Hyperstrike
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I agree with Father.
The 3820 and x79 really isn't buying you a whole hell of a lot.
The 3770K and x77 should delivery every bit of the performance you're looking for and bumping from the 570 to the 670 should be a night-and-day performance enhancement.
The fact that the price is, for all intents and purposes, identical? Gravy -
Dammit! Why do you guys always pull this stuff while I'm at cons?
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On my way.
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Quote:I may be in tomorrow evening. Not sure. Depends on how decent the connection in my hotel room is.Originally Posted by NuclearMedicine
Guardian tomorrow!! See ya' there!
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Quote:Well, this weekend they weren't #1. But the fall-off from last weekend wasn't even 50%. That's actually fricking incredible for a movie in its fourth week of US distribution.Originally Posted by Inazuma
I wonder if the weeks of news about Avengers making ungodly amounts of money has peaked Japanese interest in this movie.
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Quote:Before you do anything drastic, go into the control panel in Windows and try turning UAC off. Then run the launcher again.Originally Posted by SallyJane
Heard back from Support....they say it must be my security and to contact them. I use Microsoft Security Essentials and have used it for months. No problems with the game before this. M'thinks there may be some buck-passing going on. I am bummed!
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Quote:Tonto: What mean "we" paleface?Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Who doesn't like dune buggies and dirt bikes armed with model rockets.
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Quote:So disagreement = demonizing?Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I notice that you like demonizing those that disagree with you, just like you are accusing others of doing. Hypocritical much?
Okaaaay!
I never said I had proof that some of the names freed up will not be desired.Quote:You also can't provide any proof that some names that will be freed up will not be desired.
I said that nobody here could prove that any of the names freed up WILL be desired. There's a big difference.
But you don't know. Yet you continue to argue as if it were certainty.Quote:Will some good names be freed up? Possibly. -
Quote:Originally Posted by BrandX
Name purge would benefit everyone who is currently playing!
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Do yourself a favor. Don't install CoH to the default location. Or turn off UAC if you do. That's the biggest problem with the installer.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Ultimus
I already own all of the costume pieces, auras, CCE, etc. I am basically just trying to build all of the incarnate powers. Is there a most cost-effective way of utilizing the merits?
For Astral, to my knowledge they can only be broken into threads. Is there any other method I may be missing?
Empyrean Merits though can be broken into threads, 15 converted into a rare, or 30 converted into a very rare. Is there a cost effective way for this? Would it be better to get 600 threads or one very rare?
When building Incarnate powers:
Best use for Astrals: Thread breakdown
Best use for Empyreans: Saving for building Rare/Very Rare components as the cost of doing so via the thread-to-salvage-to-upconversion method is ridiculously expensive.
Once that toon has everything you want on it, you can either stockpile for the next Incarnate slot or you can fund other toons with things like Alpha unlocks and thread gifts. -
It's possible the files got hashed (not encryption style hashed, hashed as in "scrambled").
When the launcher bombs out while its "fingers" are in files like that, you run the risk of gutting those files. That sounds like what happened here, and if you go in and look at file sizes on some of them you'll probably see some zero-byte and severely truncated files.
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Quote:Originally Posted by BrandX
They don't think to seem it's worth the resources and efforts for power pool customization and furth customization of primary/secondary powers.
Should we stop requesting it?
Power customization would benefit *all* players.
Stripping names from others would do one of two things:
- Benefit a small group of people who're too lazy to come up with their own name.
- Benefit nobody because the names taken aren't the ones desired.
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Quote:Damn skippy!Originally Posted by Acemace
"Big F**king Guns."
Schwarzenegger tweeted Friday This is without a doubt the best fan video Ive seen, I think it should be the official trailer. Whos with me?
(warning some adult language)
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English does not "borrow" from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, clips them over the head and then rifles through their pockets for loose grammar.
And "kleptomaniac Kender"? If that isn't a Department of Redundancy Department redundancy, I'll eat my hat. -
Yeah. We've spent more than that on other boondoggles.
This of course goes with the assumption that Warp Drive doesn't kill everyone on the ship AND in whatever systems it comes into. -
Take a look at the case itself.
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Quote:Good thing I never actually said that isn't it. Good thing I never even implied that. Because you're still arguing binary-style. Either-or. False choice.Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
I would love to see your proof that if a name purge; with a 3 year cut off were to happen, it would adversely affect the game financially
There's a few things that could happen.
- Could do what you claim (bring in LOTS more money)
- Could fall short of your claims (bring in more money but barely enough to offset the labor costs and the people who drop).
- Could do NOTHING (doesn't bring in any extra money or any new money is COMPLETELY offset by those who're disgusted and leave, etc)
- Could lose them money (They invest the time and effort and nobody new gloms on, same, and more people could leave in disgust, etc, etc)
Yep. But unlike you, I'm not treating "my" POV as the only one and playing "pie in the sky".Quote:As a matter of fact EVERY argument has been conjecture and supposition...for both sides...but you still have a select few who will swear by their claims...irregardless that they cannot PROVE any of it.... just saying 
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Quote:You're saying you can't even uninstall from the Add/Remove programs wizard?Originally Posted by CentralNexus
Similar here -- Error code 13 -- effectively blocking any uninstall reinstall repair attempts I can come up with.
