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You might want to read this interview about SSDs. The more you know as a consumer the better off you are.

As you travel back and forth through Nerva, keep a watch for Consiglieres, they spawn on that first island in Crimson Cove near the ferry. I can usually get that badge just by "drive by" hunting those Consigliere before I hit level 32.

I six slotted Kick with Kinetic Crash on my fire/fire scrapper, knockback is at 170.91% for Mag 4.22. I love using it as a finishing move when the target has a sliver of Health left, kick 'em in the nads and watch the corpse go flying!
It makes me giggle.

Just something to be aware of, if your macro has too many characters in it, it will be truncated. If its long, but not so long it gets truncated, it might still get truncated upon zoning.

Use /player_note_local "your character's name" and write the command that's in your long macros there. (You only need the "s around your character's name if its more than one word.) After zoning check your macros (if you are having the truncate problem), if the macros broke just bring up your player_note_local and copy paste the command back into the macros.

I have this problem with my warshade, I have to do this very rarely. I can sometimes play for hours without this problem surfacing, but when it occasionally happens you want to be prepared.

Werner, if you don't like the sounds, then silence the sounds. The oggs you need to replace are listed here.

I hate the shriek also, so that's what I did.

While flying around Dark Astoria it suddenly occurred to me (as I was plowing into the ground), that a simple VSI (Vertical Speed Indicator) added to the Nav window could be really useful.

For example a small arrow on the left of the Nav window pointing up if you're climbing, pointing down if you are descending, the length of the arrow proportional to the angle of climb. For small angles of climb, say ± 1°, show a horizontal line.

Climbing: ↑
Descending: ↓
Roughly horizontal flight: ─

Mostly I see it useful for flying across longer maps while you go AFK. Useful or not?

Didn't see a thread about this when I did a search although I'm positive its been mentioned at some point during the last few years.

Bring up your Options menu, on the Controls tab there is a setting for Mouse Scroll Speed. Have you tried changing that?

It is annoying, I use the command /release_pets to dismiss all my pets and then resummon them. It takes a little time, an annoying amount of time, but at least then I have my pets so I can finish the mission.

Send a PM to the mod of your choice, Avatea, Niviene, or theOcho.

TweakCoH is mentioned in the thread as a much easier method to change fonts, and lots of other setting in CoH. However the link that was posted is no longer valid, the link I placed above is the current link.

Does this help?

And no one mentioned Super Speed in those twisty turny caves? You hit one of those dips and go face first into the ceiling than fall to the floor, I died once running through one of those maps when my health was in the red.
"Did we miss some trolls?"
"What killed you?"

"I ran into the ceiling. Doh!"

Before the re-install did you see this stuttering in CoH? If not you might want to roll back your video drivers, I'm using the 191.07 drivers myself with no problems (albeit for 64 bit Vista).

Looking at your HijackThis log, do you need the VM tray and MS messenger running in the background? If not you might want to disable their "run on start up."

I really don't see any problems so far, my next question would be about your internet connection. Check your Netgraph the next time your playing and see if it goes wonky in time with the freezes. (In this case "wonky" is indicated by Red and/or Yellow spikes in your Netgraph or the green bars get very high, indicating a high ping.) You see your Netgraph by typing "/netgraph 1" to turn it on and "/netgraph 0" turns it off.

Instead of a DXDiag, post a CoHHelper report and a HijackThis log. That gives us the best shot at figuring things out.

Have you read here yet?

Near the bottom is the info on how to call them. It is a toll number.

This is the build I'm trying out, I still need to get the Membranes and the last of the Purples. OwtS caps HP if you have the accolades. I threw the Kismit in just because I had it and I hate missing, its really only useful if I'm exempted down enough to lose the Accuracy bonuses.

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.601
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Click this DataLink to open the build!

