Master-Blade

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The biggest problem I have with it is not that I couldn't access it, but that I was directed specifically to the contact who then told me to go ahead and try it out -- and only then did I discover I couldn't.

That it was just a silent failure and there wasn't even a message telling me I needed to register to access this feature was a bit annoying too.

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I doubt this applies here much, but if anyone has removed their arcs, could you please PM me, so I can update my list? I'll be posting updates (not the full list, just updates) sometime between now and Sunday.

[/ QUOTE ] And another reminder.. DO NOT UNPUBLISH (to make changes).

You can edit/fix your broken arcs by hitting EDIT on your published arc list, make changes, then click RE-PUBLISH. You wont lose your ArcID and ratings that way.

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Monitor: Generic Television
Monitor's Max Resolution: 640,480
Video Device Name: Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family
Manufacturer / Chip: Intel Corporation / Intel(R) GMA 950
Video Memory: 128.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.4926
Driver Date: 2/15/2008 1:12:06 PM
Driver Language: English

Previous one is 6.14.others from 2005. Reason I did it was because I get random freeze ups. And at the moment? yeah, I rolled back to the previous version.

[/ QUOTE ] Well for starters, you don't have a real video card to begin with, but depending on what type of "television" you are using, the graphics might not improve much even with a better card anyway. It might improve overall performance though. Depending on what size your screen is, that 640x480 resolution is a waste of real estate.

Freeze ups could be caused by a number of things. (Did the new driver fix that part of your issue by the way?) I meant for you to post the whole CoH_Helper Log, not just that section. It has other useful information that we might find needs attention.

Honestly, as long as the issues you are having are bearable, I wouldn't fuss with it too much until you are ready for upgrading. As you can see, you might end up sacrificing one problem for a different one if you go changing things.

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The Forest is Burning
Arc ID: 108395
Length: Short
Devouring Earth with 2 custom bosses and an ally in an open map that allows for avoiding everything till you find the ally who heals and blasts. Great for low damage types.


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If you're using the burning forest map, check to make sure you arc is still valid.

[/ QUOTE ] look up. lol Ironblade beat you to it.

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Is there a "U Type Slooooow" badge?

[/ QUOTE ] There should be!.. lol j.k

And for the record.. The creator got back to me. The arc is fixed already and renamed "The CITY is burning" instead.

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In the enhancement screen or respec'ing the pointer jumps off the enhancement I'm trying to grab to drag it to the slot. Have to click above and left of the enhancement I'm trying to grab.

[/ QUOTE ] Yes, that's a known issue of using certain ATI card/driver versions on widescreen resolution.

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One more I thought I'd mention - inside Atlas City Hall I get popping and crackling on my audio and have for so long now that I couldn't even tell you when it started.

[/ QUOTE ] I don't hear that. Do you hear it in other areas too? Maybe you could open a thread containing more information about it and let people diagnose it for you.

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The Forest is Burning
Arc ID: 108395
Length: Short
Devouring Earth with 2 custom bosses and an ally in an open map that allows for avoiding everything till you find the ally who heals and blasts. Great for low damage types.


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If you're using the burning forest map, check to make sure you arc is still valid.

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The Forest is Burning
Arc ID: 108395
Length: Short
Devouring Earth with 2 custom bosses and an ally in an open map that allows for avoiding everything till you find the ally who heals and blasts. Great for low damage types.

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A heads-up: if you used the burning forest map, several people have reported that it's currently broken and the missions using it will not load. Might want to check that.

[/ QUOTE ] Confirmed. That arc will not start at all. (why don't they put up an error flag or something)

I sent an in-game tell to the "manufacturer" lol

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Just curious ... are you looking to upgrade?

I ask because fans are *usually* easily replaced, and far cheaper than a new card

[/ QUOTE ] And the other thing to look at is the amount of dust in your system and how is the airflow of the overall case? That could have contributed to overheating and/or the fan/card failure as well... and a new card might end up with the same problem eventually.

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Memory: 512MB

C Drive: (HTS548060M9AT00) 1728MB out of 57176MB (3%) free

Video Device Name: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9700
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9700 AGP (0x4E50)
Video Memory: 64.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6396
Driver Date: 12/22/2003 4:43:56 PM

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You have very little RAM (the game can often use over 1GB by itself these days), and almost no hard drive space left.

The small amount of RAM and the older video card/driver are really hindering your performance. I'm surprised the system isn't running out of resources and crashing entirely. Trying to run all that anti-virus and iTune software with that little memory at the same time as playing a game doesn't sound like fun.

I suggest cleaning some unwanted files off your hard drive and defragging, regardless of your CoH issues.

Sorry for the bad news.

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I could not run your COH Helper program, it failed to initialize every time I tried opening it,

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This program uses Microsoft's .Net Framework 2.0 to run. Most modern PCs already have the framework installed but there are a few out there that don't have it yet. I would suggest you try to run the program and, if you immediately get an error, then you probably need to get the framework. Microsoft's 2.0 Framework can be found here or you could search Microsoft's site for an even more recent version of the framework.

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One of the most common cause of problems of this sort is the confusion between US and EU versions. Make sure that the version you're installing, the version you've signed up for, the trial code, and your actual location match up properly.

[/ QUOTE ] Based on what I saw in their other thread, that seems to be the case. They live in the UK, and are trying to use a UK client on a US trial version.

