Silver Sanguis

There's no point to this list i'm afraid. Different users have different experiences with every driver. For me for example, none of them are "stable" as far as CoX are concerned, though the ones where it ran better didn't run at all for others - Read up on the old Cataclyst threads and you'll see why this thread is pointless.

I'm afraid there's no shortcut to stability here, you'll have to figure it out and try drivers on your own.

This has become a little more relevant again, but i want to ask the question again - Or rather, make the suggestion.

I've got 2 accounts on my NCSoft master account, and i want to transfer the character from my old EU account to my current main CoX account. It's got less perks unlocked than my main account, so there's no problem in terms of unlockables. The character are also all on different servers, so there's no problem with slots...

Why shouldnt this be possible? Transfering character between accounts that share a master account should be doable?

Still no luck, getting intermittent hard locks (not even permitting Windows to create a memory dump or a bsod), but they have become very random. At first i could play for 3-4+ hours without incident, other times it's 5 minutes, 20 minutes, one hour...

Currently, our base is showing the wrong emblem on all the emblem items - It refuses to show anything but the biohazard emblem, no matter what the SG emblem is set to.

What gives? A petition answer from a GM said it was a known problem, but i don't see anything in the issues list and the recent patch didnt fix it either.

Placing new rooms isn't the issue.

The issue is when trying to move existing rooms. It can happen that when moving a room, if the middle walls are occupied with wall decorations or other items that lean against the wall and the corner walls are completely free, the game still tries to force a doorway in the occupied walls instead of choosing for a free one. This is especially annoying with smaller rooms - The one wall which might be (elaborately) decorated is the only wall the editor is trying to force a doorway on and it's ignoring the other 2 free walls on that side.

Obviously it's not an option to delete rooms which may have 2000 items in them just to move them to another spot.

Whenever i try to move a room, the editor tries to force a door into a place it really can't go even though there might be 3 or 4 squares where a connection is possible. It's so weird to see the game try to do it's best to ignore any actual possibilities for connections...

This makes moving rooms in somewhat crowded bases nearly impossible. If we don't see any fixes to the base editor for another 8 years, can we at least have a little fix to the door placement so the editor tries to connect empty walls instead of built up ones when moving or adding rooms?

I'd like to post there but it won't let me... Registered, but i can't find anywhere to actually post.

It's a little odd...

You usually put Windows (or your other OS) on the SSD to make your PC a lot quicker. You don't use it as a secondary disk!

Though given your apparent limited knowledge (no intended as an insult!) i guess it's a bad idea to rearrange stuff now... I'd strongly consider getting your PC reinstalled at some point to make better use of the SSD though.

GPU, what exactly is the problem, codewise? Or rather, what did you think the problem was? I'm getting the strong notion that it's something to do with memory allocation going haywire at some point (not necessarily a leak).

Don't be afraid to get a little technical!


Edit: Second Life runs for me without any problems, though it still uses OpenGL 2.1 apparently. Since City of Heroes doesn't actually use any OpenGL 4 functions, why not try rolling back some functions to OpenGL 3 rather than forcing 4.2, where ATi's drivers are apparently not entirely up to scratch yet?

I tried some other drivers, and 11.2 seems to be stable for now. Ran last night on ultra with no crashes for 5 hours.

That site is ripping you off if it only offers 3 choices of PSU and only 750w and up. It's way too expensive anyway. My rig has more, costs less and has an SSD to boot :P



Otherwise, going on the OP:
- Liquid cooling is a gimmick. A 2500k doesn't need it at all - I've got mine overclocked to 4.5GHz on air cooling with a thermalright mux-120 on it. It's not yet breached 60C under 100% load - 57 has been the max so far even when it's 30C outside.
You don't need liquid cooling unless you want to overclock the thing to 5ghz+, which is just not necessary *at all*.
- 850w psu is overkill. My PC has an overclocked 2500k, a radeon 6970, a few fans and 4 hdd's and an ssd on it. I'm running it quite easily on a 560w PSU. Unless you desperately want SLI (which i would not recommend unless you are willing to spend a LOT of time tweaking and fixing stuff), a high quality 600w PSU will do just fine.
- What brand is the HD? I'd get a Western Digital Caviar Black if i were you, best choice for entry consumer HDD's. Though if you go to a cheaper shop you would probably have (financial) room for a Crucial C300 128GB SSD for Windows (or an Intel 320 120GB).
- Get rid of the seperate NIC. It's a gimmick. Don't even get it for free, the NIC on the motherboard is more than adequate.

On the comments:
Emberly mentions that a 2GB card is pointless. This is only true if your screen is at 1920x1200 or less. If you use higher resolutions or more than 1 monitor, the increased framebuffer might be incredibly useful, especially if you plan to run multiple game clients.
Also, just bumping up to 12gb won't work, you'll break the dual channel setup unless it's triple channel ram. Depending on the set, make sure that the ram cooling elements don't get stuck underneath the cpu cooler aswell.


In the end, i'd still strongly consider going to another shop. $1300 seems very expensive for a setup that doesn't even have an SSD. I strongly suspect that the shop you're trying to buy from includes the NIC in the price even though they say "its free". Since seperate NIC's followed a very shortlived craze a couple of years ago dealers are probably trying to get rid of their stock this way.

11.3 does not work for me, neither do 11.6 and 11.7. Haven't tried the others yet.

Radeon 6970 on Win7 64bit.

Performance isn't really the goal. I just want to take some more fun powers rather than the "must have this/that", which i already hated when fitness was still a seperate pool. I'd rather play a character than a spreadsheet, if you know what i mean.

I swapped it out so i could take super jump at least. In normal missions i don't really see any difference, if anything it goes a little better, maybe because i dont have tough and weave sucking up so much endurance (not level 50 yet).

That said, still looking at what powers i might or might not need from km and wp themselves. Repulsing Torrent seems to be the dead weight of km, on the other hand it can be useful as a way of escape or damage control. Resurgence and Strength of Will might be less useful, though i can't take them yet - I wonder how much i will use them and whether i get to use them more than once in a blue moon.

I've recently been struggling with a build for my KM/WP scrapper - Tough is undeniably very good, but boxing/kick is worthless and not taking weave just feels wrong.

Thing is that it's 3 powers that aren't very fun to take, so i'm wondering how much i'd cripple myself by opting out of the Fighting pool. Numbercrunching aside, i won't be solo'ing AV's, i'll be in a team most of the time and when i solo i don't make it too difficult on myself ;p

Solo'ing EB's would be handy though.

In another thread i found a possible temporary fix: Set your water detail to minimum. It stopped the display driver crashes, though the game itself still occasionally locks up. At least it doesn't bring down the rest of the PC anymore.

Connected?

Win 7 64bit, Radeon 6970 with 11.6 drivers.

1) Never, EVER "uninstall your anti-virus". This is a standard response on the support checklist which should have been removed ages ago.

2) Aside from that - It's most likely a driver problem. Having the same problem aswell, just with City of Heroes, occuring very randomly.

I did notice that selecting different costumes when trying to load them can cause long delays aswell.

By the way, what about an account merge? Is Paragon/NCSoft claiming this is impossible? I've got a lot of characters on EU account on Union, though i don't want to maintain 2 accounts for obvious reasons.

Will my own characters be denied to me?