Selpharia

Just wanted to thank and congratulate everyone who participated in tonight's TPN. I really appreciate people going out on a limb with a method that they hadn't tried before. While it's not as smooth or fast as the MoTPN style, I could definitely see it being easier for a PuG to complete on a regular basis, because it's such a simplistic method in line with the run and smash style of the rest of the game. The trial was surprisingly fun, although that may just be because I never got repeatedly killed by civilians with rocks. I'm still not sure exactly how Marked for Death is negated, but we seemed to just power through anyway, which could be said for the whole approach to the trial.

What time does yours usually run, MP? I've been on some other trial runs with you, but never a TPN. And yes, the guide would be a tremendous help, as I am, how do the kids put it these days, a noob sausage.

Re: MoTPN: Last time we tried for that, we were sunk because [people had no idea which building to enter when. Given that experience, I'll just take a successful complete at this point.

I've noticed that not very many people seem to be interested in running TPN, an that when I ask about interest, I get a reaction that I would expect if I asked to shower Paragon City in a hail of raisins or something equally outlandish. Figured I'd post and see if there were enough people interested to run a TPN at 7:30PM Eastern on Monday, 16th January. As I understand it, the predominant strategy is to ignore telepathists and blitz terminals during the last phases, but I'd be interested in hearing how people have succeeded in the past.

So: Monday, January 16
7:30 PM EST
TPN Campus iTrial
Pocket D

I'll be there for the TPN, if only in an attempt to show that the trial itself, regardless of Mo attempt, can be completed, and that there's no need to continuously do the snoozefest BAF and Lambda only

Here's the result of tracert -d www.cityofheroes.com


Tracing a route to coh101.gtm.cityofheroes.com [64.25.35.107]
over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms 1 ms 3 ms 192.168.1.1
2 10 ms 7 ms 7 ms 173.70.118.1
3 7 ms 9 ms 8 ms 130.81.129.26
4 8 ms 12 ms 9 ms 130.81.129.26
5 8 ms 12 ms 10 ms 152.63.19.177
6 59 ms 61 ms 57 ms 152.63.0.242
7 62 ms 56 ms 59 ms 152.63.102.213
8 60 ms 59 ms 68 ms 152.179.113.90
9 59 ms 59 ms 59 ms 64.25.35.107

Trace complete

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Please note that the odd formatting is just due to me transcribing this from the command line into a board post.

Regarding torrents or peer-to-peer software, there's none of it currently running on my machine as far as I know. Thank you all once again for viewing and taking the time to offer your corroborative evidence and suggestions.

First, thanks to all who responded. I really appreciate you taking the time to try and help.

Second, I ran /netgraph and here are the results, when I didn't see any massive lag in the course of play. Ping was usually somewhere around 150-200, more toward the middle of that range in the 170s. Sent packets were in the 700-800 range and received generally between 2300 and 2400. Looking at the actual graph, I saw tiny red spikes intermittently, once every few seconds or so (maybe 5-8 seconds there would be a red bar, sometimes more often.

What caught my eye, other than the few missing packets and the flat 0's I got for stats when mapserved, was a large chunk of red, maybe 10-12 seconds worth, that showed on the netgraph after I zoned into a mission.

Once the mission began, the pattern described above resumed, and no amount of enemies or effects seemed to change it significantly. (It seemed like there was a slight increase when I fought a master illusionist, but that may just be my frustration at the foe coloring my perception.

Oh and I did try /unloadgfx and /sync but since I only tried once with that, I don't want to discount that as a solution just yet

Thanks again, and hope this helps.

Recently I've been having some issues running City of Heroes. I can't produce the same conditions all the time, but I'll often get rubberbanding (I think that's what its called) where for example, I'll be running down corridor A, turn corner B to engage enemy C, and then find myself back at the beginning of corridor A. I've also seen a serious lag between my clicking on a power and its execution, often as much as 5-10 seconds. Mapserver disconnects seem to be becoming increasingly common as well.

It's gotten to the point where I mapservered 5 times just trying to run a new defender through Precinct 5. In hopes that it might be helpful, here's my CoHelper chunk. Thanks, and apologies if this is a frequent issue, I poked around a bit but didn't see anything that sounded like all these problems.

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at February 16, 2011 18:49 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.101026-1503)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: P55A-UD3
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU K 875 @ 2.93GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.9GHz
Memory: 8192MB
.Net Memory Report: 6795MB out of 8187MB available
Page File: 23032MB (1527MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD6000HLHX-01JJPV0 ATA Device) 501722MB out of 572222MB (87%) free
E Drive: (WDC WD10EALS-00Z8A0 ATA Device) 812525MB out of 953739MB (85%) free
D Drive: (ASUS BC-08B1ST ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (64-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 465
Video Memory: 4065 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.12.6658
Driver Date: 1/7/2011 10:27:00 PM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Speakers (2- High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 7:07:00 PM
Sound Device Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (2- High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 7:07:00 PM
Sound Device Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (2- High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 7:07:00 PM
Sound Device Description: SyncMaster-1 (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)
Driver File: nvhda64v.sys
Driver Version: 1.01.0013.0000
Driver Date: 11/11/2010 6:10:49 PM

WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: P55A-UD3
Motherboard Version: x.x
BIOS Manufacturer: Award Software International, Inc.
BIOS Name: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: GBT - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20100429000000.000000+000

Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1024x768
3D Resolution: 1024x768 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes

Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No

Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High

World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Unknown (3)
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: Medium quality
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: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.600
Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 103513 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1950.201102100129.1
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found