Mephisto_Kur

Those of you with ATi cards, has anything made it into this patch to address the crashing and horrible FPS with drivers newer than 10.9?

The only solutions that work consistently are to downgrade to the 10.9 drivers, or to turn ALL settings (except AA and AF, they don't seem to matter) to the lowest.

My frustration level with this is hitting my hardpoint.

New update for game? No fix.
New update for drivers? No fix.

Do either of these companies give a damn about users?

There are several threads that deal with low FPS and crash problems with any driver after 10.9. You are in the same boat as I am. I have a 6970, and since no drivers before the 10.11 drivers can even see the card, we just have to live with the issues until it gets fixed.

Recap from the other threads:

delete the checksum file in your CoH directory.
go to your cmd and type ipconfig /flushdns
start game

This works only once in awhile for me with the FPS drop. I have learned to play with all the settings low or off except AA/AF. Another thing I personally noticed was that when I turn off shadows, half the time I get my FPS back.

The lava pit is a nightmare for a bot MM. Breezed through this with no issues on any other toon, support or not. Had to get my wife's brute to taunt him out of the lava with my MM. After 10 minutes of a stalemate thanks to my bots killing themselves in purifying fire...

Also, seriously, why the hell does a ranged henchmen insist on running up to the enemy and swatting him? WHY?

Anyway, I was surprised at how many people were having difficulty defeating him until i ran into this very situational problem.

It is almost like every person with the issue needs a totally different solution.

Also, as a reminder, I went back to the 10.11 drivers. The forums posts I have seen say that the catalyst AI disable option came with the 10.10d hotfix, and seems to be specific to the 6xxx series.

I found the confusion. I have a 6970. The option does not exist for the 6xxx series. My son is running my old 4890. The option does exist for older cards.

Update:

Loaded my 4890 into my son's machine. The 10.12 drivers have Catalyst disable option on his machine.

This is from my machine with the 6970:




This is from my son's machine:

I'm sorry, but no. You'll have to trust me. I've been doing this stuff for 15 years. The new ATi CCC panels do not have a checkbox. The very fact that I know how to edit a profile's XML file should be enough. I have disabled Catalyst AI manually. I still had to turn all of my settings down to nothing on the STF I did last night for it to be playable.

If you need proof of ATi removing the disable checkbox, you'll just have to go to their forums - the first place I checked to see if this was normal. Plenty of threads about the new CCC and Catalyst AI not having the disable option in the GUI.

I'm not trying to be obstinate, but this thread has turned into for me:

"No check box"
"Are you sure?"
"Yep, no check box"
"Are you unfamiliar with checkboxes?"
"There's no check box"
"Maybe you aren't looking at the right checkbox"
"There is no checkbox"
"Can you take a screenie and prove that you are not an idiot?"

I just rolled back to the 10.11 drivers that came on the disk for my card. Looks like the old CCC, but still no option to diable the Catalyst AI.

(uninstall ALL ATi software
reboot in safe mode, driver sweeper
reboot
install)

Both AMD and Intel are switching sockets within the next year. AM3 is being moved aside for whatever socket the Bulldozer based chips run on. Altho there is some debate as to whether there will be AM3 compatible Bulldozers at first.

At this point, looking at future socket releases just isn't the way to deal with it. Buy what you can afford right now. If you start waiting for the next generation, you will wait forever...

The way things have panned out in the CPU area: Intel holds the speed crown, AMD holds the bang for buck crown.

16x9 is a standard resolution for 19/20/21 monitors. 21 and 22 can be 16x9 or 16x10. 22 and higher can be 19x12 or more.

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve with your resolution. In City of Heroes, higher rez just means more room on the screen, not necessarily better graphics. Even tho this is the case, your card is pushing a huge chunk more data to your monitor at 16x9 than at 12x7. A 7300LE is not serving you well.

At this point, you need to let folks know your price range, and what you expect from the system. In all honesty, your machine is dated, and there is a limit to how well just a new card will help you. Maybe someone else here with a better idea what an older machine can do can chime in and give you more hints as to a correct upgrade path.

Can't seem to disable it in the new CCC... Can only set it to performance, quality, high quality...

That is annoying. Anyway, you can still disable it if you create a profile, then edit the xml file for that profile.

I'll try that next time I run something that seems to be hitting me with dropped frames. Deleting the checksum when I am laggy and restarting the game seems to fix things tho.

Rennfield's solution worked for me, altho I didn't reboot or clear my dns cache. I have now played for two days without a single crash. Frame rate drops and lag are still bad at times, but livable.

I am running a 6970 with 10.12 drivers.

Praetoria is grindy. I wouldn't mind the increased difficulty if the missions weren't 5 hours long, the rooms in most of the buildings weren't HUGE and full of enemies. This is boring. The higher difficulty actually *adds* to my issue. I have to slow down and take my time or I die constantly. Slowing down means the long missions are even longer and more boring. I don't understand why half the team is always asking if we can skip groups while the other half is constantly quitting because this is "just taking too long."

Praetoria is significantly more difficult. If I had faced it as my initial CoX experience, I would have left as soon as my free month was up.

As a (just short of) 5 year vet, I find Praetoria horrendously tedious and the increased difficulty is a main reason. I also don't underatand why a level 5 mission had me getting 8 ambushes. The number of ambushes and the frequency (overlapping) is insane and frustrating.

I have a corr, a brute, and a dom in praetoria at this point. I wanted to do all four arcs, but these are the last Praetorians I will make until the zone becomes FUN.

Also, Praetoria is significantly easier on ranged toons. Every single group seems to chain stun, chain KB, or chain hold. It is incredibly aggravating. Also, what the hell is up with 5 burn patches from minions in one group? My melee toon is definitely catching the worst of it. Having so much mez at levels well below when we can expect our anti-mez power is pure evil. There have been points where I have wanted to throttle my wife for making a fricken A/TA Corr and not a damn healer.

Sorry, that turned into a bit of a rant. Just feeling like I wasted my money on this expansion, even tho I know I didn't and side switching, 4 new powersets and all the costumes would have had me spend it anyway . Its just a shame that I won't ever be heading back to Praetoria until the higher level content opens - which from the difficulty, it seems it HAS :P .

Oh, also, thanks for toning down the Syndicate a little. My brute appreciates it.