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I'd recommend lowering the graphics settings to the minimum and then adjusting them one at a time and testing to see if the system runs stable.

Don't crank AA to 16x.

I'd recommend leaving Ambient Occlusion set to Off.

Also, some people have been reporting having problems with City of Heroes and Steam lately. Shut Steam off completely (Services included) and see if that helps with the problems.

If you still haven't found the source of the problems after that, launch the game in Safe Mode and run it for a while to see if it does the same thing. To launch the game in Safe Mode, right-click the game entry in the NCLauncher and select Properties. On the Properties page, put a checkmark in the box labeled Launch in Safe Mode and then click OK. Then launch the game.

Skyrim runs on DirectX and City of Heroes runs on OpenGL. Two different graphics engines run the games so comparing how they run is useless.

Actually, the "file missng" entries is a known problem with HiJackThis and 64-bit Windows. The only time it's truly of concern is in the BHO and Toolbar entries (the O2 and O3 entries) or if the filename is a known bad file,

You can read an explanation about this on Expert's Exchange but it's verified on other sites as well.

We had a thread started by someone trying to claim NCSoft was pushing Pando in their games in the Tech forums a while back. It was shown then that the claim had no merits as it related to CoH. Also, it was pointed out that an Aion Facebook page update made it clear that the NCLauncher was no longer going to prompt people to install Pando Media Booster in order to play Aion: Ascencion and that that game could be updated completely through the NCLauncher.

My post here made it pretty clear that Pando wasn't being installed by updating the Test client.

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I updated Test after reading your post and got no prompts to install Pando Media Booster.

I've checked and it's not installed on my computer so I know it didn't do a stealth install.

It sounds like something else was running (possibly a program in the system tray or something in the background) that did the install.

A week?

Argh!!!!!!!

*sigh*

Ah well, I'll eventually get to watch it in a format that isn't such poor quality. It says it's available in HD, but I can't find any settings to turn HD on.

But, since I'm not the target audience for the Summer Event I guess it isn't that important anyway.

And, like VC, I've never heard of them before today either.

Considering that Microsoft is not good at providing drivers with full OpenGL support in their built-in drivers and this is likely running the integrated 2500 graphics as M_B mentioned earlier and I doubt that Intel's OpenGL support has improved much in their integrated graphics, I don't forsee being able to enjoy playing CoH on it.

It's a shame this isn't posted on the YouTube site that is listed at the end of the trailer.

The video on gametrailers was poor quality and I wasn't impressed with the GT logo being stamped in various places during playback.

EDIT: It's an uphill struggle.

Your graphics chipset is the biggest limiter here with the amount of memory being the second biggest limiter. In addition, your free space is at 4%. Windows has problems when Free Space gets below 20%-25% and being at 4% it is definitely going to have problems. Free up space on your hard drive, buy a bigger drive and clone this one onto it or add a second drive and move your documents, pictures, music, etc to that drive to free up the space.

You have a PCI-Express x16 slot in the computer that should be able to take a better graphics card. Of course, your power supply may need to be upgraded to be able to use a better power supply.

A RAM upgrade would help, but you are still limited by the sub-par graphics chipset.

Without spending any money, you can do the following in the in-game settings.

Lower your Particle count to 25050 or lower.

Lower Anisotropic Filtering to Off or 2X.

Lower the Physics Quality.

Lower the Water Effects.

Turn Bloom to OFF.

Lower the Shader Detail to Low or Off.

In the Startup section (O4 in the HJT logs) turn off Adobe ARM, Java Updater, DivX Updater, Google Update and possibly the MotoLauncher. Those programs don't NEED to be running at startup, take up valuable and limited resources and will launch when they are needed or you can manually check for updates to the various software.

Changing these in-game settings and stopping the extraneous programs from launching at Startup won't resolve all of the problems but they should alleviate them somewhat.

An ipconfig /flushdns from an elevated Command Prompt might be worth a try.

Do you have the Remember Account Name box on the Login screen checked?

If not, this is a moot point since I don't think it will create the playerslot.txt file if that is unchecked.

If you do, since the game appears to be installed in the default folder (ugh!), it is likely that the file is in either the User folder in AppData or some other folder.

I can't give you the exact path on that since I never install games to the default directory structure.

You can likely find it by searching the computer for playerslot.txt but you may have to set your folder options to show hidden files and folders.

Check out this recent thread that already exists in Player Questions.

In the thread many of the questions are answered as well as quotes from a thread in City Life and a link to that thread where most of this has already been discussed with red name responses.

First things first.

Reboot your computer.

After the reboot, Right-click on the Launcher and select Run as Administrator.

If that doesn't resolve it, follow the instructions in the [Guide] Asking for technical help on the forums thread that is stickied in the ALL ACCESS: Gameplay / Technical Issues & Bugs forum section.