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  1. Peterbilt

    Hami Mondaze!!

    POST-ACTION

    Wow Shay. Everyone's mad at you for leaching XPs at the raid. Next time just turn the XP off.
  2. Peterbilt

    Hami Raid

    POST-ACTION

    I couldn't get there on time and wondered what happened when I did log in. Nicely done all.
  3. Peterbilt
    Take care Bud and hurry back when you can. I won't ask for your stuff because you already said no, but can I borrow it while your gone?
  4. Peterbilt

    solo apex

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Illenia View Post
    Great job, on both TFs!

    After I saw that you had done the Apex, I gave it a go tonight and completed a successful solo run as well--not quite as speedily, but it was great fun nonetheless. I don't think I would have tried if I hadn't come across your run.

    Keep up the great runs!

    I too solo'd this. Was killed 47 times on the first map before giving up.


    Great job ... again.
  5. Peterbilt
    Happy Forceday, Birth.

    AAAAHHHH! Got that mixed up AGAIN!
  6. Peterbilt
    Yikes Witty. Good thing you typed that early in the morning because you should be all patched by now.
  7. Peterbilt
    I was a little worried about an invul tank but she did great.
  8. Peterbilt

    Autocorrect

    POST-ACTION

    Ever have any trouble with autocorrect? Here is a whole web site to it. Some very funny stuff here.

    http://damnyouautocorrect.com/page/2/
  9. Peterbilt
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Psygon_NA View Post
    You can Download them from the support pages. Im not sure where they are anymore its been a while.

    That is found where you give your credit card info, etc.
    But I tried to download that about 8 months ago for my son's computer and the download time was 80 hours estimate. I just installed and updated instead. But since you have 18 updates to do, it just might end up faster for you witty. (Or just have it upload overnight, which wasn't an option that I had.)
  10. Peterbilt

    19.5?

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cobalt Azurean View Post

    Quick, change to rogue/vigilante so you get 2 rares tonight.
  11. Peterbilt

    Owah tagu siam

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by _Force_ View Post
    1. Take the Train to Independence Port.
    2. Go out in the water and find the Giant Octopus known as Lusca.
    3. There is a portal on top of her head that will take you wherever you wish to go.
    4. But seriously, do that.
    5. Mhm

    I've tried that and keep getting killed before I can find the door. Lusca really is a devilfish.
  12. Peterbilt

    Hami Raid

    POST-ACTION

    Good luck everyone. That is at least 4 hours before I can possibly make it but I have all the confidence that Liberty will bounce that jello.
  13. Peterbilt
    I can make Monday's at 8:30 ish PST start. I can contribute a blaster or tank. I've only run this once but the raid seems fairly simple. Hardest part is remembering where your original mob is between spawns.
  14. Peterbilt
    Thank you everyone. I tweaked the settings (most significantly World Detail 175%) and still get 28 fps looking the "wrong" way in Grandville and 50 fps everywhere else.
  15. Peterbilt
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mephisto_Kur View Post
    The two versions are referring to two different things. The 10.9 version number is for the Catalyst Package, which includes the driver. As an example, I have had the most success with the 10.11 Catalyst package, but the driver version is 8.79.6 (do NOT use the 10.11 drivers if you can use the 10.9s - my card is too new for the 10.9s to recognize, so i am SOL).

    The 10.9 package should have the 8.77 drivers in it.

    Thank you so much. I was so confused. I'm up to date with the drivers now and I'll report back after I visit Grandville.
  16. Peterbilt

    Hami Raid

    POST-ACTION

    12 minutes is just fantastic. Good going everyone. Wish I could have been there but my son had a baseball game. *ahhh* Got to love SoCal.
  17. Peterbilt
    Thank you for the suggestions. Implementing as much as I can now and if I finish early enough I'll jump into the game. If not, I'll go tomorrow and let everyone know how I fare.


    I deleted most of the bloat but I am getting nowhere on updating the drivers. Catalyst, the ATI drivers program, keeps telling me my drivers are up to date but it's stuck at version 8.77 when I've downloaded v. 10.9 to install. I've tried uninstalling the drivers but it only succeeds in uninstalling the card, and reinstalling the card only gets me back to the old drivers. I know it is probably something very simple but I just can't get the drivers to update. What am I doing wrong?
  18. Peterbilt
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr_Apocalypse View Post
    the 5770 should be able to run ulta mode maxed out.

    first things first.

    do a good cleaning of the system and remove all the bloatware.

    loose any of the HP and norton background apps (the best video card in the world wont help if your CPU/memory pipelines are choked down with useless junk.

    load the latest ati drivers

    I uninstalled Norton and some of the HP stuff. Is there something you recommend for removing this stuff?
  19. Peterbilt
    Thank you. I wasn't sure about those. They're on on the other computer but wasn't sure how much trouble they caused.
  20. Peterbilt
    OK, I see one thing, update drivers. Which version because I see some comments there are problems with the newer ones.
  21. Peterbilt
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  22. Peterbilt
    My son bought a nice computer about 2 years ago and got a 9800 nVidia card. The game looked great and we never had any problems.

