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Unfortunately, I have issues with CoX freezing with 270.61. Have a GTX 570. Only happens on the GTX 570. Doesn't happen with the GTX 275, I believe.

Need to see if the 275.33 works well, but I rolled back to the 266.58.

Shame. Unless, of course, it's a bad PC port, then I can understand that.

Oh boy. This excuse has gone wafer thin over the years, imo.

Well, I can't disagree with that. But Steam definitely does not go into the asinine territory.


If you were gonna go for an AMD Processor, you might have been better off with a 955BE. Those extra two cores on the 1100T might not do much.

The other predicament is the upgrade path, provided if you even consider it. The current AMD line-up is at a complete dead-end, unfortunately.

But no matter. It's better, by far, than that Pentium 4.


Oh yeah, the Corsair PSU, I believe, is better. Don't judge by wattage, at all.
In fact, this might have been good enough: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-020-_-Product

Really depends also on the video card power requirements.

But this might have been all in hindsight, considering it's been more than a week.

Unfortunately, I know nothing of SLI settings, as I tend to avoid dual card configurations unless it's some sort of upgrade. As for settings, I usually just turn down Ambient Occlusion and sometimes shadows. Really depends on CPU and GPU dependency. Unfortunately, I'm at GPU dependency instead of CPU, as I always see my GPU at 90-97% load, unlike my CPU which is at 15-25%. Before my CPU upgrade (from a dual core E8400 clocked at 3.8GHz to an Quad-Core and Hyperthreaded i7-950 clocked at 3.8GHz), it was at 95-100% CPU load.

The only Nvidia control panel settings I DO have changed that affects significant performance is Threaded Optimization, and I have that at Off. If it's On, I lose quite a bit of performance. Well, that was on the E8400. I haven't tested it on i7-950.

Two cards in SLI with 1024MB = 1024MB available video memory. It does not double. It's similar to RAID-1 systems, where the Hard drive is mirrored, so if there's 2 1TB hard drives, it's not 2TBs, it's still 1TB, but with some performance bonuses, kind of.

Shared System memory does something else unless it's some IGP, which isn't the case. I mean, on DXDiag for mine, it says like 2800 MB, but I'm pretty sure it only uses 896 MB(GTX 275, default is 896MB of dedicated memory). And 32xAA? It can use huge amounts. Perhaps more than 2GB of video memory. But I wouldn't know, because I never tried it, nor would I want to, nor am I able to. Anything more than 8x seems like a waste of performance, with no real gain on image quality, personally. I mean sure, your fences may look awesome, or those damn tree branches or power lines, but I really don't care for that much drop in performance for a small amount of specific quality. Of course, CoH is weird on AA performance and quality.

But yes, turn down ambient occlusion, turn down AA. Don't put it on supersampling, multisampling at best if you must do it through Nvidia control panel.


My other recommendation? Disable SLI. I honestly don't know what the good settings for CoH with SLI, but I do remember that it does have support for it. If not disabling it, then change some settings?

Believe that's the 2nd gen Sandforce. From benchmark standpoint, it's a good amount of improvement.

My god, turn that DOOOOOOWN.

Maximizing AO to the fullest makes your FPS drop to 10%. If you put medium instead of strong Occlusion Strength, it should make it go like 2-4x the FPS you currently have. Turn the resolution down too.

Chances are your GPU overheated, or there isn't enough video memory to support it due to 32x AA plus that ambient occlusion. Honestly, if you game at like 1920x1200 (or similar) you shouldn't need more than 4x. At least I don't, unless it's a big monitor, like a 32 in at less than 4 feet away.


Honestly, Ambient occlusion, no matter what the game, is going to hog massive amount of performance. CoH just happens to have different types of AO, but most games don't have the super high option that CoH has.

If you must know, that other superhero MMO with crappy character customization is 30GBs.

Checked out the site. My god. It's cheap... you can even send in any computer parts you might have left over. Or even choose a case not available on their site.

Why was I not informed of this earlier? Now I can actually recommend this to my tech-illiterate friends that are too far away to build a computer for them.

Hmm, I think I forgot to factor in Fire ammo with Empty Clips. Bleh.

Animation time is my only problem with this power. Damage-wise, it's awesome. Range wise? Eh, oh well, I can deal with it. Unfortunately I don't remember its recharge compared to other high-burst damage, short range powers.

Actually, comparing empty clips to other cones, Empty Clips is quite inferior, though not overly significantly. I think I prefer buckshot over Empty Clips were it not for the animation.

As for balance, sure, if you call aesthetics as a part of balance.

Yes, well, an E6700 will go full load no matter what the speed is unless it's like 4 or more GHz. I had an E8400 OCed to 3.8GHz and went full load all the time in CoH. With the i7 950 at 3.6GHz, barely 20%.

As for GPU, depends what settings, with either the E8400 or i7 950. If it's near max, with all the shadows and Ambient Occlusion, it would go to 90-95% GPU Load. If those were lowered or off, it would drop significantly.

Since you are running at near full graphics anyways, I wouldn't know. Note that I was using a GTX 275 for this, and not an ATI card. Last time I used an ATI card was an X1900XTX and back then ATI ran horrid on CoH. I am only noting my experience as reference and just to give you an idea.

You are also likely CPU bottlenecked, which is no surprise. CoH is more of a CPU dependent game, especially pre-ultra mode. Now with Ultra mode it's utilizing more of the GPU. Back before Ultra Mode, my GPU would barely reach 40% GPU Load with an E8400 @ 3.6 or 3.8 GHz.

I'll have to agree with this as I often frequent that site, though I don't necessarily make my presence known as I have yet to post in that forum yet have been visiting since 2003. The only Alienware name that is possibly not laughed off are Alienware laptops, though I seriously do not recommend them. It's a much harder feat in trying DIY laptops.

As for Pugetsystems, good, but overpriced. They do the same thing as cyberpowerpc and ibuypower, but may have better customer support than the other two.

Now that I'm browsing through Pugetsystems, their prices... are atrociously overpriced. I mean... $90 bucks on that Asetek Liquid cooling system when it costs around $70 on a Corsair H50 which is actually the exact same thing except it's not called Asetek? Add 431 dollars for a 6970 over a GT210 when a Radeon 6970 costs 370 dollars on newegg? At least the hard drive prices were reasonable. Almost. The Tuniq TX-4 thermal paste costs like 6 bucks for a whole tube, which can basically be used for like 3-5 uses, but they are charging you for single use. That Asus 25.5 Monitor they list? It's less than 300 bucks on newegg while it's 400 on pugetsystems. You might as well buy the monitor separately. Well, I also recommend that when choosing your system if buying from ibuypower or cyberpowerpc. But yes, at least ibuypower and cyberpowerpc have more reasonable prices with a more modest "assembly charge" added on to the parts, but of course sacrificing the customer service part.

Honestly, the prices almost gave me an aneurysm. Though I think FalconNW is the worst offender for that. Sigh, and this is why people keep saying that gaming on a PC is expensive... when it's not that expensive or shouldn't be that expensive.