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Cascadian

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  1. Cascadian
    In the very first post of this thread, Positron give the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 285 as good video cards for Ultra Mode. Is that information still accurate? Five months have passed since he posted that.
  2. Cascadian
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba View Post
    Maf,

    You'll probably need to start with this:

    [ QUOTE ]
    Laptop Video Card or Frame Rate Issues

    Some laptop video cards (ATI Mobility, Intel 91x Chipsets) are having known issues with frame rates and other visual degradations to gameplay.

    This TEMPORARY addition to your COH shortcut will force the game to render in a simpler rendering path, and should clear up some of the more serious performance issues until a more permanent solution is found.

    Modify your City of Heroes shortcut (by right-clicking and choosing Properties) to include "-useTexEnvCombine"] (without the quotes) at the end of the 'Target:' line, so it should look something like this:

    "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe" -useTexEnvCombine

    [/ QUOTE ]

    That will force the game into a simpler rendering technique and should help some.

    The Xpress 200 is not a gaming quality card. It's barely an Outlook quality card. New or not.

    With the settings I have laid out in the OP, here's what I'd change:

    In the CCC: Disable FSAA, AF, Triple Buffering and Vertical Sync.

    In game: Disable Water, Bloom, Depth of Field, FSAA, AF.

    Test to see whether disabling Geometry Buffers makes any difference.

    Apologies for not being able to give you more help than that.
    Like Maf, I'm stuck with a X200. The change to the shortcut has allowed me to actually play the game now. Thank you, Bill.

    I'm very angry about this whole thing, though. Yippee! It's a new issue and now my onscreen graphics are worse then ever before. And the worst part is that there was no warning. I mean, come ON. This had to come up in beta testing but did NCSoft warn us about it? Was there an email notice or something on the COH website's homepage saying, "Hey, you're going to need a fix to play?" Oh, Hell no. Pretty damn lousy customer service, NCSoft.
  3. Cascadian
    I'm glad I found this thread. Like others before me, I've become tempted to ditch my PC for a Mac in general and the Mini in particular. I'm so glad to read that TheNavigator is playing the game in performance mode on a Mini. The mind just boggles. If I try and take my PC beyond the minimum possible graphics then I have lag like you wouldn't believe. I tried performance once and the menus were even so slow that it took me five minutes just to set things back to minimum graphics. Granted, I could upgrade my graphics card, RAM, etc in the existing computer but I'm pretty down on PCs at this point and am interested in trying the other kind of computer: Mac.

    Of course, if CoH wasn't available for the Mac then there's no way I'd switch.