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Screenshots may help us see what shenanigans are occurring.

That bridge board will indeed work. Translating between sATA and IDE is easy.

I appreciate the colour bleeding effect seen in the Ultra setting. It gives the occlusion shadows appropriate colours, such as brown rather than gray to match the surface, while minimising the AO effect for surfaces under direct sunlight. This mirrors real life surprisingly well for a post-process effect, and it's an innovation I have not seen in other AO shaders in other games.

http://www.massively.com/2010/11/15/...ex-task-force/

Don't use High Quality in the Ambient Resolution AO settings. That halves your FPS right there. Use Quality instead. Or, just disable Advanced AO settings and use the Ultra preset.

The OP is using the High Quality preset, so if you want an apples to apples comparison, use that.

The EU test server seems to have been abandoned. The transfer tool doesn't work and the server itself (or the build it runs) has been broken for a day now. Mayhaps they will lump us onto the US test server?

Inherent Stamina? Incarnate slots? Nails hard task forces? 24 man trials? And now you give EU players better servers with an eye to US-EU unification?

...You mean I can have dessert with EVERY meal?!

http://kotaku.com/5685674/theres-a-f...opios/gallery/

I agree.

At this point, Stalkers are well balanced as an archetype, but with the way mobs perceive enemies there are always going to be unfair moments. For example, playing a Mayhem Mission causes Longbow spawns which are aggroed on you to the point of absurdity, where you can fly to the top of the map, wait ten minutes and STILL have them hopping at the rafters to get to you. This nullifies Assassin's Strike entirely, unless you happen to be softcapped for defense, at which point you can chance it.

I interpret 'systematic' as to mean that the problem for Stalkers lies in the game mechanics themselves, mainly the AI, and that altering these systems to accommodate for Stalkers is the manpower-consuming task at hand.

It's reassuring to see that you (plural, the devs, Paragon Studios) have identified the problem with the precision of a laser-guided scalpel.

I've done some number-crunching.

With the Spiritual Core Paragon, I can perma Hasten and Dull Pain without spending a billion on a LotG Recharge. In fact, I don't need any set bonuses to reach that.

Oh yes. Me likey.

Oh, my. Just when I was getting comfortable with Going Rogue.

Read this. This will tell you why you want vertical sync enabled, along with triple buffering. You can find the option to enable triple buffering in your nVidia or ATi control panel.

In brief, vertical sync prevents tearing from occurring, by synchronizing the graphics card with how fast your monitor can actually display images. While there are a few exceptions, I'll bet a tenner that anyone reading this post has their monitor running at 60Hz. Sure, once every hundred times I'll lose, but that's a very tidy profit.

As your monitor runs at 60Hz, it makes no sense to have your GPU working any faster than 60 frames per second. Vertical sync prevents updating the image on the monitor until it is ready. Without vertical sync, you can end up with the monitor displaying parts of multiple images, as your graphics card will try to send over a new image before the previous one has had a chance to be fully shown.

Like in Blue Peter, here's one I made earlier.



There are some latency concerns with this, namely that the image you are seeing is not the most up-to-date that it can be, but triple buffering resolves this. You're best off reading the article I linked if you want to know how that works.

Such complicated replies.

Make a shortcut to cityofheroes.exe, and add '-project CoH' to the end of the target. Like this:

"C:\City of Heroes\cityofheroes.exe" -project CoH

This will launch CoH directly, bypassing the updater and any UAC dialog. However, you will need to run the updater whenever there is a patch.

If you're an EU player, make it -project EUCoH. If you want to login with the Going Rogue screen, add '-uiskin 2' in there.


Personally, I use UAC on the highest Always Notify setting. Software has matured to the point where a UAC dialog only pops up when absolutely necessary. Well, apart from the CoH updater, anyway.

Same here, just now managed to login.

Morphological AA is a post-processing filter; it looks at an image and smooths out edges, without looking at how the image was made.

You know in a SNES or Megadrive (Genesis) emulator you had different ways of upsampling the games, like 2xSAI, Super eagle, all the rest? This is kind of like that. It smooths out jagged edges without knowing what the edge was meant to be in the first place. It's very fast, but will screw up text rendering and possibly degrade the image.

Ohohohoo, that slaps me on the knee.

I am currently able to run CoH at full maximum. All settings on, depth of field off, 8x antialiasing, and 400% (here be dragons) world detail, all smooth in all Praetoria zones. Here are my vital statistics.

CPU: Intel Core i7 920 (core 3.6GHz, uncore 3.2GHz, quickpath at maximum rated speed)
RAM: 2x2GB Corsair DDR3-1600
GPU: Radeon 5850 1GB
Motherboard: ASUS P6X58D-E
Hard drives: One Samsung Spinpoint F3 1GB for the OS, Two 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12s in RAID 0 for games (First physical 6GB of sectors dedicated to a pagefile partition)

Watercooling up the jacksie

I've found that CoH loves it some memory bandwidth. Tweaking my system to deliver 20GB/s rather than 15GB/s yielded a 10FPS performance boost. (Doing so involved increasing the BClk to 200MHz and decreasing the CPU multiplier to maintain the same maximum core speed, allowing stable 1600MTs operation, while overclocking the uncore.) God only knows what it'll do when I chuck a third set of DIMMs in there.

I get between 30FPS to 40FPS, even when I go out of my way to stand in an area that tanks performance.

Curiously, if I have a Flash video opened in the background, my FPS halves. Must be something to do with GPU acceleration. It happens in Just Cause 2 as well.