Kyasubaru

How's typing on that? I once tried to use I think it was Mocha VNC and the keyboard was pretty terrible(it didn't use the iphone keyboard). The framerate was also really slow, I think it was something like .1 FPS. I'm not expecting framerates to let me do missions or anything, but 1 frame every 10 seconds is pretty terribad. I mean, at least it worked at all considering I didn't know what I was doing and it was a free app. I wouldn't mind paying some money if I could get something with a better interface and better performance.

I'd also be interested in your experiences using it over 3G, especially if you can potentially still do stuff like use the AH and chat.

I can tell you that you'll still see some Shield auras every once in awhile even if you're using that setting. You'll see Active Defense when it activates, for instance, and sometimes you'll see Against All Odds.

This happens with /SR's click mez as well, unless you have it set in the tailor to not show any FX. Unfortunately, Shield doesn't have that option.

For the vast majority of the time though, it should work with Shield auras.

I'll also add my vote to the suggestion to put the number higher. I use 300 myself.

I successfully responded before it filled. Glad to help.

I've been using it for at least a couple years and don't remember it resetting myself, so it seems there's still some kind of.. schism.

But it doesn't matter anymore, if yours works now too.

And I was actually doing both, comparing visuals and looking at the value of just typing in /vis_scale. There's a pretty stark contrast between 2 and 4, just visually though.

OK, I just tested it. I set vis_scale 4 using my usual bind while inside my base, then I zoned out to Peregrine. It was still at 4. I zoned to Talos, still at 4. I zoned to Steel, still at 4. I logged out and switched chars, and it was still at 4. Every time I zoned I made sure to check the difference between 2 and 4, but every time it started out at 4.

So I dunno why it's resetting for you guys, but for me it only resets when I fully quit and relaunch CoH.

my bind is "vis_scale 4$$dofweight 0.6$$lodbias 2$$suppressclosefxdist 300" and it's on my F11 key.

dofweight doesn't really do anything for me right now since I'm on an ATI and have it disabled, and I change suppressclosefxdist between 3 or 300 depending on which character I'm using, but otherwise the rest of the bind stays the same.

Edit: Also tested it going in/out of a mission, still doesn't reset. Dunno why.

I was in the same boat. Been building my own PCs for the last 15 years and just decided to let someone else do the work for me this time.

Bought from ibuypower and, aside from the agonizing wait(which I think was due to it being the holidays at the time), I haven't had a single problem.

$2000 is about 6-700 more than I spent on my i7 920 and 5850 setup, so you should be able to get a damn nice puter.

There is a rather large Crey-branded building in Kings Row. Can't remember exactly where it is at the moment, but it's giant and brown and monolithic and hard to miss. I always thought that this building was Crey HQ, or at least the "public" Crey HQ.

It has some passages that lead under it like an exterior lobby type deal, but no actual interior.

It's nothing like the Crey buildings in Nerva, with the tiny bit of interior and the Crey agents outside doing PR work with the citizens and the big walled-off area out back with the cages and buildings and such.

You have my ax.

I'm not sure, mine came with my computer from ibuypower.com. Dunno where they get theirs, though I think they're based in California.

My normal install didn't do it by default. It's possible Steam does something to make it turn Aero off. Not sure.

I still want the ability to make a fatty.

Hmm, I just realized I also now have 2 puters capable of playing Ultra Mode... My old C2D setup with an 8800GTS (but only 2gb of RAM!) and my new i7 with a 5850 and 6 gigs of memory.

Yeah, bring it on.

Try playing with vis_scale sometime.

WoW has updated its graphics a few times over the years, always keeping the baseline the same and expanding the higher range for people who have computers that can handle it. Currently, highest settings on WoW can be taxing on some mid-range computers, with better shadows, more draw distance, more detail environment objects, etc. And beginning with their previous expansion(WotLK) and continuing in their next(Cataclysm) they're doing complete overhauls of both their environments and their models.

It will still look cartoony, because that's an intentional design choice on the part of Blizzard.

In some ways Ultra Mode is similar to what WoW has been doing, but in some ways it's different. We're getting new postprocessing effects, much better shadows, and nice-looking reflections on various surfaces like WoW has gotten. But as far as I know, we're not getting upgraded models(just some new ones later on for the new characters/factions in GR), and we're not getting redone environments(again, some new ones later on for GR).

But another similarity between the two is that the minimum requirements stay the same. If you're running these games on a 4 year old PC, turning on the extra settings may not be an option for you. But you can still play the game without them.

And if you look closely at CoH player models, you'd also notice that most of our costume parts are drawn directly onto the body, just like in WoW. (That's anything in the Tight or Tight With Skin category for chest/hips, anything in the Smooth/Bare category of gloves, and a lot of foot options.) Yeah, there's other costume bits that don't just draw on the body, but don't think for a minute that CoH doesn't do it.

Anyway, I do hope all of this work on Ultra Mode comes with some back-end fixes for basic performance, as BillZ said. Even after upgrading to a PC that will run anything I can throw at it at highest settings, I still get FPS drops in certain places in CoH(Grandville, Nerva, parts of Cap, Crey's Folly, for instance).