Morgan Reed

If your rig can actually run CoH (I am doubtful, but here's to hoping), I bet it isn't running at minimum graphics.

Unfortunately, I am not aware of any way to change graphics settings without getting into the game first.

So... What I would suggest is try booting the game into Safe Mode:
Start Launcher > Right Click "City of Heroes" > Properties > check the box at the bottom of the new window "launch in safe mode." (Follow the same instructions, but uncheck the box to stop launching into safe mode.) Press "Okay."

Once you are in the game, assuming this works, make one of your first stops:
Menu > Options > Graphics and Audio tab, and reduce graphics to minimum.

Since the deed is looking to be done later today, odds are this suggestion won't help much.

But another alternative is something like this to give you IDE compatibility (plus a bit more).

I forget which one doesn't work right for pet emotes with other actions... Either macros or binds...

Ideally, if it works it would be:

/macro <Macroname> "petsay_all <em dance9>$$ em dance9"

I am also not sure of the timing.

If that doesn't work, you might need to make a keybind instead.

Thank you for posting this.

It doesn't do me a bit of good directly, but every helpful post to keep the game running a smooth as possible is appreciated.

First, you are using an ATI card. Some of the recent past drivers weren't playing nice with CoH.

What drivers set are you using? If it is between 11.5 and 11.8, I'd strongly recommend trying the 11.9 released just yesterday.

Nothing helpful in this post, sorry.
It seems this is becoming the nVidia problem the crashes were for AMD/ATI... :-S

Just to add another data point:
Firefox 6.0.2 works fine.

If you mean just finding the main window?

At character selection, at the top, off center to the left, there is a"Reward Token" icon. Click on that.

In game, click on Menu > Paragon Rewards.

If you mean actually using them in that window?

Click on the spot you want to spend the token.

There have been quite a few people confused as to what their account should be, versus what they are "seeing" it as.

This will resolve itself some what as players get familiar with how each account behaves, and as kinks get worked out.

But adding a "Premium" account type will help in verifying how things are working even after that.

Just trying a different tact

I don't have a premium account to verify, but wouldn't the Account Type: section of her master account say?

It says Free for my free account, and VIP for my VIP account. I would hope it says Premium for premium accounts. (And if it doesn't, I post that as a suggestion.)

All of my suggestions are being pulled pulled from this thread.

• Make sure there isn't a instance of the launcher already running (In the Task Manager make sure there isn't a copy of NCSoftLauncher in the Applications tab, or NCLauncher in the processes tab).
• If your Launcher is set to automatically start up with Windows, try unchecking that option. (File > Settings and uncheck "Automatically run the Launcher at Windows startup.")
• Set your launcher to close after launching the game (File > Settings > In the drop down under "After launching a game" select "exit launcher."
• Delete the "addcache.xml" file in your CoH directory.
• The most likely solution: "I would like to have the graphic shader files rebuilt on your system. To do so, please delete the "CoX" folder located, by default, at "C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\AppData\Local\NCSoft" and try launching City of Heroes again. If you are unable to see this folder, you may have "Show hidden files and folders" disabled." (Sent to the poster having trouble in that thread from support.)

Any one of those has helped others that have had trouble with the launcher stopping at the "Loading" bar.

UPDATE:

I've just passed the two hour mark with the 11.9 drivers with Vertical Sync turned on without any crashes. (In other words, my graphics are as they were before the driver troubles started with 11.5)

I would feel confident recommending these to any who were having troubles before.

Frame rate can get a little sluggish with V Sync on in an outdoor map (sub 30 fps with hovering between 18ish and 24ish being common) but that is nothing new to me from before 11.5.