Funda

Well since this board is a bit dated I imagine it's going to be my last one of this type. I'm not expecting to take much out of this this rig for the new one other than the gfx card and the psu.

Thanks for all the tips!!

I had my budget numbers backwards $250-$500.

How much memory does 1 instance take up? I like to run multiple instances on 1 desktop. I know it takes a performance hit with more instances but I like being my own team sometimes.

Oh I forgot my budget! lol I figure I'll have $500-$250 to work with. I know it's not much but it's all I'll have.

I don't know what kind of case I have but I'd have to say it's the standard size tower for a desktop. I don't see a problem fitting most video cards in it except for maybe the really big ones, chances are I wont be able to afford the huge cards.

Just for reduncancy I'd like to upgrade my gfx and my psu. Here's the specs for my rig.

Athlon 64 x2 4200 cpu
TA785GE 128M motherboard
G.Skill ram 2 sticks 2G each not sure on the frequency
Full size generic case
Generic PSU 430W
HP pavilion vf17 monitor

That's about it for what's in my rig. If I forgot anything just let me know and I'll get it posted ASAP.

Thanks for your help.

Here's the log from HijackThis.


Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4
Scan saved at 9:04:00 AM, on 2/19/2012
Platform: Windows 7 SP1 (WinNT 6.00.3505)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v9.00 (9.00.8112.16421)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:\Program Files (x86)\TeamViewer\Version7\TeamViewer.exe
D:\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Java\Java Update\jusched.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Comodo\Dragon\dragon.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Comodo\Dragon\dragon.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Comodo\Dragon\dragon.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Comodo\Dragon\dragon.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Comodo\Dragon\dragon.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Comodo\Dragon\dragon.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Comodo\Dragon\dragon.exe
C:\Users\Funda\Desktop\HijackThis.exe

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant =
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,CustomizeSearch =
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page = C:\Windows\SysWOW64\blank.htm
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Int ernet Settings,ProxyOverride = *.local
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName =
F2 - REG:system.ini: UserInit=userinit.exe
O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In SSV Helper - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: URLRedirectionBHO - {B4F3A835-0E21-4959-BA22-42B3008E02FF} - C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~2\Office14\URLREDIR.DLL
O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper - {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} - C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\jp2ssv.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [APSDaemon] "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support\APSDaemon.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [iTunesHelper] "D:\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Java\Java Update\jusched.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [StartCCC] "C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static\CLIStart.exe" MSRun
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [DAEMON Tools Lite] "C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -autorun
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /autoRun (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\RunOnce: [mctadmin] C:\Windows\System32\mctadmin.exe (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-20\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /autoRun (User 'NETWORK SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-20\..\RunOnce: [mctadmin] C:\Windows\System32\mctadmin.exe (User 'NETWORK SERVICE')
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\Office14\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O11 - Options group: [ACCELERATED_GRAPHICS] Accelerated graphics
O15 - Trusted Zone: *.clonewarsadventures.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: *.freerealms.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: *.soe.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: *.sony.com
O18 - Filter hijack: text/xml - {807573E5-5146-11D5-A672-00B0D022E945} - C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\MSOXMLMF.DLL
O20 - AppInit_DLLs: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\guard32.dll
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\Alg.exe,-112 (ALG) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\System32\alg.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: AMD External Events Utility - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\atiesrxx.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: AMD FUEL Service - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Fuel\Fuel.Service.exe
O23 - Service: Apple Mobile Device - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
O23 - Service: Bonjour Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe
O23 - Service: COMODO Internet Security Helper Service (cmdAgent) - COMODO - C:\Program Files\COMODO\COMODO Internet Security\cmdagent.exe
O23 - Service: COMODO Programs Manager Service (CPMService) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\COMODO\COMODO Programs Manager\CPMService.exe
O23 - Service: COMODO Dragon Update Service (DragonUpdater) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files (x86)\Comodo\Dragon\dragon_updater.exe
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\efssvc.dll,-100 (EFS) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\System32\lsass.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%systemroot%\system32\fxsresm.dll,-118 (Fax) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\fxssvc.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
O23 - Service: @keyiso.dll,-100 (KeyIso) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: Logitech Bluetooth Service (LBTServ) - Logitech, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\LogiShrd\Bluetooth\lbtserv.exe
O23 - Service: @comres.dll,-2797 (MSDTC) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\System32\msdtc.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\System32\netlogon.dll,-102 (Netlogon) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: NitroPDFDriverCreatorReadSpool (NitroDriverReadSpool) - Nitro PDF Software - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nitro PDF\Professional\6.0\NitroPDFDriverServicex64.exe
O23 - Service: NLS Service (nlsX86cc) - Nalpeiron Ltd. - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\NLSSRV32.EXE
O23 - Service: @%systemroot%\system32\psbase.dll,-300 (ProtectedStorage) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%systemroot%\system32\Locator.exe,-2 (RpcLocator) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\locator.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\samsrv.dll,-1 (SamSs) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\snmptrap.exe,-3 (SNMPTRAP) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\System32\snmptrap.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%systemroot%\system32\spoolsv.exe,-1 (Spooler) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\System32\spoolsv.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\sppsvc.exe,-101 (sppsvc) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\sppsvc.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: TeamViewer 7 (TeamViewer7) - TeamViewer GmbH - C:\Program Files (x86)\TeamViewer\Version7\TeamViewer_Service.exe
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\ui0detect.exe,-101 (UI0Detect) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\UI0Detect.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\vaultsvc.dll,-1003 (VaultSvc) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\vds.exe,-100 (vds) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\System32\vds.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%systemroot%\system32\vssvc.exe,-102 (VSS) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%systemroot%\system32\wbengine.exe,-104 (wbengine) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\wbengine.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%Systemroot%\system32\wbem\wmiapsrv.exe,-110 (wmiApSrv) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\wbem\WmiApSrv.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%PROGRAMFILES%\Windows Media Player\wmpnetwk.exe,-101 (WMPNetworkSvc) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmpnetwk.exe (file missing)

