Psychic Guardian

I can actually alt-tab fine, it's minimizing I can't.

But alt-tab has been brought up over the years and the forum conclusion was always "old/bad ATI Driver".

It's supposed to disappear when you change/re-affirm alignment. Yeah, in your case it shouldn't've and it's strange it lost all it's display text/pic like that.

Yup, we believe that's WAI. The halloween tip is an "alignment mission", if you were to have hero and vigilante alignment missions on you and complete hero, the vigilante one would disappear (along with all your other missions and tips).

That i19 ruining it thing sounds strange though. Sounds like an instance of "change feature A, programming randomly breaks feature J".

Make sure you /bug that. This was supposedly corrected in beta, apparently not. But they are very tight on password security, so it's important the devs hear it's still broken.

Yup. It made selling off the IOs that were no longer in my build post-respec quite annoying; Markettypelag(for price entry)>sell>high-cost yes>start over since it didn't work.

I was afraid that would be confusing. The quote is from a dead thread from this summer I started about buying a pc, but got de-railed to fixing my current pc's capabilites which were supposedly being held back due to old drivers. I never bought that pc, that was the beginning of you and the other tech guys teaching me how to recognize a good gfx card, and that one wasn't any good.

This pc is running Windows XP, with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300. After the omega driver you guys had come to the conclusion would improve my pc's gfx capabilities with CoH my ATI control panel was ruined and no longer runs, after trying to delete/re-install the driver I got it re-installed, but it no longer allows me to select the resolution I've been running for months with this same stuff.

Here is the new GPU-Z after whatever I screwed up tonight:


and here's the old thread if you're interested, but it's irrelevant to this issue pretty much:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=232076

(Quoted from a dead thread about using a 3rd party graphics driver since the supplier didn't have any new ones available)

. Those stupid omega drivers never did anything graphics wise, but they did destroy the ATI control center. I tried working with my drivers again earlier today (I don't even see omega anything in the add/remove programs window), and with my laptop's dead screen I ended up changing something that de-activated the TV I use to see with. I had to reboot and hit "Enable VGA" from the boot screen just to be able to use my pc again.

It lowered my resolution to 640x480, so I fixed it back to 1280x1024. Then tried uninstalling anything that said catalyst, ccc, or ATI from the add/remove programs window, rebooted, and re-installed the driver package gateway gave me catered to my pc's serial#. It rebooted and now my resolution is stuck capped at 1024x768(for some reason this TV communicates that as it's max, it can actually go higher than 1280x1024), AND the control center is doing that whole "startup in processlist of task manager then self-kill" thing again. The CCC is where I overrode the TVs maxres settings, without it I'm stuck on this hideous 1024x768(that's where the Display window's slider is cut off). I'm not even opening CoH, I won't be able to see past my toon's shoulders and chat and my powertrays would overlap.

This is pathetic, I'm almost ready to do an OS wipe just to get my res back. Are there any 3rd party app's capable of overriding a monitor's reported maximum resolution to allow windows display control panel to push higher than what the monitor states?

/rant

Edit: and wow reading over this thread I have learned SO much from you all computer building wise. That Lenovo thing I would've bought if the money was available is such a piece of crap.

I think he was just trying to say by mentioning his SG that farming is widespread and enjoyed by many, and that every time they nerf something it angers a whole group of people and a wave of subscriptions tend to end1 . The forumites like to make farmers out as a minority and vilify them. I wouldn't call it "cheating" either, some players enter those maps with a goal in mind, use it to get to it, and leave, cheating sounds reckless .

They also don't ban every account/delete every character that completes an "exploit" arc; some of them may be genuine AE supporters hoping for a good story and enter it unaware, that wouldn't be fair to them. After it was announced that the AE was not meant for farming and there would be "consequences" rule #1 of farming became "don't use the word farm in your description and don't leave it blank. Even if the cover-story is just plain stupid use one."2, so it's very conceivable people looking for stories could believe that's what they're signing on for when they start the arc.

Some characters also use it for a few levels then leave. Say someone spent a year alting around and take an alt at lv35 and make it 42 in an afternoon from an "exploit", does that character and all of it's honest progress deserve to be wiped off the server for putting a small dent in it's lvl? It is usually the 1-50s that get wiped. Some say it's not fair to the new players who "didn't know any better"...but whether the new person knew better or not it should be deleted, nobody wants these lv50s who just upgraded from their trial yesterday running around.

Then on the other side are people with the 78 month vet badges who've played every AT and powerset twice and want to try a new combo out. They know the powers, they know the AT, if they go 1-50 in 10 hours they aren't a hindrance to anyone they team with at 50; they know enough to know what they're doing.

1-when the first exploit of AE was removed and the devs explained that they gave us the ability to make what we want, but only within their specific imaginary guidelines 100s were enraged and left, some just out of priniciple who never farmed anyway. They didn't want to be a part of a company that ran like that. I'd be comfortable saying maybe 1,000 even. Then the following nerfs as exploits were found put the nail in the coffin for much smaller numbers of players, but still money lost..and for what really?

2-Something the devs hate, "pollution" of the stories in the AE. Which is why farmers have suggested a "Farm" content label and just be left alone. But in the devs eyes it still leaves the "pl to boredom" and "scaring away noobs" issue I guess.

Yes. The Server is. If you don't want spam avoid Freedom. That is all

yes, "hunter" lol. (but the badge reporter tool is awesome, search the forum for it! )

My praetorian blueside also just had Sentinel put his data on City Info Tracker, it also was given customizer when it doesn't have it, but also is missing Patroller, even though City Info Tracker recognizes he has Trouble Maker.

Oh that's another thing: "trouble maker", he's a stalker who started yellowside, but is currently blue. Alternating badgenames for Hero/Villain are villain on City Info Tracker (not Sentinel though) even though in-game they are Hero.

I'm not sure if City Info Tracker is you guys' territory or not, but I thought I'd mention it.

This stalker is the one I'm talking about. It's data was just read from Talos, and appears villain through that link(his alignment is 100% hero).

Ahh, here's the other thing throwing his badgecount off: City Info is showing him as having both Praetoria's Son and Destined One (2 versions of the same badge, that's impossible lol). Lol and another: True To The Last, and Determined (another duplicate due to morality).

I was going to manually remove them, but in case this is a site you guys maintain I'll leave them for awhile. (He actually has 127 badges, not 129)

Edit: Weird; This blaster that's years old shows Customizer, True to the Last, and Praetoria's Son (since i19 isn't out yet and he's years old he obviously has never even touched Praetoria).

Yup. It seems after I loaded in my Praetorian(and the one with Customizer I guess) with Sentinel running when it sends new character data to City Info Tracker it includes the 2 Praetorian copies of those accolades.