Hyperstrike
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Right now these services are going up and down faster than...*AHEM*...a thermometer being swapped back and forth between a blast furnace and a barrel of liquid nitrogen.
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Quote:Not to put too fine a point on it? YEAH.Originally Posted by je_saist
the problem is Intel not having a clue?Quote:Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
But, at the end of the day, the problem
Had something to that effect typed in. Been losing posts and parts of posts lately. Think I need to dig around on my system and network. I hate when goofy stuff like that happens. -
Quote:If the problem is the Intel being flaky and unstable, this is not something the CoH devs can realistically fix. It's not the CoH devs' job to rewrite Intel's drivers for them. There are work-arounds available to trick the Intel setup into being better behaved. But, at the end of the day, the "it's a problem" ball is in Intel's court.Originally Posted by Aeterna_NA
I tried that fix and it didn't exactly do much. Our CoH Helper logs won't do much, it's just the intel chips / drivers. I hope a developer is hearing us out on this, this is a huge issue that is preventing many users from accessing this wonderful game.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Luna de Nocturne
I think you have to be 35 or above to earn the Vanguard Merits. You can join teams at any level in the zone, but for the merits you need to be 35+ to earn any.
You have complete the Vanguard intro (on your own mission I belive) to unlock the ability to get VMs. You have to be above level 35 to get the mission.
That said, I'd love to see a multi-team Fire/Rad run at a ship raid some time soon. -
Okay, please don't think of me as a killjoy, but how are you going to overcome the Green mitos? Even with everyone in possession of a full set of nukes, I'm not sure you can overcome the healing ability of one set of them, let alone what'll happen on the other three blooms.
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Quote:Can you follow this link and provide us with the CoH Helper and Hijack This logs?Originally Posted by Kainne
Ok first i have to say this is the first time i have posted in here, but i'm getting frustrated as hell. I have a new HP laptop with Intel. And for some reason every time i log into game i can get on with no problem, and even play the game for a good while. Then all of a sudden i will get this crash. It comes up as a IG4Dev32.dll. I have uninstalled my graphics and reinstalled it and i didn't get that same crash again, and i got another .dll crash. The graphics are updated and i have checked numerous times and still have no idea why its doing that. I have even lowered the graphics in game so that its not so much stress, but still get the same outcome. I have 3gb of Ram so i know i have enough to run the game, just dont know why im still getting this crash. Can ANYONE help me out or have an idea why its doing that and maybe a resolution if at all possible!!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy
"I'm an elite super villian. I just destroyed a whole city and...ooops missed a box with my super punch. dang. Wait, let me try that again... (whiff). Dang it!."
It's that heady rush of "I'm a badass" power throwing his aim off. -
While I feel that the woman in the article got a horribly unfair shake on this, it highlights what I've been saying in security and hacking circles for years.
Don't put ANYTHING on the net that you wouldn't feel comfortable saying/doing/reproducing in front of a law enforcement officer, your mother, a job interviewer, and/or your boss.
Contrary to popular belief, spewing every last insignificant piece of minutae about your life into a venue of potentially SIX BILLION VIEWERS is NOT a good thing.
Yes, 99.999% of them probably will never see it. Of those that do, 99.99% won't really give a damn. Of the fraction of a percent that's left, at least a few are probably people in there you don't want to expose that kind of info to. No matter how harmless it seems at the time. -
Quote:Originally Posted by bamaWolfie
>.>
<.<
I've never seen the original Tron.
O.O
LUDDITE!
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Quote:Remember that Hot Feet isn't auto-hit.Originally Posted by Psionic_Flames
How does everyone slot hot feet? I am currently planning on slotting it with all 4 procs, and 2 end rdx, but the real question is are the procs worth it? By the way, the character I using is a fire/kin for farming. So if most of the time I am capped out in dmg would procs be the way to go? Or slot for end rdx only and use the slots somewhere else? Thanks.
You're going to want to slot some acc in there too.
Maybe go with an pair of Acc/Dam/End in there, and then procs. This'll give you a level 50 common IO's worth of Acc, Damage, and EndRed.
And you've got your own end-replenishment tool. So I'd call it good with 42% EndRed. -
Maybe a year or so ago, I'm mentoring a friends son through his first ITF.
I'd made it explicit that this was his first ITF, and that he wasn't a very experienced player. I'd also asked a few questions first that'd lead me to believe that the team captain was going to be running a sedate, non-speeded ITF.
We spash down several times in the first mission because he's running around like a madman and screaming for us to save him when he got too far ahead of us.
Essentially he was playing a "mastermind" and his teammates were his minions.