--
End of file - 7608 bytes

Here's the log from CohHelper.


---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

DxDiag gathered at February 19, 2012 09:00 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110622-1506)
System Manufacturer: BIOSTAR Group
System Model: TA785GE 128M
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Central Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 4096MB
.Net Memory Report: 2549MB out of 3839MB available
Page File: 5869MB (1807MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD400AB-00CTC0 ATA Device) 6087MB out of 38063MB (15%) free
D Drive: (ST3320620AS ATA Device) 129738MB out of 305242MB (42%) free
J Drive: (DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device) zero-size drive
E Drive: (SONY DVD RW DRU-830A ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7601.17514 (64-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 4200
Manufacturer / Chip: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. / ATI display adapter (0x9710)
Video Memory: 2034 MB
Driver Version: 8.930.0.0
Driver Date: 12/5/2011 10:16:00 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7601.17514
Driver Date: 11/20/2010 5:44:23 AM

Sound Device Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7601.17514
Driver Date: 11/20/2010 5:44:23 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: BIOSTAR Group
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: TA785GE 128M
Motherboard Version:
BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Name: Default System BIOS
BIOS Version: DELL - 20100701
BIOS Release: 20100701000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1280x972
3D Resolution: 1280x972 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: No
Maximized: Yes
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No


Physics Quality: None
Maximum Particles: 100
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No


Anti-aliasing: 2x
Anisotropic Filtering: None
Texture LOD Bias: Crisp
Water Effects: None
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: No
Shader Detail: Unknown (4)


World Texture Level: Unknown (3)
Character Texture Level: Low
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 0.500
Entity Detail Level: 0.300
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Disabled
Shadow Map Shader: Unknown (0)
Environmental Reflections: Disabled
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Off
Blur: Bilateral
Ambient Resolution: Performance


Gamma Correction: 0.844
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: Yes
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.600
Music Sound Volume: 0.600

Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.000
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: ?
Installation Directory: D:\Games\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
.\texture_library\MAPS\city has 2 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\Midnight_Squad has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\NewPlayerTutorial has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Safeguard has 9 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\sewers has 44 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\static has 40 files
.\texture_library\P_MAPS has 2 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\City has 2 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Outdoor_Missions has 9 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Static has 16 files

And Father Time is right on what I was getting at. I will give up that fruitless belief then after that explanation.

I got this board as a stop gap measure, my old system had fried and I had an AGP gfx card in it. There's not many AGP capable motherboards out there so I decided that my next one would have PCIe.

At the time I didn't have enough $ to get a new mobo, cpu and gfx card. I found the biostar board in one of the local hole in the wall PC shops nearby. Seeing that it had integrated video I figured what the hell, if it can't handle COH then I'll have to suck it up for a bit and get a cheapo gfx card.

I got home and got it all together, fired up a fresh copy of XP and was just dumbfounded that I could run COH in quality mode on the 3rd slider setting!! I could even run it in max quality but with a severe hit to FPS.