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I'll probably just search for 4 star arcs or people I know.

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I can offer this as a possible reason why Trial Accounts are locked out of MA arcs. I was taking a peak at creating a story and saw that the button to start creating is on the same screen as the one you access MA arcs.

Rather than setup code to delete the Create Story button, I suspect they blocked all access to the MA arc screen. Makes sense to me.

[/ QUOTE ] Blocking the create button (graying it out) would probably have been just as easy as disabling the console. I think they didn't want people creating trial accounts and running their missions with them. Even if they disabled ratings too, there is still another counter for how many people have run the arc.

Maybe they will decide to do something to allow trials some kind of access later, but this was probably the easiest thing to start with.

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Try updating your sound device drivers as well.

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Ummm.... already did that. It was in the original post.

Thanks anyway!

Problem still unresolved.

[/ QUOTE ] The OP says you updated your graphics driver, and your headset driver. Armsman was referring to updating your Soundcard driver as well.

In any case, if you provide us with a CoH_Helper and HiJackThis report and we might be able come up with something.

What graphics card do you have?
What driver version did you have before?
Which version did you update to?
Were you having a particular issue that made you update in the first place?
Is it worth rolling back to an earlier driver again?

A CoH_Helper report can help us get your current information.

CoH uses more resources than you think.. even more than WoW. The system requirements listed for CoH are severely understated after 5 years of updates. People often times run WoW (or other graphic-detailed games) without a problem, but then find out they would need an upgrade to run CoH decently.

Provide us a screenshot of what you are talking about if you can.

Run CoH_Helper and post the results here.

Then we can take a look and see if we can find out what we think the trouble might be, and if it's an easy fix or not. It could be anything from the the video overheating or not being compatible. Sometimes, it's even as easy enough as updating a driver. I hope that ends up being the case.

And besides the motherboard, you have to consider the power supply as well. You would need to make sure when you upgrade to a better card, that the power supply has the available power cable and is strong enough to run it. There is usually a label on the power unit showing how many amps are available on the +12v rails. Graphics card manufacturers usually include their recommendation on the box. If not, a quick web-search for your new card should provide you with the info.

I suspect the OP might not have a problem with this because they are already running a fairly decent card... but I'm including this information for those watching that might be running a crappy onboard and trying to upgrade theirs as well.

ITF ambushes are still immediately running in the opposite direction. Also.. Several custom bosses ru like crazy constantly (even when set not to run). Yes, some things may still cause them to run.. but it almost seems like any -1 or an attempted hold is enough. haha

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Is Master Builder really 1,000 and the text is off by a 0? did they accidentally reduce it to 100 meaning to make it 1,000?

[/ QUOTE ] The badge art was changed to show 100 as well. 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 for that series now... maybe they will reduce hall of fame? rofl

Maybe they should wait until lvl 15 before introducing the contact?

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I think it has something to do with making the character portrait on the "Info" screen. It stutters for a moment, then the portrait comes up at the same time my cape goes "fft."

[/ QUOTE ] That little "portrait" is actually a mini 3d environment with a copy of that character standing in it. That's part of why it may stutter for a moment and why the contact list has long load times on older systems. I wonder if your cape is being transferred instead of copied for some reason. That'd be weird.

I haven't noticed this issue on any of my characters, but I'll keep an eye out for it. Do the people having this problem have anything in common? Same manufacturer video card, low memory/resources? Does it happen on every character you have, or just certain ones?

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On a side note, it might be a good idea to provide us with more info so we might be able to find a way to help you in the meantime. CoH_Helper and HiJack?

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Be more proactive. Do what people have suggested and take steps to rectify your own problems. Don't nerdrage and expect folks to have sympathy or jump up and go fix them for you. I'm nearly certain there are things you can do to improve your situation.

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You're right, I don't expect or deserve sympathy. I'm sure there are fixes to be found, I'm just tired of having to periodically look for them. Maybe I got a little spoiled by four years of XP and just having to update the drivers every so often. So yeah, it's off to look for another creative Vista fix for yours truly.

But no, no sympathy requested or deserved. Just pure, unadulterated nerdrage.

MYTHMAKER SMASH!!!

[/ QUOTE ] I understand your frustration. You didn't come here for sympathy. You just wanted your problem fixed. If you wanted an attempt at a solution from us, you worded it wrong.. lol

Well we can still try to help if you want to give us some more info.. CoH_Helper/HiJack.

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I saw the MOTD, which was nice and all. But still can't get into my base.

*sigh*

/w

[/ QUOTE ] They said the base corruption is fixed.. base access is another separate issue. Give them some time.

I think somebody once said there was a graphics option for geometry buffers that might fix that. there might be another one too, but I forget right now. It's been a while since I saw that.

What video device are you using? Check the sticky thread titled "++ Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines ++" for instructions of how to give us a CoH_Helper report.

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Why are we not stamping our feet and asking for more detailed info on this proposal (Arbitory imposition).

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The list of changes being made to the MA badge system is not final yet, but you will be made aware when we have a concrete plan.

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To make the statement, he must have at least some of the badges in question already identified. Let us know so we can discuss this before the event, not after when it will be too late!

[/ QUOTE ] Test Server? It's never too late.

I'd guess the rating badges would be the ones to go if they wanted to prevent people from creating "5-star cartels". I personally wouldn't be sad to see them go.