Tectonic Shield: Level 50 Science Tanker
Primary Power Set: Shield Defense
Secondary Power Set: Stone Melee
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Earth Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Deflection -- LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx:39(A), LkGmblr-Def:39(31), LkGmblr-Rchg+:39(31), Ksmt-ToHit+:30(34), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx:50(36), ResDam-I:50(40)
Level 1: Stone Fist -- C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:39(A), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:39(7), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:39(7), C'ngImp-Dmg/Rchg:39(9), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx:39(9)
Level 2: Stone Mallet -- Hectmb-Dmg:50(A), Hectmb-Acc/Rchg:50(3), Hectmb-Dmg/Rchg:50(3), Hectmb-Dmg/EndRdx:50(5), Hectmb-Dam%:50(5)
Level 4: True Grit -- Heal-I:50(A), Heal-I:50(11), Numna-Regen/Rcvry+:30(11), ResDam-I:50(13), ResDam-I:50(13), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+:30(15)
Level 6: Heavy Mallet -- C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:39(A), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:39(15), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:39(19), C'ngImp-Dmg/Rchg:39(19), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx:39(21)
Level 8: Active Defense -- HO:Membr(A), HO:Membr(33), HO:Membr(50)
Level 10: Hurdle -- Jump-I:50(A)
Level 12: Combat Jumping -- Zephyr-Travel:39(A), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx:39(29), Zephyr-ResKB:39(31), Winter-ResSlow:39(39)
Level 14: Battle Agility -- LkGmblr-Rchg+:39(A), LkGmblr-Def:39(36), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx:39(37), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg:39(37)
Level 16: Build Up -- RechRdx-I:40(A), RechRdx-I:40(17), RechRdx-I:40(17)
Level 18: Against All Odds -- EndRdx-I:50(A)
Level 20: Health -- Heal-I:50(A), Heal-I:50(21), RgnTis-Regen+:30(23)
Level 22: Stamina -- EndMod-I:50(A), EndMod-I:50(23), EndMod-I:50(25)
Level 24: Fault -- RzDz-Acc/Rchg:30(A), RzDz-EndRdx/Stun:30(25), RzDz-Acc/EndRdx:30(27), RzDz-Stun/Rng:30(27), RzDz-Acc/Stun/Rchg:30(29), RzDz-Immob%:30(36)
Level 26: Phalanx Fighting -- DefBuff-I:50(A)
Level 28: Super Jump -- Zephyr-Travel:39(A), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx:39(45), Zephyr-ResKB:39(46)
Level 30: Grant Cover -- EndRdx-I:40(A)
Level 32: Shield Charge -- Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:40(A), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:40(33), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg:40(33), Oblit-Acc/Rchg:40(34), Oblit-Dmg:40(34), Oblit-%Dam:40(39)
Level 35: Tremor -- Oblit-Dmg:40(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg:40(37), Oblit-%Dam:40(39), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg:40(40), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:40(40), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:40(43)
Level 38: Seismic Smash -- C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:39(A), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:39(42), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:39(42), C'ngImp-Dmg/Rchg:39(42), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx:39(43)
Level 41: Stone Prison -- Thundr-Acc/Dmg:39(A), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx:39(43), Thundr-Dmg/Rchg:39(45), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:39(46), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:39(50), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:39(50)
Level 44: Taunt -- Zinger-Taunt/Rchg/Rng:40(A), Zinger-Taunt/Rng:40(45), Zinger-Dam%:40(46)
Level 47: One with the Shield -- ResDam-I:50(A), ResDam-I:50(48), ResDam-I:50(48), Heal-I:50(48)
Level 49: Quick Sand -- ImpSwft-Dam%:30(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Acc-I:50(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Gauntlet
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Set Bonus Totals:

• 6% DamageBuff(Smashing)
• 6% DamageBuff(Lethal)
• 6% DamageBuff(Fire)
• 6% DamageBuff(Cold)
• 6% DamageBuff(Energy)
• 6% DamageBuff(Negative)
• 6% DamageBuff(Toxic)
• 6% DamageBuff(Psionic)
• 8% Defense(Smashing)
• 8% Defense(Lethal)
• 7.38% Defense(Fire)
• 7.38% Defense(Cold)
• 9.88% Defense(Energy)
• 9.88% Defense(Negative)
• 3% Defense(Psionic)
• 13% Defense(Melee)
• 13% Defense(Ranged)
• 11.8% Defense(AoE)
• 50% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
• 70% Enhancement(Accuracy)
• 2% Enhancement(Stun)
• 4% FlySpeed
• 133.5 HP (7.13%) HitPoints
• 4% JumpHeight
• 4% JumpSpeed
• Knockback (Mag -8)
• Knockup (Mag -8)
• MezResist(Immobilize) 6.6%
• MezResist(Stun) 4.4%
• MezResist(Terrorized) 2.75%
• 8% (0.13 End/sec) Recovery
• 30% (2.35 HP/sec) Regeneration
• 20% ResEffect(FlySpeed)
• 20% ResEffect(RechargeTime)
• 20% ResEffect(RunSpeed)
• 2.52% Resistance(Fire)
• 2.52% Resistance(Cold)
• 4% RunSpeed

Somebody asked a similar question about 6 months ago. Take a look.

For an FX 5500 you need to go way back to this driver according to NVidia.

If the 175.19s don't work you may want to go back a little further.
XP is up to SP3 now so you might want to do some Windows Updating.

Could be a heat problem, try monitoring your temps. If you don't have any temp monitoring software try Speed Fan.

You might want to post a CoH Helper report and a Hijack This log. That gives us a good snapshot of how your machine is set up and running.