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Novaline

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  1. Novaline
    A meet? In my hometown? Are you mad?

    meh despite it being in my hometown and only 15 minutes away on the train, I won't be there as I'm lazy and don't know anyone
  2. Novaline
    well the laptop came today and it works a lot better then i thought
    running ultra mode in ultra settings
  3. Novaline
    Well i've ordered the 1GB ATI laptop
    and its no longer 5470, it's a 5650 now
  4. Novaline
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Miss Chief View Post
    This is by far the most important question. What are the cards? It's a common tactic by manufacturers to 'big up' older or slower cards by giving them more memory and thus making them look better.
    well Nvidia is a Geforce G210M
    The ATI is a Mobility Radeon HD 5470
    Another option is a brand new Dell with a Mobility Radeon 4330
  5. Novaline
    So i'm planning to buy a new laptop this week but i'm currently undecided between two refurbs.

    One has a 1GB ATI graphics card
    The other has a 512mb NVidia

    I'm just wondering how bad the problem is with CoH and ATI cards as I really want the one with the ATI card as the whole system is a higher spec then the other
  6. Novaline
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kioshi View Post
    I had no crashes, but my shader options are also greyed out since i17.

    What intel chipset do you guys use? I use a 945. You can check it here: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/detect.htm
    i use a mobile 965 chipset with a x3100 core
  7. Novaline
    stopped his crashing, stopped my performance issues

    only downside is that the shader quality option is greyed out
  8. Novaline
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by luminous martini View Post
    ok all i found something that solved my issue a bit of coding that the devs gave me but very case sensitive follow directions to letter.



    1. right click on CoH/Cov shortcut
    2. click on properties
    3. click on shortcut tab at top
    4. go to target window "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe"
    5. after the last " press space bar once
    6. enter following code exactly -useTexEnvCombine
    7. click on apply then ok.
    8. right click on CoH run as admin.


    Solved my crash issues might solve ur GL
    Sweet, sends my FPS back to i16 speeds
  9. Novaline
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by luminous martini View Post
    my recomindation is if u have and intel graphics card go get a new one ATI, Radeon, Nvidia. This has solved most issues with game. GL for those who are working to solve this and TY for those who are trying to help.
    Not everyone has the money to do so

    In my case, I'd have to buy a whole new laptop to go with it as it can't be upgraded
  10. Novaline
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    Again, I hope you updated Windows.

    And you have *a lot* of programs and services running in the background. You might want to try the solution given here below and see how your computer behaves running the game with all those programs/services disabled.

    http://help.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/ncsof...hp?p_faqid=986
    It's not the programs and services running in the background. As I said in previous posts, it was perfectly fine before said patch, and I hadn't changed anything before making this thread. Closing background tasks will barely have little effect as all the unnecessary programs barely make up 4% of total ram usage. Also many of the programs shown in the HijackThis log are idle, use less then 1MB of ram and only use the cpu when I make changes to associated software. Some of them don't even run as I have already disabled through MSconfig and make sure they are not running before attempting to play anything
  11. Novaline
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    Well, something is weird here. Running at 1.3 GB of RAM is normal at the highest Shader settings.
    That's how much it used on the very minimum shader settings


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    But your CohHelper report doesn't have the Shader settings... it doesn't have any of the graphical settings. Is that because CohHelper didn't provide it, or because you edited them out? If you edited them out, please post the full CohHelper report.
    CoHHelper won't provide anything else

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    Furthermore, I run at 1.3 GB of RAM on a 2 GB machine all the time without a fps hit. So, that is not necessarily your problem with fps.
    For me, CoH ran using only 600MB - 800MB of ram before the patch, now it uses 1.3GB. I don't have a great machine but I know very well it can handle something that uses that much normally. But to increase to that amount just from a small patch is something that should be addressed


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    Also, please post a HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format > Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.
    Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4
    Scan saved at 08:41:13, on 05/05/2010
    Platform: Windows Vista SP2 (WinNT 6.00.1906)
    MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6002.18005)
    Boot mode: Normal

