Zloth

Glad to have helped with your Anarchy Online presets. May the leets never bite you.

OK, it's working now.

I really can't deal with the shader level thing until I know what the values are supposed to be. Mine says High and is 3. Others are High with it only 2.

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at May 1, 2010 21:24 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100226-1909)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: X58A-UD5
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz (12 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
Memory: 6144MB
.Net Memory Report: 4447MB out of 6142MB available
Page File: 10328MB (1954MB currently in use)
C Drive: (KINGSTON SNV425S2128GB ATA Device) 68783MB out of 122001MB (56%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1 ATA Device) 1756068MB out of 1907726MB (92%) free
J Drive: (BUFFALO External HDD USB Device) 1206363MB out of 1430447MB (84%) free
E Drive: (ATAPI iHOS104 ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (64-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
No problems found.
No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 480
Video Memory: 4063 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.11.9741
Driver Date: 4/2/2010 11:49:47 AM
Driver Language: English
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 480
Video Memory: 4063 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.11.9741
Driver Date: 4/2/2010 11:49:47 AM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi)
Driver File: ctaud2k.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1373
Driver Date: 6/4/2009 2:49:08 AM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5964
Driver Date: 10/21/2009 9:27:58 AM
Sound Device Description: SPDIF Out (Creative SB X-Fi)
Driver File: ctaud2k.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1373
Driver Date: 6/4/2009 2:49:08 AM
Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5964
Driver Date: 10/21/2009 9:27:58 AM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output(Optical) (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5964
Driver Date: 10/21/2009 9:27:58 AM

WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: X58A-UD5
Motherboard Version: x.x
BIOS Manufacturer: Award Software International, Inc.
BIOS Name: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: GBT - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20100311000000.000000+000

Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 2048x1536
3D Resolution: 2048x1536 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 0Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes

Physics Quality: Very High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No

Anti-aliasing: 2x
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High

World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 2.000
Entity Detail Level: 2.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Shadow Mode: Shadow maps
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: Ultra quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: Yes
Ambient Occlusion: High performance
Occlusion Strength: Strong with color bleeding
Blur: Gaussian
Ambient Resolution: Quality

Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Compatiblity
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.441
Music Sound Volume: 0.240
Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 391537 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1800.201003300904.10T4r
Installation Directory: C:\Games\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
.\Fonts has 2 files
.\Sound\Ogg\BoomBox has 2 files
.\Sound\Ogg\V_FrontEnd has 2 files
.\texture_library\GUI\CREATION\common\Backgrounds has 1 file
.\texture_library\GUI\CREATION\Login has 2 files
.\texture_library\WORLD\Common_Decor\Kirk_Batch04 has 4 files
.\texture_library\WORLD\Swappables_and_Decals\Sign s\Billboard\billboard_Square has 1 file
.\texture_library\WORLD\Swappables_and_Decals\Sign s\Special_signs has 1 file
.\texture_library\WORLD\V_COV\Bases\Details\Decora tive_liquid\Baseliquid_Monitors has 5 files

If it says the C drive is full then maybe it really is full. Why not go in and look? Maybe some program freaked out and filled the temp directories up. Maybe he installed more than you think. Maybe it's a small SSD drive. <shrug>

I've updated the CoH Helper program to include the new Ultra stuff.

There are some mysteries. First of all, the old Shaders setting has been changed. The game isn't letting me change the value, though, so I only know that "High" is now 3. I expect other values are forcing this one now, so maybe it isn't as important as before. Also, the refresh rate now seems to be stuck at 0 and I only have one option when I'm in the game, so that may no longer be a setting the game actually looks at.

Also note that Windows version. Windows 7 is really Windows 6.1! Sneaky Microsoft!

I don't know how much more I'll do on this program. I've been fading out of City of Heroes lately. Plus I wrote this program back when I was unemployed and trying to give myself C# experience. I'm mostly a VB.Net programmer (and found a job continuing in the holy language ) so now reading my own program is a pain in the tail.

Somebody really should pick up the ball on this program. It's listed as version 0.something for good reason - there's a lot of stuff it's supposed to do that isn't written. Like pinging the server and letting you change some of the vital settings (like whether the game plays in a window or full screen).

