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Originally Posted by Miss_Neutron

Just wondering if this has happened to anyone else. Last night I deleted a chacter to recreate it in Rogueland, only to find that slot and 4 others gone. Anyone else fine they are missing charater slots? Granted,I have more then 20 total,still it is disconcerting to find my slots taken away.

Originally Posted by je_saist

well, just about anything you do could break your system.

One of the factors that is not often addressed in mobility setups is said sort of plainly on the AMD / ATi page:



Many vendors will link hot buttons or function key assignments to the graphics driver input settings, so that you can do things like adjust the brightness of the display. These advanced features may, or may not function with the reference driver provided by the manufacturer.

Now, I'm not entirely familiar with what Toshiba does with their drivers, I don't know if they make any specific modifications, but maybe this will help explain why they say "don't change the drivers."

Originally Posted by Back_Blast

For the drivers: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Sear...Chipset+Family

Because you have a Toshiba, you'll have to do this: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-022355.htm to get them to work.

Originally Posted by Back_Blast

Well there is a workaround that may get the job done: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-029635.htm

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

Well, that very well may be the case, but it very well may not be the case. And what your experiencing is *not* hard and fast proof there's a problem on the Dev's side of things. Because what you're experiencing is *not* what everyone else is experiencing. If it was all a problem of CoH coding, everyone would have the same problem, and they don't.

The huge difference between machines besides the usual suspects of hardware configurations and drivers is all the other background programs, and you've got a truckload of them, which is always recommended against by everyone remotely connected and in-the-know with regard to running any highly graphical intensive programs on a computer. CoH's own minimum requirements don't have an footnote that says, "Including machines that run 40 processes running in the background." And if you have 40 processes running the background and CoH won't work for you, you can't say, "It's all CoH's fault," without first taking them out of the equation.

And the next line in this argument is likely to be, "But I had these 40 processes running before this patch!" And the answer to that is, "You were lucky." There's no assurance that CoH will run concurrently with any other process that's not needed for the operating system or for the game itself.

And if it's discovered that the new coding in this patch conflicts with something running in the background, then who's fault is that? Did the CoH Devs do something wrong, or is it the fault of the programmers of that other process who have faulty code, only there just never happened to be a conflict beforehand?

It's well known that some of the graphical problems are on the side of the GPU manufacturers and faulty drivers. It's why driver updates sometimes clears up problems... it wasn't CoH's fault at all. If in a new patch, the code makes a call to a graphical FX that's supposed to be there, but the driver's coding is screwed up and doesn't handle it right, it would seem that the new patch is at fault, when, in fact, it's the driver's manufacturer's fault.

We've already discovered software conflicts with I17: ATI Hotkey Poller; MSE; and some others. It's anyone's guess which programs are the one making the illegal codes at this point.

If you don't want to try to see if it's a software conflict, then you're the one who may never have CoH ever playing right on your computer again.

Originally Posted by Sabertalon

Well I called the techies and was suggested to use safe mode, update drivers just for the kick of it. She was able access the graphics/audio tab, even had some of the adv. features selectable. However, she moved a slider bar one slot and crashed. Prior to this fix, she was unable to adjust any adv. features, much less ultra mode. She also has no pics of contacts and her costume slots are all solid black, even the three she has costumes in. Still waiting for the response from the diagnostics tool they sent us. I'll keep ya up to date if you'd like on what they determine.

Originally Posted by Sabertalon

My wife is running a Toshiba laptop with the Mobile Intel 4 series and now she can't even access the graphics tab on her game. Everytime she does, the game crashes. Anyone that can help me figure it out would be greatly appreciated.