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Confession: I have Golden Dragonfly and Soaring Dragon six slotted with the Force Feedback set. I love knockup and knockback as a form of control on that Scrapper.
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This is one of the most interesting and informative threads I've ever seen. Please, keep up the (awesome) work, everybody.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Leo_G
Whoa! BaBs was Tic-Toc all along!?
Can someone post an appropriate gif for this situation?
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Quote:I'd like to echo this sentiment. Your posts are consistently informative, fun, and also kinda make me think you're secretly an AI embedded inside the Paragon server banks. Congrats.Originally Posted by __Tru__
Seriously though thanks for all the time you have put into raising awareness and helping educate the masses. Cheers.
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No, no, I don't think you're getting it. The game ran fine with my current RAM and processor with a worse video card and also integrated graphics. There's no reason it should run worse with a better video card when every other game works fine.
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Quote:Yep, looks like it's staying at idling speeds of 137/300 while playing CoH instead of around 700/800 where it should be. I couldn't seem to force it to clock up, either. I don't run DreamScene or livewallpaper or any other applications at all while I run the game.Originally Posted by Blue_Blaze
I know this might seem a bit mad but I had the exact same problem. If you pull up CCC while running the game you may notice that your clock speeds seem to be quite low. Mine where at 400/900 when they should have been at 800/1100 or something like that.
By fluke, I noticed that when I wasn't running windows DreamScene on my desktop/home screen, my CCC displayed a clock speed of 150/300 when Idle but shot up to 800/1100 when in game (this is normal procedure as it throttles the speed of your GPU depending on what you are actually doing). The earlier seemed to be creating a bottle neck of some sort.
So, try turning off any DreamScene/livewallpaper that you might have running along with any other applications that might be using GPU power, no matter how small)
Hope this helps.
I've been using the same wireless connection and 1GB of RAM to play the game just fine for years. I don't think that's the problem, considering the only thing that changed was the graphics card. Integrated graphics are disabled in the BIOS. Again, the only game I'm having trouble with is CoH so far.Quote:Originally Posted by Gaia
A couple of thing I'm noticing there
You have a wireless network driver there - are you actually connecting over wireless as that can affect game performance.
The other is that you only have 1Gb of system RAM and your pagefile usage is showing 500Mb out of 1Gb used. If you are having to swap memory to disk on a frequent basis that will cripple performannce - generally you will see lots of nasty red lag spikes corresponding to the page requests.
I'd suggest loading up Perfmon or even task manager and monitoring page requests/disk usage to confirm if that is a problem or just a one off issue.
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HJT log:
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I used to have an GeForce 8500 GT and that ran the game just dandy. Then that died and I had to use the integrated graphics, and even that ran... playable. I could get 60 FPS with my resolution set pretty far down. A few days ago I got an HD Radeon 6750 and everything was cool. It ran all my other games perfectly, so I loaded up CoH... and it caps at about 8-15FPS no matter what I change my graphics to. Por ejemplo: uno, dos.
Changing resolutions, fullscreen to windowed, every single graphics option I could find, useTexEnvcombine, changing the settings in the CCC, turning sound on/off, etc., nothing I tried has worked. Indoors, outdoors, in missions, Rogue Isles, Praetoria, Paragon, all within the same 8-15 FPS window. I was originally using the 11.10 Catalyst drivers, then I switched to 11.9. No difference. I guess I'll try going further and further back down the line today to see if one of them works. Otherwise I'm starting to get kind of stumped, here. You should not get better performance out of an integrated graphics card than an actual new one. I hope I'm not overlooking something glaringly obvious, here.
CoH Helper:
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at December 20, 2011 07:21 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.101209-1647)
System Manufacturer: GATEWA
System Model: W6409
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Central Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1022MB
.Net Memory Report: 532MB out of 1021MB available
Page File: 1068MB (524MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD1600BB-00RDA0) 37222MB out of 147212MB (25%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD1600BB-00RDA0) 3482MB out of 5401MB (64%) free
E Drive: (HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-H21N) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DirectX Diag version: 5.03.2600.5512 (32-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Video Device Name: AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. / AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x68BF)
Video Memory: 1024.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.7218
Driver Date: 9/8/2011 12:25:42 PM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Realtek HD Audio output
Driver File: RtkHDAud.sys
Driver Version: 5.10.0000.5247
Driver Date: 4/17/2006 6:31:26 PM
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Motherboard Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: D102GGC2
Motherboard Version: AAD70214-201
BIOS Manufacturer: Intel Corp.
