PerfectStorm

Logging in to your computer with a restricted user account is fine, however, there is absolutely no need from a security standpoint to run the game as that restricted user ... that is, you can be on the restricted user account but still run the game as an administrator - the only thing that will have administrator privileges is the game's processes. I'm not sure exactly what you believe you're protecting yourself against by not running the game as an administrator.

By virtue of the fact that you are running the game in a manner in which it was not intended to run, there really is no bug. Your ideas on how to make it work the way you want it to are, therefore, much more appropriate to the suggestions forum.

Storm

Congrats - and thanks for the follow up!

Storm

Yep, I'm going to ... I want to see how the new nvidia offerings are received and how they test out - even though I will be unlikely to buy one of the new ones, what nvidia does may influence me either toward or away from ati at this point.

Oh, I do - I'm very grateful that they both posted here in my thread - I have learned a thing or two from both of them and more than a couple of others that regularly post helpful information in the tech forum. I work in IT, but my area of specialization is web coding ... although I have built my last three computers myself and have at least a couple of clues

Thanks again, everybody! I will just have to wait and see how everything shakes out - Ultra Mode, the new nvidia cards ... all of it. Maybe I'll have more money by then!

Storm

Yeah ... that's kinda what I was thinking. I don't believe any bridges have been burned.

I'm thinking that you and the others who have advocated patience are right... I guess I'm just getting antsy.

Thanks.

Storm

Well, I was kinda inviting speculation ... I've seen some posts indicating that the 9800's would do UM, but I thought I remembered the initial post from Posi indicating that they would do the bare minimum, which, to me, isn't REALLY "doing" UM... but maybe I'm just being picky.

Storm

If you're running any version of Windows, depending on the amount of RAM you have installed: Windows uses hard drive space to supplement RAM (pagefile - basically virtual memory). The less RAM you have, the more likely it is that your system will need to use the hard drive to store files that would normally be loaded to RAM. While using the pagefle is not as fast as using RAM, and will therefore slow down memory hungry applications, it gets even more complicated if you don't have enough space available so that your pagefile can dynamically expand as needed. The less space you have available for the pagefile, the slower your applications will run, as there will be a lot of reading from and writing to the hard drive.

If you run Windows on a 64 bit system with 8-16GB of RAM, this might not be an issue for you ... but if you are running Windows with 1-2 GB of RAM or less, you might find that you see performance improvement when running memory intensive applications if you have more HDD space available for pagefile expansion.

Storm

I've tried this in the past, but it doesn't seem to work. Who knows? Maybe it's different now. Problem is, without a sample of it's organization, how would the OP be able to recreate it?

Wish I had something helpful to offer.

-- Storm

I think it might be helpful to post a CoHHelper report and a HijackThis log. That'll give us more info on your system so we can try to help.

Storm

I see this kind of post a lot on forums. This is a player forum. Devs and other rednames can post here, but answers from other players are what you're going to get. Unfortunately, that will not give you the answers you want (as opposed to the answers you've already gotten - many of them quite good). People who have been here for a long time and seen many new issues have given you the answer. The devs are not going to tell you who will be in this closed beta nor are they going to tell you how long each "wave" is going to last.

For the most part, people HAVE been keeping this thread on topic... The topic is "Access to Ultramode Closed Beta".

If you want a ONLY redname answer, send a PM to a redname. Post on the forums, and you're going to get player answers.

Storm

Nobody is "forced" to use transfers at all, regardless of where they are going to, and whether free or "for pay". That said, most other MMO's do, in fact, use the incentive of a free transfer to balance server populations - i.e., they offer free transfers only to a limited number of new or lower-population servers. That's business.

[Edit] Actually, the OP didn't theorize such, and was actually asking what people thought the intent was. And then offered the idea that maybe it might be a good idea in the future for NCSoft to use a free server transfer option to help balance out server populations.[/Edit]

I think that the purpose of free server transfers was exactly what was stated when they offered them: an opportunity for us to visit other servers or transfer permanently somewhere else we wanted to go for whatever reasons we had for going there.

That'd be YOUR reason, but not necessarily the entire or only intent. And that's a perfectly valid reason. For you.

Good for you (I mean that). The cool thing about CoX is that it is playable by a variety of different computers and internet connections - particularly internet connections, since I am aware that we have players who are still restricted to dial-up connections - whether it be due to availability or cost of broadband access. Personally, for me, it has nothing to do with the internet connection or my computer. I just don't like the higher percentage of "dumb" I've had the misfortune to encounter on "Freedumb"... I have made a few alts there as I had friends who played on Freedom - I simply don't LIKE playing on Freedom.

Actually it's good business and used by many MMO's - see the first part of my response.

So you actually know nothing about what life is like on mid- to low- population servers ... and you don't intend to ever find out. Which is also fine - just difficult for me to understand why you would be so apparently "anti-low-population server"...

