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Quote:Originally Posted by ChainedBulldog
Thank you. I'll try that if the original problem recurs.
Any idea what's causing the new problem?
Also, just had a crash to desktop when using the mouse to look upward. Is that a no-no?
Honestly, not a clue. I know just enough about Macs to never use them for much more than a doorstop.
I will say this though. Since i19, the client has been SIGNIFICIANTLY less stable than it was in the past.
Prior to i19, 99+% of my crashes were from being on long periods of time, memory leaking, and then running face-first into the 1.5+ GB instability zone for 32-bit Windows apps.
Now, I can start up the client, stand there for 5 minutes not touching a thing and have the client spontaneously crash to desktop on me. -
Quote:Good for you. Again, how the forums performed (and how they work now) FOR YOU is a function of how the forums are supposed to work + quirks on the server end + quirks on your end.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I've seen the time-outs. Hitting back on my browsert restored my post every time. Reloading the page would also restore my post. Every time.
Again, a misconfigured proxy can cause this issue. Along with certain browser add-ins.Quote:Hey, if these boards can be made to STOP DESTROYING MY POSTS, I wouldn't complain. At work, I have a "back" button on my mouse. More often than not, I'll accidentally squeeze that with my thumb when I attempt to use the mouse. A lot of times I'll open a new tab to look at a dictionary or do a google search, only to accidentally do that in the same tab I'm posting in (I've set Firefox to not select new tabs as I open them). I've had a few instances when Firefox actually crashed on me, too. And recently, I've had instances where hitting Submit sends me in 6-minute page load, followed by a blank page, forcing me to hit "Back" and resubmit, only to find my post no longer exists when I back up.
Your ISP and possible proxy servers they run react to different softwareQuote:And again - how is this a problem with my ISP if this has been going on with this forum software from the day it was introduced, whereas I NEVER EVER had that with the old boards?
wait for it...
wait for it...
DIFFERENTLY.
If the current board is using post tracking methodologies not transparent to a web proxy, or that run afoul of an add-in, you are going to get different behavior than the older board system.
Again, the fact that not everyone is having YOUR issues with YOUR level of severity and frequency points out the fact that YOUR issues are at least partially on YOUR end. Otherwise the user experience would be uniform for everyone.
Since this is NOT the case, and everyone is NOT having YOUR issues with YOUR level of severity and frequency.
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Quote:"Never" huh?Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Your translation is incorrect. The old boards NEVER destroyed posts on me unless I accidentally closed the tabs in question or the entire browser.
On the old board I had timeouts that I couldn't back-button from (and thus, lost posts). And that was using Firefox. I don't use IE. Period.
As of right now we have dueling anecdotes. Huzzah!
So you're saying you lose posts when you purposefully (or accidentally) navigate away from the forums and that simply re-entering the URL doesn't restore what you typed.Quote:The old forums did not "default" any of my text fields to anything at all. I'm not sure how they worked exactly, but I know that if I quoted someone, wrote text and accidentally hit one of my Firefox quick links, then returning to my post would see the text box written to where I'd gotten it to. This includes even instances where I've lost power to the building, and upon restoring my tabs, Firefox will also restore what I've written in the text fields. Because of how the new forums are set up, this does not happen if I quote, which is what I do most of the time.
The new forums are, in fact, VASTLY inferior for retaining posts than the old ones were.
I've been on multiple vBulletin systems that function this same way.
Is it different than how the old boards handled it? YES.
Again, if your ISP is using a proxy and it isn't set up correctly, THIS IS EXPECTED BEHAVIOR. The board isn't dropping a massive number of tracking cookies onto your machine. Just a logon cookie and a timing cookie for the most part.Quote:And they are completely incapable of tracking what I've read, whereas the old ones were almost always spot on.