We finally finish it with some prodding from me, losing one person who got sick of the constant deaths.
So I have a talk with him and ask him to calm down a bit and stick with the team.
We get into the cyst mission and before most of us are done zoning, he's run off and gotten himself killed and is screaming for us to come get him so he doesn't have to go to the hospital.
One more drops and I don't have anything I can give him. So he hosps, and I inform him in team chat that if we were coordinating we wouldn't die so much.
He tells me that dying a bunch is no big deal. Another guy on the team with me says "WRONG ANSWER!" and drops. At this point he's already run off again and just let the kid with me know he should drop.
I have the player note still today and if I ever come across the guy again, I won't be teaming with him.
The next worst was also on an ITF. We'd gotten to Rommy almost seamlessly and then splashed down. We hit him four times and just couldn't do it, burning all our inspies doing so. We didn't have the damage to zerg (3 tanks) and the team leader kept trying to. Finally one other tank and I harrangued him into farming for inspies. So we farmed up a full set of inspies for everyone then proceeded in a classic nictus pull.
Down goes Rommy! Down goes Rommy!
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Quote:Okay, what might help is an actual budget. How much are you trying to spend? How much CAN you spend if a little extra will get you a system that's a major step up in performance?Originally Posted by ioshie
Okay, after taking all of these things into consideration, and reading a LOT of this thread I've decided to try again.
Here is the system I'm considering now:
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/saved/1CKX73
my question now is, am I making a mistake getting the 5770 instead of the 5850?
I know Positron said that the 5770 is working well, but... I don't know, is it going to last me? I mean, the 5770 isn't a "low end" card is it?
Keep in mind I play very few games on my pc. I miiiight try SW:TOR, but I'm mostly buying the GPU for CoX (and Going Rouge of course).
And honestly, were I you I'd go back to the GTX 460 over the 5770. The 5850 might perform better, but I don't think you can justify the price jump. It's not that the 5770 is a bad card or anything. It's just that the 460 is hands-down better. -
Quote:Offend not MMO-Kat!Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Not only is this cat totally unrelated to CoH, but the OP is blatently advertising at least two other MMOS - anything short of a life ban from all current and future NCSoft products will leave my faith in the forum rules badly shaken.
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Quote:Always dependent on how close you are to a product refresh. If *insert company here* is a month or two out from releasing a new generation, shave a few months off that.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Also one point that Hyperstrike didn't bring up is the market life span of a mid to high end video card is around 18 months and sometimes much less. If you went the buy one now, buy one later plan, think about getting that 2nd video card within 6 to 9 months of the card's introduction.
S'trewth!Quote:Cheap low end cards are around forever, I just saw an ATI 9250 in Staples this week, they had more than one and the boxes look brand new. Scary.
S'trewth!
Christ, up until about a year or so ago, it was still possible to find Rage Pro cards!
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Quote:Just be careful. As with any engine, sticking your hand near it can get you injured.Originally Posted by Rodoan
doesn't need power. Totally self-contained system. Gently stroke the back of the unit several times to hear the motor. Its a deep purring-type sound.
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Quote:Lemme guess, applies even if you're not there to say yes to it right?Originally Posted by Heartbreaker
Meet Patches.
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Quote:The site is a system integrator (Dell, Compaq, IBM), not a parts outlet (Newegg, TigerDirect, etc). There's almost always a markup assumed with parts to cover the costs of assembly and a small modicum of testing before the system goes out.Originally Posted by je_saist
So that site you link to is either overcharging you for the hardware in general, or they are taking a drastic hit on Nvidia cards to move inventory.
I disagree. Overwhelmingly, the people who implement SLI/Crossfire are those who do it FROM THE GET GO. Most of the people who buy an SLI system planning to "do it later" and get another card "when it's cheap" never do. Or, by the time they do, there are single card replacements that suck their legacy multi-card setups' doors off.Quote:As to the Motherboard... if you are going to be buying an Intel system, go ahead and spend out for a motherboard that will do both Crossfire and SLI.
If you do that you'll be set for multi-gpu regardless of who you get your multi-gpu from. -
Quote:Actually Chronos/Cronus are conflated on occasion (for an example, the Percey Jackson novels).Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
*my own record scratch sound effect*
Kronos/Cronos/Chronus/Aeon (Χρόνος) is the personification of Time. Kronus/Cronus (Κρόνος) is the Titan and father of Zeus, with the baby eating and whatnot.
You may continue.
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Step Number 12: Run the "Do a system scan and save a logfile"
Note: If you're on a Windows Vista or Windows 7 machine, you'll get this error. Even running as someone designated a system administrator.
