Profile Tool for City of Heroes
By
Gen_Prot_Fault,
Posted on: 2006-09-05 15:00 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
Great initiative!
If this works, I'm nominating you for September's Creative Genius.
Nice one ^^
Nice easy tool that changes the reg entry! Great Work! 
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If this works, I'm nominating you for September's Creative Genius.
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If it doesn't for any reason, could you drop me a note in this thread or via a PM.
I've been using this tool consistently myself for the last 2-3 weeks while I waited for confirmation it wasn't EULA breaking and it's been fine - so much so that it's been able to fix my most excessive (controlled) messing around with the CoX registry settings (like setting the game to a resolution of 0 x 0, or deleting keys altogether), but you never know, I could have packaged a file incorrectly or let a silly little bug though (for example, the first time I ran it on anyone elses machine, I discovered that not all CoX PCs have *all* the registry keys).
Also, it's untested on the US City of Heroes though it should work fine and has code in to detect it.
One thing that I would find useful is a brief pointer as to what settings make the biggest difference? There seems to be a minefield of different graphics settings contained within CoX, and whilst some are fairly self explanatory, others make absolutely no sense whatsoever!
So what are the big hitters? What are the options that can make or break graphical performance?
I have an AMD 4000+ Venice, 1.5GB RAM, a SATA150 HDD and an AGP NVidia GT6600. Current settings mean that at best, I get about 35fps solo, but this can go down to 10-15 in a team.
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One thing that I would find useful is a brief pointer as to what settings make the biggest difference? There seems to be a minefield of different graphics settings contained within CoX, and whilst some are fairly self explanatory, others make absolutely no sense whatsoever!
So what are the big hitters? What are the options that can make or break graphical performance?
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Pretty sure that's dependant upon the particular vendor/model of graphics card you've got - nvidia/ati, card series, DirectX features supported, drivers.
Okay, 10 days on, and there's been no new bugs raised - so either nobody's using it (even the circle of friends I asked to give it a try 
), or it's working as intended (it's after all not the most complex thing on the face of the planet).
If you have tried this app and found a bug, can you please post here or PM me, otherwise I'll fix the one minor display bug I know of (as shown in the release notes) and release the current beta as v1.00.
Thanks
CoV often performs significantly worse than CoH and requires the user to turn down their graphics settings. This is because CoV has a much higher polygon count than CoH.
Following on from this discussion, I created a tool that allows you to create "profiles" - a record of your graphic settings - and switch between them quickly and conveniently from outside the game.
So, for example, you could have a preset for CoH at high resolution, high detail and a seperate profile for CoV that has a lower detail with various effects turned off. Switching between them is as simple as selecting the option from a list and pressing Apply.
The tool is now available publicly for testing since I've had confirmation that the methods it uses don't break the EULA. If anyone is interested in trying this application, please feel free to visit philsanders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk and download it. Please submit any bugs/suggestions/etc to me either by PM or via the email address in the applications online help.
Hopefully this tool can be as useful to the community as it is to myself.