

Well, if you're not sure about the specs....just ask

This portion is really the most important part:

• Engine clock speed: 850 MHz
• Processing power (single precision): 1.36 TeraFLOPS
• Polygon throughput: 850M polygons/sec
• Data fetch rate (32-bit): 136 billion fetches/sec
• Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 34 Gigatexels/sec
• Pixel fill rate: 13.6 Gigapixels/sec
• Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 54.4 Gigasamples/sec
• Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz
• Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps
• Memory bandwidth: 76.8 GB/sec
• Maximum board power: 108 Watts
• Idle board power: 18 Watt

Aside from that, the max resolution is 2560x1600. But this also depends on your monitor. The card is capable of going that high, but your monitor's max resolution may be lower than that. Is there anything else in particular you need an explanation on?

All you need to do to get the specs is go to the website

Specs for the 5770: http://www.amd.com/us/products/deskt...fications.aspx

And here's a chart to show you were it stands in comparison to the other cards (including against nVidia cards): Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart - Review Tom's Hardware : Best Graphics Cards For The Money: February '10

Personally, I'd wait until the nVidia stuff is actually announced. Even if you don't plan to go with them, they may have something up their sleeve that may bring down some of the ATI prices. Better to wait the relatively small amount of time till the announcement than to pay more for something you might be able to get for less

Not to downplay any of what Miuramir has said, but as Smite_King mentioned your first order of business is updating your video drivers. Chances are that will resolve your issue. You just need to find a set of drivers that work well with your card. The latest should be ok for your card. If the crashing persists after using a newer set of drivers (Newer as in the latest or a few released behind the latest), then I would move on to hardware troubleshooting.