Game Issues

Hello, been playing CoX for awhile now, alittle over 15months and have been having issues with the game running smoothly. When i 1st got the game it rean with any drama's what so ever but has recently in the last 4 months goten worse.

My computer has well over the recommended requirements for the game yet i have troubles playing at on any setting almost like its on a constant lag wen im in a big team.

At forst thought it was my drivers or a Spywear so i ran a update and vireus scan that removed them all and undated my Drivers... Still didnt fix it.

Next was to turn of all my programs taking up ram usage. Still no better.

Decided to format the HD and reinstall only the necesities. Updated drivers and all i need to have it run normally again... Still i have troubles in a big group like im lagging. My nest is ADSL 7.2mg/sec download so i know ints not that im just stumped... does anyone have any idea?

make sure that the fan on your video card is working. also try a disc clean up and defrag.
post a CoHHelper and Hijackthis report also so we can look at your settings and running programs and such.

Might get more assistance by posting in the Tech Issues section.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=578

And here are the links to those programs mentions...

Check out this thread, Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines


Then post the results of these two programs:

• CoH Helper - it will show us basic computer settings and your CoH configuration.
  
• HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format > Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.
  
  

Currently runnning a Pentium 4 2.2 ghz processor, 1 gig Ram DDR, 256mg graphics card... 80gig hard drive mainly empty now due to the format, sound card im not sure of and network card not sure of either.

I'll work on getting all the stats of the Graphic options later on, but for now you might be right about the fan not working on the graphics card? I will have a look at it and see how it goes. thanks for the advice.

I would suggest another stick of ram, and if you can afford $40 upgrade to an intel 3.2 ghz as I am assuming you are running a socket 478 mobo

its ok, pulled the PC apart today, found that the fan on the Graphics card has siezed, bought a new fan and a new graphics card, due to the the fact that i had fried the old one... now replaced its running like adream again.

glad to hear you found the problem. i have the same issue only i can get my video card fan to work still by blowing on it with a can of dust remover. hopefully i'll be getting a new card soon though.