The boards DO have a new search cutoff. Usually it's a 10-20 minute window. I don't remember what the longest cutoff time I've seen on this board. This cuts down on server load by caching the last search for a specific amount of time. It makes it more inconvenient for heavy users. But you aren't directly footing the hardware and bandwidth bills for the board.Quote:I have long since given up using the "take me to the latest post" function here because IT IS WORTHLESS. It has always been worthless, and it continues to be worthless now, to the point where I wonder why read posts are even tracked when that tracking is ALWAYS wrong. In fact, I can guarantee you that about half an hour after I make this post, the boards will insist it's a new post that I haven't read before, despite being MY OWN.
Again, I'm sorry that you're having such issues with the boards. And I acknowledge some of it may be tweaks made to the server software itself. But I still maintain that at least some of it are problems from your end. -
Quote:Thanks for filling in for me SP. Got lazy. Too much caloric intake yesterday.Originally Posted by SuckerPunch
If you hit Command + Space, that should pop up Spotlight. Type in "Activity Monitor", and run the application that appears.
In the list of processes there, if you still see City of Heroes, even after "closing" it, select it from the list, and then click the "Quit Process" button in the top left. That will forcefully stop the process. -
Quote:All I can say is that your experience is NOT universal among users. As such, it's less likely that the problem is the forums themselves and more likely that it's either something on your end or on one of the hops directly in front of you. As has been noted, flaky proxy servers at your ISP can easily explain the bizarre behavior you're experiencing.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Which I would have believed, if the new forums had not turned into an EVEN BIGGER mess pretty much the day they went online. The new forum software has never, ever, EVER been able to track my unread posts, always bringing me back either to the start of threads or to posts I read days ago, tagged as read yet are still showing up as new, or otherwise marking all posts in all forums as read, even the ones I've never seen.
If that's the case, this has nothing to do with the forums.
At worst, you've got a nasty confluence of minor board issues being exacerbated by your own system/network issues.
Translation: The current board destroys posts on occasion. The old one did to, but you're supposedly noticing it more now. And you're frustrated enough that the rose-colored filter is now firmly in place on the old boards.Quote:Furthermore, the old forums were far less likely to destroy my posts if my page failed to load, apparently because quoting doesn't so much put text in a text field as load a page that assumes text in a text field. I've lost far too many posts for stupid reasons here it's not even funny.
Quote:I mean, I don't know what the back end of the thing is, but I know that, as a user, my experience with the forums degraded SIGNIFICANTLY with the change, because both the features and the outlook of these forums simply don't work as well as those of the old forums. I don't know who or what is at fault here, but the reason I ask "why" is it seems the change has brought us nothing but trouble, with the possible exception embedding images now being allowed.
Again, while these issues are not unique to you, they're not happening to everyone. Please keep this firmly in mind.
As for people who're getting intermittent...transient errors of a similar flavor, please note that similar things happen on PBPBB, SMF, UBBThreads, and various other board software as well. I've run PHPBB and SMF for years. I see the same intermittent behavior (logffs, loss of posts, timeouts, etc) on these platforms as well. -
Quote:Forums that at least can be maintained and upgraded. The old software was just a custom mess with no way forward.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
You know, I don't want to argue phpBB vs. vBulletin, but why was it ever necessary to switch forum software in the first place? I mean, the old forums had their problems, obviously, but so what? What did we gain that hasn't been disabled already?
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Quote:This sounds like the app is crashing but not actually shutting down/closing.Originally Posted by ChainedBulldog
Well, I think I found out what was causing that, but I have a new problem.
The -1712 code problem came up while I had tried twice to start CoH after it crashed to desktop. The original crash was caused by some Bluetooth app that went nuts for some unknown reason. I don't have any Bluetooth stuff so I disabled the Bluetooth app in the top bar. Then I tried to start CoH. It didn't seem to start, so I tried again. Then I got the -1712 error, which apparently happens when you try to open CoH twice. So, that problem has not recurred.
Pop your Activity Monitor and see if you have a hung process in there.
If so, kill it and try re-launching again. -
Quote:Uhm. HUH?!?Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I remember this happening to me. I brought an Axe/Shield Brute to the ITF, and at one point I realised I wasn't doing any damage to the Honoree.
There's absolutely no way to damage the Honoree in the ITF. Mostly because he's not in the ITF at all.
