Zombie Man

The good news is that the scrolling problem is fixed on Test.

The bad news is that Test is still missing info on the new, fifth power.

The really good news is that you're not crashing when you click the plaques anymore.

I'm guessing the problem is your GPU: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200. It's a generation older and a few levels of sophistication lower than what is regarded as minimum specs for a high-end 3-D game like City of Heroes.

You can try this:

1. Upgrade your graphics card driver. It *is* old.

2. Go to your manufacturer's website and see if there is a newer driver for your motherboard chipset/CPU.

3. Your huge hard drive is now more than 80% full. Windows goes crazy with that unless it's kept in order. Try this:

1. Go to control panel and then Add/Remove Programs and get rid of any programs you don't need any more.

2. Go into Windows Explorer (not the Internet Explorer) and right click on your C: drive and chose Properties. Under the General Tab, you'll see a button for Disk Cleanup, run it and get rid of deleted (recycle bin) and temp files.

3. Under the General Tab, make sure Indexing is not selected. Unless you need to do quick searches of your documents on a regular basis, you don't need this. It may take a while to propagate the un-indexing to all the sub-folders.

4. Go to the Tools Tab and click on the defrag button. Run the defragger. It may take an hour or two to defrag. Make sure the computer doesn't power down during it (you'll find power options where you change the screen saver -- right click on desktop...).

4. Reboot and try to start CoH. If that won't work...

5. Reboot and try to start in Safe Mode (check box for that on the updater). If you can only start in Safe Mode, come back here for next set of instructions.

Well, there are a lot of background process you should kill. Even if one of them isn't the cause of the crashing, it will help performance. To understand you HijackThis log, you can cut and paste your log into this site: http://www.hijackthis.de/ and check out a tutorial here: http://pchell.com/support/hijackthistutorial.shtml

The real problem is the integrated video chip. Such chips are not made for high-end 3-D gaming and it's below the recommended minimum settings. Usually laptops can't take a graphics card upgrade, so, you're kinda stuck.

The best bet now is to see if your manufacturer's website has driver updates for your motherboard/CPU/GPU.

Don't forget the level 1 footrace from BAB to the Storm Palace.

You have way, way, way too much stuff running in the background. You even have *two instances* of Google Desktop loading up on launch. That is just horrible for performance. You let every program you ever used insinuate itself into your start up registry and now it's a spaghettified mess.

See here to understand the HijackThis report: http://pchell.com/support/hijackthistutorial.shtml

The sound problems are just the beginning. Performance *will* denigrate in more and more areas if you keep things the way they are. Time for a re-install:

1. Make sure you have a Windows re-install disk.

2. Back up all data.

3. Reformat hard drive.

4. Reinstall Windows. Update Windows. Update all drivers including motherboard chipset/CPU if available from the manufacturers website.

5. Run HijackThis after all the driver installs. Delete the stay-resident helper files.

6. Reinstall programs and run HijackThis to delete the stay-resident helper files. The only applications that you should allow to be stay-resident are your anti-virus apps and maybe two or three that you use *all the time*.

7. Reinstall data.


If you're thinking about upgrading to Win7, then do this once you're ready to upgrade.

Check out this thread, Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines


Then post the results of these two programs:

• CoH Helper - it will show us basic computer settings and your CoH configuration.
  
• HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format > Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.
  
  
  

The funny thing is that by this time next week, Issue 16 will probably hit Live and the level restriction for Perez Park will be gone. This means the OP would have been able to get in and try to use a +2 to +12 hazard zone as a 'short cut', inevitably leading to multiple deaths.

The Wiki is correct with how Procs and Globals work. It's been tested. Anyone who claims it's not working as the Wiki says has either found a /bug or is confused and needs to provide a screenshot to back up their claim.

+Stealth Proc120s can *not* be placed in passive powers, otherwise they can't be shut off and you'll never be able to lead a hostage out of a mission. They *can* be placed in any of the Sprints. The slotting of +Stealth Proc120s has nothing to do with the slotting of Universal Travel Power sets.

Universal Travel Power sets can not be slotted in Sprints. This was purposely done so that the special IOs of those sets can't be stacked 5 high by placing multiple copies of them in the prestige sprints, or that multiple Special IOs from various Universal Travel Power sets can't be loaded in all those free and unused prestige Sprint slots.

Don't go to Arbiter Sawyer. Last time I did, I somehow found myself whitewashing the Arena and I paid him to let me do it!

Expect broadcasts for opportunities to make your sword longer and thicker.

Update: Did a little research and it seems Wingdings are the leprosy of the Net.

Since MS's 'wingding font' has never been accepted as a Net standard, it's use is severely frowned upon. It conflicts with Unicode; non-Windows OSs don't have access to it (Unix and Mac); and browsers which play by the rules and don't use it (FireFox) won't display it.

There is a fix to make it display in FF if you have it installed on your computer that easily found with a Web search, but the policy gurus seem unified on this: Don't use Wingdings; use the iconography available in Unicode instead.

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I shut off Stylish and GreaseMonkey, and in FireFox, under both skins, the wingdings show up as regular text. So, I load up IE, and presto! I see the wingdings.

So, it's a FF v. IE thing.

Newsflash: Praetorians are already being upgraded. At least many of the praetorian henchers in the MA are.

My money is on this coming Tuesday.

oops, just experimenting with coding.... disregard, please.

Revive exists on Regen as an excellent way to shake off a debuff.

No. All the Anonymous posts from the old boards, because the user account was deleted, have been turned into Ex Libris. She is now the 5th_Burkholder of the forums.