Neopraxis

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I wonder - is City of Heroes trying to play at a different resolution than your desktop? I get the feeling that it isn't the video card drivers, it's the monitor drivers. It sounds like the timings for sending your monitor information are totally off whack.

Let's see.... ah yes, Circ's TweakCoH should be able to fix your resolution up for you. Set it to be the same as your desktop resolution. Same refresh rate, too.

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This fixed it. I had my monitor set to 1680x1050. Backing down to 1440x990 worked. I thought I had tried that, but ...

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP!

*heads into game*

That's what I'm saying ... I don't have the taskbar up there ... when the game starts ... the "Loading..." is in the right place on the screen, but, whatever is causing this is displacing the screen "upwards" (no, I don't and have never had another monitor on this system) ...

I did discover this as well ... when I reboot in Safe Mode, the same screen displacement occurs (everything "up" so that only the bottom edge of the "projected screen" is visible on the "display screen").

Why did I ever install VISTA ... geez.

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Did you have any issues at all with getting the drivers installed? I've seen problems trying to upgrade to beta video drivers from the default-installed Microsoft WDM video drivers. Typically you might get an error during installation, or the installation goes much more quickly than you would expect, or you didn't get the "are you sure you want to install these non-Microsoft drivers" warning, etc.; not necessarily something obtuse, but perhaps just, well, odd.

I would try this: uninstall the nVidia drivers, reboot into safe mode and run driver cleaner, go back into Vista without letting it install the default WDM drivers, and reinstall the nVidia betas. That's what I had to do to get my spare machine running right after an upgrade installation.

BTW, I didn't have this problem with a fresh install, just an upgrade.

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Okay, accomplished all this, old driver deleted, driver cleaner run, new driver installed, same problem.

It's like the game is running "above" the sceren ... so that I can only see the task bar at the top of the screen.

Any further ideas will be greatly appreciated... I miss COV!

Yes, sorry for asking for omniscience from you all:

I'm running a Gateway AMD Athelon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600 2.4 GHz
2046 MB Ram

Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

Nvidia GeForce 7600GT 256 MB

Driver is 101.41

I've read the entire thread, and if I've missed the answer to this, I do beg your pardon, but I've looked here, on the internet, and I'm just coming up blank. If you can help, I'd appreciate it.

I upgraded from Windows XP, to Vista Home Premium. I've updated my NVidia drivers to the latest available.

This is what happens:

I load COV, and the screen goes black, except, at the very top of the screen, I see the Windows Taskbar, and I see that City of Villians is running, I can hear the theme music, but ...

The machine at that point is basically locked up.

Any thoughts or suggestions for a solution are welcome.

Thanks.