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I believe this has been going on since I13. However, since I14 I've also noticed an increase in my pets (non-bots) getting stuck on things. In particular, pets and also rescue allies sometimes 'sink' into the floor and become stuck.
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From Zloth's thread:
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Slow Updating
This one has been vexing us for years. Obviously, if you have BitTorrent or some such running then it could be filling up your bandwidth. Dialup users will, of course, have very slow connections. However, sometimes people with otherwise speedy connections will get very slow downloads when trying to update files. Heaven only knows why.
About all you can do for this is quit the updater, shut down your whole machine (including the router/cable modem), bring it all up, and then try the updater again. If it still isnt working, you can try the following to see if you can find a better update source.
<ul type="square">[*]Hit the start key and R to bring up the Run dialog box. Put in cmd and press return.[*]At the prompt, type nslookup cohupdate.coh.com (without the quotes) and press return. Youll get a long list of addresses. Keep that window open.[*]Go to your shortcut you use to run the updater. Right click on it and select properties.[*]In the target window, add a space to the end then put in -ps (no quotes), another space, then one of the addresses that was found. So the target box might have something like: "C:\Games\City Of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe" -ps 216.107.250.194[*]Click OK and run the updater again via the shortcut. Keep doing this with IP addresses on the list until you find one that works for you.[*]After you finish updated, I would suggest putting your shortcut back the way it was. Those IP addresses are subject to change and, if the one you are using does change, your updater will stop working.[/list]
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Its not the ram I have 4 gigs on hand I prefer to use 2 at a time. I've ran all 4 and crashed. I've swapped the 2 gigs out for the other 2. I'm crashing on Loading of missions and leaving missions only. I don't crash when loading into the game. Its missions only.
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That is one of two suggestions. Did you try what Miuramir asked or not?
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<ExceptionRecord ModuleName="c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\city of heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe" ExceptionCode="0xc0000005" ExceptionDescription="EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION"
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Are you a new player that is trying CoX for the first time through Steam? If so, then maybe that is part of the problem. -
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Just to reiterate, YES we can.
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Ah, not quite. That's changing the port the updater uses for patches. You can't change the ports the actual client uses.
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Since I hardly ever see you being wrong about anything, I accept that I probably have egg on my face now. Except, the NCsoft pages aren't so clear. From NCsoft help:
Both home routers and commercial routers can block the network ports required by the game. City of Heroes and City of Villains require the following ports to be open:
All of these ports:
TCP 2104
TCP 2106
UDP 7000-7100
One of the following ports:
TCP 6994 or TCP 13094 or TCP 23094
These ports must be fully unrestricted and accessible inbound and out. If you are connecting to the game while on a campus or business network, please consult your network administrator to verify that those ports are available. If those ports are blocked, you will unfortunately not be able to play City of Heroes or City of Villains using that Internet connection.
All of that info refers to client-side ports. The help page that I quoted starts with the heading, "I have a problem patching or logging on to City of Heroes or City of Villains. While that page does not specifically say it changes the port that we log into the game with, the page heading would seem to infer that. -
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I would like to change which ports the game uses. Is there a way to change them?
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Cliff notes answer, no you can't.
Why do you think you want to?
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Just to reiterate, YES we can.
1) Right-click your shortcut for City of Heroes/Villains.
2) Choose Properties.
3)In the Target field, add a space, a dash, the word "port", a space, and 13094.
Before: "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe"
After: "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe" -port 13094
4) Click OK.
5) Start the game normally using the shortcut.
However, the only 3 ports you can try to force the Updater to use are 6994, 13094 or 23094. -
<font class="small">Code:<hr /><pre>O16 - DPF: {15AD6789-CDB4-47E1-A9DA-992EE8E6BAD6} - http://static.windupdates.com/cab/180solutions/ie/bridge-c17.cab</pre><hr />[/color] You appear to be infected.
Personally, I would change your anti-virus choice of Microsoft Windows OneCare Live. I personally use Avira Antivir. Numerous players use AVG, although some have reported that the program has become more bloated with recent versions. This post shows the top 8 rates AV programs, if you wish to research more. -
Okay that is giving me a headache.
Please edit the dxdiag info out of your post and replace it with the report info from CohHelper and HijackThis. Links are in my signature. -
Without the Unique Account ID, this becomes a bit tricky. If your ex-friend did indeed change everything (including credit card), then the problem is how to prove who really owned the account in the first place. The counter argument that he could use is that it was really his all along, and he finally put his credit card on it. Odds are, NCsoft is not going to try to figure out if you did or did not have a relationship and whether the account is community property or not. Prepare for the possibility that you can't get the account back, but still proceed.
Be sure to state that at no time did you intend to transfer accounts. The reason is, account transfer is against the User Agreement, and inferring that was your intent in any way would probably end the support communication. Link
Supply as much of the following information as you can, and be sure it is correct the first time. For any fields that you can't supply, explain in absurd detail why not.
Explaination for what they specifically want for these fields is here.