    After Christmas, Staples had a close out on computers and I picked up what I thought was a screaming computer for a very reasonable price. HP Elite HPE-250f with an i7-860 processor, 8GB DDR3 RAM and an ATI HD 5770 video card. Much to my disappointment the City runs slower and looks worse at the same settings as the 9800. Two items that are readily noticeable is a lower frame rate even in non-stress settings such as running alongside cars and much poorer world detail. I was hoping I could get some help here to fix the problem because I have little confidence Staples will know what I'm talking about at all.

    Thank you for any help you can give.


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

    DxDiag gathered at January 18, 2011 21:46 (-08:00)
    Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100618-1621)
    System Manufacturer: HP-Pavilion
    System Model: BK174AA-ABA HPE-250f
    BIOS: 03/03/10 20:25:08 Ver: 5.13
    Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
    Memory: 8192MB
    .Net Memory Report: 6709MB out of 8151MB available
    Page File: 14613MB (1686MB currently in use)
    C Drive: (ST31000528AS) 889496MB out of 942444MB (94%) free
    D Drive: (ST31000528AS) 1639MB out of 11321MB (14%) free
    E Drive: (hp BDDVDRW CH20L) zero-size drive
    Windows directory location: C:\Windows
    DirectX: DirectX 11
    DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (64-bit version)

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

    No problems found.
    Input Notes: No problems found.

    Monitor:
    Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
    Video Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
    Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI display adapter (0x68B8)
    Video Memory: 4070 MB
    Driver Version: 8.801.0.0
    Driver Date: 11/25/2010 6:57:08 PM
    Driver Language: English

    Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
    Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
    Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5938
    Driver Date: 9/15/2009 11:08:00 AM

    Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
    Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
    Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5938
    Driver Date: 9/15/2009 11:08:00 AM


    WMI Information
    Motherboard Manufacturer: MSI
    Motherboard Model: (empty)
    Motherboard Product: IONA
    Motherboard Version: 1.0
    BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
    BIOS Name: 03/03/10 20:25:08 Ver: 5.13
    BIOS Version: HPQOEM - 20100303
    BIOS Release: 20100303000000.000000+000


    Registry Information for Current User
    Resolution: 1920x1080
    3D Resolution: 1920x1080 (Not using renderscale)
    Full Screen: Yes
    Maximized: No
    Screen Position: 0, 0
    Refresh Rate: 60Hz
    Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes


    Physics Quality: High
    Maximum Particles: 50000
    Max Particle Fill? 10.000
    Physics Card Enabled: No


    Anti-aliasing: Off
    Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
    Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
    Water Effects: Medium quality
    Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
    Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
    Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
    Shader Detail: High


    World Texture Level: Very High
    Character Texture Level: Very High
    World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.331
    Entity Detail Level: 1.000
    Shadows Enabled: No
    Shadow Mode: Unknown (3)
    Shadow Map Shader: High quality
    Environmental Reflections: Medium quality
    Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
    Ambient Occlusion: Quality
    Occlusion Strength: Medium
    Blur: Trilateral
    Ambient Resolution: Quality


    Gamma Correction: 1.000
    Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
    Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
    Close Suppression Range: 3.000
    Show Advertisements: Yes

    Audio Mode: Performance
    3D Audio: No
    FX Sound Volume: 1.000
    Music Sound Volume: 0.600

    Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
    Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
    Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
    Save Login Username: Yes
    Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
    Current Game Version: 1900.201011102104.27
    Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes

    Mod files in the Data directory
    No modifications found
  23. Peterbilt
    I'm on my first character, Peterbilt, and I just made the switch to Port Oakes and got an invite from a level 11 MM to join a team. We played that night and as we ended he asked if I wanted to join his SG. Not knowing what it was I said yes and was the second member.

    Over the next month or two we recruited about 30 or 40 characters/members and started to get teleporters and all the other goodies for the base. Except we knew nothing about what we were doing and couldn't get the Cap banner for the teleporter. The leader got it in his mind that we couldn't get this one because we had members who were part of the group who joined after we got the banners for our characters outside of the SG mode. Neither of us knew that all we had to do was revisit the beacons, so instead, he starts kicking all the members so he can visit the beacons and get the banner. I kept telling him this couldn't be right, and then I started to tell him we were losing prestige, and then I told him we were getting negative prestige. He stopped when there were only 5 characters left, me, 2 of his, and 2 other people. He logged in frustration that night.

    The next day I log on and there is a message from him saying he was sorry he destroyed the base and that he was quiting. I looked at the base and there were only two characters left, apparently one of the other players decided to quit too. We were over 100,000 in debt and I was in no mood to recruit, so I quit too.
  24. Peterbilt
    and yes, thank you for another fine raid. Thank you for leading it.
  25. Peterbilt
    The after Christmas sale at Staples had a 3 month old HP with an i7 processor and a 5770 video card. I thought I could crank everything to "11" but my experience with the video card is very disappointing. I'm finding my son's 2 year old computer with a 9800 has better details and faster processing at the same UltraMode settings. Should I have expected this or is there a problem with the card that I should ask about? I've had the machine less than 2 weeks and wanted to put it through a Hami before I made a final determination.