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I don't know that I have all of windows updates, I just ran the windows updated and told it to update all earlier though. I didn't know there was SP2 for vista yet. I'll work on that next.

I downloaded all my windows updates today after this problem started occuring, though it didn't help.

I downloaded what the Nvidia site told me to download for my card, and installed it, it didn't help. Honestly, the Nvidia site was a little weird, I'm not entirely sure what they gave me did much good at all. Looked like some generic feature upgrade, but I got it from the "download drivers" section, and did what they told me to do, so not sure what to do there.

I did un-install my display drivers, and then re-installed them, still having the same problem.


Sometimes the game just crashes and I get the message "Display driver stopped working and has recovered" With the sub text "Display driver 'kmmmnmmnkmnm'* has stopped responding and recovered" (*I don't recall the exact letters used, but it was a lot of Ks, Ms, and Ns, and only those as I recall.)

Other times, the screen goes weird, gets red lines on it, and the whole comp crashes. So far this has happened ONLY with CoH and nothing else.

It is. I haven't been dissapointed in an issue of this game for a long time. Some issues had less for me than others, but I can't remember the last issue where I said "wow this issue made me disappointed." I'm not sure I've ever had that problem.

No sir! Check your facts. Positron now turned into 2 pieces. And a lot of people have complained for a long time about how ridiculously hard the positron task force is the for the level it's at.

You just admitted its a task force that takes 3 hours if you have some one on your team who knows the ins and outs. If you are all new to the task force or haven't memorized it, it will take longer than 3 hours. Some of the Shadow Shard's TFs don't take 3 hours, even on a first run, and that's the late game content. In a casual MMO you think level 15 Content should take 3 hours if you have it down really well?

You're entitled to your opinion I suppose, but I think that's a pretty outlandish thing to complain about. Also it's still not getting cut in half, it's being put into 2 parts to make it a little easier for people to do. And they are revamping some of the content. You are at best, ignorant of the changes your complaining about and at worst purposely stretching the truth in attempt to give your argument more credibility.

Lastly, making something long doesn't make it fun. The positron IMO could use some more "fun factor", being long and tedious doesn't make me want to play it over and over.

I'm not sure how lowering the level at which epics become available translates to only listening to newbs. Also, the devs have stated before, (around the time VEATS were released.) That they weren't real happy with Epics only being unlocked at 50, this change has been a long time coming.... Also, I'd love to see a source on your "most veteranas leaving the game" statement. That's a made up fact if I ever saw one.

And how is this bad? Epics have been balanced the same as other ATs. It's not like epics are so ridiculously over powered that people getting them in their first day would make them gods of the game. Honestly who cares how many khelds and arachnos are running around? You're complaining that some new people will get their hands on some of the content earlier than other people? So what?

Who ever said things in Jays Costume thread would be put in the game in the order in which they were posted? Who said things in that thread had to be put into the game at all. Jay has put a lot of those requests into the game, and you're complaining because he put one in you didn't like? It's low hanging fruit, look in the dev tracker at recent posts by Babs, he more or less made it clear it wasn't that hard to do. So the devs put in an easy to add feature you aren't crazy about... Don't use it!
On top of this there has once again been a failure to allow villains access to the shadow shard or a lvl 50 contact with unlimited, non-timed missions. I understand we all got excited with the content for both heroes and villains to play together, but CoV has definitely suffered neglect over recent issues content-wise. 5 minutes in the MA could solve this problem, then we move it on to the live server...

The only missed opportunity I could think of is adding some sort of common sense filter to the forums so posts that completely lack it, don't get seen by other people.

Or maybe some sort of rule "Posts must be within driving distance of a reasonable interpretation of reality" or they will be deleted.

Well i finished those TFs. I did 3 of them in one night actually, Justin Augustin. Sara Moore, and Dr. Q. Just to brag a little.

Honestly, it's kind of hard because I was a little too focused on the TF to spend all the time reading. Some of the clues go away after you get the next mission, theres a lot to read through and it's hard to put it all together while going through the TF. I'm going to have to go through Paragon wiki and read about it all. It's terribly fascinating, original and wonderful lore. I'd really love to see the other zones and more content for this area. Aside from Praetoria, I think this is the most drastically (And tragically) under utilized lore of the City of franchise.

Expanded Mole point system for the win!

Prolly. But the OP seemed to doubt that the place was in rome and thought it could possibly be in greece, which was another place and another era.

So to clear up confusion, I submitted proof that the zone is in fact supposed to take place in Rome.

Unfortunately it seems the CoP trial being taken offline had more than just the IOP counting against it. My understanding was a broken mission allowed people to simply click a contact over and over again to get repeated mission complete rewards to the point people could get from lvl 1 to lvl 50 in a manner of hours.