First and last name: ENTER FIRST AND LAST NAME HERE
Physical Address: ENTER POSTAL MAILING ADDRESS (not e-mail address) HERE
Date of birth: ENTER DATE OF BIRTH HERE
Serial codes/access keys: ENTER CODES/KEYS HERE
Unique Account ID(s): ENTER UNIQUE ACCOUNT ID(s) HERE
Even though you can't supply the Unique ID, give the email address that is was sent to. Hopefully your friend does not know that. In the end, good luck.
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Don't email support. Call them.
1-512-225-6359
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Are The badges you get for getting more tickets than your cap, Bounty, windfall, jackpot etc, supposed to award account wide?
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Yes.
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Hey, you aren't the only one. CoH destroyed my card. I'm pissed. This needs to be fixed immediately.
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LOL!!!
O.. M.. G.. becky.. the game is too uber! Quick, make it suck!
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My scanner mission is showing the AE building but I can't go to the portal or do anything there.
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Others have reported their regular missions being pointed to the 'pillar of light' in the AE building, but they still work normally.
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Don't post a Dxdiag unless we additionally request that.
Start by posting a CohHelper and HijackThis report. Both program links are in my signature. -
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Last patch removed the ability to have wings+bolero or cape+bolero due to performance issues.
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To further clarify, we were not supposed to be able to have both in the first place. The players that did got a freebie. -
Medic, I LOVE your avatar!
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Sometimes after zoning, I'll see my auto-fire power sitting there recharged with that loverly green circle around it and it won't activate.
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I've had this happen too. It's also *not* a case of waiting for queued powers. It's also not a case of I've waited a whole 5 seconds and it didn't go off WAH! When it happens I've waited a good 20 seconds until I finally manually activated it. -
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Has anyone else noticed that when you start a chat, like in team chat for instance, the chat buffer seems to insert a bunch of characters that shouldn't be there? Specifically, when I start to chat in team, a bunch of wwwwwwwww will be inserted first, which is obviously the "w" from me walking around. It's like the chat buffer is saving keystrokes that shouldn't be sent to chat!
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Did you not even read the first post?
"- Pressed keys are not being cleared from the key cache, causing them to spill into text entries. Examples: Binding Shift-k for chat causes a "k" to appear in chat each time; Using movement keys and then attempting to chat causes a stream of the movement key characters to appear. This is not limited to chat, the same happens at Wentworths, and I've seen an incident of a global name changed to garbage because of it." -
WB /e cheer
Not that I don't like your new name, but The_EMpaler has such a great sound to it.
Deemed too evil-sounding for Community Relations maybe?
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Wow.. well I think it's safe to say that your presence on the boards will be sorely missed. I'll admit though, I'm very curious what lies on your next "virtual horizon".
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[*]In the Enhancement screen, Power and Enhancement tooltips will display on top of each other.
[*]Line breaks no longer work in character bios. Just opening the ID screen will remove any previous line break formatting.
[*]Empowerment buffs are working strangely at best. They are working on a lvl 50 character of mine, but not on one I created after i14 went live. They display in sg base when creating them, but upon zoning will no longer appear in Combat Attributes, but the buff icons still appear. Testing shows they aren't actually working though.
[*]Hibernate is missing its ice animation.
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- Upon zoning, travel speed boosts like Swift are suppressed for five seconds.
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Yeah, I quit my first attempt at one of those games. It went something like this:
Your plane lands and taxis up to the airport. The door opens and the staircase wheels up to it.
>LEAVE PLANE
I don't understand what you mean.
>LEAVE PLANE
I don't understand what you mean.
>EXIT PLANE
I don't understand what you mean.
>GO OUT OF PLANE
I don't understand what you mean.
>LEAVE AIRPLANE
I don't understand what you mean.
... I'm kind of amazed that I lasted 15 minutes with the thing. I never STARTED the adventure.
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I'm guessing you didn't try "Go staircase"?
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True dat, course that was my era.
Of the others that argued between Dan and Chevy... come on guys obviously the real pro there was Jane!
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All I can think of in regard to that last line is:
"Jane! You ignorant sl*t!"
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Ahhhh.... those were the good 'ole days of SNL.
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Two bugs.
First, this has probably already been said before, but typing any word that starts with those special 3 letters found in such words as association, crashes the game. Kinda rough profanity filter huh? You don't mess around.
Second: The Rikti Alteration pod does not allow me to change the Destructible Object Description. It reverts back to the default description as soon as you try to test it, or exit out of MA.
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Bugs from Test do not get reported in this thread.
Development >> Issue 14: Bugs (Open), would be more appropriate. -
This thread is not for tech help. Also, it's better to start your own thread instead of posting in somebody else's.
Satanicus, start your thread in the Mac Users forum. -
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Nether, what was the name of the thread? If you didn't save it somewhere, you or I could google cache it to get it all back.
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From the Oct 3, 2007 archive, the title of the thread is Nethergoat's Astoria Adventure (unless there were an awful lot of other posts about DA).
There wasn't a cached page of that post, but it does show the post is #9181951. Maybe the Devs have a dusty tomb with a magical copy available?