If this happens, browse to the location where you have the file saved, right-click on it and select "Run as Administrator".
You'll have a text file automatically open for you with the results of your Hijack This session. Like the log file you created for CoH Helper, you can save this just in case.
Step Number 13: Go to the CoH Boards and into the Technical Issues & Bugs forum.
Step Number 14: Create a new post.
Give the post a decent title so people don't just get a "HELP ME!". It makes it easier on would-be helpers if they know what they're getting into.
Give a nice description of your problem in the body of the post. Anything and everything you can think of that might be affecting it. A breakdown of your system specs would be nice too.
Now, posts on the boards that are too long will truncate. And there's a LOT of data in the logs. So post only your CoH helper log into the first post.
Step Number 15: Create a follow-up post immediately. In this post, drop the contents of your Hijack This log.
Step Number 16: (For people having rubberbanding or inability to connect or stay connected).
(Information in Step 16 courtesy of The_Spad_EU)
In some cases, as in the aforementioned rubberbanding (you start moving, then snap back to your start point, repeatedly), or are having trouble connecting or staying connected to the game, running a pathping can help give some of us an idea what your network conditions are like.
Windows XP
- Click on the Start button.
- Click on RUN
- Type "CMD" (without the " ") and hit ENTER. This will bring up a command prompt window.
- Then type the following.
Code:It'll sit there for about 5 minutes not appearing to do anything, but it's just outputting to a text file (C:\pathping.txt) rather than the console so that it doesn't bugger up the formattingpathping cityofheroes.com > C:\pathping.txt
Windows Vista/7
- Click on the Windows button.
- In the search box type "CMD" (without the " ") and hit ENTER. This will bring up a command prompt window.
- Then type the following.
It'll sit there for about 5 minutes not appearing to do anything, but it's just outputting to a text file (C:\pathping.txt) rather than the console so that it doesn't bugger up the formattingCode:pathping cityofheroes.com > C:\pathping.txt
In Vista/7 if you don't have administrative permissions, you will need to put the file somewhere OTHER than the root of the C:\ drive or you'll get access errors.
If you want to run with Administrative permissions:
- Click on the Windows button
- Click on All Programs
- Click on Accessories
- Right-click on Command Prompt and choose "Run as Administrator".
- You may or may not be asked to enter a username and password.
Step Number 17: Create a followup post with the information in it.
As noted, the pathping we had you do created a text file in the root of your C:\ drive. Open it up in Notepad and paste it into the forums as a separate post.
Also, to help preserve formatting surround the entire pasted section with [CODE] [/CODE] tags. These will help preserve the formatting of the pathping output better than board's plaintext formatting.
Your output will look something like this:
Step Number 18: Sit back and wait for help. But be proactive!Code:Tracing route to cityofheroes.com [64.25.35.107] over a maximum of 30 hops: 0 Galatea.evilnet.home [192.168.2.10] 1 192.168.2.1 2 192.168.1.254 3 adsl-99-24-231-254.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net [99.24.231.254] 4 68.250.251.2 5 dist1-g2-4.emhril.sbcglobal.net [151.164.53.130] 6 bb1-g0-0.emhril.ameritech.net [151.164.43.82] 7 ggr2.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.81.97] 8 0.ae10.BR3.CHI13.ALTER.NET [204.255.168.165] 9 0.ae3.XL4.CHI13.ALTER.NET [152.63.66.77] 10 0.ge-2-1-0.XT4.DFW9.ALTER.NET [152.63.2.233] 11 POS7-0-0.GW13.DFW9.ALTER.NET [152.63.102.221] 12 ncsoft-gw.customer.alter.net [152.179.113.90] 13 cityofheroes.com [64.25.35.107] Computing statistics for 325 seconds... Source to Here This Node/Link Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address 0 Galatea.evilnet.home [192.168.2.10] 0/ 100 = 0% | 1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.2.1 0/ 100 = 0% | 2 1ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.1.254 0/ 100 = 0% | 3 10ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% adsl-99-24-231-254.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net [99.24.231.254] 0/ 100 = 0% | 4 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% 68.250.251.2 0/ 100 = 0% | 5 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% dist1-g2-4.emhril.sbcglobal.net [151.164.53.130] 0/ 100 = 0% | 6 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% bb1-g0-0.emhril.ameritech.net [151.164.43.82] 0/ 100 = 0% | 7 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% ggr2.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.81.97] 0/ 100 = 0% | 8 26ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 0.ae10.BR3.CHI13.ALTER.NET [204.255.168.165] 0/ 100 = 0% | 9 26ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 0.ae3.XL4.CHI13.ALTER.NET [152.63.66.77] 0/ 100 = 0% | 10 45ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 0.ge-2-1-0.XT4.DFW9.ALTER.NET [152.63.2.233] 0/ 100 = 0% | 11 45ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% POS7-0-0.GW13.DFW9.ALTER.NET [152.63.102.221] 0/ 100 = 0% | 12 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% ncsoft-gw.customer.alter.net [152.179.113.90] 0/ 100 = 0% | 13 54ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% cityofheroes.com [64.25.35.107] Trace complete.
