ManleyTeitz

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Vista Issues

==Read Above @ Yin_COH comment.==

To specify,

I purchased a brand new Dell Dimension E521. It came with Windows Vista 32 Bit Home edition and came with a AMD 64X2 Duel Core Processor 4000, and a NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Video card.

I installed CoH today, and everything was good until I got to the Create a Costume section. First, there was no cursor so my buddy gave me the solution to that. Okay, so I get to the Create a Costume section and the screen goes black and white. The Character 3D model is behind my color grid, and it appears that there is two screens. For example. It will have the screen, the text create a character, then a towards the right end of my monitor it will have Create a Costum....because it appears to be on two screens.

I wanted to know if anyone has the solution to this problem.

Thanks.

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Obviously, the primary problem doesn't come from the integrated graphics card. That's a separate issue. It's your "AMD 64X2 Duel Core Processor 4000" that's the problem. Never buy a system with duelling processors. They spend all their time bickering.

Justice_Man, after my decent desktop crashed, I played CoH and CoV for almost two years on a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop. The original ATI drivers were so bad that I could often see through walls (okay, that was sometimes a useful exploit!) I was generally getting single-digit framerates, but sometimes the framerate was in seconds per frame. The situation improved a bit after I upgraded from 512 MB to 1 GB, but soon became utterly unplayable, probably due to the growth of the CoX client. Zoning became a forever wait, and often crashed by laptop. I had to stop playing, and began building the replacement system you see listed on my sig.

The fact is, there are systems that will never work well for CoX. I wish you well, but suggest you build a system (for about $800 on up to $3,000) based upon an Nvidia 8600 or better card and an Intel or AMD dual processor. It will save you endless online aggravation.

BTW, I no longer have any problems with CoX running in Vista, thanks to Nvidia and Cryptic.

I may have missed where this might have been mentioned here or on another thread, but the 158.43 NVIDIA beta Vista 32 driver seems to have cleared up at least my lingering cursor woes. I can now run CoX in fullscreen mode! (I finally got SLI support in a recent previous release.) And every incremental change in the drivers seems to improve my CoX experience. I still need "-compatiblecursors 1," though. No biggie. Hoorah for NVIDIA, finally!

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ATi Radeon Xpress 1100

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This is going to be hard. Make sure you have all the latest drivers from ATI and start the game in safe mode from the updater. If that works, raise settings from there.

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This is pretty good general advice for most graphic problems in CoX.

That's correct, the black fuzzies appear to be a 8800 problem, both GTX and GTS, all OS's.

The missing cursor for me was a problem also when I had to run CoV with just one GPU. It's been consistent for me through all drivers, as well.

Anybody know what kind of hit performance takes by running a game in windows mode? I read somewhere that it does take a beating (in frame rate?), but I can't find the reference. And my widowed performance seems pretty good.

Do be aware that you can't run CoX with 8800's in SLI unless you use the 101.70 beta from Guru3D. Otherwise, you'll crash during login. And all 8800's with all drivers have the "black fuzzies" texture corruption in Arachnos bases and bank heist missions.

Plus, you may or may not be able to fix the invisible cursor problem using "compatiblecursors." I still have to play in windowed mode to avoid that.

But I'm now gettiing smooth-as-silk SLI framerates with all settings maxed out, and the black fuzzies are a minor annoyance, little affecting gameplay. Nvidia sez the fuzzies are an application problem.