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I'll go with APPS. I don't have fury issues. Conserve Power and Physical Perfection would be nice to have on my brutes. My SM/WP would probably get new life if given that choice.

Guess it was a good time for me to jump ship back to ATI. Enjoying my 5870 so far.

If you uncheck advanced options under graphics, does the 3D scaler disappear? Not in front of my rig to check. Have you already attempted to get defaults for the graphics/audio tab? What happens if you start your test server install in the CHV Safe Mode by checking that at the first splash screen?

At this particular time, UberGuy, especially considering Ultra mode and the possible performance ramifications that might come with it...

I would consider it damn near reckless of the dev team NOT to move some priorities around and get overall performance issues dealt with ASAP.

Otherwise, when open beta for Ultra mode hits and performance is even worse off for everyone enabling it, (especially for those of us that just dropped $1250 on parts,) it might be very bad for this game.

At the least, it will be a marketing nightmare. "Introducing Ultra Mode! Be sure not to enable it even if you have Deep Thought as your PC unless you enjoy 10FPS in Grandville."

Now that's a rather doomy statement. I'm hoping for a different outcome. However, in the Army I was taught to hope for the best and expect the worst.

I'm sticking with that for now.

About 1 DPS tweaked to the walls if comparing scrapper MA to what would be scrapper SS.

About 40 DPS in SS favor if using SOs.

Give or take.

Doublestacking rage hurts in the long run from what I saw while MA at massive levels of recharge does very well.

Followup, Spin, Shockwave, repeat

Watch the spawns fly all over the battlefield and die in short order.

I still love claws over all other powersets.

They've already upgraded the servers.

This thread has proven that some of the blame lay on end user systems. Granted, that's because the client side systems are having to work extra hard due to questionable issues within the engine itself.

I do not think that any resolution to the various performance woes in this game will find a solution at the hardware level.

I'm now on an I7-920 2.66GHz quadcore proc OCed to 3.2GHz with an ATI 5870 vid card, Win7 and 6GB of DDR3 RAM in tri-channel config.

My test spot in Grandville STILL brought me down to 30FPS. (Granted, this was at 1920X1200 resolution and 200% world detail; 4X FSAA and 8X AF.) It can not be more plainly shown that there are many zones/areas that are poorly put together code-wise regardless of how pretty they may be.

We have been asking for these areas to be corrected for years. The fact that they haven't done so yet points to the devs being UNABLE to do so, for whatever reason.

PERHAPS, the engine changes necessary to make Ultra mode work have some underlying tweaks that will clear some of this up.

It's just as likely, however, that ultra mode is nothing more than extra junk piled on to the existing engine and those running it will do nothing but tank further in the existing problem spots.

I REALLY hope that the second item is not the case. It will not be a pleasant experience for anyone if it is.

I just wish someone on the dev team would give us some more specifics on what we might expect before Ultra mode hits test.

Jut bumped up the rig from 2.66GHz to 3.2GHz so that my RAM would be running at the correct speed. Temps staying around 48-52C while in CHV.

FX speaks truly. The card crosses the entire width of my motherboard.

Yup on the Aero background and alt-tabbing. Works just fine now.

-And the master shall become the student. WOOT!

Roger that. The silly will be televised for your viewing pleasure.

Got the new rig with win7 up and running. I can't alt-tab at all either. On the plus side, ATI's FSAA is still cleaner than Nvidia's.

Powerstream, I hope for the same. I'd be lying if I said I think it will happen, but I like to have my hopes slammed to the ground and stomped on.

FX, actually... it was ok. Once I realized that the thing actually had a backplane. It was hiding in the bottom of the box. It helped quite a bit after I found it.

For the I7-920, the hyper 212 just needs to be adjusted to the max size, then it slapped right on. It's actually a lot easier to mount than the Zalman I've got on the C2D.

I was surprised at the size, but that is the way of things these days.

Side note: I emailed Mid. I've GOT to overclock this beast and I really like the motherboard. Out of the box it seems much more stable than the Asus board the C2D is on.

Back in CHV. Loaded all three of the necessary installers for my XFi Xtremegamer card, or whatever it's called.

Sound seems ok.

In Grandville running around, 1920X1200 res, 200% world detail, 4xFSAA and 8X AF, the spot above the arbiter face the recluse statue and tower, I still get dropped to 30-35FPS. But that spot is murder. Running around the zone I saw 70-90FPS until I turned back on V-Sync which caps me at 60FPS.

There's tweaking to be done, be she seems good to go. Proc's sitting at 41-44C on temps.

It's always a good thing to have another pair of eyes on a topic like rig building, PS.

Parts just arrived. Finishing up with some data backup then the tear down/rebuild will begin.

Unfortunately, it appears that I'll probably have to make a run to Frys for some more parts due to wanting what will become my son's rig to stay up to my required specs for gaming. On the plus side, I probably won't need to upgrade either of us again for at least two years.