Zombie Man

Scooped!

First, you only have 1MB RAM. You're probably going over that and using virtual memory where a lot of memory is being swapped onto and off of your hard drive pagefiles. That slows down the game and can freeze you as textures are being loaded.

A quick fix for now is to create a macro to keep clearing out your texture memory like so:

/macro ugf "unloadgfx"

And use it before and after zoning.

Better would be to get an extra RAM of memory. It's relatively cheap.

Also, speaking of the hard drive, you're down to 6% which often makes Windows choke and wheeze trying to use a drive with that little memory left. Clean it out and/or move stuff off of it to the other (virtual) drives. To clean out your hard drive:


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...).


Also, while your CPU and graphics card are OK for CoH, you won't get good performance with all those other programs loaded in the background. Shut them off, or delete them, or keep them from starting on start up. If you cut and paste your HiJackThis into this site: http://www.hijackthis.de/ and hit Analyze, you'll see what all those entries are doing. Go to this site to understand you HiJackThis report:

http://www.pchell.com/support/hijackthistutorial.shtml

Would you like to live in a country where children are given fighter jets to get around in?

References to the War Walls coming down were sly references to the upcoming Rikti Invasions. Even with the force field section down (the walls themselves don't come down), you can't go to other zones, for there are no other zones past the walls -- just a few building shells to give the impression there is.

In a game where SuperSpeed is limited to 92 mph for game engine reasons, you will never see a seamless city without an improvement in the servers by an order of magnitude... so, that's at least a few years away, and more likely for a CoH2 if it ever is developed. There's just too much geometry to keep track of and to try to load in the background while you're moving around. Try visiting and SuperSpeeding around all the zones and watch your memory usage go from .8 GB to 1.8 GB.

WoW does it because of the simple geometry, textures, and slow movement. CoH can't handle it... for now. And it was never promised.

Edit: I used this post to get the pics of what the two skins look like. Nothing to see here.

Thanks to Sorciere_NA's work in this post I learned about Stylish, which is a Firefox plug-in which allows one to take over the style sheet of a web site or forum. This enables one to tweak the way this vBulletin Board looks. In the link above, I linked a classic villain style version style-sheet to mimic the old villain skin of the UBB Board. However, I tweaked the villain skin a lot to something which I think just looks a whole lot better, which I'm dubbing... ZombieSkin, which is an alternative to the default villain skin.

Here is the Villain Skin CSS script to cut and paste into Stylish.

There's a villain skin and hero skin. Zombie Skin (villains) looks like this:



Here's what Zombie Hero Skin looks like:



And here you can find the Zombie Hero Skin CSS script to cut and paste into Stylish.

As you can see, a lot of the colors were tweaked to 'go together.' The font is also one size larger for readability and Verdana has replaced Arial. The gradient colors are gone. Extraneous underlining has been removed except for links. The grey avatar border is gone (making alpha channel transparencies work).

Of course, anything you don't like you can tweak, the style sheet is annotated.

Thanks to Sorciere_NA, Aggelakis, and Devian for their contributions.

Chrome Users: I've been told by a Chrome user that these Stylish Scripts will work if you remove the initial and ending curly brackets: { }

Opera Users: Use the plugin "Include CSS" and these Stylish Scripts will work if you remove the initial and ending curly brackets: { }

To complete the skinning, I recommend wholeheartedly Sharrow's GreaseMonkey script to strip out pics from sigs; and Diellan's GreaseMonkey script to move the Sticky Icon from the right to in front of the thread title and delete the 'STICKY:' prefix.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to adjust the look yourself.

See here.

Can we lead them to Adamaster and then log off?

Not only random, but weighted. Certain HOs drop more than others. Which is fine except for the Travel HO, that should be one of the most likely to drop but it isn't causing its price on the market to be astronomical.