Take a look-see at the logs. See if anything weird jumps out at you. Post follow-ups in the thread if something bizzare presents itself that you don't understand.
This will give the technically inclined helpers here a leg up when they try to assist you and should provide you with the absolute minimum of downtime or problem time.
Addenda:
On the subject of driver timeouts:
Quote:Originally Posted by ServerGuy
This error message occurs when the GPU hangs (or crashes) in response to either a driver bug or a hardware failure. It is also possible for OpenCL and DirectCompute application bugs to trigger this (City of Heroes does not use either of these).
On versions of Windows before Windows Vista, this would have resulted in a Blue Screen of Death, but newer versions of Windows require drivers to be able to reset when the GPU crashes instead of forcing Windows to reboot. Unfortunately, 3D applications are not able to automatically recover after this occurs and need to be restarted.
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Step Number 6: Paste the output from CoH Helper into a text file.
You want to do this because you have a few more things to grab before you paste this into a forum post. You can also save this file in case you have a crash on the computer and need to come back and post it later.
Step Number 7: Go to the Hijack This site. (Updated as of 04/13/2012: HJT has been Open-Sourced by Trend Micro.)
Step Number 8: Download the Hijack This executable.
If nothing is really wrong with your computer (other than CoH is not working right) you can try getting the installer. But if your computer is acting really freaky, or refusing to run the installer, just get the raw executable.
Step Number 9: Save the file.
Step Number 10: Run the Hijack This Executable.
Step Number 11: Agree to the EULA. (Reading it is optional.)
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Okay, maybe I'm being a bit *ahem* retentive about this. But I'm seeing lots of threads where people ask a question with the inevitable "can we see the CoH Helper and Hijack This logs?" followup.
As such, here's a nice little guide to asking for help here on the forums and what you can do to minimize the delay between the initial question and a (hopefully) definitive answer.
Also! I have recorded a quick (22 minute, yeah, apparently I'm as prolific on video as I am in a text editor) walk-through of the procedure and put the video online for people who might be a little squeamish about the process.
Have a look!
Step Number 1: Go to the CoH Helper Site.
Step Number 2: Click on the link to download it.
Step Number 3: Save the file.
Step Number 4: Run the File
(NOTE: If you are running under Windows Vista or Windows 7, right-click on the file and select "Run as Administrator")
Step Number 5: Click on the Forum Output button to generate your CoH Helper log.
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Quote:Howsabout "kick *** and chew bubblegum", then hold up an empty bubblegum wrapper.Originally Posted by War Witch
I vow to never say "the next level" again. (Not really, because now that I've said I'll never say it, I'll be tripping over it incessantly.)
I'm switching it up to "raising the bar." Other options are "upping our game", "bringin' it old school", and "kick **** and take names".
After that, my catch-phrase is up for grabs.
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Quote:There's exactly one appropriate response for people beating the "This server is dead" gong.Originally Posted by UltraTroll
We are not dead, just mostly dead! Get Miracle Max! He can fix this!
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Quote:Try verifying your files.Originally Posted by Elflore
When I startup CoH it goes past the blue bar and once it hits the loading screen it looks like it's loading but once you click the screen it says "not responding" blah blah blah. What should I do?
p.s. I waited for about 10 minutes still froze
p.s.s. I have tried safe mode and....nothing
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Quote:The only reason my current build has purples is because I bought them during i12, back when prices were FAR lower. I only recently (just before i17 dropped, burning a respec) salvaged them out of my original build.Originally Posted by PhroX
Heh, yeah, the scrapper I mentioned above would only really fit 1 purple set into her build - replacing a set of crushing impacts with...the melee damage purple. I forget what it's called. Shows how much I care about Purples eh? Other than that, I need my various positional defense boosts. And even that one purple wouldn't give me a significant boost. I'll probably eventually get round to doing that, as well as getting the last 2 LotG+rechs I could fit in, but frankly, I'd rather spend the ~200m inf each of the latter would cost on tooling up another char with a good solid build...
And I've had LOTG +Recharges come through on merit rolls. I didn't equip them. Because my build is currently in my comfort zone as far as end management is concerned. More would lower my defense values and upset my timing.