    Running processes:
    C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe
    C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
    C:\Windows\system32\igfxsrvc.exe
    C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG9\avgtray.exe
    C:\Program Files\Creative\Volume Panel\VolPanlu.exe
    C:\Windows\System32\igfxtray.exe
    C:\Windows\System32\hkcmd.exe
    C:\Windows\System32\igfxpers.exe
    C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe
    C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applica tion\chrome.exe
    C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applica tion\chrome.exe
    C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applica tion\chrome.exe
    C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applica tion\chrome.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\conime.exe
    C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applica tion\chrome.exe
    C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applica tion\chrome.exe
    C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applica tion\chrome.exe
    C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HiJackThis\HiJackThis.exe

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    O2 - BHO: Winamp Toolbar Loader - {25CEE8EC-5730-41bc-8B58-22DDC8AB8C20} - C:\Program Files\Winamp Toolbar\winamptb.dll
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    O2 - BHO: Spybot-S&D IE Protection - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll
    O2 - BHO: (no name) - {5C255C8A-E604-49b4-9D64-90988571CECB} - (no file)
    O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In SSV Helper - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\ssv.dll
    O2 - BHO: Windows Live Sign-in Helper - {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll
    O2 - BHO: AVG Security Toolbar BHO - {A3BC75A2-1F87-4686-AA43-5347D756017C} - C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG9\Toolbar\IEToolbar.dll
    O2 - BHO: Adobe PDF Conversion Toolbar Helper - {AE7CD045-E861-484f-8273-0445EE161910} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEFavClient.dll
    O2 - BHO: FlashGetBHO - {b070d3e3-fec0-47d9-8e8a-99d4eeb3d3b0} - C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Roaming\FlashGetBHO\FlashGe tBHO3.dll
    O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper - {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jp2ssv.dll
    O2 - BHO: SmartSelect - {F4971EE7-DAA0-4053-9964-665D8EE6A077} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEFavClient.dll
    O3 - Toolbar: AVG Security Toolbar - {CCC7A320-B3CA-4199-B1A6-9F516DD69829} - C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG9\Toolbar\IEToolbar.dll
    O3 - Toolbar: Winamp Toolbar - {EBF2BA02-9094-4c5a-858B-BB198F3D8DE2} - C:\Program Files\Winamp Toolbar\winamptb.dll
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    O3 - Toolbar: Adobe PDF - {47833539-D0C5-4125-9FA8-0819E2EAAC93} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEFavClient.dll
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Windows Defender] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe -hide
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    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Skytel] C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA\Skytel.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG9_TRAY] C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG9\avgtray.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Java\Java Update\jusched.exe"
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTTask.exe" -atboottime
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [UpdReg] C:\Windows\UpdReg.EXE
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [VolPanel] "C:\Program Files\Creative\Volume Panel\VolPanlu.exe" /r
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SynTPEnh] %ProgramFiles%\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AdobeCS4ServiceManager] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\CS4ServiceManager\CS4ServiceManager.ex e" -launchedbylogin
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    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Acrobat Assistant 8.0] "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat\Acrotray.exe"
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [VirtualCloneDrive] "C:\Program Files\Elaborate Bytes\VirtualCloneDrive\VCDDaemon.exe" /s
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IgfxTray] C:\Windows\system32\igfxtray.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HotKeysCmds] C:\Windows\system32\hkcmd.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Persistence] C:\Windows\system32\igfxpers.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Creative SB Monitoring Utility] RunDll32 sbavmon.dll,SBAVMonitor
    O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SpybotSD TeaTimer] C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\TeaTimer.exe
    O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [msnmsgr] "C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe" /background
    O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Google Update] "C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\Google\Update\Google Update.exe" /c
    O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /detectMem (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
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    O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-20\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /detectMem (User 'NETWORK SERVICE')
    O4 - Startup: OpenOffice.org 3.2.lnk = C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\quickstart.exe
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    O8 - Extra context menu item: &Grab video by Orbit - res://C:\Program Files\Orbitdownloader\orbitmxt.dll/204
    O8 - Extra context menu item: &Winamp Search - C:\ProgramData\Winamp Toolbar\ieToolbar\resources\en-US\local\search.html
    O8 - Extra context menu item: Append Link Target to Existing PDF - res://C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEFavClient.dll/AcroIEAppendSelLinks.html
    O8 - Extra context menu item: Append to Existing PDF - res://C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEFavClient.dll/AcroIEAppend.html
    O8 - Extra context menu item: Convert Link Target to Adobe PDF - res://C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEFavClient.dll/AcroIECaptureSelLinks.html
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  12. Novaline
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    1. Update Vista Windows.

