Necrotron

MediaCoder? That uses Opencandy, a form of adware, to support itself.

EDIT: Did some more digging. While Opencandy left nasty bits behind, they claim they've cleaned up those files now. It will only actually do it's checking during the MediaCoder install. That said, I'm very wary of anything peeking at my registry.

Whuuuuuuuurgh... sorry, Intel graphics make me hurl. Ah well.

Install it to C:\City of Heroes, not Program Files. When the updater asks you where to install the game, select the C:\ drive, not the City of Heroes folder. What it's really asking you is "where do you want me to put the folder CoH is in".

You shouldn't have to download a whole lot. It may take time verifying but you should have the bulk of the files there. This is also a much, much faster way of re-installing CoH should you get another PC, or transferring it to another PC; just copy the directory, run the updater, and it's in.

Uhh... 4.20041208.10? That isn't right. That, uh... what?

That means it was last updated 20041208, 2004 12 08, or the 8th of December 2004. What the heck? Can I get some help here, because I have no idea how you managed to play that.

I have one thing you can try. Go into your City of Heroes folder, delete the City of Heroes folder inside that. Then, copy the City of Heroes folder to C:\City of Heroes. Delete C:\Program Files\City of Heroes. Go to C:\City of Heroes, run the updater, and select the C:\ drive to install to. Let it reverify and download stuff.

I'm just telling you to start afresh because something is badly broked.

Hi. I'm Necrotron, and I approve this message.

That kind of finger jabbing is not on. Flameshot is absolutely right. You cannot make blanket statements when you are alone in your problems. I have ran Windows Vista 64-bit from release date, through Service Pack 1, through the painful puberty and adolescence of the drivers, onto Windows 7 x64 Beta, and now the Windows 7 x64 Release Candidate. My computer is a highly overclocked machine which is as stable as a house of cards in a tornado. By rights, nothing should work, but for me, every single OS has been absolutely rock-solid. Any problem that I have found has been my own damned fault. I have seen my mistakes, fixed them, and moved on; I have not come to a forum to whine about how Microsoft do unmentionables with goats.

At this point you might think that I'm insulting Cuppa. Far from it, he seems perfectly reasonable to me. No, I'm talking about other, less intelligent forums, and the people who use them. Some people exist only to whine, I swear of it. On the other hand, Cuppa seems like someone who has a problem and is merely getting frustrated. I do that too, more often than I'd like.

Now, CuppaManga. You seem to be having some problems with CoH. I would suggest that you investigate your nVidia drivers. Perhaps you should install the 185.85 set. Uninstall your existing drivers first in the device manager, then use these, assuming you're on 64-bit. That should solve your crashes and low framerates. As for your issues with patching, I can only suggest that you start from scratch rather than keeping an installation leftover from Vista. Make a backup of your CoH files, delete the originals, install Win 7, copy them over to C:\City of Heroes, then run the updater as you would normally do. If this doesn't fix your problem, give me details about your motherboard and I'll investigate further.

That's the US City of Heroes. There should be a drop-down box at the top of TweakCoH; change it to 'eucoh' and tell me what it says.

No, that's the folder TweakCoH gets installed to. You need to install it, then run it. You'll get a screen with the installation folder, launcher web page, Eula web page, Patch info web page, the current version, and all other gubbins.

You're absolutely right, that's the default path. Yet it isn't working. Which just ain't right.

rabbitz, I want you to try something for me. Open up Windows Explorer, navigate to where CoH is installed (C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes), and tell me what's in there. See if it really is installed there.

All true, but the man is running Windows 7 64-bit. He could throw in 128GB if he had a big enough motherboard.

Two 2GB sticks, DDR2-800. RAM is best in matched pairs. You can upgrade to 8GB later if your motherboard can take it.

You'd be surprised how much punishment a modern graphics card can take. The silicon is rated to a hundred-odd celcius. That said, cooling it will increase the lifespan. Look at a coolermaster 530, that's good value.

You just voiced exactly what we Easterners have been clamouring for. Any conflict of global names would totally be worth getting our greasy mitts on your massive playerbase and dedicated roleplay server.

I'd be surprised if we get that feature verbatim. But personally, there's no doubt in my mind that whatever gets added on will allow you to earn experience and beef up your character, while being on the same playing field as a level 50 all the way through. It gives old toons something to work for (other than IOs) while preventing the problems seen in World of Cocaine's many expansions.

Manually using codes still works, but you can go into the options, scroll to the bottom, and change the interface from Basic to Enhanced. That will open up all the commands for bold/italics, fonts, sizes, colours, alignments, indents, undo/redo, URLs, pictures, quotes, and emoticons.

You can even select a piece of text and apply new formatting to it with these controls. It's much sleeker than the UBB boards.


Other points I like:

• You can specify the name of someone you're quoting, and the post you quoted. This lets people click "View Original Post" and jump back to whatever was quoted.
• It doesn't make the form you submitted invalid.
• An arrow is shown on the icons of threads you have posted in.
• You can see a history of posts while writing an advanced reply; just scroll down a bit.
• Multi-quotes. Aw jeah.
• The forums resize themselves to fit your browser.
• Hovering over a thread gives you a preview of the text.

I've been using another forum based on vBulletin, and the CoH UBB boards have always been antiquated in comparison, even when the game originally launched.

My one bugbear is that the emoticons are GIFs which have been given a white transparency matte, meaning a horrible jagged outline is seen on every non-white background. Our Glorious Forum Moderators can either use PNG emoticons that use a proper alpha channel, or GIF emoticons with the right matte. The latter solution would need two sets of emoticons for the hero and villain themes, which is most likely more trouble than is worth.

I find that to depend on the mobile device you're using. If it's a regular phone that boasts internet browsing capability, like a Symbian phone, then I can indeed see things breaking quite significantly.

Things are much brighter on the smartphone front. Android devices seem to cope very well with it. There's also a small quirk that makes discussions easier to read; on the UBB boards, Android would wrap the text in a given post to fit to the width of the screen. This would mean you can't see the names of who actually posted anything without scrolling left and right a lot. On these boards, the body of a post is narrower, so you can see who posted and what they're posting at once.

Also, the page numbers are a little bigger, with more space between them. That's a damn godsend for touchscreen phones.