Master-Blade
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I don't think the e-mail address does any type of account checking at all anyway. It simply provides a destination for the code you are sending. I sent my referral codes to my own e-mail address (the same one I use for my main account), and have been able to get the free time associated with it.
I've done the Refer-a-friend, as well as the Invite-a-friend-back a few times. The account receiving the codes is even under the same master account, and they have the same payment method.
Log into your account at ncsoft.com and click on your CoH account, and then you'll find the appropriate link on the right hand side to "refer a friend". Enter your own e-mail address. Check your e-mail. Then simply "Use a Serial Code" on your ncsoft.com page and add the new game account. Enjoy!
Edit to add:
I just want to point out that the new account might be a Trial and not able to join your supergroup, so you'll still have to upgrade that account to a retail version to get those benefits of a second account, but you'd have to upgrade to get the bonus time on your main account anyway.
If you buy a retail code from a local store, log into your ncsoft.com account and click on your new game account (important that you don't click on your main one) and click "Upgrade Account" and add the retail code.
If you are buying the retail code form the online store, just make sure you apply it to the right game account after purchase. If you didn't put your second account under the same ncsoft account, make sure you are logged into the right one before purchase because it's non-transferrable. -
Quote:Team 1 finished in 55 minutes. SUCCESS!Originally Posted by TKKid
Whelp, I missed the start time by an hour. How'd it go?
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The gift next to the Ouro location in FF (across from the Train) gets that a lot as well. It seems to be the most clicked present in the zone, probably because people zone in, see it, click it "just because" it's right there, and move on.
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Quote:I think the issue is that those "reference designs" and/or other values that NVidia reported to the manufacturers were wrong. That's why the systems were made "incorrectly" to begin with so the manufacturers are not necessarily at fault.Originally Posted by Silver Sanguis
Still, isn't the problem with the manufacturers themselves for making the chips cheaply, or at least with inadequate cooling? NVidia themselves only makes the GPU chips but not the entire video card - They hand out reference designs to second parties and let them make the rest.
NVidia's chips have always run hot, but with proper cooling they won't overheat. I think this is a case of HP/Compaq/etc being cheapskates and skimping on proper cooling designs and materials for their laptops.
If I'm selling fireworks for 4th of July, but don't tell you how powerful they really are or how to use them safely, who is going to get blamed when something gets blown up or catches fire? Me. -
Quote:There are a couple of posts from NVidia users complaining about similar issues the ATI users are having. How new are the drivers you are using? A new version came out just a few days ago and people have reported good things.Originally Posted by seastark
I am using an nvidia 250 gts, I have tried the current and previous drivers... both whql and beta. No change.
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I see there are ATI issues, what about nvidia?
If you run CoH_Helper, it will pull out the relevant data for easy pasting to the forums, as well as give us info about your game settings.Quote:Originally Posted by seastark
I can't seem to post the dxdiag full file, is there a specific area that's relevant? -
Typically, we would suggest uninstalling your current driver, reboot in safe mode, run a program like Driver Sweeper, reboot, and then install your new driver as you normally would.
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Quote:I do have Comcast, but I'm sorry to say that it happened to me again about half an hour ago or so. I got "Server not found" right after making a post, and could not access the boards for about 10 minutes. Now it's working fine on the same system.Originally Posted by Avatea
Are you still encountering this issue? An issue with Comcast customers was discovered and resolved yesterday.
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Quote:You apparently misread what I said. I didn't say my settings were maxed, I said that my fps was maxed (at 60) with all the options turned on.Originally Posted by newchemicals
Not everyone would consider your settings "Maxed"
My only point was that telling somebody "Bloom and Ambient Occlusion should be off" is quite different than simply sticking with "Scale a few things back and your fine." I admitted right in my first sentence that all the options maxed out only gives me about 15fps. You might not think that's playable, and I'll agree with you, but some people might be able to deal with that, which makes your "its not going to run full out Ultra mode" statement also false. -
Quote:If you out-level the arc, you could always run it through Ouro later on instead.Originally Posted by Cainus
His arc is available for lvls 15-18, if I recall correctly... its been a long time since I've been to Faultline early enough to do his or Penelopie's - that's her name, right? The store owner's daughter who Jim introduces as a contact if you're low enough level?
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Quote:Look on the bright side.. it gives me another opportunity to display my "dam tunnel" entrance pictures. lol:Originally Posted by Johnstone
Also, to the OP, just wait til you get the mission to go into the dam tunnels. There's ways to get to the underground on both sides of the dam, so the waypoint shows up as just underground. It's usually easier to find if you go through the dam though. That dam mission has upset its fair share of players.
edit: I shouldn't have spent so much time making a dam joke.