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Quote:Try:Originally Posted by Asha'man
I'm having the same issue as the OP. I tried turning off UAC and restarting but it didn't work.
Is this issue common after a patch? I've never encountered this before.
Any other suggestions?
- Uninstall CoH and the launcher
- Make sure all the directories are cleared away
- Rerun the launcher installer as Administrator
- When it comes time to install CoH, try installing to something other than the default. Like c:\Games\City of Heroes
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Quote:No. For app loads, the bottleneck isn't the CPU. It's your disk drive.Originally Posted by Psychic Guardian
Are the AMD processors slow at other things, like loading apps etc, or just rendering games?
Stuff on my old Core2 Quad 2.5Ghz opens "NOW" due to my SSD RAID array.
Your newer SSD has similar throughput to my array.
Yeah. Most motherboards have ridiculous amounts of USB ports. Here's a look at the board you'd be getting.Quote:I want a superfast pc, but cohspeeds aren't a priority anymore, I barely have time to login much, and its the only pc game I play. So you're saying I should have 3 open usbports on the motherboard already? I didn't know they put usb ports there, I figured you'd need an adapter or something. -
Quote:They're one of those perfect storms of performance, features and price friendliness.Originally Posted by Psychic Guardian
I've heard the bridge mobos talked about but I don't know what makes them special(not a pc builder).
Noticeable? Probably not. Measurable? Definitely.Quote:I like the 2gb the 670 has, but is the .2ghz and 2mb cache difference between the intel and AMD going to be noticeable?
AMD's current CPU design is massively parallel. However, they've traded elegance and efficiency for a brute force approach, and it kinda came back to bite them. Clock-for-clock, the Sandy and Ivy Bridge CPUs are faster.
Worse, the architecture for AMD is great for massively parallel integer (whole number) functions, but games tend to not really be THAT CPU-parallel, and there's lots of floating point (decimal computations and the point is the decimal point "floating") computing.
What's more, AMD is relying on older tech from partner fabs. So they've got problems moving to smaller manufacturing processes, meaning their yields are lower and have more waste.
Intel, on the other hand, has been pushing their own manufacturing processes for a long, long time. They're roughly 2 full generations ahead of AMD, and they've got it down PERFECT. So they can churn these things out in huge numbers. Leading to lower prices.
AMD has traditionally competed on being the budget solution. And for very low-end machines, they still are. But for anything above the $6-800 range, and Intel becomes a better choice.
Are they "bad"? No. But right now Intel is your best bang for the buck in your price bracket. And more, it's the best bang period.Quote:One thing I just remembered from your reply, is everytime I've put up a build for review they happened to be AMD processors, and the replies tried to steer me over to intel, is AMD particularly bad?
Then yeah, toss that back in. It's like $30.Quote:The wireless is important, my router is at the other end of the house, the PC will be in my bedroom.
Sound planning.Quote:I know the 120gb ssd would be an issue if you store stuff on it(my current only pc is a laptop with the same capacity(non ssd)). I have a 2TB usb3.0 external all my non-programfiles are stored on. The first thing I do after an OS wipe is go to my documents/music/pictures/video and make shortcuts to the respective folder on the external. I'd like to get a 3tb internal and install it myself, because cyberpower's are about $150 overpriced with a quick check of newegg/tiger. -
Actually it gets updated fairly frequently.
I have a VM that I use to track UAC updates. I have a dBase app that, under UAC, loses recent data any time UAC *burps* on an update. It's like clockwork. It does this because UAC prevents direct writes to the app's dBase data files. It stores all the updates in Volume Shadow Copy "ghost" files. Then, when UAC ***** the bed, any recently entered data goes bye-bye. -
It's not a bad PC. But, honestly, I think you'd probably see a slightly better performance out of an Intel Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge solution.
I built a nearly identical system off the i5 3570K platform and came out about $180 cheaper for an identical system.
That kind of cost savings would allow you to step up to a GTX 670. And pay roughly the same price as your AMD system.
Note: Missed the $26 wireless card. Is there really a reason you're using it instead of a wired ethernet connection?
One other thing. Remember it's a 120GB SSD. Unless you keep it REALLY clean, you're probably going to want to add on a hard drive for data storage. -
Quote:Originally Posted by BrandX
I thought the point of Freedom was to make more money. The fact that people can come and go, or pay or not pay, was merely a by product of that.
Then make a real business case for why and exactly how this will make money for them. Not how you EXPECT it will make money. Not:
- Listen to me
- Do what I say
- ???
- Profit!!!
Until that time, this is just the iceberg shipping scheme from Brewster's Millions.