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Quote:Nonono. Sam should be able to solo the forums if he wants to...Originally Posted by BanzaiBadger
Obviously you need to team up to handle the challenge of these forums.
You're okay with that aren't you?
(And because the smileys here aren't big enough to convey it...)
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Okay, as has been noted, your drivers are just a TEENSY SMIDGE out of date.
Latest version of the drivers that'll work with your card are the 260.99 (and yes that's a link to them).
However, some people have been having problems with the most recent version of the drivers. So if you do, here's links to a couple of the older versions going from newest to oldest. Note: I'm only going to include the WHQL-vetted drivers, not the betas.
260.89
258.96
257.21
197.45
Honestly, that's as far back as I'm gonna go, (and probably father back than you should have to roll back, since anything older than the 258 series gets CoH whinging about "out of date drivers" on the load screen). -
My first 50 was Hyperstrike. Took just under 3 months (not solid, 3 months of real world time, less in-game) to get to 50. Mostly because I played him constantly. He probably would have done better had a gotten a better handle on the content earlier. Most of his time was NOT spent in missions, but out street-sweeping.
Never...
Ever...
Again...
Now, back when epics unlocked at 50, there was SOMETHING of a reason to race for 50. That and I wanted to have an alt that could participate in the high level stuff.
As such, Hyper paid a price. He bypassed a LOT of contacts. As such, there are zones he just does NOT have store contacts, etc in. And I missed out on a lot of chances to pound face in some seriously cool missions.
My stalker took longer. Partially because sometimes it was just too damn EASY to stealth missions. However, I had a lot more fun with her.
Right after that, I made a determined push to get my first villain, my corruptor, Domina up to 50.
My controller took about 8 months. Mostly because I put him down for a while post-40.
My warshade, Inion, from conception in August/November of 2008, just hit 50 after i19 hit. So about 2 years.
My Stone/Fire tank took about 8 months. Altitis.
My bubble defender took about a year and a half.
Hoping my SS/Inv brute The Man From BEATDOWN makes 50 sometime next month. -
Quote:I have the comp in my SG. I'm probably NOT the person to coordinate the raid though.Originally Posted by Hestis
I need the badge and the shard on my badger, but don't have the computer for the SG to start it. Would anyone be interested in running one of these anytime soon?
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Can we get your COH-Helper and Hijackthis dumps pls?
Links to get them in my sig. -
Quote:Originally Posted by TonyV
I know this may be a weird thought, but not all of us read every forum every day. Some of us don't even read some forums at all, and some of us don't perform exhaustive searches when we just want to share an amusing silly video with the community.
Say it ain't so Joe! Say it ain't so!
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1: Sets you up for another AS.
2: Stops that big bad enemy whose kidney you just shish kebabed from turning around and spanking you into goo immediately.
3: Gives you a chance to recover a bit if their alpha DOES land. -
Dear Kris,
I CAN call you Kris right?
I was very very good this year.
And, at the same time, very very evil. You could say I was very good at evil.
What I'd like for Christmas (and never mind that Jupiter-sized Annihilation Cannon pointed at the North Pole) are:
One of these.
And maybe a couple of these.
And, just for grins, get me a copy of Acronis and maybe an upgrade for VMWare.
Oh wait. I just looked at my bank statement. You already got them for me.
Thanks! Maybe I'll let you live until next year after all! -
[QUOTE=HwaRang;3394487]Thanks for replies.
Sorry need clarification...(Noob here) Err...I may have mis-stated something. I asked:
**SNIP**
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Ah.
Okay. Pretty much everyone here thought that you were talking the SATA data cables. THOSE are one-to-one.
The power cables, you can string pretty much as many devices as you have connectors for. Granted, if you're running a ton of 10,000 rpm drives you might want to consider a bit of load balancing...just in case. But usually there's exactly zero problem with daisy-chaining them on the power line. -
Quote:LOL!Originally Posted by TonyV
I hate it when people bug the developers about adding features, especially when it comes to holiday events. But can we please get a level 90 Saint Nick next year? (And if so, you have to have him say, "Merry Christmas, you n00bs!" after the carnage.)
