You may want to head for the tech forums and ask there, too. The tech people usually have a lot of great insight into problems like this. Also, do a forums search and see if anyone else has had a similar problem and see what answers they got.
You might also want to run basic maintenance on your system-check for viruses, defrag, and reboot.
City of Heroes taught me that when the world is burning, you don't just stand by and watch, you grab a fire extinguisher and do whatever you can to stop it-even if it's not much at all. Sign the petition to keep City of Heroes alive HERE.
@MissKyo, Leader of the Teamsters coalition on Protector
Also missing the obvious, what version are you loading onto your computer, original disk, Cov, heroes vs villian, or AE.
Depending on if your using a disk, or even a trial disk, would determine how long it takes.
Or I could be just talking out my butt, which tends to happen as well.
First download is usually the longest in all MMO's
Welcome to the game though. if you need anything, don't hesitate to ask.
From his duplicate post, it sounds like he's got the game installed ok. It's sounds more like a old computer/not enough ram/old graphic card type problem.
Global @StarGeek
ParagonWiki.com-The original is still the best!
My Hero Merit rolls
Accuracy needed for 95% ToHit spreadsheet
Forum font change stripper for Firefox/Opera/Chrome. No more dealing with poor color choices, weird fonts or microscopic text
Search Wiki Patch notes, add site:ParagonWiki.com inurl:patch_notes to your Google Search
Hey guys pein here, in regards to the game im curious i installed CoH and its loading very slowly and its so slow im unable to even play the game any suggestions or help?