Sarcasm aside (I can only assume that this last part of your response is sarcasm): Because they can enjoy playing on low-population servers by themselves yet surrounded by community. Just because some players prefer not to team with others doesn't mean they want to play a different game. I more often enjoy soloing or playing with one or two personal friends. I've done the PUG thing - sometimes it's ok (and the vast majority of people on my global friends list are those I've met in PUGs, small and large), other times horrible... I understand that some of the content is not going to be "do-able" while solo or with only one other person (you must defuse the 4 bombs simultaneously or fail the mission...) and I accept that.

I also understand why some people would rather play in a crowded gameplay environment - it's just not my personal preference. In most of the games I play, my personal real life friends have influenced my choice of game servers/shards/realms. As it happens, they apparently often prefer mid- to low- population gameplay as well.

It takes all kinds, y'know?

Storm

True - and, even though some of the problems are not fixed, the game is upgraded on a regular basis... so they are meeting their requirements plus.

Overall, I'd have to say that the CoX players and Devs have a much better relationship than some other games I play. The Devs talk to us, and take our complaints and bug reports and discussions fairly seriously. Many other games - not so much. For one of the games I play, the "joke" is: no matter what the problem - no matter how widespread - no matter how clearly it's server-side issues ... it's your ram.

My feeling is that if it were easy to fix these things that have plagued some of us, they'd have fixed them.

Also, how many different players do the ITF? Is it a majority of the player-base? My guess is that it is not. That, combined with the fact that the TF mission in question is playable, even if it's not ideal, says to me that it might be prioritized a bit lower than some other issues that affect more people more of the time. Triage for programming bugs tends to be: if it breaks something critical, it gets priority over other stuff. If there is a work around, it might get a little lower in the priority list, but it will still get attention. Sometimes stuff comes up that is found while researching a major problem or putting in the groundwork for further development that they discover will be simple to fix or implement, and that might get slipped in before major stuff is fixed.

It's sort of like life. If you have to clean the garage, and when you start moving stuff around, you notice that the latch on your big toolbox is a teeny bit askew and that's why you haven't been able to get it to latch right for months, you might take a few minutes and a pair of pliers to just bend it back to the right angle and, voila one small problem fixed before the major priority project for the weekend! You can then work on the 2 day garage cleaning project.

At the end of day one, all you can report to your spouse that you fixed the latch on your toolbox, but the garage is in mid-shambles because often, cleaning projects start out with pulling a lot of stuff out of places and that makes it look worse than it did before you started... By day two, you may have fixed a few more little things in the process of finishing up the garage. Hopefully, by the end of day 2, you have a bunch of little things and the one big one done... but sometimes, the big project is bigger than you thought and it's going to take one more weekend.

But next weekend, you have to take the family to visit your in-laws for someone's birthday or anniversary and you can't finish the garage until the following weekend. Or you get a huge storm, and there's water leaking into the basement... which makes the garage project a lower priority than getting the water out of the basement... It might be a month or more before you get back to working on the garage, and then some of what you did before has likely been undone by other people shoving stuff out of the way, and you have to start back a few steps earlier than where you really left off ...

Your spouse is not very happy about where you are with the garage-cleaning project at all now, but you've been doing the best you can with the time and the tools that you have.

Yeah, it's kinda like life... and most of the time, it's stuff that can't be avoided.

Storm

Granted, the "Do it now" part seems to be an attempt at humor, but the sentiment is spoken clearly with the other statements... and it is only one post

Storm

After looking at the explanation on the site (which you've summed up very well here), I thought to myself "Great - now the feds really WILL be looking to tax video game currency ..."

Scary idea - imagine what theft of account information in THAT game would cost you ...

Storm

My first thought is that it was possibly a slow down or disconnect on your own internet service (since nobody else on your team was dc'd and since you couldn't get the CoX servers page to load properly). The other websites loading fine could be attributed to browser caching, depending on your settings.

Or there could have been an issue anywhere on the path from your ISP to the CoX servers that interfered with you (and possibly a select other few) which did not affect other websites (different paths) or other people that you were playing with (also different paths).

What server were you playing on?

Storm

I believe, based on stuff I've seen here and stuff I've read, that the only time you will run into a "conflict" is if the faster memory can not adjust down to the speed of the slower memory.

And I believe the speed and capacity need only to be the same in each of the pairs or triplets of modules - not between each of the pairs or triplets - depending on your motherboard. I'm not all that knowledgeable about clock speeds and I'm probably way over-simplifying ... but I've built my last 4 computers, and it works for me.


Storm

I think that should be "ThirtyPointlessHyphenSeven" shouldn't it?

I'm sorry to not be able to offer any assistance in the matter of the issues with the WW. When it was first introduced and I was on my old Pentium IV computer, I would actually have the game freeze on me for long agonizing seconds ... like 45-60 or so. At the time nobody else seemed to be having those same issues and I was told it was fine. I empathize with the OP on this one.

Storm