BIOS Name: Default System BIOS
BIOS Version: GATEWA - 7da
BIOS Release: 20060817000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1440x900
3D Resolution: 1440x900 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No
Physics Quality: None
Maximum Particles: 100
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: None
Texture LOD Bias: Crisp
Water Effects: None
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: No
Shader Detail: Unknown (4)
World Texture Level: Unknown (3)
Character Texture Level: Low
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 0.500
Entity Detail Level: 0.300
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Disabled
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: Disabled
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Off
Blur: Bilateral
Ambient Resolution: Performance
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: Yes
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.500
Music Sound Volume: 0.500
Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.000
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: 2010.201105021815.1.0
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
.\texture_library\MAPS\city has 1 file
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Did you know? - Teleportation
Originally in the game, the physics of using the Teleport power were substantially different. It used to be that your momentum would carry when you teleported, and there was no grace period of hovering. You would basically start falling as soon as you teleported, and each teleport while you fell would start you falling faster the next one. I can't remember when this was changed. -
Thank you for doing this.
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Thank you, whoever designed and implemented this. It patches faster, it downloads faster, and it doesn't eat all of my RAM to do it. Much love.
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I don't remember any cows in Perez.
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This official history of Paragon City from the site is a pretty good read if you haven't seen it already.
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Quote:Never going to happen.Originally Posted by Angelxman81
I hope this year we can finally unlock this costume pieces:
Male version included. The toga is nice, but its 2011. I think we should finally be able to have this.
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Quote:Bombing hospitals is a crime just about everywhere, actuallyOriginally Posted by Golden Girl
Supporting freedom is only a crime in a dictatorship, not a normal society
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18 out of 30. Some of these are a little obscure.
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Quote:Ahh, but now we're entering the evilness of deciding who is and isn't okay for the people to elect, and that doesn't sound like democracy to meOriginally Posted by Golden Girl
Bad people can still get chosen - like Tyrant, for example
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Quote:I hate that little jerk emoticon. Look at his smug grin. Argh!Originally Posted by BBQ_Pork
*sigh*
Once a thread has been covered in a steaming pile of winkies, no amount of dry-cleaning will ever get the stain out.
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Quote:There's no mass murder at random.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Show me where the crimes of the dictatorship aren't real - point out all the Resistance "lies" about Tyrant's utopia
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Please, stop responding to GG. It's incredibly obvious she's just a plant from the loyal nazi stormtrooping fascist kitten-beaters
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Quote:I'm sorry, yami isn't a reading for 風. I was talking about the kanji 闇. Guess I should have been more clear. Yami can also be read "an", "on", and "kurai".Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
However, something interesting has come out of this, which is the reading of wind that was given as "yami," which I assume would transform into "Yamikaze no Rikimaru." My calibrated eyeball detects this at a length of 20 symbols, which should fit the name field, and for the first time in my quest for a name, I've actually found a last name that both has meaning AND sounds good in my head. I will be the first to admit that Kazeguro sounded off and Gurokaze even more so, but it was something I was willing to put up with. Yamikaze, provided this actually works as a word, on the other hand, sounds like something I would very much use with pride.
Kuro means the color black, or something that is dark colored. Yami means dark, or darkness as a concept of absence of light, shadows, etc. Used in words like dark night, gloomy, black market, and stuff like that.Quote:Now, "yami" was given as meaning dark or blackness. I want to ask: In what context? I realise it may be an unnecessary question, but I ran afoul of that once already. Are we talking dark in terms of dyes and paints, dark in terms of lack of light, or dark in a figurative sense meaning depressing and unpleasant? Or is there some other context entirely that I'm missing? I ask this question primarily because I'm a foreign speaker of English to begin with, and have seen numerous faulty translations in both ways. One my classmates in school kept making was saying "according to me" when they meant "in my opinion," both of which translate into the exact same thing in Bulgarian. I just want to know not just what I'm saying, but what I actually mean by it 
Well, in my experience, Japanese tends to be a much more looser language than English regarding implied things. And if you're just combining kanji for a name instead of a word, you can do basically whatever.Quote:Failing that, the "murdering wind" idea is still interesting to me, but I'd really want to use something without a preposition (so not "something no something") and ideally something I could jam together in the same word. I don't know if that's possible, but I couldn't fit it within the name field restrictions otherwise. It may not be proper form to just glue words together like this when they should probably be written apart, at least in romanization, but Quin says names don't always follow proper norms of grammar, so we could perhaps make an exception.
Well, the "no" particle connects one word to another, usually as a possessive (Bob no chair = Bob's chair) but you can just attach things to something you're describing. I think you'd want something along the lines of 殺人風 (satsujin kaze) which is murder wind. Murder, in this case, being the noun used to refer to the act, like "There was a murder." not a verb or an adjective. The kanji are 殺 satsu: kill, 人 jin: person, 風 kaze: wind.Quote:Even with an exception, however, I'd need something that doesn't contain many words. Less "wind that is such" and more "such wind." It's easy enough to spin around in English, especially if you don't mind being ambiguous, but I've no idea when it's possible in Japanese and how it would work.
Japanese translations to English have enough leeway that you could say that was murdering wind, wind that murders, person killing wind, or pretty much whatever. If you want a verb, so like "This wind is killing people" instead of "This wind is associated with the act of killing people" I guess 殺し風 koroshi kaze or 殺すの風 korosu no kaze if you don't mind a particle.
