Texas Justice

There are a few settings that can cause the game to hang at an early level, so it's not totally unreasonable.

More likely it's because you got someone that just skims the tickets looking for a few key words instead of actually reading the ticket to see what the actual problem is. They then look for copy/paste responses based on whatever key words they pick up as they skim the ticket, whether it's relevant to the actual problem or not.

Mind you, I'm just basing that on past experiences with support in this game and in other non-game related technical fields.

Nope, I wouldn't even want me as the moderator.

Just someone pointing out the obvious part of your initial post and how it doesn't relate to the forums.

Yeah, the OP has an Acer X1301 which is an Xtra Small Form Factor system using an onboard nVidia 9200.

Bwahahahahahaha!

You win the interwebz.

See, you aren't useless.

Notice the part that I bolded of your statement? We aren't Customer Support. Customer Support isn't handled on the forums.

And what makes you think he hasn't handled a whip dressed in something quite similar to what you described?

He's done his fair share of physical performances, at times involving weapons.

Poe-tay-toe poe-tah-toe.

Most people that offer DirectX games "running fine" as comparisons don't know that there is an OpenGL renderer available for WoW or how to enable it. At least, based on my previous experience.

In this instance, I'm fairly certain that they are using the default DirectX installation of WoW since they'd be having similar problems if they were trying to use the OpenGL renderer on WoW.

First of all, those two games you list are DirectX games. CoH is OpenGL.

Trying to compare the two as far as performance is rather useless.

Working in the IT field, I can give a bit of insight into this.

It's very possible that the College IT department is throttling your bandwidth for connection to a game server. Anything that passes a lot of traffic might get throttled, it's just that this may be the only thing you notice. My district throttles anything that is deemed as non-educational in nature, if it isn't blocked outright. Our business office was flooding the network with listening to streaming radio (everybody had to listen to their own station, they couldn't listen to the cubicle next to them tuned to the same station). They were using over 55% of our districts bandwidth, which meant that teachers and students doing actual educational work at 10 campuses were bogged down to almost no available bandwidth. We initially turned it off but the screaming and whining was too much to deal with so they turned it back on but limited it to 8% of the bandwidth during school hours.

I have looked at bandwidth reports with my former employer and with my current employer when I am connected to the game, and it's not a small amount of continuous traffic. My ISP at home is a wireless ISP and it's not that uncommon for me to flood the router at the antenna in town and sometimes even the link from that router to the connecting antenna 15 miles away.

Tiers ≠ Waves.

See my previous post.

Security hole. Microsoft has enough of their own so they try to limit third-party products access.

Once you've downloaded CoH Helper (don't try to run it from the website) right-click on it and select Run as Administrator.

If it still isn't working, you've got other computer issues that need to be cleared up first, likely a virus or some type of malware.