GibberingLunatic

This thread better be strong and pretty enough to survive till the summer of 2010... srsly

Account: Created On:Jun 9, 2009
You dismiss life is hard stories because your life has never been "hard"
Anyway, I still made my payments where applicable and because of something Out of my direct control (AKA The dates I get paid) I was unable to pay on the 26th because it came before my usual payment day (Wendsday) in October.
Something I stated way far back but yet you trolls like to nit-pick parts of the message that have nothing to do with the end result..
I'm done.

This thread is about the loyalty badge, not someones ability to quit smoking.
And you haven't walked a day in my shoes to know how rough it is where I'm at. So don't assume you know everything when in fact, you know nothing.

My issue is, I get paid WEEKLY. Sometimes that weekly check is barely enough to survive through the week. ($181.00 a week, $80.00 for rent and food, $20.00 for my phone bill, $35.00 for my rent-to-own laptop payment, Misc charges for food, drink and smokes) So honestly to squeeze in a CoH Sub every month between all this struggling, THATS loyalty to the brand.

(I'm not religious or anything here)
Jesus praised a man who gave little rather than the man who gave alot because the man who gave alot, possessed alot more where the man who gave little, relinquished his last coin.

Loyalty isn't measured in time but what it takes to continue that time. And I'm not going to beg on the streets to get 15 bucks just to keep my CoX payment completely current. I'm going to wait untill wendsday when I get my money to budget it out again and pay the monthly so I can continue playing.

I must say this has indeed soured my experience however.

Welp, I'm apparently SOL on the badge AND beta. Even if my card WAS on auto pay, it still would of failed the payment and I STILL would of had to wait till the 28th to be able to pay it.
Not my fault I get paid on wendsday and not my fault my life is sometimes too busy to keep track of what day is what. Thats why theres autopay. And even then that system fails.

And another one, this time with huge body types and "robotic arm 2"

I don't know what the heck is goin on with this one but the Robotic arm2 shows up just fine on normal and female body types....
and now it seems to be back to normal... This seems wierd though like the geo for the arm had it all crushed up into one point.

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hmm. well at least you got the drivers updated (I'm assuming) thats a good thing.

Next thing to try is deleting the following files from the piggs folder in city of heroes,
texFxGuiItems.pigg
texGui1.pigg
texGui2.pigg
texPlayersUI.pigg
and restart the launcher and allow it to download these files (116MB or 122,649,954 bytes)
On a fast connection this shouldn't take too long.
Cross yer fingers. If this still doesnt work I would belive it to be a rendering issue and I'm not wholly sure if CoX uses DirectX or OpenGL for rendering

I'm pretty sure you have already tried the usual /reloadgfx and /unloadgfx as well. (and besides those only work when your in-game. Restarting the client has the same effect)

Just got a E-Mail back asking for the PayPal transaction ID's for the payments I made.
Hopefully I get it, even though I get paid kinda strangely on Wendsday instead of Friday and in October it seems I was 2 days off because the 26th (the usual day I pay) came on a Monday instead of afterwards like September, August and, November.

Don't use the setup, but the zip file.
(It's kinda advanced)
Go into your device manager in your control panel accessible through "Administrative tools" then Computer Management
Find Device manager in the left window and click (if classic mode is enabled, if not use the next one)
Click "System and Maintnence" then under Device manager, click "View hardware and Devices" (You MUST have administrative privs on the account your currently logged into to access this)
after the UAC window pops up, click continue, then when the driver window opens, click on "Display Adapters"
select your display (should be the only one unless you have multiple vid cards. However by your DxDiag I am assuming your on a laptop so it should be the only one there)
Right click the display and select "Update driver software..."
Click "Browse my computer for driver software"
Then click "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"
on the next window, click "Have disk"
Browse to where you unzipped the video drivers.
(thankfully you don't have to wait for me to finish downloading the driver for my own chipset as I just had to regretably wipe my computer back to factory... My windows drivers got corrupted. JOY! I lost all my bookmarks and movies and music and etc. etc. etc.... Thankfully I was able to burn my entire CoX folder to a DVD )
now I unzipped mine to
C:\Users\Stygian Renegade\Downloads\winvista_15124
your's should be similar
if yours was the same as mine, you would browse to the following location in the "Install from disk" dialog,
C:\Users\Stygian Renegade\Downloads\winvista_15124\Graphics
click the igdlh.inf (or whatever INF file is in that folder) and hit open.
click on "OK" on the "Install from disk" dialog
The driver should now show in the list on the "Select driver" screen
Hit Next...
It should start installing the updated driver. It MAY go all QQ on the driver but I highly doubt it. If it does just hit whatever button that will make it continue installing.
Your screen will flash and you will hear the "disconnected hardware" audio and the "connected hardware" audio signifying the driver has indeed updated itself.
Next up is the Success screen! Wewt!
Now its time to reboot and enjoy your updated driver that totally doesn't exist on your Laptop Manufacturers website... seriously, why don't they update them drivers...
Anyway that will help ALOT with about anything graphic-wise.
and Yes, Vista SP2 will help with alot of stability issues as well.

But definately update your video driver as well. This will help alot and allow you have a few more options inside CoX graphics wise.
(like me, bumpmapping. Old drivers=No bumpmapping options(greyed out) updated driver=no bumpmapping, player bumpmapping or player and world bumpmapping )
Good luck buddy!

*starts blasting Nerdcore as soon as all the music from his MP3 player copies over*

and as the usual officers (the dumb ones anyway)
[NPC] Longbow Spec-Ops: Did you hear a ruckus?
[NPC] Longbow Eagle: I don't know.
[NPC] Longbow Eagle: Could you describe the ruckus?

I forgot to mention as well a defrag is always handy too if you haven't done it for about 2 weeks to a month.

Not word for word but in sharkhead with the luddidtes,
around-about the following,
"...Forsake all technology..."
"So does this mean I have to throw away my PSP?"

Mine is in my sig... Just saw it pass by when I was on the Kings Row Bank safeguard mission.

a DxDiag log may be useful as well and can be hosted at http://www.freetexthost.com to keep from clogging the forums.
This could be a video issue, or a missing texture issue. to which I would remove the Coh.checksum file from your City of Heroes main folder and restart the updater.
No guarantee it will work, but its a start and you always gotta start with the easy stuff first.