Hyperstrike

Two words (well, two more): PLOT ARMOR

And guys, I don't care how great you think Buffy is. NOBODY dodges a supersonic round fired from a mile or more out. They're not faster than sound and their head winds up like a watermelon at a Gallagher show before a single sound is heard.

Yes. But a viola can be used to whack intransigent people and provide them with "motivation".

The devs have said that, at its height, about 10% of the population had entered a PVP zone.

Not that they were PVP players or anything. Just that they'd entered the zones and used the arena.

I'd suspect that i13 put a major dent in these numbers.

It's not just a function of raw wattage.
You need to make sure that you're getting sufficient amperage on a specific rail (the +12V rail).
You also need to make sure you have the appropriate connectors for your motherboard and hardware.
Additionally, it's not really a good idea to run a PSU at 80-100% load all the time. It shortens the life of the component drastically. So a little "head room" is desirable.



Correct.

Motherboard power connectors (for most PCs) come in 3 flavors.

20 pin (older)
24 pin (newer)
20+4 pin (hybrid)

20 pin connectors will technically work on a 24 pin board, but you need to buy an adapter. And even then, you may run into issues if the PSU can't supply appropriate power for the board across all rails.

24 pin can work on a 20 pin board, but, again, you'd need an adapter.

20+4 can basically be fit to either.

Everyone starts someplace. And if we can save you from making an expensive or damage-inducing mistake, party on!

Or, if you know people doing carpentry. "Measure twice, cut once".

The GTS 450 card requires a minimum of a 400W PSU with 22 amps on the +12V rail.

The Silverstone delivers about 34 amps on the +12V rail.
It's a 20+4 model power connector on the main. This means there's a 20 pin connector (which is what your board uses), plus an additional 4 pin connector if the board required it.

This PSU may be a bit longer than the original PSU. So take some measurements and compare them against the dimensions on the Details tab here. But, from the diagram, it doesn't appear that you'll have any problem. There appears to be lots of space between the back end of your optical drive and your current PSU.

I'll give the 0.2.1 a try later. I too had to pull out the original image because I was crashing on almost every zone.

**Edit**
Okay, two SECONDS later. But still.
0.2.2 seems to have cleared up my issue.

We already have Male and Huge.
They just need to implement the crotch slider.

Actually that's false. Or at least it was false when I ran through.

I'd dithered with the DA arcs until he was put in the game. And hadn't completed it on anyone.

Yet when I picked him up the first time on my main, I was credited for all the arcs I'd completed previously.

Don't know if it works the same for farming via Oro. But I DO know I didn't have to rerun the arcs I did prior to Gabe's inception to get the 2 emps. Indeed, his presence has basically killed any arguments I had about the deterministic issues with the DA arcs. While still quite slow, at least it allows a diligent player to accumulate Emps for Rare and VR salvage at a steady pace that doesn't rely on an RNG.

One thing you need to be careful of. If your powers have any sort of KB component at all, running at even level or less can result in enemies getting tossed around all over the place.

The first time I ran through the DA super-arc, I ran at +2x8. The only missions I had problems with were the last one in the first half of the Dream Doctor arc (after you get Audrey'ed and break free you have to fight several mobs of BP). The Sorrow-based BP nuked the crap out of my defenses on a capped Inv/SS tank. Made me feel positively squishy...

But all the "final missions", I had zero problems with.

Imagine my abject shock in failing the rescue at the end of Heather's arc at +0x1! All due to most of my attacks becoming Foe-Tossing Charges and the extra time incurred chasing them down.

Correct. 17-20 second boot-ups from the time the BIOS hands off to the OS? Yes? PLEASE?

Fast application load time? Yes? PLEASE?

Improved CoH zone loads for the portions of the zone loads reliant on the local files?



No problem. Everyone deserves to get the best bang for their buck.

If all you're using it for is CoH? Yeah. Overkill to the max.
If you plan on multi-boxing, doing video capture of various games or other memory-hungry applications, then the extra RAM can be very nice indeed.

RAID-0 is generally faster than a single drive.

HOWEVER, unlike other forms of RAID there is NO redundancy whatsoever.
If a drive dies, or desyncs from the array (happens more with consumer-grade hard drives), you lose EVERYTHING on the entire array. As such, it's NOT an ideal method of storing data you don't want to lose.

If you're really concerned with "faster", go single HD, buy yourself an SSD and a copy of Acronis True Image. Clone the system to the SSD and use the single hard drive for data storage. A single modern SSD will outperform a RAID-0 of hard drives for just about everything YOU are likely to use it for.

Is the ATI card beefy enough? Yeah. It's not THE most powerful card extant. But it should run the game just fine.

As to the possibility of having more driver issues with ATI than nVidia. Unfortunately the answer is "yes" there too. Unfortunately, ATI and nVidia's product offerings don't line up neatly in terms of product equivalency.

