Power_Mad

Nychus is right,, thats a driver error and can be fixed by downloading the driver directly from your graphics card driver provider... though thanks to vista's great performance you may have to save it to your hard drive, unplug from the internet, disable user account control and then install the driver. was the only way I could instal any driver for my graphics card since vista kept timing out the instal and I receiived the message "the system was not modified" and the restart now option... until I actually read it I couldn't figure out why I didn't get any driver installed for my graphics no matter where I installed from.

however there is alot of lag, crashes and general rubbishness connected with trying to play CoX.. a couple of people I spoke to seem to think it could be coz they split the patch in two and didn't actually copy some insignificant but relevant coding from the bits of the second half of the patch that the first needs. others suggest it's vista/graphics provider and a few more seem to suggest someone needs a kick in the pants... anyone got a big clown shoe we can use?

The problem with the base editing, in particular the placing of items on 2 sides (east and south I think) is rather annoying, but you can get around this until it is fixed by getting the height you want on one of the other two walls and moving the item onto the wall you want at that height, since it won't change height on those walls it'll stay at the height you set.

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I run both Vista 32, and a GeForce 9400GT Nvidia card. They worked fine until about 3 patches ago, since then things like power lag, server synch problems and since the last patch major crashes. I have done everything to try and sort this.

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Any specifics on the crashes? What error messages etc are you receiving?

For both of you: have you contacted the support team?

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Yeah sorry, technical bits are:

crash realated to driver, crash related to forced kick, crash related from unresponsive programme, crash from absolutley nothing.

It all happens, very often too. forced removals even though server is up and running and not even planned downtime nor being taken down, graphics driver stopped and restarted a few times but mainly when I stop actual play and stand still.. be it refilling my glass or turning on a light etc. I've had my game crash with an unresponsive programme message a few times, sometimes on the character creation screen, sometimes opening wentworths and sometimes even just looking at what badges I have/need. And finaly I have had my game crash straight to windows with no message or explanation.

Now about the tech support... not much they can do except fix the problems they have and they have received bug reports about this. And they can't tell me anything I don't know or havn't tried, cause if I don't know it then I got help from a relative thats a certified tech and tried it.

The problems with windows vista and nvidia do exist, but the combination works on other games without half this trouble and it's also on the GvsE and Collectors DVD Edition box's as the recommended: 'geforce 6200 series" which is pretty damn stupid if they have trouble running the game don't you think?

So the only options available are... go XP and screw Vista, buy a non-Nvidia Graphics or put up with the crashes and the lag...

This isn't your computer or Vista/nvidia related (don't let them tell you otherwise) I run both Vista 32, and a GeForce 9400GT Nvidia card. They worked fine until about 3 patches ago, since then things like power lag, server synch problems and since the last patch major crashes. I have done everything to try and sort this. Re-installing windows and updating, downloading and updating drivers, swapping out graphics cards, changing ingame and out of game graphic settings, dedicated more virtual memory, changing resolution, clocking up my CPU... name it I tried it. This is something that is game related not gamer related.

There's a few other bugs I'm sure your aware of but I'll put them anyway...

Consignments don't load properly, sometimes I have to open it then close and reopen just to view my consignments, also if I've been viewing another of my toons consignments it will load their consignment and I have to reload the window again.

Base editing has a few, main ones:
Already specified is the 'unable to move' which I find annoying but easily sorted by clicking the tile on the floor next to me whenever I want to move. There's also placement of items where they don't follow the placement size to space ratio and some items can overlap, the height placement was already listed.
Moving rooms location: if a room contains a couple of items the room will not move to a new location even if the door blocks are free from obstruction, it can be very frustrating having to build another room to empty the one your trying to move. Also after editing the base then exiting the editor and leaving the base the game crashes, it's happened to me far more times than being a co-incidence.

Server and power lag: Powers when activated either don't display the action or display the action and keep the activation in progress circle running until that power has been re-used once it's able to or you zone. Sounds for powers repeat on a loop once they're activated for a few seconds before finishing the files sound.
Other players run on the spot, even if they have already stood still, or stutter past like an echo of their passage.
Vehicles and pedestrians stutter around like they're not sure where they are supposed to be at that particular second. And all this happens even if your just stood still watching it happen.

Crashes: I have on a few occasions been forcibly disconected from the server with no reason or warning but a message saying that I have, only to log on to find that the server is still running and players are still playing, I've crashed from looking at badges, zoning and taking a sip of my drink while stood still doing nothing.

Character Creation: some tile sets have been mentioned as not loading or unavailable, along with some colour problems.
Loading a saved creation also leaves both colours selected as black no matter what sub-catagory you select or what colour that catagory already is. Also when your using the new sets some of them will not show both weapon and shield when you select one of them to edit while others do... not to mention an unknown error that reverts your selected weapon and shield to it's origional unselected set before you go ingame. My brother ended up ingame with the base selected weapons other than his choice twice before he gave up making his toon. I myself had it happen once, but didn't get ingame (name already taken so went back to change colour scheme a little) and noticed the selected weapons had reverted back.

Now before anyone starts saying things like "it's your machine" I'd like to add here that I thought that too...
I run on Windows Vista 32-bit operating system, Dual-Core Intel Pentium D CPU 3.20Ghz processor clocked to 3.84Ghz, 2g Ram, GeForce 9400 GT Graphics card with 512mb GDDR2 128bit dedicated memory and realtech High definition sound. All drivers fully updated.

I even tried re-installing windows vista and all the drivers incase something was faulty within one of them.

Not sure if these errors have been reported and solutions are being made (though I hope they are) but I thought i'd address them here so other people can clarify any of this and they can get sorted if not already being done so