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Originally Posted by TerraShock

There seems to be no one set solution for the error. Some have reported turing off windows eye candy helps, (aero), some rolling back drivers, disabling nvidia hdmi audio, to jumping up and down on one leg while whistling.....

I've had a similiar error but not in COX, just World of Tanks, and at times browsing with Firefox.

I was able to set "max performance" in nvidia control panel, and downclock my memory which helped with World of Tanks, and disabling hardware acceleration in firefox and flash, to fix my brower issue.

Do the crashes occur in safemode? Also use a program to check your card temps while gaming, and see if it's running hot. Cards have had issues with solder joints being weak, and as they get warm connections are lost. HWMonitor and GPUZ are a couple I use for checking temps.

Some 100 pages of discussion on the issue here,
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s...ic=187401&st=0

Originally Posted by Little_Tank_Girl

I just upgraded from Win XP to Win 7 and from a 9800GT to a GTX550Ti, and BAM, this very problem hit me hard, making the game unplayable. I put the 9800GT back in and installed the correct drivers for it (clean install) and the problem went away.

The video card is going back to NewEgg tomorrow. ( <3 their return policy)

This is probably not helpful, but it's a data point.

Originally Posted by Vega

Possibly, but this is not an outfit for slinging guns



Looks like an old school playboy bunny

Originally Posted by Silver Sanguis

There's no point to this list i'm afraid. Different users have different experiences with every driver. For me for example, none of them are "stable" as far as CoX are concerned, though the ones where it ran better didn't run at all for others - Read up on the old Cataclyst threads and you'll see why this thread is pointless.

I'm afraid there's no shortcut to stability here, you'll have to figure it out and try drivers on your own.

Originally Posted by Siolfir

In another thread it was suggested that the Blaster damage cap be raised to 600% and in another the melee damage modifier increased; at a 600% damage cap they'd outperform every other AT at their respective damage caps relative to the scale of the power.

While I don't think it's an end-all-be-all solution for Blasters, it does at least address the issue where Brutes and Scrappers at their caps deal more damage over time with the same attacks than Blasters do. For that reason I think it would be a good place to start.

Originally Posted by Necrotron_RO

And all the Peacebringers and Energy Blasters would rejoice! Well, mine, at least.

Allow me to swap to knockdown, and I would love those sets. As is, teaming can be problematic when using the AoE attacks is counterproductive to the effectiveness of the team.

Originally Posted by BrandX

I'm curious as to why you think MMs need a design pass when they're considered one of the strongest ATs.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Dominators got a design pass not that long ago; among other things their damage was increased substantially to make them offensively balanced archetypes. I could argue that the archetype that is most in need of a balance pass is Blasters. Blasters have been waiting for a secondary powerset design pass for longer than Dominators have existed. In fact, Dominators and Scrappers have a higher melee damage modifier than Blasters do, which is nonsensical.

If I had to rank which archetypes deserved the most attention overall, the list would be:

Peacebringers
Blasters
Stalkers
Everybody else.

The only reason I put PBs ahead of Blasters is just because the disparity between PBs and WSs is ludicrous, and because I don't think Kheldians get enough special benefits for being quantum-bait.

Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails

Tangent: Black Hole

I really want a power that mechanically copies the mental image the name brings to me.

You drop a sphere. Everything in a large radius around that sphere receives knockback toward the sphere. Everything that actually touches the sphere is momentarily phased, turned utterly invisible, and takes a large amount of crushing damage. Bonus points for a 'stretched/sucked into the sphere' graphic.

Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

FYI, I was using 11.4 for most of the year on my 5850 card.

It never caused crashes for me, but I did get occasional corruption of certain textures (for instance, sometimes the letter "w" wouldn't show up in peoples' chat bubbles), and sometimes buildings in the BAF trial weren't rendered. These problems were few and far between though, and mostly encountered on the BAF trial (and only about 1 in 10 times there).

The game was otherwise very playable and performance was comparable to the other good drivers in your listing.

On the other hand, I DO recall reading that users with 6800 series cards had issues with the 11.4 drivers.

(11.9 seems to be the way to go at this point, regardless.)