Installed Windows 7 and All Hell Broke Loose
By
DarkInvado,
Posted on: 2010-01-23 08:54 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Make sure you have all of the latest drivers for your hardware. Video, chipset and any other hardware. Don't just assume Windows 7 installed the best drivers for those devices. A lot of the Windows 7 drivers are simply placeholders till you get the correct driver.
Right click on City Of Heroes on the desktop and go to Properties then the Compatibility tab. Make sure Run in compatibility mode is unchecked. Further down in the same tab make sure Run as Administrator is checked.
While you're doing that, might as well post a CoH Helper log as well so we get a better understanding of your hardware.
We'll see....
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.8---
DxDiag gathered at January 23, 2010 11:28 (-06:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
System Manufacturer: Gateway
System Model: M-1625
BIOS: Rev 1.0
Central Processor: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
Memory: 2048MB
.Net Memory Report: 1438MB out of 1918MB available
Page File: 2887MB (948MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD2500BEVS-22UST0 ATA Device) 107805MB out of 227169MB (47%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD2500BEVS-22UST0 ATA Device) 11218MB out of 11303MB (99%) free
G Drive: (HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20F ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (32-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: ATI Radeon X1200 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI Radeon X1200 Series (0x791F)
Video Memory: 830 MB
Driver Version: 8.593.100.0
Driver Date: 9/29/2009 9:42:48 PM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 5:51:47 PM
Sound Device Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 5:51:47 PM
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Gateway
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product:
Motherboard Version: 9D.02
BIOS Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies LTD
BIOS Name: Rev 1.0
BIOS Version: GATEWA - 20080222
BIOS Release: 20080222000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1024x600
3D Resolution: 797x467 (Using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes
Physics Quality: None
Maximum Particles: 5846
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: Unknown (0)
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: None
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: No
Shader Detail: Low (no world bumpmaps)
World Texture Level: Low
Character Texture Level: High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 0.650
Entity Detail Level: 0.670
Shadows Enabled: No
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of Extra Player FX Enabled: No
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: Yes
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.712
Music Sound Volume: 0.000
Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.300
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 6524220 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1600.20091102.9T4C
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found
I found the 3D scaling setting and moved it up to the same setting as the Resolution is set to but it did not change the display size issue. I am still missing an inch around the outside.
Oh and something I did or a change in the network speed let me finally get on and play. So just the display size and how to turn off the scrolling on my touch pad.
if you are still missing screen then your resolution isn't right.
In what way isn't it right? I have it set to the same resolution that I did when it was running Vista: 1024x600. I can try upping the resolution but the comp probably will turn into a stuttering nightmare...
Why the !#$@? won't it scale to fill the screen anymore?
1024x600 ???? That's a rather odd sizing. A standard monitor (not widescreen) would handle a 1024x768 resolution as a normal sizing. Dropping it to 1024x600 would possibly cause the loss of some of the screen real estate and possibly cause distorted images.
Try setting your desktop resolution to 1024x768and set the game to the same setting and see if you get a full screen.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
Changed the resolution to the same as the desktop resolution and it fixed the top and bottom lost area but the sides are still narrowed by an inch on each side....
you are going to have to try all of the resolution sizes until it is fixed. i would also recomend finding out if you have the latest drivers for your video card.
OK well maybe "all hell" didn't break loose but I can't play CoH.
I installed 7 Ultimate on my M Series Gateway laptop. (M-1625)
After the fresh install I then installed my software including CoH. Now a system that I could actually play ("Play" it wasn't great but "doable") CoH using Vista, is a complete mess.
First off the game loads to the Log-in screen and character selection screen but while the whole screen goes to game mode the game only displays in the middle of the screen - not out the the edges - leaving a 1 inch black unused boarder around the edges.
Second, when I go to load a character the game takes for ever to zone and ultimately logs back out.
Third the previously not very intrusive scroll bar zone on the touch pad has become touchy and the zone that activates the scroll is not 2 to 3 times as wide as before and constantly getting in the way of any touch pad usage.
Help?