Morgan Reed
-
Posts
308 -
Joined
-
Then my next thought is "do you have your OS install disks?"
For clarity, I do not mean a "recovery disk" that pre made computers come with (if anything).
If so, then I would suggest the "sfc" command.
If your system files have been modified at all (even intentionally) this will revert them to their original state.
Warning: This can take a long time if thinks aren't pristine.
Put your install disk in your optical drive, open an Administrator level command prompt (easiest way to make sure is Start > All Programs > Accessories > Right click on Command Prompt > Run as Administrator) and type the following (without the quotes):
"sfc /scannow"
(Note there is a space between the "sfc" and the "/scannow")
It may ask you to insert the install disk, point it at the drive and let it do it's thing.
If things are good, it will only take a couple of minutes.
If things are messed up, it will take a LLLOOONNNGGG time. So bring a book, watch TV, whatever.
Barring that, the only thing that comes to mind is a clean install of your OS (which the sfc scan is supposed to fix without actually going through that hassle)...
Give me a day to think on it. I might get inspired. -
Quote:That is questionable.Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Just a note: You also get 2 reward merits before you pick which reward you want from the table (I just ran the arc for the first time and got them, then chose a Hero Merit
).
I say that only because last I checked Villain side doesn't give you those to Reward Merits, and I have not heard which way is supposed to be correct - or if it is correct as is. -
The only things I have off the bat for you are P.I.T.A. thoughts. So you have been warned. ;-)
First, the memory:
Have you run memtest on the sticks individually?
What I mean is, remove all but one, and run memtest on it. Then remove it, and place another in and run memtest on it. Repeat as needed.
The reason:
Sometimes memory doesn't show as failing unless isolated. It is rare, I admit, but it has happened before. Might be worth trying.
Next is PSU.
Do you have another PSU to try out, preferably with more output?
If not, actually removing one of your Video cards might work as a test.
It is possible that your system is pulling more power than your PSU can handle, and if the GPUs aren't getting enough power, they can crap out like that.
Unfortunately, PSUs are a right pain to test, so the most efficient end user way to check is to swap out with another PSU (which sucks if you do not already have one handy.)
Hopefully, someone will come along with a simpler solution to try. -
Quote:Actually, it is monthly.Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
They open weekly
The rewards are weekly.
There is currently 1 Arc, and only 1 part of that Arc.
The Villain side contact is Allastor, in the mid Southern end of Cap au Diablo.
I do not know where to find the Hero side contact, other than Skyway City (I think.)
On your mini map, they show up as trainer icons. (The green figure in the grey-ish circle.)
The rewards:
The first time you run any part of an Arc, you get a "free" reward table. What I mean by that is, it doesn't count towards time gates for the rewards.
After that, any part of the Arc you run will give you a table where each of the rewards can only be awarded once per week.
The rewards are:
Alignment Merit (must be that alignment to accept, Hero for Hero side, Villain for Villain side)
4x Merit Rewards (this will award you 20 merits)
Astral Merit (must be level 50 to accept)
10 Incarnate Threads (must be level 50 to accept)
I read somewhere that you can get 5 reward merits if all else is used up, but I have not witnessed this myself.
Also have read that non-VIPs can get SO Enhancements, but have not witnessed that myself. -
It is also possible they bought enough Paragon Points to award them enough Reward Tokens.
If my math + understanding + memory are correct, you get 8 Reward Tokens per $100US bundle of points you buy. So, if you plunk down enough cash, you can get the celestial armor without any vet time. -
You guys are still on this?
It has been over 54 hours since the OP posted.
If you are going to keep dog-piling, at least try to keep it in a timely fashion. -
Quote:Not so much.Originally Posted by Issen
But, even if we knew in advance, it wouldn't change anything. We'd still have a long downtime and people would still be complaining.
Simply knowing it's coming sooner doesn't change the situation.
There is a quote form somewhere I can't remember (some TV show) that fits this bill perfectly.
"People do not get upset when things go wrong in their life.
People get upset when their expectations aren't met."
If the server migration / hardware upgrade had been announced, say a week, in advance - and the majority of players knew about it - then there would be far less complaining.
Those that would be complaining, would be the ones who were still expecting the servers to be up. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
IIRC, it's not going to be dual-bootable, if you have that in mind. So if you can't dedicate that machine to Win8DP (broken record time,) get Virtualbox and put it in there.Sure Kal, now it is working fine.Quote:Originally Posted by Kal
I have it Dual Booting with Windows 7, And so far it's worked fine.
But the final version is not going to be designed to be dual bootable.
