Kitsune Knight

I'm not sure "whipping out Photoshop and Blender" is adequately described as "much harder". SL is also really quite a different beast than CoX, in that SL is more so a 3D development environment than... anything.

No, the other side of the coin is it's an awesome time if you bought a new one just before the stagnation began, because it'll be current for longer.



(generally, there's price drops pretty frequently in the computer industry as long as there's no clearly superior player)

Honestly, I consider the time thing a bigger deal, and the other more of a minor caution. There's been countless times where I've not logged on for extended periods of time... I'd be pretty pissed if the game tried to hold me hostage by get on or lose your stuff! Actually, back when the market was still relatively new, I wasn't playing much... but had to occasionally log on and go to WW/BM to keep my items on the market from being 'lost' (it was later than i found out that it was changed to apply only to inactive accounts!). Having to go through that made me want to play less.

It's really personal preference, though. If it wasn't for the WW/BM thing, I'd probably just use the emails... assuming I had enough stuff that I needed a bank toon

I'd be very careful about this... after all, the patch today included a fix for the attachments randomly getting lost... it's still a new system still with issues. Having a bank toon/toons, IMO, would be the safest option. Especially if you occasionally can't get on for a few days/weeks and... oops! There goes all your inf because you stored it in your emails!

When you see the blue screen, Windows has already halted the system. If it's a hardware issue, it'd be better to stay there than restart, anyways, since the system will largely be halted at that point, and you'll have the option of powering off, instead of automatically forcing a reinitialization of the hardware. The auto restart was put in as a PR move, not a stability move.

Possibly. Not guaranteed

Not really. I've experienced multiple video card failures and they all behaved differently.

Assuming a support file that hasn't changed hasn't been corrupted. You might want to uninstall the drivers, then run driver sweeper to completely remove any traces (while in safe mode), then install the current drivers. But it could also be some other driver triggering an issue in the nvidia drivers. Also, don't forget that CoX is basically the only OpenGL 3 game out there, so there's going to be a lot of driver issues that only crop up in CoX and no other games, without it being CoX's fault.

If it results in a blue screen, it's at least partly the system's fault. No program should be able to blue screen the system, and any that do are revealing a bug in the OS/driver. That doesn't mean there isn't also a bug in the game, but the system definitely has one.



There's lots of possibly causes I can think up off the top of my head that can result in issues like this (most of which I've seen happen first hand). Malware, hardware failure, driver issues (even a driver other than the nvidia drivers!), RAM failure (run memtest86 to check this), etc. I'm sure if I gave it more than 20 seconds I could come up with more

Yes. If you don't mind waiting, the Complete Collection is a better deal.

Complete Collection: $39.99 - $11 for one month (at yearly rate) = 28.99
Prepurchase: $29.99

It's an even better deal if you want the extra goodies pack (that'd be an extra $6.99 you have to spend on top of the 29.99). It's not a huge difference, but if you're fine waiting a month, then it's the better deal.

You can generally work around this by going into the CoH installation directory (C:\Program Files\City of Heroes on 32bit Windows, C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes on 64bit Windows), right clicking on cityofheroes.exe (the extension might be hidden) -> Properties -> Compatibility -> click Change settings for all users -> select Disable desktop composition -> OK to all the dialogs.

This worked for the people in the last thread about this issue, so it'll likely work for you, without making any system-wide changes.


(I'd personally just recommend switching to Windowed mode instead)

Shut up, noob.

It's sooooo obvious when you don't quote or make any direct references


And even still, there's nothing wrong with saying people should be considerate enough to avoid screwing other people over (they paid for the game and subscription fee, after all, if they want to use it to implore others to reduce lag, that's their prerogative).

Next time I'm teaming with you, I'll be sure to spam Grant Invisibility on everyone when you're attempting to escort a hostage out of the mission.

You've obviously never heard of the Great Moose Incident.

To disable the automatic restart, go to the Start menu -> Control Panel -> System -> click Advanced System Settings -> click the Advanced tab -> click Settings... under Startup and Recovery -> uncheck Automatically restart -> OK.


Edit: Looks like you're on Windows XP... in which case, I believe what you'd do would be... Start menu -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced tab -> Settings... under Startup and Recovery -> then uncheck Automatically. restart -> OK.

It'd help if you at least linked to the last thread, since I'm confused about the situation Post a new CoH Helper and HiJack This log?