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As they said GA, double check to see that your desktop resolution is actually what it says it is. Then in order to change your resolution in game DO NOT select 1920 x 1080. Select 1920 x 1080 (desktop). For some reason selecting your desktop resolution without selecting the one that is linked to match your desktop has caused resolution problems in the past and it may be that the bug has cropped up again.

The dxdiag contains a lot of information that has absolutely no bearing on how well the game plays. CoHHelper runs dxdiag and pulls out all the information that could be useful plus it retrieves the in game settings.

Hijackthis shows all running programs so we can see if there is anything that might be conflicting with the game.

This forum is where players with a lot of computer knowledge and experience with the game help other players. Well, those with a lot of knowledge and those who are just know it alls like me, but I at least try. If you want us to attempt to diagnose the problem then post the logs. If you prefer to only deal with company reps then you can go that route. I was just letting you know what the regulars in this forum would want to see.

That does sound weird being that it's exactly the opposite of expected. However I have a possible answer. Some computers when they become overheated will throttle back on the processor to avoid damage to the system. If your system is one of these and it is overheating under the stress of Praetoria then it would not be surprising to see the cpu load and framerate suddenly drop in the high stress zones. And Praetoria should definitely be putting that ancient celeron under some high stress.

Monitor your GPU and CPU temperatures in the different zones.

Well you still haven't posted the results of your /showfps 1 and /netgraph 1. But I'll tell you something else to do anyway. Turn off FSAA completely.

These are the logs we want to see
CoHHelper and Hijackthis

Attention East Coasters. When you feel the need to complain that you get shut out of events such as all the conventions that take place on the West coast remember this. West coast inhabitants with a job are pretty much shut out of all in game special events. Since the Paragon Studios have the same work shift as most of us we never get to see these special events. Not the many invasion events Avatea announces such as past incursions of Malta or whoever it was. Not the devs showing up to spawn hoards of the GMs. And not the events which give away expansion packs and costume codes.

For that matter those of us who don't sit at a desk and have the ability to keep the forums and twitter open in the background also get to miss all the twitter based giveaways. In other words if it's business hours for them it's SOL for us.

Of course this is the first time I've gotten irked at this. Not because of the free party pack. I have no problem paying for that. But because this could have been my one chance to get all the costume codes and that is something which I would happily pay for.

I base my characters sex on either the name I come up with or the origin idea I come up with. Or I randomly click on a body type, click on random costume, and see if anything clicks.

Really depends on the archetype and if I'm on a team or not. I don't mean some factions are easier on teams. I mean that some (I'm looking at you CoT) are harder. But the two worst single entities are Malta sappers and Carnie dark ring msitresses.

Also when you say you closed the game do you mean that you hit the exit button or that you just closed down the window? Any time you exit from the game other than the intended way which is backing all the way out to the starting screen and hitting exit or choosing the quit to desktop option the game will check and fix all files before loading again.

Also there is only one download server for the game so when a new update patch comes out downloading slows to a crawl and it's never all that fast to begin with.

Lastly the US and EU versions of the game are identical. The only real difference is that the two executables are named cohupdater.exe and cityofheroes.exe in the US versions and cohupdater.eu.exe and cityofheroes.eu.exe in the EU version.

Hero? Badger, or perhaps Animal Man. Oh wait, TICK! It depends on my mood.

Villain? Multiple Santa.

After the Cloverfield viral sites I won't bother with the one for Super 8. The one with the pictures was just tremendously underwhelming and the Slusho one made me long for a real Slusho marketing campaign that never materialized.

I'll probably enjoy the movie though. And it hope it features at least one giant lion.

In my opinion there are two slight changes that would make for a big improvement.

First, the pants should be tighter. Right now they look like baggy blue jeans. Second the blue of the costume should be a shade or two darker.

Other than that I'm not hating the look.

Here is the way to lose weight, and it's the only way to lose weight.

You have to actually want to lose weight and you aren't at that point yet. Go back and read your own posts. You will see a lot of
"I can't do that because"
"This is the way I do this and I like doing it this way"
"This isn't an important factor because"

You should be posting. "Since I can't walk I'll start riding a recumbent bike." "Since I can't walk I'll start lifting weights." "I like eating one huge meal a day but that is too many calories so I'm GOING to switch to 3 smaller meals."

As long as you keep making excuses why you aren't changing your behavior then that behavior will not change for anything more than a couple weeks, maybe a month at best. It's just like the alcoholic saying "I don't want to be an alcoholic any more but I'm not willing to give up my cold beer on a hot day. And I tried quitting cold turkey but I got the shakes and I'm not going through that again."

