Kortez

Just an update for you BillZ after I had to reinstall the 6.2 drivers for win2k I was able to get my system to finally let me play in windowed and be able to alt-tab. All the settings I posted before are the same except Shader Quality which has to be on Low(no world bumpmaps).

With the settings like this I can play fine now even if the world isnt as visually appealing, its the same graphics as when CoH released so shrug at least its not tearing (and the characters & particles still look good). The only issue I have like this is in a group with a lot going on or mainly masterminds because of all the npcs. I have to turn Max Particle Count down to 100 while in groups like that then I have 0 issues again.

Also I think the alt-tab issue while in windowed mode could of been caused by my taskbar being set to auto hide. Something with being able to mouse over the taskbar and it popping up over the game screws it up.

After I had to reinstall the ATI drivers my auto hide somehow got turned off, and always on top got turned on. I changed always on top off and decided to try leaving auto hide off and it looks like it worked.

Well first off lol at me for having a G15 keyboard with a USB connection that doesnt load until after windows has already started making it impossible to f8 to safe mode. so I had to hunt down my old keyboard. =|

Anyway I uninstalled all the old ATI stuff and used Driver Cleaner to make sure everything was gone then tried installing the XP version of CCC 7.9 which didnt work, so I tried just the display driver which also didnt work. This was the error I got when trying to install.

Setup did not find a driver compatible with your current hardware or operating system. setup will now exit.

So I had to reinstall the 6.2 win2k version again.

I really dunno what I can do at this point. The settings I had the game running at were already lower then what I would like to have. About all I can do is drop everything to the absolute lowest settings possible and play that way without any problems maybe but I think I would rather just get a blank piece of paper and play tic tac toe by myself because it would be about as visually pleasing. =x

Unless I can find some non official driver to use the only options I see available are to buy a newer video card and possibly have the same problem of not being able to use the latest drivers. Or upgrade to WinXP which probably would require reformatting and losing all my stuff on my pc and having to go thru the process of getting everything back which is way too much work. Not to mention neither of those choices are probably very cheap to begin with. =\

Either way thank you for the help BillZ and if you have any ideas about what I could do next I'm all ears.

Oh and I did make sure I had the lastest .NET framework and windows updates etc before trying.

From what ive found having geometry buffers on made the game run better. and the tearing issue wasnt in grandville it was in any villan mission, even simple office building ones, but much worse in cave ones.

I didnt know if I could install the XP version of the drivers but I'll try that now and get back to you.

Ok i have a problem and im hoping someone here can help me out, i will list my pc spec / settings below.

Currently i have 0 issues while on hero side, while im on the villan side it runs just as fine in the outside world. but during mission maps its either lagging or screen tearing or something. im not really sure its almost just like the graphics jerk and delay for a sec while im running around in a mission, but its a constant thing with every step of the character, even just turning around in circles makes it happen.

i always run in windowed mode because not being able to tab out drives me absolutely crazy and i refuse to keep logging in and out of the game if i need to check my hero builder or wanna look something up on the net etc. ive heard that my card has issues with windowed mode but i wondered if anyone had a work around for it yet. in full screen mode i get 0 problem anywhere game works perfect and i can even up the setting, just no tabbing out .

the other problem is that i run a win2k rig with a ati card and amd no longer supports win2k drivers from what i can tell. their last driver was release like feb of 2006 or something for win2k.

here are my pc specs and game settings.

PC:
OS: Win2k SP4
Mboard: Abit NF7-S
Proccessor: AMD Athlon XP 2300GHz
Ram: 2500 MB (2.5G)
Graphics card: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AGP 128MB
Display: 1280 x 1024 (32bit) (75Hz)
Sound: SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [9000]

In Game:
Screen/UI Resolution: Windowed
3D Resolution Scaling: 1280x1024
Refresh Rate: N/A
Advanced Graphic Settings: Enabled
Particle Physics Quality: Medium
World Texture Quality: Medium
Character Texture Quality: Very High
World Detail: 80%
Character Detail: 100%
Max Particle Count: 25050
Vertical Sync: Disabled
FSAA: Off
Shadows: Enabled
Use Geometry Buffers: Enabled
Anisotropic Filtering: Disabled
Texture Crispness: Smooth
Shader Quality: High
Water Effects: Off
Depth of Field Effects: Disabled
Bloom Effects: None

In Catalyst Control Center:
Under Display Options:
3d Refresh Rate Override: Same as Desktop
Under 3D settings:
Anti-Aliasing: 2X (Temporal Disabled)
Anisotropic Filtering: 2X
Catalyst A.I.: Disabled
Mimmap Detail Level: High Quality
Wait for Vertical Refresh: Always On
Adaptive Anti-Aliasing: Disabled
API Specific:
Direct3D:
Enable geometry instancing: Yes
Support DXT texture formats: Yes
Alternate pixel center: No
OpenGL:
Triple Buffering: Yes
Force 24-bit Z-buffer depth: No

If i run full screen i can up some of these settings but like i said want to play in windowed mode or at least be able to tab out. and so far short of upgrading to XP or Vista or getting a new vid card (which is more costly then i care for atm) i think im boned. any help would be greatly appreciated.