Leadtooth

Hi again friends. This is a sort of late-to-the-game issue in regards to the distressing news, but if there's anyone who can support here, that would be splendid. I invited a friend to the game over a week before the announcement, and I found out that the installation for him stalls completely at Stage 2, reading "0% Stage 2". "It's either that it hasn't loaded it or that it's moving on from it", which doesn't sound feasible. The latter, at least.
He was just getting into the game and I want him to be able to play it for what time he can, at the most he can do.

Here are his details.


---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

DxDiag gathered at September 5, 2012 22:26 (-04:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120503-2030)
System Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
System Model: Satellite P775
BIOS: BIOS Date: 12/14/11 21:52:47 Ver: AMI APTIO 1.80
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
Memory: 6144MB
.Net Memory Report: 3628MB out of 6051MB available
Page File: 7566MB (4535MB currently in use)
C Drive: (Hitachi HTS547575A9E384) 576635MB out of 698393MB (82%) free
D Drive: (TSSTcorp CDDVDW SN-208AB) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7601.17514 (64-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
Manufacturer / Chip: Intel Corporation / Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
Video Memory: 1696 MB
Driver Version: 8.15.10.2430
Driver Date: 6/27/2011 1:55:46 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6323
Driver Date: 3/9/2011 12:44:54 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: PHRAA
Motherboard Version: 1.00
BIOS Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
BIOS Name: BIOS Date: 12/14/11 21:52:47 Ver: AMI APTIO 1.80
BIOS Version: TOSCPL - 1072009
BIOS Release: 20111214000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1600x825
3D Resolution: 1600x825 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: No
Maximized: Yes
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes


Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No


Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Medium quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: No
Shader Detail: Medium?


World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Stencil shadows
Shadow Map Shader: Unknown (0)
Environmental Reflections: Disabled
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Off
Blur: Bilateral
Ambient Resolution: Performance


Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.600
Music Sound Volume: 0.600

Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: ?
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\NCsoft\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

'eyyy! It took a little tampering with those particular settings, but it seems that fixed the problem!
Weird, I hadn't even messed with those prior.
Better yet it appeared to have helped in fixing my other problem as well!
Oh my god thank you so much!

It doesn't seem to seize, the issues I have... Very recently I discovered that whenever I attempt to enter either another zone map, from the map I logged in at, or another mission map, the game permanently freezes in the loading process, and I don't know what to make of that since it was working perfectly fine earlier, before I made some important updates. Can anyone please lend a suggestion? Here are the specs and HijackThis...

Here's the Hijack as well. Sorry about that.

Hi there. As of Thursday on my laptop I started experiencing game crashes in the Mission Architect's custom character creator; by just hitting "Register" or "Next" after the Costume portion, it freezes and I receive the 'beloved' error window. At one point, the crash was attributed to dbghelp.dll.
This applies to custom characters and edited regular characters.
I've looked around to various similar problems under different circumstances and it seems to be attributed to drivers or memory, but I wish to get a specific opinion before I make a move in repairing it.

Here are the specifics for you.

I'm pretty relatively new to the CoX universe, and the forums, but part of what draws me into the game is the in-game writing and lore; I'm particularly fascinated by Praetoria as a whole, and what has happened there. There's a well-executed complexity that has served as the basis for my main eponymous Praetorian.
So I need to inquire.
Is there an established timeline here? There are certain things about the course of events that don't quite add up to me. At first I figured that the Hamidon Wars began and ended around the mid 20th century, due to an early use of nuclear weaponry being a driving factor, the assassination of President MacArthur, and so forth. Then Cole spent a couple of decades on his whole contingency plan, allegedly cleaning things up, bringing things up to mirrored present time.

I left it at that, until I investigated the history in First Ward - The Football Park plaque.

Well played, God.

I gave it a try! I thought it would kinda neat to try the what-if Talon corruption on my atypical Roman, Lucia Volusa/Mind of Minerva; a Broadsword/Shield Brute.




Under the corruption of the Talons...



Lucia takes up a hood, of course. As wings sprout from her back, she drops her breastplate and scaled skin shows from behind her tights. More importantly, she casts aside her shield for a second gladius sword, as a Dual Blades/Invulnerability Brute. Any remaining armor holds for some distinction and perhaps some vague sentimental value.



Rather than emulating the soul patch tattoo using Technis, I thought it would be more interesting to bend the rules a bit and use Roman as her facial markings, reflecting the nature of her being.

Hellu. I thought I'd drop off one of my characters and see if anyone wanted to have a jab at her. No worries if not. It's my Praetorian and namesake, Captain "Leadtooth" Lowell.



Mutation Blaster with Dual Pistols/Electricity Manipulation. In my headcanon pirates are a real thing outside of Praetoria City's walls, on the seas and in the air (like Resistance, Sky Raiders and 'classic' pirates), and Leadtooth is one such as captain of the Crimson Corsairs. She's quite a calm with a steady hand, and is well-read in Praetorian lore - she personally sees to uncovering the lies blinding the people.
Oh and she's a werewolf. Guess that counts for something.

Also! I do art sometimes as well. I don't think I'm all that great but I could do requests sometime as well, just some pencil sketches.

Ahh this costume set, my body isn't ready... On the broad side I definitely vote C.