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It also isn't identifying your monitor model which would make me suspect Windows is using its generic SVGA monitor driver as opposed to one specifically for your monitor.
This may be down to the type of cable you are using to connect your monitors but even a basic VGA cable should pass back the monitor details - I'm not sure about the HDMI spec if you are using that but would expect it to do so also.

However your CoH resolution is set higher than Windows is reporting that your monitor is capable of. This may be part of the problem.

Check if you have a driver disk provided for your monitor and install that if necessary - most won't need a specific one as the drivers provided with Windows are fairly comprehensive.
Then run the harware detection wizard. It should be able to detect both monitors correctly, reporting back Manufacturer, model number, and max resolution

Bear in mind that the game requirements increased with GR. Whilst most of this applies to Ultra Mode graphics, several maps both zonal and mission, costume options - both PC and NPC and powersets have been revamped increasing the graphical load even when not using UM.
Also are all the other games you are running using DirectX? CoH is an OpenGl game and so they may not be directly comparable.

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No - just the team.

Subscribe for a month. That will grant you the full number of slot unlocks. When you drop back to Premium after it expires all slots should be locked and you will get unlock tokens to unlock any you want up to the limit of 2+number purchased+any granted via length of subscription.

Its up to you as to whether you use them to unlock a slot with a character already in it or an empty slot.

Note this will only work if you haven't already allocated the full number of slots to that server whilst VIP

Nope since then - this is the past year - I'd played it during the reactivation period last year but not since until just before Freedom launched

Based on what happened with my old US account when I reactivated it, having not played it for about a year, the items I had in auction slots were still present as stored although the auction itself was cancelled. I'm sure I had some things up for sale as well as any buy requests.

I've CTRL Clicked the power in the past to make them do exactly that :P

Note the link refers to the .NET 3.5 framework. This is significantly different from .NET4 so if you have .NET 4 framework installed but not .NET 3.5 you still need to install .NET3.5

including the caster.

Almost
You can use it in the corridors through the lifts and also in one of the vaults (that one's almost certainly a bug) and also in the Ski Lodge, elsewhere TP supression is in effect so no TP of any type including Base, Mission and PD in the main area will work.


Shouldn't do - it should be interupted immediately to try to use it (well after 1 tick). If its completing the animation that is a bug.

Assuming you use it from an area that isn't suppressed there are another couple of possibilites.
Base shut down - you will go to the base and be immediately kicked back to the base portal exit location. Not sure if there actually is one for PD - there should be for all zones - its not the same location as the portal in most if not all zones (some have an exit location even though there is no portal Striga, Hive etc)
No base created - in this case you won't leave and the tp power will be used and need to recharge. - this could also happen if the base server is down.

When they want it restored because they didn't want to delete it after all - just remind them of that request and put an empty file on their PC

Depends on the source control you are required to use. I'm stuck with TFS which is very quick to check it out because that only flags it as checked out and doesn't necessarily do a get which is workable as long as you are the only one working on the code and so have the latest already loaded. Checking it back in takes time however hence the difference in my timings


Working on Enterprise software at least limits the hardware and software you have to contend with.
Of course there is then the problem of senior management deciding on a policy change and having it implemented without telling the development team that its going to take all the spare machine resources.
And definitely don't forge the "We've decided to implement this new <insert name of random box ticking exercise> it'll only take half an hour"

You mean you get weeks off from support? Sounds like a dream job.

Hmm I also forgot the "User stuck on other side of Atlantic due to ash cloud" that I had a few months back. - that was about 6 weeks and the reason you can't get back to them is because they've left the company - at least after finding that bit out resolving the problem is easy.

Well I got a silver with Siphon speed+Hover last year so sounds likely

This being the single biggest failing on a typical bug report and it doesn't just apply to spelling errors.

The process of fixing something like this

Receive bug report
Attempt to reproduce bug from typical inadequate report typically ~5-10 minutes
Contact user to clarify - probably multiple times as users don't tend to respond ~ 5 minutes to 1 hour
Reproduce bug and identify cause of problem 15 mins to 1 day

get bug for approved to be fixed ~1 hour - 1 week for decision

If not approved put aside and fix something else until its priority increases.

When approved refamiliarise yourself with the cause ~5 mins to 1 hour

Check out code - few seconds
load code and any necessary prerequisites into editor - ~1-10 minutes
fix code ~few seconds to few hours
Developer test fix ~5 mins to 1 hour - (do the changes work)
check code back in - ~1 minute
carry out QC procedures ~1 hour
send for testing ~1 hour-1 day - (do the changes break anything else)
release to beta test ~1 week
release to live


as you can see that 5 second fix can easily take over an day after approval before it goes to beta, and can easily be a week or more just to get it approved.

The biggest problem as I said is that the bug reports received almost always do not give sufficient information to reproduce the bug - far less reproduce it consistently and if it can't be reproduced it can't be fixed. If it can only be intermittently reproduced then expect the time to diagnose the problem to increase at least 100fold.
This problem is not limited to CoH or even games software - its all software. I see it all the time where I get a screenshot of an error dialog with no clue as to what the user was doing when they received it - and that is when the users are being paid.

sort of! Windows will take the memory pages addressed by your graphics card and allocate that to the top of its address map. If the card is paging the memory on it then several of those pages can map to the same address space but yes in general subtract the size of your cards memory from 4gb - then knock off a bit more for other drivers etc typically 256 to 512 Mb. If you have more system memory than what is left it cannot be accessed by standard 32bit MS OSs.

a good rule of thumb is 1-2x physical memory in your case I'd go for something between 3Gb and 8Gb - this can come down if you have a lot of physical memory and indeed can be disabled altogether. Your system will continue to work perfectly well - up until it runs out of physical RAM then if you have a cache file your system will allocate more (incrementally by your system page size) until you run out of disk space at which point it will crash with an Out of Memory error. otoh if you do not have a cache enabled then you will see that error as soon as you run out of physical RAM.
Note also that accessing disc cache is a *LOT* slower than accessing physical RAM and this can be seen in CoH as lag spikes when your system needs to page memory to and from the cache file.
In short unless you fully understand how memory caching works don't disable it.

Ideally the cache should be located on your fastest disk and if the OS supports it then use a dedicated cache partition rather than a cache file (*nix variants do, I don't think Windows does). Just don't create a RAM disk and then put the cache on that! (actually that could be valid if you have more RAM than the OS can access AND have drivers and specialist software to access the rest. - Upgrading to a 64bit OS would probably be cheaper though.)