I get by ok on regular teams on recomended setting. This rig will even have 5 instances open on it. It turns into a slide show frequently but is doable.

This board will blow your socks off Hyper, it supports AM2 and AM3 sockets. I have a spec sheet from biostar that I would like to present as exhibit A.

http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/...t.php?S_ID=455

There on page 5 is the only place I've seen that says it supports ddr3 but it'll only support it if you've got an AM3 chip in there.
I'm still working on the rest of what you asked. It'll take me a day to compose that post.

Lemme know what you think of my board. I was impressed when I got it home.

My ram is ddr2 but this board is capable of using ddr3 but that's depending on what cpu is in there. My ram is G.Skill, is that good enough?

I'm running Win7x64.

So I plan on getting some new parts for my desktop to help spruce it up a bit to handle some more recent games decently. I plan on keeping my motherboard, cpu and ram the same but I need a gfx card and I figured on getting a new psu also. My current psu is a generic 430W. My mother board is a TA785GE 128M.

I've been running this game with the onboard gfx this mobo comes with. I can run it in quality mode and with the slidder on recomended with minimal issues, untill a trial or ship raid or other large gathering. It's time to finally get a gfx card for this rig. I do manage to run multiple instances on this rig but that's only on minimum gfx.

What kind of gfx card should I get that will play ultra mode, I'm not looking to run all the bells and whistles. How big of a psu should I be looking for? I have 4Gigs of ram should I get another 2gig stick or 2 more?

If you need to know the specs I can post a cpu z readout.

Thanks all.

Well maybe the RNG just doesn't like me right now or something.

Well the end result doesn't have to steal the drops from the players that don't have IO access. It would instead not give them a chance for a recipe drop. That in turn would make it so that those that do have IO access would get more chances of getting a drop when teamed with those that don't.

It's too bad the devs didn't make some sort of thing that would not give them the chance for the drop if they don't have access.

Has anyone else noticed that when teaming with free players that don't have recipe access your recipe drops seem very limited?

I've run the demon farm to PL a couple secondary acct recently and I've noticed that when running the farm solo to go for purples I get a normal drop rate. When I get the other accts fired up and logged in my drop rate is severely diminished, like by 75%.

Am I the only one seeing this?

Has everyone forgotten that they recently replaced the HARDWARE for all the live servers?
I imagine they're still working out some bugs in the new tech.
I've been having the same issues as the other ppl in this thread and after remembering about, what was it last week, the hardware upgrade that's what I'm chalking it up to.

So after doing a little testing on the training dummies I found out a couple neat things. I used my 50 plant/fire dom for testing purposes.
Seeds of confusion generates dom.
Vines generates dom.
All the vet attacks I have generate dom, and I do have all of them except the ghost slaying ax that's about worthless IMO.
Fireball from the fire epic generates dom.
Rain of fire DOES NOT generate dom. Not sure if that's WAI or not. My guess is since it's a pseudopet it won't because it's the pet doing damage not me.
I don't have any craft-able temps to test this out with but that will be my next test.
That's all I have for now.

Ok so lets try to narrow things down on this topic then.
We already know primary and secondary powers, most of them, generate domination. Brawl does as well.
Does anyone know any other powers that build dom?

What powers qualify to build domination? I know damaging attacks from primary and secondary do it and brawl but do the epics build domination also?
I'm asking because I have the fire epic but I'm not seeing my domination bar fill when I use ANY of the attacks in the fire epic.

Your 1st toons must be playing themselves now! lol

I sent in a support ticket to NCSoft and they have in turn sent it to the COH people.

*fingers crossed* hopefully I'll get to see the shiny soon and help flush out any bugs. The first closed beta I got in on was for the Issue when they turned the MM upgrades into AoE's. I was testing my nin/pain MM and discovered the upgrade icons weren't sticking, the power wasn't sticking I believe. Yeah I know whoopty doo I found some obscure bug but it made me feel like I helped make the game better.

Well I'm still being denied access. I'm pretty sure it's because I don't let my credit card sit on my account for more than 10 minutes anymore. I'm a little disappointed about this. I've been a faithfull and loyal customer since I4 but I guess that doesn't mean I've subscribed to this game.

All I'd like to do is change my resolution so I can check out the shiny while I play live.

I seem to be stuck in this same boat. I resubed last week but I always take my card back off the account so I don't forget it's on auto and have to get it refunded if need be. I have a feeling that could be why I am not able to get in.