I don't follow The Guild religiously. But I always love their stuff. -
Likely it's "Old Blue Eyes". They just reverted him to human for "a short period". So he'll probably be normal when the Annihilus bugs eat him.
Then, about a year down the road, one of them will crap out a pebble and we'll have The Thing back. -
Quote:Translation: If you use it within the narrow range of functions it's built for, it's all gravy. It's when you start getting outside of that purview is when it starts falling over.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Apple's implicit marketing message is that their products "just work", and "right out of the box" at that. The iPad is the natural extension of this: an unmatched, utterly self-contained computing device that requires minimal setup and maintenance. Even as it pushes the boundaries of existing tablets, it shouldn't be mistaken for a notebook or a smartphone.
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Quote:1: Nice case. Have one myself.Originally Posted by HwaRang
Hey folks,
Happy Holidays!! And I hope all is well.
I am just about done assembling my new COX rig!! On a side note, wow, I can't believe how much of a time sink assembling first computer can be--especially cable management...
Details you might need to know:
1. Case--Cooler Master CM 690
2. PSU--Silverstone strider 750w (80 plus Silver)
3. Mobo--Asus M4a88td-v evo/usb 3
4. GPU--One GTX 460 1 gig.
2: Decent PSU.
3: Not familiar with that particular board.
4: Good choice.
No. Old IDE/ATAPI cables, you could string two devices. SATA is all one device per-cable.Quote:Two questions regarding "cable management" (I honestly could not get "google" to answer):
1. With one Sata cable can I run both Hard drive and Dvd burner on same line? I know IDE, you should not.
As long as you're not stringing other devices on the same power "branch" line, you should be okay.Quote:2. On a molex cable line, can I run three 120 mm fans safely. Or should I run two molex cables total (one with one and second with two?).
Thanks in advance. And I hope everyone has a great holiday!! -
Quote:What? You don't think the Reality Distortion Field pays it's own power bills do you?Originally Posted by Cynical_Gamer
It's the smug tax.
And Steve is ALWAYS in need of a new turtleneck.
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Quote:Do people a favor. Give "the best" a rest.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
At the end of the day, SS is not the best ST damage set (something like fourth now IIRC), nor is it one of the best AoE sets. It's also a commonly resisted damage type, so that's another knock against it.
Trying to balance against an upper-end outlier is a poor choice.
SS is a nice "plethora" set.
You get a nice powerful ST showing. You get a nice AoE showing. ANd you even get a decent ranged attack on top of that. You get a mix of stun/hold/KU/KB on top of damage.
As to swapping FS to KB. There's only one answer fitting enough for this.
HELL *BLEEP!* NO!
I'm playing a tank. Not a blaster. Not a scrapper. Not a controller. Not a *INSERT AT HERE*.
I *WANT* those guys RIGHT *BLEEP!* THERE!
I *WANT* them flopping around like landed fish.
I *WANT* them TAKING damage and unable to DO damage while WITHOUT having to chase them all over the damn place.
I *WANT* them adding to my armors on an Inv/SS tank while taking damage and unable to do damage.
I *WANT* them neutralized so they can't stand up and decide to aggro on the nearest teammate.
Sorry Johnny. But NO.
Please stop fiddling with things that are NOT broken. -
Quote:Yup. This is what procs and temp powers are for.Originally Posted by Airhammer
Doesnt bother me one bit. Its what like ten seconds..
Taunt them (and fire the PZ proc), then step up with Sands and/or Nemesis Staff (which ignore the damage crash), then back to your chain. -
Quote:Gleemail as a STORAGE system?Originally Posted by Nethergoat
after my recent 3,000,000,000 mishap I'm never storing inf in gleemail again.
I mean I got it back and all, but it took over a week.
That's another nice thing about the 88's, I don't really have to worry about 'inf storage' any more. =P
FOOK NO!
Gleemail as a TRANSPORT system?
Okay.
I'd only keep it there long enough to alt to the receiving character and claim it.