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Thank you so much!

Extraordinary! Thank you for the answer. That explains why my fellow widows talk about perma-mind link.

Is this working as intended or something we think the devs will "fix"?

I was under the impression that it was like a normal set bonus and after 3 it suffered from DE, but I see people with builds that have 5-6 of this in them.

Is this people squeezing every little bit out them or does it stack that many times? If so, is it a bug that they're likely to fix and not something worth investing millions into?

My Rad defender will be there, been dying for the MoSTF for awhile.

I can log into any other server but Virtue, but don't see an announcement or host of threads asking if it's down. I can't identify anything on my local system that would affect Virtue alone.

Help?

But with the sound set to 0, I don't crash. Ever. I've tested this for the last several days. Run 2 raids with no crashing. Exit the client, come back in, turn the sound up to 1 (any sound at all), go into a raid, crash. Bring the client up, sound to 0, no crashes anywhere.

I know it's the game, I don't have these issues anywhere else, I just want to know what I can change to make the crashing go away and let me still have sound, as it's tedious as heck to play in silence, and far less enjoyable.

Every RWZ MS raid I crash. Every Tin Mage, going into Director 11's room, I crash. I played with graphic settings to no avail, didn't change anything no matter how low I put the settings. It's not temperature, I've gauges on all my temps and everything is cool to the touch. However, I noticed that, on all the crashes, I always end up with a sound loop.

So on a hunch, I turned my sound down to 0 in the game and I've not crashed since. Did 4 MS raids in a row, max graphics, no crashes. I've played for 4 days now with no sound and not had a single issue.

My sound "card" is integrated into my ASUS mother board, so not something I conciously do anything with, Windows 7 x32 updates the drivers for me.

Does any of this chime with stuff you guys have seen that might be causing my issues:
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Sound Devices
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Description: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_104381E1& REV_1004
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 65535
Type: WDM
Driver Name: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: n/a
Date and Size: 7/13/2009 15:51:47, 304128 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Microsoft
HW Accel Level: Basic
Cap Flags: 0x0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

Description: Headphones (High Definition Audio Device)
Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_104381E1& REV_1004
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 65535
Type: WDM
Driver Name: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: n/a
Date and Size: 7/13/2009 15:51:47, 304128 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Microsoft
HW Accel Level: Basic
Cap Flags: 0x0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_104381E1& REV_1004
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 65535
Type: WDM
Driver Name: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: n/a
Date and Size: 7/13/2009 15:51:47, 304128 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Microsoft
HW Accel Level: Basic
Cap Flags: 0x0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

So I'm having similar problems but I know what's causing them...my sound. Every RWZ MS raid I crashed. I played with graphic settings but noticed that, on all the crashes, I always end up with a sound loop.

So on a hunch, I turned my sound down to 0 in the game and I've not crashed since. Did 4 MS raids in a row, max graphics, no crashes.

WTF is up with that?

Does any of this chime with stuff you guys have seen that might be causing my issues:
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Sound Devices
-------------
Description: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_104381E1& REV_1004
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 65535
Type: WDM
Driver Name: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: n/a
Date and Size: 7/13/2009 15:51:47, 304128 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Microsoft
HW Accel Level: Basic
Cap Flags: 0x0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

Description: Headphones (High Definition Audio Device)
Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_104381E1& REV_1004
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 65535
Type: WDM
Driver Name: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: n/a
Date and Size: 7/13/2009 15:51:47, 304128 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Microsoft
HW Accel Level: Basic
Cap Flags: 0x0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_104381E1& REV_1004
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 65535
Type: WDM
Driver Name: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: n/a
Date and Size: 7/13/2009 15:51:47, 304128 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Microsoft
HW Accel Level: Basic
Cap Flags: 0x0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

Given I never crashed pre-i19 and crash frequently post, yeah I have more crashes.

I crash on every MS raid. Every one. I tried playing around with my graphic settings, took it down as far as possible, still crashed.

Then someone suggested I turn my sound off, because on every crash a sound loop happens as it's going down. I set my sound to zero and did 4 MS raids in a row, in the same session, with no crashes, so that's it, at least for me.

Now, how do I fix this and make it stop?

I'm running Windows 7pro x32
3GB RAM
nVidia GTX 470 (latest released reference drivers)
When I look at my sound card, I see "NVidia High Definition Audio", but not sure what it is. It's integrated into my mobo and the drivers are Windows native, so no clue.

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And if you're 5-starring your friends' arcs, 1-starring those of people you don't like, and 2-, 3-, and 4-starring those of random other arcs to avoid the grief-detection software....

Then the rating system is worthless and so is the ability to detect griefers. And if I can think of it, so can others. It took me all of one brain cell and one second for this to pop into my head when I read the description of MA.

As it stands now the system of being able to rate arcs without an investment of time is flawed.

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Any rating system that involves human beings is worthless. Any system that involves subjective decisions by the masses is less than worthless.

If I log into a custom mission and it's annoying crap in the first 5 minutes, I don't want to have to spend the next 2 hours working through it just so I can 1-star it and move on. If you force people to wade through bad content, what you'll get is people /quitting and not rating it at all, good or bad.

Which brings up a question...are the devs tracking people who don't rate at all? And of what value would that be?

If I were create a rating system, I'd hammer out the outliers with statistics. Determine the standard deviation and boot anything outside +/- 3sd, or even 2 sd, to get a clearer indication of the "majority" of the votes, booting out all the odd people.

Out of 1000 votes, it will take what, 127 1 votes with the rest being 5's to bring it down. It wouldn't take much scrubbing to filter out the rating griefers. And it'd be a lot easier on the system if people who were consistently identified as griefing just had their votes completely ignored all the time.