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No, thats old news, 'we' (those of us deep in the computer industry) have been expecting that move for a year now.

The SCOOP is as I said above. Hopefully its not as bad as expected and we will still have 3 major graphics card manufacturers going forward, time will tell.

It does cache previous zones/maps/missions/costumes in RAM that's why the memory size increases.

Thats what the command /reloadgfx does, it dumps the cached objects from memory.

There doesn't appear to be a memory leak from where I sit, memory use going from 600MB at startup to 1.4GB over time has been normal for me for a long long time, the last memory leak I remember (besides one in bases and at the character creator which were small) went right up to the 2GB barrier and crashed consistently, but iirc that was ~10 issues ago.

Someone haxor'd FMJ's account, there is someone else using his account giving reasonable advice, call for a GM/moderator!

The point to get from this wasn't that there was differing qualities of AV software, it was instead that the very very best AV software was only ~95% effective on the most recent known Virus on the reactive (after its known and the definitions are downloaded), and the very very very best AV software was only ~79% effective on the proactive (heuristics etc) emerging unknown viruses.

If its not stopping 99.9-100% let alone just 99.0% considering that there are 30-100 new viruses every day, its not doing a good enough job and more significant protections are needed including not running as admin, having control over scripting, changing email and browsing habits, staying patched, etc etc etc, virus writers have always had the upper hand in this battle, now they are really making use of it, sitting back and pretending that your AV will protect you will get you rooted.

Not for crashing.

The Op's problem is overheating, defective hardware or drivers/Vista.

Desaturation sure for visual problems, but the other 2?

Vertical sync combined with Triple Buffering stops tearing.

Anisotropic filtering you might turn off if you had problems with overheating, but I would check and see if the card was overclocked first.

Otherwise no.

Don't do dual cards for this game, they give limited or no improvement in performance.

If you really have money burning a hole in your pocket go ahead and get them for some other games.

Most people here recommend getting 1 really fast card instead.

QFT. This sums it up for me, and the evidence is plainly obvious that the devs have been abysmally slow in 'fixing' anything AE related, whether its game mechanics or subscribers.

Easy, follow these instructions and everything will smooth out nicely:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=120192

Knock it off!

People will think we're having a civil discussion! FMJ sucks.

'Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!'



I have cleaned up about 100 of the WinAntivirus2009(lots of variants) in the last 2 years or so, including the rootkit versions. All of those desktops had up to date major name brand retail and or corporate AV, you name it, it was rooted. Half the time the AV didn't even know the PC was infected or the virus simply disabled the AV, the other half the AV reported a file, but the other 15 files it couldn't find.

I'm not saying remove AV from the picture, just don't rely on it, it will let you down spectacularly. Everyone needs to adjust to overcome the phishing, trojans and social engineering the virus writers are moving towards.

Those 2 Czechoslovakian guys(iirc) who are behind the WinAntivirus, used many different methods, including infected Flash Ads, Trojan emails purporting to be from your Airline or Courier company 'here are details of your package in zip format', same but emails with links to infection sites, etc etc.

FMJ sucks.

As FatherX noted, the best that desktop AV can do today is to notify you that the computer is infected, and stop older known viruses which generally only last a week or 2, with a few notable exceptions.

As he also noted, separation of the browser from the OS is the next most powerful protection, sandboxing can accomplish this for any (afaik) browser out there today.

It notified me twice, and it has nothing at all to do with luck, I am personally so far off the virus radar it takes extraordinary circumstances for me to be infected.

I don't use Outlook any version, never have.
I don't use MS Office, stopped after 97.
I don't use Internet Explorer, never have.
I have used sandboxed browsers for years.
I have used no-script nearly since the day it was released.
And more.

I still think the general public should have the line item checkbox of 'i have AV' but its value is significantly eroded and in the last 2 years or so its almost useless.

What I am saying is that the doctor is useless and can't help you, I have seen every major AV product completely rooted in the last 2 years or so, over and over again.

In fact in some cases the AV has caused more problems than the viruses in the same timeframe.

And i'm not running without protections, I have just pushed them to the most logical and efficient place:

You both need to read much closer, I have my AV on my border, EVERYTHING in and out of all types is scanned, all email, all web, all chat, all FTP everything.

I scan hard media manually, I am completely on top of my browsing, I have not had a virus on one of my PC's in 10 years or more and no more than 2 ever, and 1 single piece of spyware ever.

So I used the word ALL and you want to take me to task on it. OK, how about 97% of the nerfs are caused by Farmers/PL'rs and PVP? Now do you want to argue that its actually 93.2% not 97%? Obviously its not all, but its close enough.


I completely disagree, i'm throwing rocks at people mismanaging a very large software project, furthermore, I more than completely disagree, 1 Week is abysmal, a couple of them were more like 2 weeks, 1 day is reasonable, 2 days is unreasonable, for all of it, the fixes and punishment.

They need to apply immediate pot bellied stove to any punishments, waiting a week is abusive and confusing to players.

There are many strategies they could have employed to handle the exploits in a timely manner, yes they could have instantly temporarily disabled Mito's then applied a comprehensive fix later, that would be OK, waiting 2 weeks to do anything at all isn't.

I don't want to speculate either, but at least that one was a complete sentence that makes sense in an of itself.

Here is what some brainiac repped me negatively for:

'your as dumb as alt'

I'm leaving mine on if I can get some more of those, that one is priceless.

I would be happy to deny it, i'll suggest now that in total Inf, inflation is happening due to MA.

Certainly I will, right or wrong, its an interesting debate.

And thats why there isn't thread after thread complaining about it, and instead there is thread after thread of 'everyone' saying how great the MA is!
Why are you even in this thread? There obviously isn't any problems at all with MA, why bother arguing?


I think that is still arguable in terms of gross inf, a few small examples of deflation doesn't overtake a few large examples of inflation.

Certainly, but that doesn't mean its not in need of ALOT of work.

Fair enough, you seem reasonable to fair arguments, perhaps Alt is somewhat militant in his views, nevertheless I applaud him for arguing so vigorously!

Fair enough, perhaps Alt is exhibiting some defensive behavior (I can understand why), but in spite of that I seriously only see someone who cares about the long term health of the game.