Anyway, here's a sample output:

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.0---
DxDiag gathered at May 1, 2010 15:37 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100226-1909)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: X58A-UD5
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz (12 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
Memory: 6144MB
.Net Memory Report: 4400MB out of 6142MB available
Page File: 10244MB (2038MB currently in use)
C Drive: (KINGSTON SNV425S2128GB ATA Device) 68753MB out of 122001MB (56%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1 ATA Device) 1756068MB out of 1907726MB (92%) free
J Drive: (BUFFALO External HDD USB Device) 1206363MB out of 1430447MB (84%) free
E Drive: (ATAPI iHOS104 ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (64-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
No problems found.
No problems found.
No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 480
Video Memory: 4063 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.11.9741
Driver Date: 4/2/2010 11:49:47 AM
Driver Language: English
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 480
Video Memory: 4063 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.11.9741
Driver Date: 4/2/2010 11:49:47 AM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi)
Driver File: ctaud2k.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1373
Driver Date: 6/4/2009 2:49:08 AM
Sound Device Description: LG TV-1 (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)
Driver File: nvhda64v.sys
Driver Version: 1.00.0009.0001
Driver Date: 1/28/2010 9:25:02 AM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5964
Driver Date: 10/21/2009 9:27:58 AM
Sound Device Description: SPDIF Out (Creative SB X-Fi)
Driver File: ctaud2k.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1373
Driver Date: 6/4/2009 2:49:08 AM
Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5964
Driver Date: 10/21/2009 9:27:58 AM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output(Optical) (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5964
Driver Date: 10/21/2009 9:27:58 AM

WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: X58A-UD5
Motherboard Version: x.x
BIOS Manufacturer: Award Software International, Inc.
BIOS Name: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: GBT - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20100311000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 2048x1536
3D Resolution: 2048x1536 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 0Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes
Physics Quality: Very High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: 2x
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High
World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 2.000
Entity Detail Level: 2.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Shadow Mode: Shadow maps
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: Ultra quality
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Compatiblity
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.441
Music Sound Volume: 0.240
Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 391537 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1800.201003300904.10T4r
Installation Directory: C:\Games\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
.\Fonts has 2 files
.\Sound\Ogg\BoomBox has 2 files
.\Sound\Ogg\V_FrontEnd has 2 files
.\texture_library\GUI\CREATION\common\Backgrounds has 1 file
.\texture_library\GUI\CREATION\Login has 2 files
.\texture_library\WORLD\Common_Decor\Kirk_Batch04 has 4 files
.\texture_library\WORLD\Swappables_and_Decals\Sign s\Billboard\billboard_Square has 1 file
.\texture_library\WORLD\Swappables_and_Decals\Sign s\Special_signs has 1 file
.\texture_library\WORLD\V_COV\Bases\Details\Decora tive_liquid\Baseliquid_Monitors has 5 files

I've got the same problem but only with the production version. The test version still doesn't disable Aero!

They've done this kind of thing before, actually. It lets them see lots of characters from before the patch log in. If there's something buggy or slow in the update-from-I16 routines then this should catch the problem. (Heaven only knows how they can fix it before Wednesday, though.)

Pick up the torch? Surely we are mature enough to police ourselves now, right?

Sorry to see you go, Niv! See you "out there"!

I don't really have time to read this whole topic but I can assure you that Paragon Studios HAS been looking into this. In at least one of the beta tests (early last year or late 2008 I think), we ran through the ITF to see if the fix helped anything. Obviously it didn't work out.

Maybe the Ultimate patch will steamroll over this bug. Maybe not. We'll just have to wait and see.

Hehe, when the Tell beep played I looked down where my chat window would be.

Uhhh, I think you wanted the comics and culture forum.

Screenshots? How 2005.

Here's a couple of quick videos I took after the first bump to the 30's. A quick one that includes the good old "stick your gun in his chest and fire" move and a longer one with more action.

(And yes, Dragon Age is great for screenshots! Though you will want to take a video of an older couple that finds a big hole in the ground...)

In your City of Heroes directory you'll find a file called keybinds.txt. Open that up and look through it. You should find what the key combination is in there.

ROFL! Good stuff! The music really fits the game, too.

I remember getting out of a mission once with a ton of slow powers dumped on my sexy blond character. When I got out, I just had to "do the Baywatch thing" and run in slow-mo with a swimsuit on.

Edit: Just noticed Killbot's (I really have to log in more) and that's another good one. I noticed the D.E. zombies were cheering to the beat of the music!

P.S. If you folks are looking for free recording, WeGame and XFire both have good ones.

Another keeper!! Thanks Samuraiko!

Woo hoo! Another Boom-de-yadda! Filing it away for all time....

Greatly missed. See you "out there" Wolf Shadow!

You're sounding a little Carl Sagan like with all those "billions"! Thanks for the info, though - especially the manufacturing issues. I keep wondering where the Hades the Fermi announcements are.

The goo has escaped from EVERY base all at once?? This can't be good...