There may eventually be some way to hack around that, but it isn't going to be blatantly obvious to common users. -
Quote:I do not know this one offhand, but is it the one where you could select the third travel power in a group (without prerequisites) at level 6?Originally Posted by chaetophile
Hey folks! The Veteran Reward power that I have been looking forward to most is the 60-month travel-power unlock. It is not included in the Paragon Rewards program at all as far as I can see.
If so, i21 changed so that everyone can do that at level 4. -
Quote:If you mean officially, ignore this post.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Can anyone confirm that the Martial Arts Bundle is no longer in store?
I can confirm that I can't find it in the store. -
Article can be found here (cnet)
While I am downloading it now, I will not be able to test it until later today (10ish hours minimum).
I will report back if it helps any with stability issues I have with Win 7 64 bit, ATI 11.5+ drivers, and CoH.
EDITed to add::
It was much quicker than I thought.
The driver will not work on my computer.
((Installer reports my "computer does not meet the minimum requirements for this software.")) -
Quote:This one I can say is (or at least should) be a known issue.Originally Posted by Mageman
My SG base was created before the icon was changed. Now, all the "base details" have the original "Bio-Hazard" icon, not the one we've selected. I can't figure out how to reset this.
The chest emblem does change when the icon is set. We've tried a bunch of different icons, none of them change the base icon. Even if no-one has been in the base for 24 hours, it still doesn't reset.
There is nothing you can do about it.
Unfortunately, I am pretty sure it isn't high up on the priority list of issues to fix, so you will probably have to wait a while before it gets fixed.
You can get to the "Echo: Galaxy City" from Ouroboros. I haven't tried myself, but I have been told it is behind the building, by the mediportals.Quote:Originally Posted by Mageman
P.S. Is there or will there be any way to get the old Galaxy City exploration bages? I checked it out on another server that still has Galaxy City as a teleporter beacon set - I got there for about 15 seconds before it booted me to Atlas Park.
-
[Sidetracking this thread]
Quote:Originally Posted by Morgan Reed
First, my suggestion to kill NCSoft Launcher in Task manager isn't because I thought it was running while you were playing. Many people noted the Launcher was running a separate process that was screwing up the works. And making sure there were no running instances cured them.In an interesting turn of events, I had the game lock on me going from Cap au Diable to Rikti Warzone 2 tonight.Quote:Originally Posted by Broomhilda
I have noticed this too. Logged off CoH and played about 5 diff. games so was like 3-4 hours later, and I had noticed things being slugish, I opened my area were the speaker and all the programs you have on start up are on the right hand side of start menu, and there was a NCSoft launcher icon for just a sec and then it closed and everything started working ok again. So something is going on.
When I opened Task Manager to kill the process to log back in, I had two instances of CoH running. 1 was the Cap instance that wasn't responding (expected), 2 was a generic version of City of Heroes that was listed as "Running." Since the second one was unexpected, I tried "End Task" on it, and it killed both instances.
64 bit Windows 7 here.
[/Sidtracking this thread] -
Quote:Originally Posted by Noobian_Prince
Does anyone know if the emotes (and Steamjet power) are included in the Market bundles? Thanks!I'm going to back up Snow Globe on this one.Quote:Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Of everything I've read, the emotes are not included in the bundles.
I am pretty sure that costume bundles [u]only[/i] include costume parts. No emotes, no auras, etc.
But I (and I suspect Snow Globe) don't actually know. Mostly because I won't buy anything from the Market at their current prices.
Sorry. -
Quote:I'm going to say yes. Yes it would. For it to do otherwise requires assuming those posting for compensation are just shallow folks looking to ***** when they post here, and not get anything from it.Originally Posted by Lothic
So will having like an extra day of time tacked onto your account really provide you any satisifaction here?
I know... Posters feel they are entitled to not read about other posters entitlement.Quote:Originally Posted by Olantern
Good lord. The level of entitlement this player base has developed sickens me.
Quite sickening. -
Wait, you actually get Temp powers in this arc?
Half the team that I ran it with didn't get them at all. I thought it was just a story thing. :-S -
Quote:It is rather simple.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
How do you get that "level 20 soloable arc is similar to multi-team Trials" thing?
iTrials - timed "do these things in this order, did you really want to read the dialog / writing while you were at it? Pshaw!"
Signature Arc - timed "do these things in this order, did you really want to read the dialog / writing while you were at it? Pshaw!"
Multi teams or solo never has to play a part of it. -
I am hoping as all the wrinkles get ironed out (and I do not think it will be quick, unfortunately) they will add better in-game directions and notices for things.
