Hyperstrike

Sorry for not being concise enough for you about Stardock's software on your machine.

On a side note, "Stardock worked hand in hand with Microsoft".

CoH is not a product of Microsoft and doesn't use Microsoft's DirectX graphics tools. It uses OpenGL. Assuming that because it doesn't necessarily interfere with basic desktop display functions and DirectX-tied graphics doesn't mean that this is correct and true for OpenGL (a path Microsoft desperately wants to be thought of as "legacy").
As noted, in the past use of various pieces of Stardock software have caused stability issues with CoH and turning it off can relieve the issue in some cases.

Then your registry entries are borked.

***ADDENDUM***

On a second read. And from the followup post by Texas Justice it sounds like you were going into WINDOWS safe mode.

This isn't what I meant. I meant use the CoH safemode.
Open the NCSoft Launcher, right-click on the game and select Properties. This window will come up.




Check the checkbox and click OK. Then start the game. This should completely blot previous settings.
From there, re-adjust the settings in-game and go from there.
Then, when you're done, restart the launcher, go back in and uncheck "Launch in Safe Mode" or it'll blot your settings again the next time you run the game.



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Good call on using Test/Beta as a reference.

AFAIK this is a known issue that doesn't have a solution implemented yet.

Bah! That's nowhere NEAR as fun as the "giant slingshot and a prayer" method!

Yeah, the landings are a bit rough, but hey!

You'll want the piggs directory. Everything else is relatively small.
If you want to save any missions, costumes, etc, you're probably just better off grabbing the whole directory.

1. Install the NCSoft launcher.
2. Install CoH.
3. Once the download begins, stop and exit the launcher
4. Copy the original CoH directory into place over the top of the newly installed one.
5. Remove any .checksum files.
6. Restart the launcher and allow it to do updates and file verification.
7. Once that's done you should be able to log into CoH, reset your video settings, and party on.

Not to put too fine a point on it.

You still get your standard Epic Power Pools as a controller. But you can unlock the patron pools (which'll then be available during respecs while you stay villain/rogue). You could then switch back to hero and the Patron pool powers are still functional (but if you respec as a hero/vigilante they wouldn't be a choice during the respec).

Best bet for info is Paragon Wiki.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Patron_Power_Pools

The second link will tell you what power choices are available in Patron pools for controllers.

Controllers get the Dominator choices for everything save Mace Mastery.
They get a unique set of choices for Mace Mastery (Focused accuracy instead of PFF to avoid being able to double PFF).

Mission Architect: Interesting and fun, but ultimately subject to Sturgeons's law.

Fitness will become Inherent the next time you respec, freeing up whatever power choices you initially took in the old Fitness pool.

Some good things to have:

Mids' Hero Designer: Allows you to tweak and fiddle with your build without ever spending a single inf.

Titan Sentinel: A nice tie in with the Titan City Info Tracker. But the piece of pure genius is the fact that it can actually export a copy of your real-time build from the game itself and let you import it into Mids.

Possibly a bug.

You have approximately 20 posts across 4 threads at this point.

None of your threads (and I've looked at them) have any CoH Helper or HijackThis data in them.

If you could provide them here, maybe we can come up with a solution for you.

In short, if you have to explain it, you've already failed. And in this instance, the humor isn't helping anything (a'la Golden Girl's wink icons all the time). Mostly due to your lack of segregation as to what is your serious POV and what is your non-serious.

YOU may think it's "obvious". Unfortunately text is a horrifically bad medium for subtle emotional shading (unless you get EXTREMELY verbose).

If you set up the launcher to auto-launch CoH, it'll download the updates before it lets you in to play.

Ah. Proof of ignorance being bliss.

That's fine. There's people out there who think that the moon landing was faked too. And flat-earthers. And creationists.

You're always entitled to be wrong about something.

The fact is, the metric is busted. And badly. You currently have the trials set up in a way that marginalizes several ATs and in some cases makes certain power combinations completely and utterly useless. Not less useful or marginally useful. USELESS.

And I'm sorry, but running the trial endlessly as a fifth wheel to get the Incarnate powers that FINALLY let you contribute to to a trial smacks of the leeching you hold in such contempt.

You're wrong. If someone comes in and door-sits the trial, it's up to their team or league captains TO BOOT THEM FROM THE TRIAL.

If it's okay with these people to leave such leeches in the trial, c'est la vie. That's the leaders' decision.

And nobody's asking for rares and very rares all the time. But some people aren't getting ANY. EVER. After running dozens (or in some cases HUNDREDS).

And the only options? Wait weeks/months to build up an appropriate amount of Empyrean merits or pay ruinous (for most people) inf tributes.

Well gee! Thanks! Nice to see that players are penalized because the system itself is borked.

You're kidding right? It's not the trope because it's too similar to the trope?

No. No we don't. It's a common meme. Simply because there are other examples of the meme expressed elsewhere and earlier doesn't mean there was direct copying done.

Depends on the local reseller.

The packages aren't all the same in all areas.

Truly truly truly? Outrageous?

No. Unless you're trying to run multiple clients simultaneously and play them all.

Honestly, a waste of money but hey... Some people put spinners on their oversized 30-something inch tires too.

For general game PERFORMANCE? No.
For game startup? Yes.
For the portions of zone loading that are dependent on disk I/O? Yes.

Warning: Stay away from the OCZ Vertex (and Vertex2) and Agility (and Agility 2) drives for not.

They did a stealth "upgrade" of their flash memory in these lines (smaller manufacturing process) without refreshing their model numbers or anything.

It reduced the capacity of the drives and performance of the drives took a nosedive as well.

Probably because Stardock is using some of the of the OGL or DirectX rendering pipelines for some of it's desktop effects.

So when CoH tries to hit a register that's already in use *WHAM!*.

Do you have the old, original PhysX drivers installed? If not, that card's doing nothing save sucking down power.

Since nVidia bought AGEIA a few years back, they changed things. nVidia PhysX isn't quite the same thing as the old PhysX model. And if you don't have the old PhysX drivers installed (and betting the nVidia drivers wipe references from the AGEIA stuff) CoH won't detect it.

And yes, you probably wouldn't have had this problem a year ago. There have been numerous upgrades since then and the graphical engine is a bit heavier than it used to be. Also, if you're on older video card drivers, you may run into problems as well.

Take a look in the "asking for help" link in my sig. Give us the CoH Helper and HijackThis logs. And your cards can take the current 270.61 series drivers. These are what you should be on.

Now SLI isn't going to help you a whole hell of a lot unfortunately. The way the game is coded, it'll help bring up your minimum FPS a little bit, but won't really add to your maximum FPS.