RogueMaster

Mine was showing the main CoH page earlier, instead of the mini portal that's usually in the updater.

This was an hour or so ago, before they brought the servers down, however. It may be one of the things they're fixing, as it was doing this yesterday as well.

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So, I need a new grapics card or something?
Not very good at technical speak. ^^;

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Yes.

Integrated cards (chips really, they aren't true 'cards') typically uses your system RAM (memory) to process graphics, which reduces the amount of memory available for the OS and programs, etc..

Dedicated graphics cards have their own memory and processors, which free up system resources for other things.

I wasn't able to verify for sure whether yours is a laptop or a desktop. The model information comes up with conflicting information when I do a Google search.

If it's a laptop, your upgrade options may be few and far between. Not every laptop was designed with games in mind, and many have no options for adding a graphics card.

One search result, based on the motherboard info, suggests it's a desktop. However, from the specs I was able to find, it would appear that you have only an 8x AGP graphics slot, which would still limit your options with regards to a new card.

A quick search on NewEgg comes up with several cards that MAY work for you. You can find that list here.

Most are under $100, however, depending on the age of your system it may be a more viable option to buy a new machine, rather than spend money on upgrading outdated hardware. The AGP interface is old technology and very few new machines are built with it. Those that are tend to be low end 'budget' computers that will not run modern games well, if at all.

Hope that didn't confuse you further! LOL.

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Yes. The game supports multi core. It does not, however, utilize more than two.

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I only have a dual core to begin with, so I'm going to guess that's not the problem.

Waiting on a reply from the Support team, but going to try a 'repair' on the game files, and update to the newer Nvidia drivers to see if that makes a difference.

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Actually the game does support multi core and has for a long time now.

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According to what I've been able to find, it's been in since Issue 6. So much for 'well documented' issues I guess.

I've put in a Support ticket. Hopefully someone there can give me some direction on what to look for.

Thanks!

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both cores max out at 100% <snip> Anyone have any ideas?


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The game doesn't support multi-core... you have to add the command line to force it to single core. This is a well documented issue.

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Which still doesn't explain why yesterday the problem didn't exist, and today it does. I've been playing for several weeks without issue in this regard, so something in I15 has changed.

I will however look up the command line information and see if that makes a difference. Well documented or not, it's not been an issue until now.

As of I15, the game is literally unplayable. Frames have dropped to 5, both cores max out at 100%, and RAM use is well over 80%. Before the patch I was nowhere near those numbers.

Nothing else on the system has changed since yesterday. Crysis, etc.. run perfectly fine, yet CoH/V suddenly brings my system to a standstill.

Is there some arcane ritual for patch day that I missed that would explain this? I can see no reason, barring a major engine/graphics overhaul (which would have far exceeded the size of today's update) that would have caused anything like this.

Anyone have any ideas?

System specs:

Motherboard: EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo e6600 Conroe @ 2.40GHz
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4GB
Video Card: EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
Video Driver: 185.85
Sound Card: SB X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro
Speakers/Headphones: Logitech X-530 5.1 Surround / Razer Carcharias
Keyboard: Logitec G-15 v2
Mouse: Razer Mamba
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition SP3

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but thats half the fun panzerwaffen.. its like a game you can play until the servers come back up

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LOL.. Instead of 'are we there yet?', we can say 'are they up yet?'.

Alerts were on Freedom as well, so it would appear to be a system-wide issue of some sort.

It's nice outside. Wander out, stroll around in the sun, see the real world for a while.

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When some who has ben in the CoH Beta, the CoV Beta and been a loyal costomer for 2 years is balnced tothe point THEY can die on heroic. yes i think thats imbalanced. Cause that mena the gues with less experiewnce wont even makr it out of OUTBREAK.

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Ye gods...

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