Loc_Motive

Haven't seen Qinch for a while, always enjoyed his pugs.

Haven't seen FIBBER for even longer.

I just spent 1440 points on the 24 superpack. So far I've gotten 1 notification in email, unlocked it with the warning that it was good for that character only. Got 5 cards & unlocked the elemental chest & sleeves for all the characters on my account & 3 other mundane crap for the unlocking character.

Checked on my other characters and no access to any more superpacks.

Ok, either I'm not understanding this & thought I should be getting 23 more chances (having bought the 24 superpack) or that 1440 points only bought 1 chance at 5 random cards & can you say RIP OFF???

Update,

The latest ATI driver I downloaded & installed is working super and I believe cured the memory problem I was experiencing. CoX is now smooth as silk at mostly the highest graphics levels and hasn't crashed in over four hours of playing and at times in crowded areas.

My mistake in not periodically keeping my drivers up to date was not getting the current versions from ATI but relying on Windows/Control Panel/System/Device Manager to automatically search for and update the display adapter driver.

Thanks for all your help.

Thanks for all your help.

I downloaded & installed the latest drivers for my video card from ATI. Going to find out now if that cures my memory problem with CoX.

Ok, here's the info requested using the CoHhelper tool, thanks.

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

DxDiag gathered at January 10, 2012 16:48 (-07:00)
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.110617-0336)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Studio XPS 435MT
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 6134MB
.Net Memory Report: 4552MB out of 6134MB available
Page File: 10304MB (2075MB currently in use)
C Drive: (ST3750630AS ATA Device) 524958MB out of 699971MB (74%) free
D Drive: (ST3750630AS ATA Device) 8641MB out of 15359MB (56%) free
E Drive: (HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GH30N ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 7.00.6002.18107 (64-bit version)

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

No problems found.

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI display adapter (0x9442)
Video Memory: 3314 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.0010.1077
Driver Date: 4/20/2011 1:07:48 AM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5697
Driver Date: 10/6/2008 5:07:44 AM

Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5697
Driver Date: 10/6/2008 5:07:44 AM

Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output(Optical) (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5697
Driver Date: 10/6/2008 5:07:44 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: 0R849J
Motherboard Version: A00
BIOS Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
BIOS Name: Default System BIOS
BIOS Version: DELL - 20081021
BIOS Release: 20081021000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1360x768
3D Resolution: 1360x768 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes


Physics Quality: None
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No


Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: None
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: Unknown (5)


World Texture Level: Low
Character Texture Level: High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 0.800
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
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: 0.490
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: 0.751
Music Sound Volume: 0.502

Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.250
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 1398759 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1950.201102230015.1
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

Thanks Archiviste, I'll do that.

Game just crashed on me again. Here's the message i got,

./piggs/texWorldCZ.pigg: Failed memory allocation (zip'd size 1115752, unzip'd size 1398492)
Read failed for file: texture_library/WORLD/city_zones/Rikti_crash/Crash_Gouge/Tank_DirtDecal.texture
-1

The game ran out of memory and must now exit.

The game crashed on me & I received a message to the effect, "City of Heroes will now close, due to lack of memory."

I'm running a quad core 2.6mhz system, 6gigs ram, 3+gigs video ram with 680+ gigs of free space on my hard drive with Vista. I'm also using DirectX 11.

Over the past couple of months I've been noticing a drop in performance the longer I stay in after logging into CoX. When I first log in the game runs very smoothly but as time passes in each game session the frame refresh rate degrades rapidly & is very choppy, especially in outdoor zones with lots of players. I can temporarily cure this by logging out & restarting the game but it's a pain to have to do this every couple of hours.

This game used to provide automatic mouseover info on vendor sold enhancements, now it doesn't work for me. It's irritating to have to constantly right click for info while buying those especially with all the obscure names for dual origin & single origin types.

Bear in mind the mouseover info does work for me with the enhancements in my inventory & in my enhancement management window. The mouseover info does appear on any recipes I have for sale in the vendor window while none appears when hovering over vendor enhancements listed.

I repeat...It's irritating to have to constantly right click for info while buying those especially with all the obscure names for dual origin & single origin types.

And before any of helpful players sound off about enabling tooltips I've been down that road with a GM, my tooltips were already enabled thank you very much.

GM reply "There is no built in functionality for viewing an items stats at the vendor. You have to use the Info method. There is no settings in Options to change this."

Besides, this is directed at game devs, not you helpful players.

I repeat...It's irritating to have to constantly right click for info while buying those especially with all the obscure names for dual origin & single origin types.

From 9-22-11 patch notes,

"Character Transfer
Characters with an apostrophe in their name will not be able to transfer to another shard."

Why?

Why the restriction on names containing an apostrophe?

Is this a bug or an official policy?

So if I want to transfer a toon with an apostrophe in the name I have to pay for a rename token first?

If it's a bug please get it fixed ASAP because I'm intending to transfer a couple of toons with names that do contain apostrophes.

If it's an official policy I think it's total Bull Crap and another way to milk money from the player base.

From 9-22-11 patch notes,

"Character Transfer
Characters with an apostrophe in their name will not be able to transfer to another shard."

Why?

Why the restriction on names containing an apostrophe?

Is this a bug or an official policy?

So if I want to transfer a toon with an apostrophe in the name I have to pay for a rename token first?

If it's a bug please get it fixed ASAP because I'm intending to transfer a couple of toons with names that contain apostrophes.

If it's an official policy I think it's total Bull Crap and another way to milk money from the player base.