Right now you want to lose weight but you don't WANT to lose weight. Until you WANT it there is no advice that anybody can give you that will help.

But since there will be enablers in here "He's had a rough day so he needs that drink to calm down after work. He will only have that one drink." who will get upset with me for simply confronting you with the truth I'll also tell you the best way to lose weight.

Trust me on this. There is absolutely no better way to lose weight in the entire world than weight training. The simple fact is that the part of your body that burns calories is the muscles. Less muscle mass means less calories burned. More muscle mass means more calories burned. Once upon a time I used to go to the gym every day and go through a one hour workout. I wasn't completely ripped. I didn't have huge muscles. I didn't have a six pack. In other words I wasn't a complete exercise fanatic, I just worked out hard and was well toned with good muscle definition. During this period I was eating over 3000 calories per day and maintaining a weight of right around 170 pounds.

Now when doing weight training the goal isn't to do a huge amount of reps with low weight. That isn't weight training, it's an alternative form of cardio. True weight training means you should at most be able to do 10 reps with the weight you are using and that the next two days those muscles should be sore. It is the tearing down of the muscles that burns up the calories when the body works to rebuild them. And the tearing down of the muscles results in the body rebuilding them bigger than they were.

There are tons of exercises you can do without putting any strain on your lower back so that's not an excuse. And you need to get yourself a partner. You do not make it your goal to not slack off. People find it far too easy to make excuses for themselves. Instead you make it your goal to not let your partner slack off and they have to do the same for you.

As I said though, you can only change your behavior when you are ready to change and to not make excuses. You can and will find a partner if you just try. It's like trying to find a team in game. The people who say they can't do it aren't really trying. They are just standing around in Atlas and occasionally broadcasting "Level 45 healer looking for AE team."

Here is a rude answer to your rude response. You have a piece of crap computer. The graphics solution (solution incidentally is the nomenclature applied to a graphics chip intended to allow a computer to manage all the video basics that an average user will encounter while browsing or watching videos) the solution is an intel graphics chip. Intel designs video chips that are at the lower limits of ability and they are notoriously slow to update their drivers to deal with advances in the industry. What I mean by notoriously slow is that it sometimes takes them years to come out with an adaptation to a change in industry standards.

Now up until recently the intel video chips worked fairly well with City of Heroes. This is because back when the game was first released a developer noticed that the intel chip worked poorly with the opengl structure of the game. This mystery developer (nobody knows who it was because the staffing has changed several times since then) kludged together some patchwork mess that managed to allow the intel chip to interact with the opengl system in a reasonable manner. However this patch also caused the opengl code to function less than optimally.

The less than optimal performance of the graphics generator wasn't really a problem till recently because the game itself wasn't doing any spectacular tricks with graphics. Yes it was higher quality graphics than many other MMOs but it still was limited in its complexity. However with the advent of ultra mode which was designed to take advantage of the abilities of the really high end graphics cards the code had to be rewritten in order to make it work as it should have been working all along. Meanwhile despite 6 years having passed intel still hasn't written any update that will let their drivers work correctly with opengl code.

So I guess you're just out of luck unless you use your degree to get a job that pays more than flipping burgers so that you can buy yourself a real computer with a real video card.

Now to see what is really happening with your network connection when you are in game type /netgraph 1
You will start to see a series of lines creep their way across the bottom of the screen from right to left. They will have varying lengths and be either green, yellow or red. You will also see your ping times and I'm sure you can figure out everything that the graph represents.

I would definitely say monitor the temperatures. It's entirely possible to get a video card that is bad when new. Plus if the card has been overheating all along but not reaching the point of total burnout it would be damaging itself each time and lowering the threshold at which it began to fail.

But post the results of CoHHelper and Hijackthis which will give us a better idea of your system and what is possibly going on.

Do you mean you actually contacted support to ask if they got your bugs or is there perhaps some automated site you can log into.

If the latter then I've never heard of it and I'm not surprised it's buggy in itself.

If the former then I have to admit that I myself would tell you that nope, we didn't get any of your bugs. There are thousands of people turning in bugs every single day. For one person to call or mail and ask if their personal bug reports got through is like calling some random volunteer the week after the Jerry Lewis telethon and asking if they got your donation.

With the new hard drive, new os install, new ram etc... it really might be your mobo. Hopefully it is, because if not then this one is going to be about impossible to track down. The only other alternative I could think of would be a bad power supply that is putting out unstable voltages.