Father Xmas

This board isn't for second guessing design decisions or rally the masses to storm the devs. If you want raise the issue to a dev, PM Matt “The Television” Stults who just took over as leader of the programming team with your concerns. Be polite, be specific, don't speculate on the causes, just describe the problem and point him to that thread in Player Questions.

Do not expect a fix, if one is coming at all, for at least six or more months as Going Rogue is currently being crunched. Then again it may already be in the pipeline but don't expect a "we'll get right on that".

An unfortunate effect caused by the addition of the consignment house to the game since day one. But for the majority of players who are running with 2GB and higher systems, they rarely if ever encounter it. But for those who do see this the only suggestions I have is to shut down all apps but the game and your internet security apps, shop when you first launch the game, use CH and BM locations that are not swamped with other players and use /unloadgfx before talking to a market contact to flush out the texture cache.

Don't forget the market and IO enhancements are totally optional. You can always simply delete all your salvage and recipe drops or sell then at any store.

Actually the minimum requirements were changed when City of Villains/Issue 6 was released. Someone at NCSoft really need to go back and check the copy on the side of the CoV box as well as their own support site and fix the specs listed at the store.

All I can suggest is to /bug the market when it dumps you (and this goes for anyone) out of the game. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is a side effect of the quick sort function in the C/C++ library, the number of items in the market, the game event loop and how the OS handles virtual memory/swapfile when the system runs out of physical memory.

Now they can't do anything about how the OS handles low memory conditions. They might be able to rework the whole select/sort/display routines in the market so even in a low memory condition the communications to the server doesn't stall out or they can simply wait the problem out as customers upgrade to more memory or newer systems where the problem doesn't manifest itself.

I'm not excusing this problem, I see it when I play while I'm visiting or house sitting for my parents on their system. But after 30+ months of this problem with the only fix was extending the timeout from one minute to two a few weeks after it was added to the game. I simply convinced my folks to up the memory in their system from 0.5 to 1.5 GB when I saw them this Christmas (only experience a 5-10 second delay once after playing for a couple of hours).

It's a Quality of Life issue for a minority group of players using an "optional" feature that was added to the game. So I say again, if you (group you) want the devs to be aware of or reminded of this problem then /bug it everytime you get dumped by the server when you click on a market contact. Note in your bug report how much memory your system has so the QA team can test it otherwise it'll simply be listed as unreproducible.

Well in extreme cases or with very little memory, like 512MB, that can happen quite often if it takes longer than 2 minutes to load the market. As the market loads (or it may just be a side effect of hitting the swap file), the game stops talking to the game server. After one minute of that the server stops talking to the game so everything appears to freeze. After another minute, the server figures you crashed or lost the connection and you get mapserved.

Yes, welcome to school of Dx10 and Dx11 of video counting, which includes some amount of main memory. Since the OP has 8GB, I believe the Dx code maxes out as 4GB available.

The reason is Dx10 and Dx11 have built in video memory management that uses system memory as a texture swap file automagically without a game developer needing to write one themselves.

Well Antec says the max length is 11.5 inches/ 29.2 cm for a video card.

The eVGA and Asus cards are 9 1/2" cards. The Asus however does have the power connector at the end instead of the top so a little advance planning (attaching the power cable before inserting) may be needed. As for the hard drive getting in the way, just mount it in a lower bay.

Edit: Here is a pic (if the hot link works else you can find it in this review) showing an assembled system with a HD 4890, a similar length card installed. Of course they didn't plan ahead (they failed as Batman) and mounted the HD right where the video card went.

That's because it was better.