Hyperstrike

What're you trying to do? Give good old American cacti some sort of inferiority complex? Cactus performance anxiety?

SHEESH!

Basically doubled rage eliminates the -Def (not sure why, just does). This way your defense doesn't crash (or go negative). There are times things like this can lead to a cascading defense failure.

I'd hesitate to refer to having your damage crash for a few seconds as "vulnerable". You simply aren't doing any damage with your primary powers. There are other powers though, like Sands of Mu, that still do full normal damage during the period.

The End crash can be potentially problematic for toons with End management problems too.

The question wasn't "was it ludicrous", simple was it "do-able". I'll make the answer more succinct for you.

"Yes, you CAN perma-rage with SOs, but the solution is somewhat ugly and wasteful."

You're not wrong.

Not quite true.

The 64-bit OS CAN have a higher memory footprint. Granted, it's not utilizing double, or even half-again as much memory as 32-bit, it does use slightly more due to the increased size of the binaries being used and stored in memory, as well as the increased bit-depth of the cached data. However, the actual extra amount used is fairly trivial in all save a few cases.

At most, you're usually talking the difference of a few megabytes of memory.

So I should pull that full set of Hecatombs out right away then...

It's not so much that they're "bad" for gaming. Simply that the hardware and software have been optimized for accurate final-pass rendering rather than first-pass like you see in a lot of games. They're for applications where the final product has to be RIGHT, PERIOD. If a certain frame out of umpty-bajillion in CoH has a blown pixel or texture someplace, no biggie, it's gone in under a second.

As it is, your card is probably dealing with just the stuff it's drivers know how to handle (DX7/8/9, OGL2.0, etc) and just ignoring directives from anything else. So it's giving you acceptable performance because the image is degraded.

If, as Je_Saist suspects, they're leveraging OGL 3.0 for CoH, you're going to get mostly identical performance in CoH simply because it's not rendering the Going Rogue graphical enhancements. At worst, your performance will fall off because it's having to spend time discarding commands that the hardware and drivers won't support.

Oh. They'll probably work. Your performance will just be less than the hardware-equivalent GeForce card.

I don't think that's quite true anymore. I think that if the mission is completed and the captain pulls the next mission, they get ejected.

Have a Fire/Rad in the teens at +0/x2.

I can usually handle a regular 2 man mob, but in a lot of the missions I've hit, I've been in areas with multiple groups of 2 man mobs mashed together. 4-6 guys, I can handle. 8-12 is just guaranteeing I faceplant if I can't strip off one or two guys at a time.

Weirdly enough, the Montague Castanella "Lost Savior" arc would spawn a two man mob as a single Rector. With the Golden Rings hold in addition to Char, they're cake.

It may be that it's running into something with Windows Security. Try the following.

1. Find the game executable file.
2. Right-Click on it and select Properties
3. Select the Compatibility tab.
4. Check Compatibility Mode and take XP SP3
5. Check "run as administrator".
6. Click OK.

If that doesn't work, you may want to turn UAC down.

1. Click on the Start button
2. Click on Help and Support
3. In the window that comes up type "turn off UAC" in the search box.
4. Click through the links till you get to the UAC slider bar and slide it down.
5. Click OK.
6. Reboot

Note: Turning off/down UAC can potentially compromise the security of your system. </ButtCoverage>

I really got to you with that line didn't I?

I dunno. From some of the GW content, she's REALLY upset when it looks like she's somewhat...preoccupied by Recluse and pitches a fit when he mistakes her for Red Widow.

Anyhoo, abso-frickin-loutely hilarious D_R.

On a scale of one to ten I'd give it...an A+!

A color slider isn't seven colors. However, the ability to choose specific hues is VERY inexact.

No. Because then those difficulty settings wouldn't work in AE. Nothing is stopping you from farming AE. Merely from exploiting it.

Farming == Exploit

But...Somewhere...somehow...SOMEBODY IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET!

Incorrect. While they would rather people not farm ANYWHERE in the game, they're realists. The devs are anti-EXPLOIT, not anti-farm.

Yep.

It is if you're on two different payment plans. If you're paying semi-annual for WoW and monthly for CoX, of COURSE CoX is going to cost more!

Help us understand why this is. You're saying you do. However, you haven't given us details on your billing situation with WoW or CoX. Not personal info, just how you're set up to bill one or the other.

Only if you're screwing something up.

If you give people here a chance instead of simply rage-ranting, we CAN help you.