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It's been my experience that PSU's either work or they don't. I looked up the specs and doesn't look like you have onboard video to test if it's working or not.

Typically (and I use Asus boards) you'll get one long beep, followed by two short beeps if your video isn't working correctly during the boot process. Before you jump ship and replace the video card, take it out, use a can of air and clean everything inside, the slots, etc., and re-seat the card and re-seat all the power plugs and connectors inside. If you have more than one available power plug to use for the video card, try using another one in case that plug went bad. And make sure the monitor's connected, etc. If your video card has more than one VGA/DVI connector, try using the other one to see if one of the output connectors kicked the bucket.

Also, if you've got more than one PC in the house, see if your monitor displays a signal on it. Or if you have an old/spare monitor to try do that and see if you get display on it. It's possible your computer completely survived but the monitor went bad. Which could account for why your PC gives you no error beep codes but you have no display.

As for ATi, I'm not as familiar with them so I can't really help you there. But that ATi card has two cores on a single card, so I would imagine since Crossfire is supported by the chipset the OS/motherboard should treat it as such, even though it's a single card. Someone else here with more knowledge on SLI/Crossfire should be able to give you some info on that but I believe it's chipset dependant and your OS shouldn't matter.

Well, better than it not running at all and being unplayable.

Well, it hasn't been a problem until about a week ago and I've been playing CoH on this KVM for 4 years without it doing this, even if I switch to the other PC while it's loading. It started about a week after I put in a new video card. Perhaps the native resolution on the video card vs. my old card is making the KVM and CoH wig out. lol I run the monitor at 1440x900 single display. Upgraded from a nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600 to a nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra.

Either way, seems to work as long as I'm active on the CoH PC while it's loading. Not really any trouble to stay on the CoH PC for an extra 30 seconds while it starts up before going to the server to fool around so I'll just do that. At least I know where the problem is. When I build a new PC, I'll be replacing the KVM with a newer model that passes USB 2.0 and DVI or HDMI. I'll see if that changes anything when I swap it out in a few months.

I run a nVidia FX5200 on my server. BIG difference from the 93.71 driver to the most recent driver. Plus you're running Service Pack 2 on XP. If I can play CoH and WoW on a Pentium 3 1.2ghz with 512mb RAM and a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 with settings turned up slightly, you should be able to do a lot more with your setup. Update Windows and update your video card and audio drivers. Then try again and see how things work out.

Well, new update. It did it again. For the record, I have two computers I use with a KVM switch connecting them. One for gaming, the other as a server and for everything else.

I noticed when I was set on the PC I play CoH on, the resolution issues didn't occur (courtesy of TweakCoH). However, when starting the game and switching to the other PC I would get the resolution error which I would see when I switched back. Running TweakCoH again before re-launching it fixed it again. Either my LCD isn't remembering the settings it stores and holding the resolution if I'm not active on the CoH PC or the KVM is causing it by not communicating with the LCD and the CoH PC while CoH is initializing.

Either way, it's probably the KVM switch or the LCD monitor doing it and not CoH itself (although it's a byproduct) and it isn't my video card drivers/monitor drivers. Albiet I've got a cheap LCD monitor, so a better quality monitor may solve the issue at hand. In addition, the LCD and KVM are both VGA and not DVI. DVI might be a different outcome.

So I guess that's some info for people running LCD's and KVM switches. When you load CoH, stay on that active PC until the game finishes initializing or there *possibly* could be resolution issues.

You and me both.

Well, here's the update. Like I said, I've been using the new video card for over a week without issues. The video drivers and the card have been fine, including gameplay until just those couple of days ago.

Dunno why it was changing my desktop on top of the game going nuts, but Tweak CoH seems to have fixed the issue thus far. No more resolution problems. Perhaps the CoH registry settings just needed a hardset instead of going through the game interface.

Sometimes it does well to just accept as is. It's apparently fixed, so I'm going to leave it at that. Thanks again for the help.

The settings "sticking" seem to be intermittant. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. The PC could be off, do a cold boot, and work great when I launch CoX. Other times, after running for a bit and playing CoX and having the game closed for a while, I'll come back later and re-launch the game and it'll "un-stick" and revert to 800x600 windowed mode with the error. No real pattern to it.

I usually change settings in-game, apply, close window, and quit to login then close game and restart. As a side note, after CoX flips out and changes my game client resolution, for some reason it also sets my desktop resolution to 800x600 as well. So I have to change that back as well as the refresh rate. So I have no idea why CoX kills my in-game resolution AND my desktop resolution.

Either way, looks like I need to test Tweak CoH and see what it does. Definately tired of fiddling around with the interface and multiple game client relaunches. Only reason I considered a reinstall of CoX was if the game is messed up. Sort of a last ditch effort. I've saved my settings to file, so I can always set that back up that way.

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No. It's used for a one-time set-up. You open it, make your changes, and close it. There is no reason to have it open while the game is running.

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The client seems to be losing settings after I've corrected them from prior game sessions. I'm not sure if TweakCoH will ensure the settings are held even if I run it prior to the game client.

What gets me is this wasn't an issue until 2 days ago. And it was only after the recent patches. Been running fine for a year+ with no issues.

Guess all I can do is install Tweak CoH and see. If it still has problems holding the settings after running it, I suppose a reinstall of CoX might be in order...

Never heard of Tweak CoH before (I'm not on these forums all that often). Is this something that forces settings on the game client prior to the game initializing? I'm assuming it runs in the background behind the CoX client?

Windowed mode is on and off too just like the resolution I have it set to. I've been running full screen 1440x900 for over a year with no problems. Just these last two patches it's been doing odd things.

Dunno what happened, but ever since the last couple patches the game won't keep my resolution. This hasn't been an issue at all and then with the last couple patches now every time I start the game, it gives me an error that it can't support my resolution and defauts to 800x600 windowed mode. It's seriously annoying me. Been running 1440x900 (widescreen) at 75hz resolution for over a year without issues.

I changed my video card over a week ago but it's been fine except for the last two days, which were after a couple quick patches. Anyone else having problems?

When setting the card to use program-controlled settings, it wouldn't keep my resolution at all. When I force antialiasing, vertical sync, and anisotropic filtering, the game will hold settings after I change back the resoltion in-game and restart the game. But it holds it intermittantly. Sometimes it stays put, sometimes it doesn't.

Using a P3 1.2ghz, 512mb RAM, eVGA nVidia 6800 Ultra, WinXP Pro (SP3). Drivers/WinXP updates are the most current. Any ideas? I'm really frustrated here. Getting tired of starting the game up only to do the song-and-dance of whether or not it'll hold my resolution change again.

Any help's appreciated.

Don't know if it's been mentioned or if it's intentional, but I had a problem with the female Supernatural Face 11 face after I8 allowed you to add other features to it. If I choose a second feature (stripes, makup, etc.) then I have no option to alter the color of the glowing eyes. The eyes default to black and cannot be changed. The only color I'm able to alter is the second detail features. If I leave the default Supernatural Face 11 selected in the second feature selection, then I am able to alter the eye color, but I have no secondary features. Anyone else have this issue? I was hoping to have tiger stripes and glowing eyes, but didn't want black eyes. Thanks.

Had a problem with the Supernatural 11 face. If I choose a second feature (stripes, makup, etc.) then I have no option to alter the color of the glowing eyes. The eyes default to black and cannot be changed. The only color I'm able to alter is the second detail features. Anyone else have this issue? I really wanted black tiger stripes, but didn't want black glowing eyes.