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Laptop Video Card or Frame Rate Issues
Some laptop video cards (ATI Mobility, Intel 91x Chipsets) are having known issues with frame rates and other visual degradations to gameplay.
This TEMPORARY addition to your COH shortcut will force the game to render in a simpler rendering path, and should clear up some of the more serious performance issues until a more permanent solution is found.
Modify your City of Heroes shortcut (by right-clicking and choosing Properties) to include "-useTexEnvCombine"] (without the quotes) at the end of the 'Target:' line, so it should look something like this:
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe" -useTexEnvCombine
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Thanks for this little tip, unfortunately for me it didn't help out my problem. Here is what I'm running.
Compaq nx9420
2 GB of RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 (256MB) - driver ver 8.31.100.32
I've uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers from HP's website. The AMD website doesn't have drivers for laptops.
My problem is this, everything is too bright (or conversely too dark in darker maps like the warehouse or sewers). It almost makes it impossible to play. The laptop is barely a month old. I am running Vista Business as far as the OS goes. I'm tired of pulling my hair out trying to fix this so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd be extremely grateful. Or if it's just not going to work for me then fine, I'll move on. But I'm losing my mind in the mean time.
Thanks for listening and I hope that someone can point me in the right direction.