According to Paragon wiki, that was the reason CoP was pulled offlline. Seems a simple fix to remove or fix the mission but who knows.

Still I'd love to see it put back into the game in one way or another,

Simple answer is this:

Give Villains access to the shadow shard, in one way or another. Either Co-op zones, or not. Though after GR comes out, the point is completely moot. Either way, Zones should be open to all ATs.

As for adding new zones for the other aspects, by all means.

As for him being too big for the combat model. I don't care. Put the combat box on his head and I'll fly up to it to shoot it.


There is a phrase floating in our culture now. "Too big to fail" Well Rularuu the ravager is "Too cool to be excluded" put his *** in the game where I can shoot at him and I will do so.

Frankly all of the shadow shard is too cool to be half done. After learning about the lore of the last week or so, I feel it is at best, half done. They need to expand this piece of the game and give us all the chance to take on that baddy.


IF we can fight a hami, we can fight a ruly, let's do it, shall we?

Is it too much to hope for?

I'd LOVE that!

Though I think it's more likely dark mirror is leading up to Praetoria for going rogue. Kind of like along came a spider for The Rogue ISles.

You sure? Issue 17 reeks of a Nemesis plot to me. And everything is a nemesis plot. In fact I'm pretty sure I saw Lord Nemesis the other day saying "Issue 17 is going exactly as I have planned"

Granted I thought it was strange at the time since up until today I thought I:17 would be after GR. But chalked it up to him planning just that far ahead.

It really makes more sense now, and I'm fairly convinced that it's a nemesis plot.

I understood what I just said perfectly. I also however stated that I am not a graphics card expert, which is why I asked the question.

From what I saw on the wiki site, it seemed the two cards were comporable. However, looking at your site I saw data that either wasn't on the wiki, or that I simply didn't see. Either way, the clock speeds on the 9800GTX+ seem faster, though I get the feeling that's not the really important stuff.

Still, will having 2 of these cars make a difference in COH? That's what I'd really like to know.

So I don't know how intentional it was, but in season 1 of chuck, in at least two different episodes while there is stuff going on at the Buy More, one of the end caps in the store is completely filled with City of Villains boxes. Since Season 1 of chuck started in 07 and CoV was released in 05, It's not like the game was brand new and Chuck wanted to use it to grab attention.

Also the game is in the back ground, (but it's very clearly CoV) so I was kind of wondering if the makers of the show just picked something random that they could put on store shelves to make it look real and ended up with CoV on that endcap that shows very clearly.

On the other hand, maybe the CoX marketing department is just that good and has been sneaking their product onto primetime Shows and no one notices since it's all subliminal.

Perhaps we should ask The Television.

I understand that they are working on GR. I didn't say that I needed them to speak more or that I wanted them to take time from their work to answer this thread, (or the dozens of others like it.)

All I was saying, is this feels like that calm moment before the storm. The Devs are throwing little tidbits our way and buckling down at they gear up to start announcing and going crazy with info and hopefully beta, etc.

Though at this point my money is on Beta After the Valentines event, but we shall see.

Perhaps I will be surprised, they will use the Valentines event to keep all of those of us who aren't invited to closed Beta distracted while the closed Beta begins. Hard to say.

True. But there was at least SOME chatter the last few weeks since the winter break ended. But the last few days there has only been like 1 or 2 posts by the Devs.

No. It is an alternate universe, which mean the same people don't have to be born at the same time to the same parents.

In fact the devs said at hero con, some people who exist in Primal Earth, won't have to exist in Praetorian earth.

Further more, their is no reason that Joe Bloggs or the Clockwork King has to be psychic in Praetorian earth. The factors that made him psychic in Primal earth, genetics, random chance, what ever, don't have to have existed the same way in Praetorian earth.

An Alternate universe does not have to bare any similarity to other universe's. Further more, even if their were some similarities, at the time when paths start diverging, new possibilities open up and new impossibilities form. At the point that Praetorian Marcus Cole, Kills his brother in law, it is no longer possible for him to become lord recluse and take control of arachnos.

Their might be another guy who takes control of Arachnos and calls himself lord recluse, but it won't be Cole's brother in law.

In an alternate universe, their is no reason to believe anything has to be the same or even similar to this universe. And Joe Bloggs may have had an inherent psychic ability in Primal Earth, but he doesn't have to have it in Praeotorian earth, he could just be a nobody.


Also, the clockwork in praetorian earth, we already know were built by the Praetorians as a work force so that people didn't have to do menial jobs, they said as much at Hero Con, this would indicate they don't have the same origin as clockwork on primal earth.

That video was epic.

I'm not sure that's going to make me stop watching TV, I think it's going to make me watch more.