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Originally Posted by Zem

Hmm.. can't remember if I've tried 11.9. Been playing on 11.3 for awhile and wondering if I can update or should update... some new games coming along but I am not even sure if the newer drivers have anything to offer my one-card 6970 setup. Seems like the patch notes are always only related to fixing the latest Crossfire retardation with some game.

Originally Posted by SchroedingerCat

1. no, mainly because i had trouble with a few of the more recent nvidia drivers not installing properly. also, it wasn't doing it before they fixed whatever was causing the flickering.
2. the most recent times i had logged in at a door mission and went inside, cast ice patch and then burn. but generally its about 5 minutes after i start up, it has happened when i got invited to a team, while i was moving around, while i was standing, and on all sorts of characters.
3. yes, i use evga precision to keep the fan at around 70(rpm?) while running anything graphically intensive. in my experience with this particular card, that keeps its temp at mid 70c. I have come to the conclusion that if it is going to overheat, it will do it no matter what the fan is at, but if it isn't going to overheat, the fan can be at baseline speed with no issues. I'm just kind of hoping to break the fan or something, so i can definitely rma it. we dust our rigs including the fans on cards and whatnot monthly, and last time it did it i applied arctic silver thermal paste on it, but i haven't noticed a difference, other than idle temps sit at 35c which is nice, i guess.
4. i have this case http://store.antec.com/Product/enclo...5-15260-0.aspx. i don't have a card fan, but i am not sure that would really matter, since sometimes it sits at 75c with COH running in ultra, and just minutes before i would've had to reboot it since the temp shot up to 100c after 5 minutes of being in game. I know the heat is my card - I've run eurosoft on everything in my rig, and ive documented the same behavior in many other 3d applications.

i did find a quick and dirty work around. every other reboot it would get a wild hair up its *** and overheat, so i stopped rebooting and just put it on standby when it was behaving. this fixed the problem! I am hesitant to RMA it since I am not sure they will see it malfunction. our last step is going to be swapping my hubby's card with mine, since we have identical cards, just mine was bought more recently than his. if it overheats in his, we can rma it and hope EVGA doesn't give me a stinky replacement.

but yeah back on topic, its been crashing in coh and it definitely isn't a heating issue for me, for once

Originally Posted by Firemoth

The person asking about the Female MM pets was me if you want to add in a name :-p And yes, I'm beating that subject like a dead horse and not letting it go.



They stated there would be a thing in place to prevent duplicates.

Originally Posted by Turgenev

*shrugs* I fart in paragraphs. What can I say?

PVP is a hotbed of a topic (as this thread demonstrates). What I did was not just ask a question of "what about PVP", but rather "here's a PVP mechanic that could not only work, but introduce the idea painlessly to the average player". A claim like that takes, I'll say, maybe two minutes of explaining.

I'll be honest: I'm not a PVPer in any light. My investment in the idea was from the perspective of fleshing out the game as a whole, rather than make things better for a particular faction of players. I speak clearly - to the point to where people in my office think I'm being a jerk, but honestly, I just had vocal training, so that's what I do. There was no anger in my presentation. Maybe a little excitement. Forgive me if I geeked out. XD

FYI, I have tried delivering this concept before on the forums back about 2 years ago with no redname response, but since I had a captive audience with the Devs, I figured "What the heck, the least that could happen is they look blankly at you and go 'lolpvp'". They didn't, and with the audience reaction to the idea of evolving the PVP mechanic, a lot of people who don't PVP seemed willing to try. My first post was primarily to fluff out what Xanatos and others asked in way of detail, but I wanted to express my response to the "lol" section.

Thanks for the apology, VK. I'll let it be known when the Flowbie video of Positron's haircut is on Youtube.

Originally Posted by Texas Justice

Nalora, have you tried starting a thread here following the procedures in the [Guide] Asking for technical help on the forums thread? If not, try it and you'll likely get several helpful people posting with suggestions for resolutions.

Your crashes don't seem to be localized to the Incarnate Trials, which is what this thread is about.

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

Another option is to get Win 7 64-bit, to allow him to use all the memory he has installed, and a 1GB video card like the GTX 560Ti.

My concern is making sure what he buys today can be used in a future system. That pretty much eliminates more DDR2 ram or a Socket 775 CPU upgrade.

Otherwise it's a full CPU/RAM/MB transplant and that just kicks the cost way up.

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

Okay I'm going to have to disagree here. Sorry guys.

He's on 32-bit Windows maxed at 4GB of RAM (3 actually). And you want him to plonk in a 1GB video card?

Essentially what is going to happen here is that you're cutting down on available system memory for things besides the OS. This may or may not impact performance in the game, but it'll definitely impact long-term stability of the client in-game.

So we're kinda 6 of one, a half dozen of the other.





Bionic, what kind of budget do you have?
Also, are you planning on overclocking?

I know it's a pain but:



You've answered a good chunk of what's needed already. But your budget is the big one here.

Both for yourself and your kids' computers.