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Mine's installed in C:\Games\CoH, so there's that. I never install a game into the Program Files anyway. I's just sayin', default is probably ok... But I don't do default, so I'm screwin' up the works for recommending anything. Meh.

OMG, NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo........!

It's been installed on my windows drive since '05... so...

Oh, the updater. No, it's ok, I'm not tellin' him to install it there on the desktop, I'm tellin' him to download the *updater* to it, or a folder in it.

Correct, DO NOT install it to the desktop. Let it install wherever it might, it'll probably work better that way. Typically C:\Program Files\City of Heroes. Although you could change it, that'd be totally up to you.

How very odd. This wouldn't be you, would it?

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/board/...thread.id=1051

Was searching google for your model number and came across that. If it's not... then there's two of you out there.

The oddity is this. Going to HP I get NO information regarding this:

System Model: D5468AT-ABA ALONPAV

Putting in just the 5468 in the HP search does produce something... but they're all laptops.

So the system model isn't good enough. We're probably going to need the model number from the outside of the box, I can't look up anything else.

You say it's a new video card, but depending on the card and your power supply, there may be an issue. Newer video cards tend to need more power, but if your power supply is stock... and not rated for enough watts... you're possibly running into that.

There also seems to be an issue here and there with your montior though. Google searches on the monitor's model number and the word 'sleep' brings up a few 'me too!'s.

Try not using steam, and instead download the updater from here:

ftp://client.coh.com/US/

specifically, this one:

ftp://client.coh.com/US/CohUpdater.exe

Download it to your DESKTOP, or a folder made for it on the desktop (important to NOT run it from the City of Heroes install location) and run it from there.

Hopefully, that should fix you up, because Steam is not needed to run Co*... as far as I can tell... as I don't run it.

Don't blame Lenovo, per se, Sony is exactly the same. As is Dell. And Gateway. Hp, Compaq, Toshiba, Acer...

In other words, if it's a *laptop*, they're all doing that.

Reason is they ubertweak the drivers for power balancing and a few other reasons in their particular system. Each one 'makes it their own'. Even in a mini system that is similarly built to a laptop, you may find this.

Basically, the rule is this: If you are even *thinking* about any 3D gaming on a laptop... buy it with a dedicated graphics solution, and do use the 'over 6' rule... i.e. the ones with a 6 in them or better (9600, 260, 4800) are going to be the ones to go with over the less than 6 (4300, 9100)

I know it's after the fact, but there it is.

No, just bein' me. If you watch me long enough, you'll figure this is normal. Sorry... I'll stop now... in this thread...

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Bring it on down to

They're just advancing after all these years, and soon, they'll finally get all those cells locked back up. Probably be about 2011 or so..

/I'll have to go have a look at that... odd.

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That you're only using 85% speaks volumes about the awesome and win system you have, though, so take heart, and dinna werry!

/although a Helper or even dxdiag log wouldn't be shunned, I'd like to see.

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Again, post from Castle or it didn't happen. Be like if a tree fell in the woods, but nobody was around to see it or hear it... so did it really happen, or were we just being told it did?

/but that's a whole other discussion.
//isn't it, Castle?

Good thinking! I was going with the 'logical' possibles, not the physical ones.

Don't suppose you've gone into the power and display settings in the control panel and turned off the sleep, hibernate, and screen saver... Surely you have, I'm sorry, I'm silly for even asking, I know.

There's nothing, really, in that log that indicates what the issue is, beyond the fact that it's an HP, and therefore there *may* be another software running in the background or a bios setting that could be doing it. HP is some weird re: power stuff.

Post up a Hijack this, and maybe we can figure it out with that.

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QRs from Castle in this thread or it doesn't/didn't happen.

I'm just popping in to say that there are some really great answers being offered here, and I agree with the over all tone of them. That is all.

Btw, thinkin' about my post up there... the "it may not be compatible" bit is about the graphics solution not being compatible with Co*. Certain Intels won't do it.

Sneaky Niviene is sneaky.

/nice!

"There's a passenger with a bomb on board."
"A bo-!"
"No, not a bo-, a

No you didn't break any taboo! It's just just a thing I do. I'm not real up on (the game what's name shall not be mentioned.) Didn't like the experience in total... but that's just me. Weird, right?

Well, that, and the Harry Potter reference.

I hope you get your new box soon, and you spend plenty times in Co*! Take care!

MalwareBytes is awesome. I have spoken.

Another vote for AVG, but some have run into issues. I run it no problems everywhere I install it, so...

In agreement with the driver suggestion. However, if that doesn't work, and since it started at 20-30 minutes and now has downgraded to 5 minutes, I'm going with one of these:

Heat (check heatsinks for dirt and clean, make sure all fans work.)
Memory bad (memtest86+)

Past that it's possible the power supply and/or motherboard itself is the issue, but testing that in a Dell XPS 600 might be... interesting.

Oh, look, I totally missed you just got that card. Now my money is on an underrated power supply given the new wattage needs. Minimum 500 watts in my book. I don't know what that Dell power supply is rated at, but I bet it's less than that. Only one way to find out, crack open the case and have a look. It should be listed on the side of the power supply. You may need to pull it to check it out.

One note of caution... most Dells have special power supplies. It's a wiring thing. Trying to put in another, non-Dell power supply, unless it's a specifically made for Dell one, will *kill* the motherboard. You've been warned. Should that be your route, of course.

A blonde walks into a bar, with a poodle under one arm, and a 2 foot salami under the other arm. She walks up to the bar, and the bartender says, "I guess you won't be needing a drink." To which the blonde says,

RE: the faux wood: Yeah, if there's enough red in it, and there's enough *dark* (not a darker shade, but a real contrast) grain in it, then yeah, the mousepad will likely fix things.

If it doesn't... I'm with Father.

/em bow to mouse overlords.

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