    2. Go to your computer's or motherboard manufacturer's web site and see if there is a driver update for your motherboard/CPU chipset.

    3. Please post the results of HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format > Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.
    I've already isolated the problem, its the patch

    Since today's patch, CoH has increased in RAM usage going from 600-800MB to 1.3GB of RAM even with the graphic settings at the bare minimum.

    And it switches its CPU priority to Below Normal which clearly is a bad thing.
  13. Novaline
    i'm considering cancelling my subscription too as CoH, in it's current state, is unplayable for me
  14. Novaline
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Flameshot View Post
    I believe that you may have reinstalled them and they are the latest drivers, but sadly your machine isn't reporting them correctly. Something with your drivers is working incorrectly.



    As you can see from the bolded yellow above, your drivers are reporting an incorrect date. This generally indicates an issue with your drivers. Not always, but 9 times out of 10.
    No, my machine is reporting them fine, CoHHelper just wasn't able to get the full info

    the most recent drivers were released in march 09, and they are dated 26/02/2009
  15. Novaline
    They are the most recent drivers, I even reinstalled them to make sure
  16. Novaline
    Before the patch, CoH ran fine despite using low-medium settings on this system

    ---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

    DxDiag gathered at May 4, 2010 18:28 (+01:00)
    Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_ldr.100218-0019)
    System Manufacturer: Acer
    System Model: Extensa 5620
    BIOS: Ver 1.00PARTTBL
    Central Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2330 @ 1.60GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.6GHz
    Memory: 2038MB
    .Net Memory Report: 1332MB out of 2037MB available
    Page File: 3421MB (895MB currently in use)
    C Drive: (Hitachi HTS542580K9SA00 ATA Device) 28385MB out of 76308MB (37%) free
    D Drive: (Slimtype DVD A DS8A1P ATA Device) zero-size drive
    H Drive: (ELBY CLONEDRIVE SCSI CdRom Device) zero-size drive
    Windows directory location: C:\Windows
    DirectX: DirectX 10
    DirectX Diag version: 6.00.6001.18000 (32-bit version)

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

    Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
    Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
    Video Device Name: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
    Manufacturer / Chip: Intel Corporation / Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
    Video Memory: 358 MB
    Driver Version: 7.15.0010.1666
    Driver Date: 01/01/0001 00:00:00
    Driver Language: English

    Sound Device Description: Speaker (SB X-Fi Go!)
    Driver File: ksaud.sys
    Driver Version: 6.00.0001.0247
    Driver Date: 06/04/2009 09:49:02


    WMI Information
    Motherboard Manufacturer: Acer
    Motherboard Model: (empty)
    Motherboard Product: Columbia
    Motherboard Version: Rev
    BIOS Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies LTD
    BIOS Name: Ver 1.00PARTTBL
    BIOS Version: ACRSYS - 6040000
    BIOS Release: 20080415000000.000000+000



    Now after the patch, the game runs at a unplayable FPS even with the absolute minimum graphical settings
  17. Novaline
    seems to be some sort of memory leak or something because my FPS has dramatically decreased to a unplayable rate since today's patch.