North Entrance:
South Entrance:
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Quote:Faultline (Ally)Originally Posted by Cainus
Wait a second... the Arch-Villain Faultline? Isnt Jim Trebor's super hero name Faultline?During the RWZ mission arc where you join Vanguard, dont you rescue and fight along side him and Fusionette?
Quote:Named Jim Temblor, Faultline is the son of the villain of the same name who leveled Overbrook, and he's decided to restore the good name of his father. -
Quote:That's why I specifically mentioned a Rogue going into the Hero's mission, because it would have the potential to spawn foes built for the Villain.Originally Posted by TheUnnamedOne
In terms of what Hero/Villain "side" a Rogue is on, they are still considered villains.
I had not thought about the idea of the two CoT factions actually being different and requiring special code. I just assumed it was similar to how Void Stalkers and Quantums spawn (always being part of the faction but only allowed to spawn because a certain AT is/was on the team). Maybe that's not even how that works either. Who knows. It was just a silly thought. lol What happens if you add CoT to an AE mission? Are they listed separately?Quote:Originally Posted by TheUnnamedOne
Likely that wouldn't matter for the old Paragon City COT missions since the mission would have had to have been designed to contain both Hero-side COT and Villain-side COT.
On a side note, I don't quite understand your sig: "CyerRadical - 4019 days offline"
Anybody can change the date on their computer to make that number go as high as they want... or is that character legitimately bugged to be offline for 11 years? That'd be a heck of a database error. lol -
Quote:That's good news.Originally Posted by Beef_Cake
I have word that it will be corrected in a future patch. Can't say how or exactly when, but its coming..
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I sc00ped ya this time:
Quote:Ok, ok.. so it wasn't as advertised as your thread, but it did help somebody fix a problem! lolOriginally Posted by Master-Blade
1/18/2011, 09:17 AM
...version 266.58 is out as of this morning...
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Quote:There have actually been several threads about very similar (if not the exact same) issues you are having. Try rolling back to the older 10.9 driver version. Many people with ATI cards (myself included) have reported that rolling back has solved them.Originally Posted by space_grokk
updating drivers has not helped.
On a side note, it seems a couple of NVidia's recent drivers do it too, so it's not necessarily ATI's fault. -
Quote:I didn't read any further than this (yet).Originally Posted by Krebscycle
I got a brand new MacBook Pro last month and i had been having issues running CoH on the Mac side as the program used to "adapt" CoH to OSX has issues with the Wine system and the game kept crashing every 15-20 minutes when in certain areas because the RAM overloads.
Anyway, so i boot camped my laptop and installed windows 7.
I just want to point out that there is a Mac client. There should be no need to use bootcamp to Win7 just to play the game.
Just log into your NCSoft account and click on one of your CoH accounts. In the "Actions" menu, there is an option to "Download Mac Client"
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Maybe I misread what you said and you already did that, but I haven't personally experienced any issues using the Mac client.. but then again, I only use it once in a blue moon on my girlfriend's laptop. lol
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Quote:I'm still getting this today. About an hour or so ago I suddenly got a "Server not found" message every time I tried to load the forums (even in the middle of posting), but any other website worked just fine. That lasted for about 15 minutes and then it worked again just as if nothing was ever wrong.Originally Posted by Master-Blade
I'll view the forums just fine, and then suddenly it's like they don't exist, then several minutes go by and they work just fine again.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Schismatrix
....it should be easy easy enough to hit 120+ Endurance with set bonuses and accolades.
Wasn't the Performance Shifter +end Proc changed to grant 10% of your max end?Quote:Originally Posted by Diggis
No, the Performance shifter grants you 10% end as recovery, not to the Max. I think the only things that increase your Max are acolades.FWIW (to you), I read what you originally said the same way you described it here. The Combat Attributes describes your Endurance cap as "Max Endurance", so you were right to use that terminology. It does grant 10% of your max end (as opposed to 10 points of endurance). You didn't say "adds 10% to your max end". That's certainly different. Diggs just misunderstood, possibly because you mentioned +MaxEnd bonuses right before that. It happens.Quote:Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Reread. i did not say it increased your max endurance, just that it granted endurance equal to 10% of your max endurance when it fired. You recognize the difference, yes? (Admittedly i did not state it quite as explicitly in the post. i thought it would be apparent from the structure of the sentence and the discussion of the proc. An oversight on my part.)
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Quote:This is a very good point too. I tried to be careful in my description by describing my "end/sec" as an average (if it were to hit exactly 20% of the time), just to have a base of comparison in endurance gain (not necessarily "recovery").Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
And the Performance Shifter proc does not grant recovery. That's why it's so great. It grants endurance, just like a blue inspiration. So -Recovery can't affect it. Don't let let the people describing it as end/sec here fool you.