I believe, and maybe I am giving Paragon too much credit, that this is a sign of i21/Freedom being "pushed out the door" too quickly. Or, maybe just a neon sign that some/most of the stuff was outsourced. -
Quote:This post of mine can probably be taken as super-snarky. It is NOT meant that way. It is supposed to be read as sincere and helpful, honest. ;-)Originally Posted by MisterD
Oh...ok. Not to sound rude..but where the hell is the contact? Me and a friend are trying to find them..good thing they dont go out of their way to draw attention to a contact that might mean they lose some money.
You will want to learn to use the "Find Contact" button on your Contact list window. It should be just under the tabs (active, inactive, etc.).
I do not know who the blueside contact is, so I can't tell you who to look for. Redside it is Mr. Rodney, a Goldbricker.
When you find him/her, you can use the "Teleport to Contact" button the first time (it changes to "Select Contact" after you have met them the first time). -
Quote:No, no.Originally Posted by MisterD
I thought the whole ide aof being a VIP meant we didnt 'lose' anything? So now, because apparently some people found the cape and aura missions too much effort...we have ato PAY to unlock them, instead of doing the missions? What utter rubbish is that?
How about letting me spend 15 mins doing the arc and earning xp, instead of giving you greedy NC people more money?
You can still do the missions (although it is likely the contact has changed - I know it has redside).
But you can also pay to unlock them. -
Quote:I think you missed the step of booting into safe mode to run Driver Sweeper.Originally Posted by Vinceq1980
please tech gurus help im so sick of the crashing I just want to enjoy more than 1 incarnate trial before having my pc just slow down to 0 fps until it just completely freezes and causes me to ctr alt del.
Take a look at my post here, and try that. -
Quote:I dunno about that.Originally Posted by Necrotron
What I WILL say that is while the heroside arc was okay, the VILLAIN arc was... villain-tastic. It's broadly the same story, but... y'know, just go run it. Then you'll know what I'm talking about.
Maybe it was because I wasn't the mission holder, but I didn't find anything villainous about it. Then again, I do not find the Galaxy City tutorial particularly villainous, and that caused an uproar in Beta.
I certainly wouldn't put it on par with the "continuing training" missions (Graves) redside.
She is a great shorts model. That is why.Quote:Originally Posted by Lazarillo
My bet's on them swapping out the dead one for Desdemona. Devs seem to really like her for some reason.
As a primarily Isle citizen, Ghost Widow and Black Scorpion come to mind with that description.Quote:Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Also, for those who've done it heroside and gotten the vision of a 'ghostly woman and a man in armor... who shake hands, the man looking grim.' My first thought was Numina and Positron... but I'm not too sure.
Feedback (reposted from this thread since this one is specifically about feedback).
Overall I would say that the Signature Arcs are a lot like lower level iTrials. (Incarnate Trials for those unfamiliar with iTrials.)
If you like iTrials, and I mean for the Trials themselves, not the rewards, odds are good you will like the Arcs.
If you do not like iTrials (even if you like the rewards) odds are very good you will not like the Arcs.
I hope it serves the game well, but I can say without hesitation or reservation that I am not the target audience for the direction the game is going. -
Quote:Well... This probably won't mean much to most forumites...Originally Posted by Snow Globe
This implies, incorrectly I might add, that they are charging "nickels" or "dimes" instead of "$5" and "$10". In other words multiply "nickel & dime" by 100 to get what they are charging.
But they are just using the street slang. Nickle bag, and dime bag. :-P -
Going back over your CoH Helper log, it looks like you are suffering the ATI / CoH / 64 bit Windows triangle many of us are.
It looks like you are running the 11.4 drivers.
Have you tried completely removing those drivers, and using something like Driver Sweeper and either reinstalling them, or trying, say, the 11.2s or 11.3s? -
Quote:First up, as someone who played through this arc as a Mastermind, let me say yes. There are several places that are bad for MMs. Nightmare is a bit harsh, but bad. Let us just say that pets seem to love taking lava baths.Originally Posted by Tulare
MM side note: There may be a few issues for you guys. Haven't done this on mine, but I can see a few areas that could be a nightmare, but I'm just guessing at that.
Now, overall I would say that the Signature Arcs are a lot like lower level iTrials. (Incarnate Trials for those unfamiliar with iTrials.)
If you like iTrials, and I mean for the Trials themselves, not the rewards, odds are good you will like the Arcs.
If you do not like iTrials (even if you like the rewards) odds are very good you will not like the Arcs.
I hope it serves the game well, but I can say without hesitation or reservation that I am not the target audience for the direction the game is going.