It's a sound card (embedded or otherwise). Period. I wouldn't worry too much about it. Most onboard sound is perfectly acceptable nowadays unless you're absolutely fanatic about "perfect audio quality". But then, you'd likely be some drooling mouth-breather telling people about the "superiority" of vinyl, at which point who gives a damn about the computer?

Maybe they did it just to tick YOU off specifically.
It's a conspiracy man! A conspiracy I tell ya!
/em tinfoilhat

Because if dozens or hundreds of other people on various, disparate platforms can run the game okay, the problem MUST be the game itself and not your "perfect" little machine.

Pfft.

DOOOOOOOOOOOM?



Which is another way of saying "Dell = Alienware".

Bull.

Wow! Different divisions of a company must not be the same company beause they operate as self-contained business units with discrete employees!

Try again.

They bought it so that they had a known-name in the "premium/gaming" computer space.

I'm sure you think you're impressing someone. I'm just not sure whom you think you're impressing. But go ahead, continue attempting to split hairs to appear knowledgeable.


As you have no way to support your quantitative statement, this is yet another instance of you talking from the brown hole.

No. You attacked people who disagreed with you. You didn't attack their arguments. You attacked them.

Christ, are you full of yourself.

People attacked your opinion because you were attempting to pass said opinions off as fact.

Because not everyone prefers your particular control interface of choice.
Thus rendering your blather about "superiority" hollow and self-serving. It's your opinion. Not a fact. Please stop pretending that they're one and the same.


For some forms of interface, touch can naturally lend itself.
Intel just completed a study though that people still wanted their mouse and keyboards.

The problem with Win8 is that Microsoft didn't "augment" the Windows interface with touch capability. They tossed the old interface and a massive amount of work that went into it in favor of a touch-oriented setup. Never mind that the market for touch interface outside the mobile segment is tiny.


So your entire reason for being on the forums is to rant like a prat?

Okay! Now we know to just ignore you then.

Not saying Dell doesn't give you a good deal for what they're selling you.
It's just that if you're looking for a very specific feature/performance profile, it's VERY hard to match it with the Dell matrices without paying through the nose and out the ***, if at all.



Oh, and Immy doesn't seem to realize Alienware = Dell.

Wow. Sorry you had such a lousy IBP experience. And sorry to have recommended them to you as such.

What issue "exactly" did IBP fall down and knock their brains out on?

Were they refusing a replacement? Or warranty service?
Or were they going to try and send you a motherboard and expect you do DIY?

Hoping your new system works well for you.

Okay you've said something similar to this before.

It was dumb and wrong then. Now, it still just as wrong, but even dumber for you having already been corrected.

You cannot compare WoW and CoH on performance.

They are two separate game engines that load down a system differently.

Trying to draw a direct comparison because the more graphically limited WoW performs better than CoH (which is far more customizable, resulting in a larger system footprint) is like saying that you have no problems in heavy traffic because you take your motorcycle down the shoulders while the other guy in the pickup truck hauling gear has to sit in traffic.

This is speech from the rectal orifice.

Again, you don't know what you're talking about.
The WoW engine is more graphically primitive than the CoH engine. By design. What's more, AFTER it became the 12,000 pound gorilla of the industry...well, throwing money at problems sometimes CAN work.

Assume for the sake of argument that Paragon Studios consists of a development team of roughly 30 people.

WoW can throw a team nearly that big at team solely focused on code optimization. Meanwhile you still have your REGULAR development teams churning their stuff out.


No, because this would put a crimp in the style of your pointless little rant.

You don't know, therefore you assume. Based on nothing more than a vague sense of butt-hurt.

Please talk about something you actually know something about.

This game was originally designed to play on a general patch-level of an OS that's been dead for more than a decade.

It's survived not one, but THREE major OS paradigm shifts. And countless OS patch levels. Not to mention hardware shifts, and driver revisions for various components. In addition, the basic API has seen at least two major revisions.

Not to mention 7 years of updates, additions, and massive revisions to the game code. To the point where, other then some superficialities, it's not even the same game anymore.

Think about it as a huge, four-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. The fact that it works as well as it does is a testament to the sheer amount of labor programmers of MANY types (not just Paragon) have put into the effort.

You're ranting about performance anomalies in YOUR environment. Which Paragon has precious little control over. And because YOUR setup is OBVIOUSLY infallibly powerful and stable, it MUST be shoddy coding on Paragon/Cryptic's part?

Pardon my polite laughter...

Well, you get the picture.

Yes.

Not necessarily.

There are a great number of VERY long-term vets with no (or next to no) history on the forums. I know of at least three, personally.

Moreover, EULA aside, I'm certain there have been "account sales".