If you just want a name that uses kanji for wind and murder, 殺 can be read Ayame or Satsu as a name, and 風 can be read Fuu, Fuuka, Hayashi, Fuwari, Gaifuu, Kaza and Kaze.
Yeah, this has been a great thread. We really do have a rocking community.Quote:So far, though, I really enjoy this thread I'm clearly WAY out of my depth, which is why you're not very likely to get much meaningful participation in the linguistics side of the discussion, but I enjoy reading about it a lot nevertheless
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Quote:"Chi" and "ketsu" are both different ways to read the kanji "血", which means blood. The Japanese spoken language had words for things. Then they took the written language (kanji) from the Chinese. Words then had multiple pronunciations. Some based on the Chinese pronunciation of the character, some based the Japanese pronunciation of the idea represented by the character, some where they used character for pronunciation instead of idea, and a million billion other ways. See here for more info.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
On Kazechi or Kazetsu, could you please explain how these actually attain their meaning? It's not mandatory that I know this, but that's purely for my own curiosity. With Kazeguro, I knew that kaze stood for wind and guro, I thought, for black, but wich these... I'm seeing kaze for wind, but then... "Chi?" "Ketsu" I have an easier time picturing as "black" or "blood," but the Japanese to English dictionary I usually use translates this to "*** (col), ****, buttocks" Well, among other things, like "larva" and suchforth. I'd just like to know how these words form, if it is at all possible to explain to a complete idiot when it comes to Japanese.
This is called rendaku and it's another one of those things with a million billion variations and crazy rules. "Kuro" to "guro" happens in a few compound words, so you're okay either way here.Quote:When it comes to Kurokase, I remember I found a long PDF of Japanese last names and the ways in which they formed from meaningful words. Black was listed as "kuro" if it came in the beginning of the word and "guro" if it came in the end, as concerns two-word names.
Quote:However, the reason I didn't and still won't turn the words around is because I will not use the name "kuro." It may not mean much to you, but saying that out loud in my language comes out as something like "dickman." Knowing it has a meaning is one thing. Constantly referring to the guy as "winddick" in my head is not something I can do. I know it's a stupid problem, I know it doesn't make sense, but it basically means the word "kuro" is unusable for me. I would sooner change the meaning I want.
Well, there's always koku as an alternate reading for kuro. Or you could go with yami for dark, or blackness.
黒風 (black wind) can be read as "kokufuu" instead of kurokaze. Fuu is another reading for kaze. My dictionary actually says kokufuu is a word that means "sky darkening dust storm," so... yeah. Kuro or koku (黒) is the kanji for the concept of the color black, or the concept of dark as in colors, and is used in words like the color black. Blackboards, the Black sea, black animals, and so forth. Kaze or fuu (風) has two main meanings. One is wind, used in words like climate, weather vane, storm, cold (the sneezey kind), balloon, etc. The other main meaning is... the way things act or appear, I guess. Used in words like public morals, sarcasm, taste (the peanut butter kind and the polka-dot boots kind), elegance, demeanor, and things like that.Quote:As far as "kokufuu" goes, I don't assume that has any explanation, being a single word? Or do I have that wrong? Assuming there is no "why" this means what it means... What exactly does that mean? I realise it could mean black wind, but I also realise that's probably more a figurative translation. Does it literally mean that? Because if it does, I'll use it, provided it still fits into the "... no Rikimaru" framework.
"殺" is the kanji for killing, murdering, slicing off, reducing, and generally not being nice. It can be pronounced "satsu" on its own, or "korosu" as the verb "to kill." (Or a million other ways for those other meanings.)Quote:I guess, if I wanted to be really anvilicious, I could go for something like "murder wind" or "murdering wind," though I'm not sure if that would sound any better. I checked my trusty online dictionary, and it gave me one word for "kill" that I recognised, which was "satsu," but I know I've heard at least one more spoke, which sounded something like "kurus." Now, I don't know whether that's exactly what that meant, where it wasn't a declarative statement (I will kill you) or an order (kill him) or whatever. I'd be interested to know if killing wind or murder wind is possible.
Murdering wind could be 「殺しの風」 (Koroshi no kaze, "wind of a [specific] murder"/"a murder's wind") or 「殺しての風」 (Koroshite no kaze, "wind that is killing") or 「殺人の風」 (Satsujin no kaze, "[the act of] murder's wind")... or I guess you'd probably want something more like 「殺意の風」 (Satsui no kaze, "wind with murderous intent" or something like that.)
The last thing I was expecting here was an in-depth discussion of Japanese language. I thought it was really cool. Although now "murder" and "black" don't feel like real words.Quote:I apologise for running you guys around so much. I really appreciate the time and the help and I actually really enjoy this. The sounding of the name is still a bit... Off, which is the only reason I'm still exploring options.
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert at the language, so take all of this with a grain of salt and excuse my ignorance. -
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