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Another thing.

In CoV you will need to see your initial contact way back on Mercy, to get the cape and later the aura mission.

When you unlock a costume slot, the costume in the first slot is copied over. So if you don't want to pay twice for a cape, do the cape mission first, modify your first costume slot and then do the mission to unlock the next slot. Depends if you want a cape and cape-less look or both looks with capes.

Ah, no. The HD 5770 is a little less powerful than the GTX 260, NOT the 275.

The HD 5850 is around the same performance to slightly faster than the GTX 285. The HD 5870 is faster still.

Then there's the power issue. The HD 5xxx series does use less power than nVidia's high end cards. The HD 5770 maxes out around 115 watts of 12 volt power, the HD 5870 around 212 watts. Considering the HD 5770 GPU is essentially half of a HD 5870 GPU (800 SP Vs 1600 SP) this sort of makes sense.

General performance in games, we're looking at 60-70% faster.

I would double check the motherboard manufacturer's web site to make sure your motherboard can handle the current crop of Core 2 CPUs. Usually it's just a BIOS update.

I assume you want to run Ultra Mode, which you don't need to do for Issue 17. It's not a requirement.

As long as you don't run other memory hungry programs while playing the game, 2GB is enough for now. But if you ever do bump that up to 4GB, along with a GB video card, you should really consider going to 64-bit Windows 7.

I concur with Flame, video card first, CPU second, memory third.

This is what happens when they copy it from the previous box (which was copied from the box before that, etc) as opposing to what's on the support site.

Smack. Bad web monkey. No Latte for you.

I would suggest you PM The Ocho, Niviene or Avatea and point them back to this thread and tell them that a lot of you EU players are still having problems.

The HD 3200 isn't a graphics card but an integrated graphics part of the motherboard chipset. It'll work but don't expect OK performance at anything but minimum graphic settings. Well I guess that all depends on what you think OK is.

Only see one, and that one is out of stock. Your next problem is powering it.

Quick drive by post.

Welcome to the game.

Note that most missions are instanced. That along with travel powers, base teleporters and other various means of travel to and from those instanced missions, you will not see a lot of players roaming the streets fighting crime. It does give the appearance that there isn't a lot of players in game.

The two most populated servers are Virtue and Freedom in the US.

I really hate it when I can't sleep.

Psyte the large picture listing power requirements, etc. is a photoshop job, and a poor one at that. Compare the 6 in 600 to the 6 in 6-pin, different font. It looks to be a GTX 280 picture originally.

Edit: Nope my bad. It's a pic from a box mock up at CeBit. Still it's a bad photoshop job by the guy whose job was to do the mock up.

I damn well hope so.

See the first post in the thread. Posi says GTX 260 will allow UM at medium settings. With a fast, modern multicore CPU and 4GB of memory I think the rest of the rig is more than capable.

There is also an alternative explanation to the reported performance numbers. The card is so powerful that games are now CPU bound.

We'll see what the mass tech media thinks of the card once it comes of NDA and is benchmarked on a dozen different tech sites if the card and GPU are a bomb or the bomb.

Again, the game comes with the the original PhysX driver and library and is coded to use it. If you don't have a PhysX card, it is emulated in software. Exploding mail boxes, shell casings, swinging signs, blown leaves due to flybys, etc. is available to everyone regardless if you have a PhysX card or an nVidia card that could run PhysX.

As long as the "AEGIA(TM) PhysX(TM) support" is grayed out, you are running the CPU PhysX emulation and not on hardware. The game's included driver does not recognize nVidia's GPU PhysX as a valid PhysX card. The game's included driver was an early 1.0 beta of PhysX. Aegia, before they were bought by nVidia redid their drivers and they were no longer compatible with this game. If we loaded their new drivers it this game would still use the ones that came with it back when CoV first came out. The same ones that are still in the game's folder. The next slider, "Particle Physics Quality" adjusts how much PhysX effects we see.

Now if the game had supported the last generation of Aegia's drivers then when nVidia bought and incorporated a CUDA version in their video drivers then the game would be able to use them. But that didn't happen. This game was too early of an adopter of PhysX and like the first guy on the block who bought an HDTV, we find ourselves with a piece of technology that isn't quite the standard and is lacking in compatibility.

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These copies of "Metahumans Online" I found behind the Games R Us burn surprisingly well.

Waiting for the inevitable cries of "but I didn't have time/enough free transfers" to move my characters back to their home server". Just you wait and see.

Yes, their "new" lower end GPUs support Dx10.1. This includes the G 210, GT 220, GT 240 and their renamed GT 3xx equivalent cards (yes nVidia is pulling another renumbering job). I don't follow the mobile GPU market that closely so I don't know which laptop GPUs now support Dx10.1.

There is still the original CPU emulator for PhysX in the game. What the game won't recognize is the nVidia GPU powered PhysX.

So the question is what's better? Stealing CPU cycles for physics or stealing graphics performance (assuming one video card) for physics. Which will impact framerate the least?