Vorac

Don't forget that this is happening Soon™ !

I decided to splurge for this one. Yes it's going to cost me a weeks pay but how often do any of us get to stay in a 2000 sq' Suite? I'll be at the Mandarin Oriental in the Taipan Suite.

Hilton: double bed starting at $215 (about a 3 min walk)

Club Quarters: single bed starting at $159, King and sofa bed starting at $219

Hotel North Beach: single $55, two twin beds $80 (about a 5 min walk, I don't trust this one for some reason.... wonder if they have an hourly rate...)

Mandarin Oriental: Penthouse Suite with 2000 sq' for CA residents starting at $950 (5 minute walk/ 15 minute crawl)

hmmmm, wonder which one I'm gonna get...? After Party in my room?

Well, I haven't missed one of these yet so no reason to change this year...

Now, where to stay.....

I run real close to max. Keep in mind that my mobo/ram/cpu are a little older (ddr2). Also I could use an upgrade in the hdd department. Other than that, as long as I keep Occlusion one notch below max and FSAA at 8x I do pretty good.

*edit: I should note that last night I was running around Striga getting anywhere between 25-55 fps with these settings.
*edit2: In response to Zombie man's post: Gaming Monitor: 23" LED running at 1920x1058 (1080 but using windowed mode thanks to Win7 and Aero on 2 monitor setup....)


---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

DxDiag gathered at October 8, 2010 14:27 (-07:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100618-1621)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: GA-MA78G-DS3H
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz (AM2+)
Memory: 5120MB (ddr2 2x2G and a 1G)
.Net Memory Report: 3664MB out of 5118MB available
Page File: 8614MB (1620MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD6400AACS-00G8B1 ATA Device) 307609MB out of 510477MB (60%) free (almost 4 y.o.)
D Drive: (WDC WD6400AACS-00G8B1 ATA Device) 63946MB out of 99798MB (64%) free (almost 4 y.o.)
F Drive: (WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0 ATA Device) 50846MB out of 238473MB (21%) free (5 y.o.)
G Drive: (ATAPI iHOS104 ATA Device) zero-size drive
E Drive: (PIONEER BD-RW BDR-205 ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (64-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 480
Video Memory: 3806 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.12.6063
Driver Date: 9/10/2010 11:46:00 PM
Driver Language: English

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 480
Video Memory: 3806 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.12.6063
Driver Date: 9/10/2010 11:46:00 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (2- USB AUDIO )
Driver File: USBAUDIO.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 5:06:32 PM

Sound Device Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 5:07:00 PM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: GA-MA78G-DS3H
Motherboard Version:
BIOS Manufacturer: Award Software International, Inc.
BIOS Name: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: GBT - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20090812000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1920x1058
3D Resolution: 1920x1058 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: No
Maximized: Yes
Screen Position: 121, -13
Refresh Rate: 0Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No


Physics Quality: Very High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No


Anti-aliasing: 8x
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High


World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 2.000
Entity Detail Level: 2.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Shadow Mode: Unknown (4)
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: Ultra quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Ultra
Occlusion Strength: Strong with color bleeding
Blur: Trilateral
Ambient Resolution: Quality


Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Compatiblity
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.081
Music Sound Volume: 0.000

Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 894502 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1850.201009101722.11T2
Installation Directory: D:\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

They work fine for me, actually seems like I got a few extra fps with these ones.

EVGA Precision tool? Try leaving it off till you are done changing settings.



*edited for missing letters....... I don't know who stole em, but I blame Hyperstrike!

I'm getting the same results with the jagged edge but on a GTX480. Even with FSAA maxed at 32x it's still the same only rounded off edges....