But you are right, they work completely differently and there is really no way to directly compare the results of using both. It's kinda like comparing Regeneration and Healing. Each is good in it's own way, and like you said, the proc can't be debuffed, so that's a nice little bonus. -
As mentioned, the towers do actually buff him, usually beyond the cap. Until they are down, any debuffs you try to throw at him probably aren't going to do much good. The page linked above had detailed information on the towers and what they buff. You can also see their effects yourself by using a power like [Power Analyzer mk III] on LR and looking at the Combat Attributes.
In Summary (from my own notes, in the order I normally defeat them)...
Red: +Damage, +Damage Resistance
Blue: +ToHit, +Recharge
Orange (some people call it yellow): +Defense, +Status Effect Protection
Green: +Regeneration, +Major Periodic Heal
Quote:The only common trick I know for that is to have somebody put a debuff toggle on LR. The point isn't really to debuff him, but it seems to interrupt his Summon power, and you wont have to deal with any of his "pets" until he reaches about 20-25% health (when it's forced).Originally Posted by Yorukira
Also is there any trick to deal with his army of 40 Arachnos bosses that make me hit the recgh debuff cap? -
Quote:Originally Posted by newchemicals
5770 is a good card but its not going to run full out Ultra mode.
Scale a few things back and your fine.
Bloom and Ambient Occlusion should be off. I have a 5770 and it does quite well with ultra mode.Quote:Originally Posted by Master-Blade
I don't know if I really agree with that. I use the same card as well and I keep those two options at minimum anyway. I still get the effects from them and it still runs great for me with everything else on highest.Quote:Originally Posted by Mr_Apocalypse
the 5770 should be able to run ulta mode maxed out.
first things first.
do a good cleaning of the system and remove all the bloatware.
loose any of the HP and norton background apps (the best video card in the world wont help if your CPU/memory pipelines are choked down with useless junk.
load the latest ati driversI agree that the 5770 can run Ultra on full, but as you mentioned, the FPS will be only like 10-15. That's playable for some people. Personally I don't consider it very good at all and would turn down some settings if that was the case... but I still don't disable the Bloom or Occlusion you mentioned. Keeping those options at minimum (and everything else on full) still gives me all the nice effects of Ultra mode and my fps is still up around 50-60 consistently. The OP has a better processor and overall system than mine, so if I can run my 5770 at maxed FPS with all the options turned on, they should be able to as well.Quote:Originally Posted by newchemicals
if your wondering yes, a 5770 can run CoH Ultra mode maxed out. Of course your FPS might not be at a "playable" level.
You'll have to find a happy medium of chrome/speed.
Yes, I own a 5770 video card and I don't consider maxed out settings playable. YMMV
In the end, you are right about "YMMV". Some people might be bottlenecked at the processor and might have to turn down/off some other options to make it "playable", and "playable" is a different opinion for everybody.. but to tell somebody "those options should be off" is just plain wrong. Making a suggestion to turn off certain settings to possibly increase performance is fine, but I'd hate to see somebody who CAN use those options not take advantage of them just because somebody told them they shouldn't be on at all. Let the OP decide if they like those effects or not. -
Quote:I don't know if I really agree with that. I use the same card as well and I keep those two options at minimum anyway. I still get the effects from them and it still runs great for me with everything else on highest.Originally Posted by newchemicals
Bloom and Ambient Occlusion should be off.
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Quote:That was a really bone-headed step for me to skip. That's what I get for posting before work. hahaOriginally Posted by Honbrid
One problem with your numbers Master: you aren't getting 14% of your base recovery boosted, but 14% of the increase to base recovery given by Stamina, which is around .42 end/sec. So that 14% is giving you an additional .06 end/sec. Compared to the .20 for the proc, I'd pick the proc, unreliable as it may be.
I edited the post. Maybe I'll fix the whole thing later when I get home. I don't want to skip another step before I go to work again. lol -
Quote:There is nothing wrong with adding extra detail of course. It was just the way it came across in my mind. I guess it felt like you were trying to correct my error, rather than simply adding to what I had said like Raj added to yours.Originally Posted by AnElfCalledMack
Also, Master, I understand why you gave the simple answer, but where else are we going to answer questions in detail?
It seems we all have our reasons for being brief with information. We could go on an on about the history of Faultline and even cite the Wiki, but the OP is just trying to get there. lol
No worries. I know there wasn't any intention behind it.Quote:Originally Posted by AnElfCalledMack
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