Don't get me wrong, CoX is probably a great game, and someone who couldn't even complete the tutorial surely can't say for sure. Your forum is grreat too. But..
1) This
fine piece of software doesn't work on Intel builtin card. Or, to be more precise, world renders just fine, BUT I can't see my stats bars, - all three are gray, except for blinking star when values change. In fact all the scroll bars in the game are gray. AND as the final touch cursor is a black square.
Damn all NVidia fanboyz. I don't have, don't want, don't need 31337 GFX card Ok, It has more to do with my PCs draconian warranty policy, for the next year it's as unupgradable as a laptop, for all practical purposes. (And yes, around here all the warranties are like that.)
2) To solve (1) I tried to change resolution, among other things. Game asked for a restart. Fine. What's not fine is that first it tried to launch
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes
/CohUpdater.exe" Instead of correct "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe" until I manually specified the install directory. Install directory thas the same as the default one, BUT that ingenious piece of artificial idiocy decided to re-download all the 3 gigs anyway!!! (BTW, what is "safe mode" auto updater asks about? Is it some parental-control thing or something technical which may help me solve the first issue? Can I disable it afterwards? )
That said, what I saw of the game was superb, hero generation is fun, and tutorial gameplay looked promising...
Which only adds injury to insult.
Ok, sorry, I shouldn't rant like that... But... It's just so disappointing...
System: Pentium E/2 Gb/Intel 950/Win XP SP2.