Here's all the stuff anyway: (with this rig I usually get around 35-40fps outside and 50+ inside, Hami raids I drop to around 15 or so but never slide show anymore )

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

DxDiag gathered at September 21, 2010 10:42 (-07:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100618-1621)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: GA-MA78G-DS3H
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 5120MB
.Net Memory Report: 3701MB out of 5118MB available
Page File: 8621MB (1613MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD6400AACS-00G8B1 ATA Device) 326259MB out of 510477MB (63%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD6400AACS-00G8B1 ATA Device) 63950MB out of 99798MB (64%) free
F Drive: (WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0 ATA Device) 51897MB out of 238473MB (21%) free
G Drive: (ATAPI iHOS104 ATA Device) zero-size drive
E Drive: (PIONEER BD-RW BDR-205 ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (64-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 480
Video Memory: 3806 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.12.5896
Driver Date: 7/10/2010 5:38:00 AM
Driver Language: English

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 480
Video Memory: 3806 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.12.5896
Driver Date: 7/10/2010 5:38:00 AM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (2- USB AUDIO )
Driver File: USBAUDIO.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 5:06:32 PM

Sound Device Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 5:07:00 PM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: GA-MA78G-DS3H
Motherboard Version:
BIOS Manufacturer: Award Software International, Inc.
BIOS Name: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: GBT - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20090812000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1920x1058
3D Resolution: 1920x1058 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: No
Maximized: Yes
Screen Position: 17, -19
Refresh Rate: 0Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No


Physics Quality: Very High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No


Anti-aliasing: 8x
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High


World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 2.000
Entity Detail Level: 2.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
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Environmental Reflections: Ultra quality
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Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
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Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Compatiblity
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FX Sound Volume: 0.081
Music Sound Volume: 0.000

Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 972913 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1850.201007290124.28T4
Installation Directory: D:\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

I have the EVGA 480GTX SC running with a Phenom II X4 3.0GHz and 5G ram.
The optimal settings for performance and shiny are mostly maxed out. FSAA at 8x, Shadow Quality at High and Occlusion strength at Strong. If I go above any of those settings it has a major hit on fps.

The fan is louder then heck and it does run very hot (~97C) under max load. But it never gives up

Keep in mind, if you get an EVGA you cant run the evga precision tool and change settings in game at the same time, it will lock up the game.

Yes it is pricey, hot, loud and a behemoth in my case but I don't regret it at all.

*running 2 monitors both 1920 x 1080 but running game in windowed mode: Win7 Aero stuff

*Gaming monitor: Samsung 24" LED, game looks awesome!

Mama got nukes

I can't take all the credit. I was working with tech support for a week before we found this problem.

I know that I'm gonna sound like a broken record here, but does that happen to be an EVGA card, and are you running the evga precision tool while you are adjusting the coh settings?
The precision tool and coh's settings adjustment do not play well together.

Do you happen to have the EVGA Precision tool running while playing/adjusting settings? That and CoH do not play well together.

The 480's are about 2" longer than the 200 series cards. They did move the power pins from the rear of the card to the side so there is just enough room....if you have a huge case....

Are you running the EVGA Precision tool?

If so, that is the problem. I had the exact same issue with my 480GTX and closing the tool fixes the problem.

I guess, ideally, turn off the precision tool, adjust your settings in game then you can turn it back on. It seems to only affect the game while you're changing settings.

I had this same problem. Set the game to windowed mode and your golden.

Not sure if there is a "real" fix for it, but I tried this and it worked so I stopped looking for other solutions.

Got meh Nucular WMD ready for the confronamatation with the big Cadbury Egg looking thingy!!

..... And Vorac (hero and villain) Always keeping the Rezzer's busy!! .....

Quote:
Originally Posted by Riverdancer
Did we EVER find out how many kinetics' Inertial Reduction we needed to get a granite tank airborne?


Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
If I remember correctly, someone had figured the math and it was something like 52 or 54 Kins.

I miss the feeling I used to get when I would log into Atlas Park, the theme would be playing and I was still new to the game. I would get chills every time. Not so much anymore, just done it too many times...

I remember the first "old" Hami raid that I went to. On my lvl 45 emp. All the "big" names were there. I felt a little star-struck...

I guess, in the end, that I just miss the New feeling that I used to get. The excitement of doing a TF or seeing the Shadow Shard for the first time. The first friends that I made on the game (who are no longer playing) or the first SG that I joined and the tight friendship that came of it. I just want those feelings back...

I don't mind the changes to the game, whether good or bad, evolution is always a constant. I just miss the feelings for the game that I used to have.

So, after a 9 month hiatus from this, I just updated all the stories since last May. I'm pretty sure I got everything.......


Grey, I just updated all the links to your stories (you got way too many... ) unless you want to send me text formats of all your stuff, copy and pasting each post is a PITA and I'm a lazy basterd...