Texas Justice

There is. Sometimes you have to do some other updates first before it will show up.

Or, you can go directly to Microsoft's website to get it.

Yes. Nice to see one of our Justice folks quoted there. But I think they should have posted a picture of Stabitha in her costume from last year along with her quote.


At least, I think it was Stabitha that was wearing the white costume all day Saturday. She got quite a few double-takes from the Quilters and the wedding parties as well. Especially the guys.


EDIT: Yeah, it was Stabitha. *cough*

Be sure not to miss the bolded part above about the DellDock. It was one of the first things I uninstalled on my Dell when I got it, and I haven't missed it a bit. Just disable it if you don't want to uninstall it. If you find that is the problem, you can make the decision then for yourself if it is worth keeping it installed.

Yep, as mentioned in previous post, upgrade to SP2. It really helps.

Those driver dates are really hinky looking and suggest corrupt driver installations. Yes, I know it's a new computer, but even Dell can screw the pooch at times.

In the ATI thread I mentioned in the other post, Bill gives a good set of instructions for correctly uninstalling and reinstalling drivers. I'll recommend using DriverSweeper since it is still free, unlike the excellent Driver Cleaner that Bill mentions. Just follow the same basic steps but use DriverSweeper in place of Driver Cleaner.

Keep us posted on how things go.

Glad you changed the wording on that.

Installing SP2 would be the first order of business for me, but I think the culprit is likely the DellDock. It uses similar coding to WindowBlinds or is just a reskinned version of WindowBlinds and can cause problems as panthera noted above. Something you didn't install but came on your PC from the OEM.

Also, since you are using an ATI video card, I would highly recommend starting off (once you get the launcher problem resolved) by setting your Catalyst Control Center and in-game graphics settings by the first post in Bill Z Bubba's ATI Issues and Settings Recommendations thread. It will save you many headaches at first. Once you get things running smoothly, you can start tweaking some settings (keeping in mind the ones Bill lets us know are definitely problematic in CoH) to increase your visual settings. Bill likes his pretty in the game, so you may find that the settings suit you fine, but you may want to play with them one setting at a time on your own.

Along those lines, you may want to download and install TweakCoH which will allow you to adjust your graphics settings before you get into the game as well as letting you change some of the fonts used by the game. It likely does more that I just haven't played with it enough to know about.

One other thing you might want to try is another setting in the Properties of your shortcut to the game. On the Compatibility tab, try putting a checkmark in "Disable desktop composition". This turns off Aero when you launch the game, and when you close it will re-enable Aero. So you can have your shiny and not have it interfere with your gaming.

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Oh, and Electronite, if you are reading this post, this is an example of one of the useless posts that make you scroll for no good reason that MissInformed hates.

Ok.

I've seen people put things on Brand New Computers that caused problems before they got the main application they usually run installed. It happens.

I've also seen enough crapware installed by OEM's to make my eyes bleed.

I've seen software that goes with the motherboard's hardware cause game problems (I'm looking at you nVidia Network Firewall, among others).

I've also seen inadvertent settings in HJT logs that had people saying "How the heck did THAT get there".

If you are going to ask for our help, please give us the information we are asking for that allows US to help YOU more efficiently. It doesn't take that long to download, install and run HJT then post the results here.

It's not like we are asking you to run a 24-hour MemTest.

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This thread isn't dead yet.

I'm seeing several reports in the Technical Issues and Bugs forums.

I think it may be due to some tweaking being done on the back end to try to tame the new forum software.

If so, the changes they are making are causing the unintended side-effect of old notifications resending.

Just a guess.

Hmmm. Don't anyone tell Thor's Assassin about this, or Assassin of Thor. I think it would break his Art.