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Nothing is broke it's just the latency going wild (Usual internet instability at a certain time), it returns to normal after about 1 hours worth of waiting.

Framerate is around 15-30 for any game for practically the whole day for me.

A CPU with atleast 3ghz would keep you more or less up to date.

Double post is necessary, I think trial and error just solved the issue.. I got further then 5 minutes into city of heroes, I disabled the audio device I was using.

I managed about 15-20 minutes, then I quit to desktop due to latency issues.

Entire PC, no activity, no ctrl+alt+delete.

When I first got this problem I thought it was also a sound card issue and I still think it is.

This kind of issue never came up when I had no sound card driver.

EDIT: I'm going to do some trial and error with the sound card, i'll post results when i'm done.

I used to get this problem at random times in any part of either game but now it's different, it seems to freeze and give me the noise every 5 minutes into the city of heroes, it doesn't happen in character creation or in city of villains as far as i've used them which is hours sometimes, it only seems to happen with city of heroes.

Help will be appreciated.

Also i'm not going to play just city of villains, that will get very boring very quickly.

Actually it works quite well on this computer.. The ports don't make a difference but I managed to find a way around the problem.

I downloaded City off fileplanet and started it up after a short wait it began to download what was missing.

It seems to work now.

Edit: I have avoided the patcher's annoying problems but I still get the freezing problem.. I can live with that considering i've lived with it for the past year or two.

The firewall I use does nothing either way, plus it adds basically everything I use to the exceptions list.

Any idea why the launcher just sits at "Checking Updater"?

Hijack

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Scan saved at 20:23:57, on 14/12/2009
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DxDiag

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.8---

DxDiag gathered at December 14, 2009 20:28 (+00:00)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.090804-1412)
System Manufacturer: AWARD_
System Model: AWRDACPI
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3100+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.8GHz
Memory: 1022MB
.Net Memory Report: 441MB out of 1022MB available
Page File: 1799MB (659MB currently in use)
C Drive: (ExcelStor Technology J880) 41314MB out of 78520MB (52%) free
D Drive: (ATAPI COMBO52XMAX) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DirectX Diag version: 5.03.2600.2180 (32-bit version)

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

Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Video Device Name: ATI Radeon 9600 / X1050 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI Radeon Graphics Processor AGP (0x4152)
Video Memory: 256.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6925
Driver Date: 01/01/0001 00:00:00
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: C-Media Wave Device
Driver File: cmaudio.sys
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0639
Driver Date: 12/12/2008 20:54:41


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: WinFast
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: 760GXK8MC
Motherboard Version:
BIOS Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Name: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: AWARD - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20051008000000.000000+000

I download the game, install it, go to play, play for a random about of time, computer freeze, manual restart, attempt to play the game again, updater attempts to download everything despite it all having been downloaded already.

Assistance would be appreciated.

Note: The computer freeze only happens with very specific games, everything else is fine.

Edit: I've located the client on Fileplanet (European) as it should be after the patch, i'm hoping that this will provide a way to counter the problems i'm getting.