T_Immortalus

1) What brand is the old card?
Nvidia has had fan control issues for a little while at least, causing overheating.

This can be fixed by downloading and setting the fan speed manually in:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia-...08-driver.html
(Though, that may not be a version of the software your computer and video card can support.)

That will keep a Nvidia card from overheating as much by making sure the fan is already humming along, instead of ramping up less than it needs to.

Other companies will have their own software for this(probably AMD/ATI).


2) I can't tell if your motherboard's x16 PCI slot is 1.0 or 2.0.
Your new card obviously requires 2.0 spec.

I even Googled the motherboard to search other sites for the information. It just doesn't specifiy. This leads me to believe that your motherboard uses 1.0 spec in that slot, though I can't be sure.

That would be the issue with the new card if so.



I'm at the limit of my knowledge so far though.

That is an issue.
It may not be the cause of your specific issue, but it is a problem.


You see the "advanced settings" are not really "advanced", as in "more power".
It just allows you to set each option individually, rather than as a bulk setting determined by the code the developer of the game wrote.

What they think is a "performance setting" may actually have certain things set higher than what your computer can handle. It may also have certain things set lower than your computer can handle, causing graphical glitches as well.
A good example of this is someone else posting here that their Umbral Beast from Dark Control that has a glowmap looked like a pastel pooch(no glow) because their shader setting was medium instead of high.



I suggest selecting "advanced" and changing things manually to make sure they are all within the limits of your graphics, and possibly see if something fixes your issue.

Other than that, you're stuck waiting for a new card. Sorry

Yes, they still have brawl. I believe it is "suppressed".

But....

1) Protector Bots run into melee a lot less than the bots who do have and use brawl.

2) My idea is for a solution to brawl making them run into melee when they should be focusing on ranged attacks.
Protector Bots are not the main focus nor the only focus.


This would make all pet AI a lot better. It could also probably apply to enemies as well so that ranged enemies stay more reliably out of melee, even if players may not like it when they don't bunch up for AoE. :P



Edit:
If they wanted to make "only ranged" pets/enemies then they could probably just add an effect to brawl(like tanker's bruising or controller containment or like Pack Mentality stacks) that cancels brawl immediately when it is queued. It could be a part of their brawl or be a "special power granter" like how Pack Mentality supposedly works.
That's a good way to force pets to focus on their powers other than brawl, but it would essentially remove brawl from their powers list(could be a bad thing for pets that run out of endurance, though they're useless at that point).

Oh well, it's only really necessary in combat, and works on Defensive when it really counts.

Interesting.
I have noticed that my Nvidia card doesn't ramp up enough under high heat situations to compensate for the heat.
I solved the issue by downloading their Nvidia System Tools and using the performance program to manually set my fan speed higher. It has worked for the past year and a half.

My settings tool actually says, in a tool-tip, "leaving this setting application controlled is best"(essentially) for most settings. This is on Nvidia.

I think it is also the default. I am surprised if AMD/ATI settings tools don't say that and/or default to "application controlled".

The developers said they intentionally looked for TFs/SFs with opposite alignment equivalents.
There are no WSTs that are not neutral or have a version on both sides, by design.

I forgot why they did it, but it is the way it is intentionally.

True, but I find it hard to believe that the developers would let it go unsolved with a solution present.

After all, there is the old argument that not every developer works on everything. There are artists and coders and even more divisions than that.

Chances are there would be somebody with the ability free to solve this, at least for enough time if they already have an answer, rather than all be devoted to adding another store purchase.

Exactly, queuing(wow! so that's the "ing" form of that) brawl seems to override every other attack, and often overrides commands to heel as well. Canceling it with commands such as Passive and Defensive stance commands and the ranged attacks when they activate is a logically good idea.


Last I checked, my robot pets healed and refreshed the shields while on passive.

I would argue that you are an even more advanced user than me and most others.

I've heard of too many problems in every game I have ever played with AMD/ATI cards.
I've also heard that AMD/ATI doesn't always support the newer graphics options that DirectX brings, or that OpenGL adopts as well.


My conclusion?
If you want to just play without hassle....go with Nvidia.



Edit:
Nvidia also doesn't have, what looks like, half of their drivers cause big problems with games such that people need to have threads devoted to which ones are tested and proven "not problematic" on game forums.
I'll stick with reliability even if it may mean increased cost. Thank you. :P

Well, it is solvable. I am not having that issue, but he is.

Could be that integrated graphics are not enough, at least at the settings he has, to run the new Atlas graphics.

Ultra mode on or off, the newer zones use a lot more graphical power, and even seem to perform better with some of ultra mode on than they do off on the same hardware and software.

Possibly but, performance is the most important thing when it comes to games(along with usability but usability requires good performance).

They can't add their cash shop purchases and expect them to go over well with bugs putting people off of them.

If that is true then it may be intentional and a one time issue.

It could be that they just cleaned some things up with the combat attributes window and monitor, which resulted in everyone having to reset what they were monitoring under the new organizational background coding.


I haven't seen this after refilling my monitor since.

It seemed to only affect my first login, but I haven't went to alts yet to see if they have the bug or if it resets my main's settings again.

So far, playing just my main has kept everything where I put it back to after the initial bug(including attribute monitor), so long as I don't try loading settings from saved anymore.

Still had these issues(edge dragging, moving windows, attributes monitor) when issue 22 went live.

If I load my window settings from saved defaults then I will see the windows move again and have to move them twice to move them back(don't want to move to the edge in one fluid motion).

Thread is here:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=285470

That won't go over well. People would rather have the bug(I would) than have pet management be even more complicated.

I don't think stay can be made more absolute either, simply because of how the AI works.
As soon as the pet queues an attack, they will try to get in range to use it. They will chase that enemy down until they can.

That is not something that can be changed at all easily.



But, it is an idea, and if they were going to do that then they would likely be best off completely rewriting the pet behavior code.
Again, it's a lot more work than they have been willing to do, especially for free now since they couldn't charge for a fix.

Simple is usually best anyway according to the law of K.I.S.S.

That is not how this game works.

1) Pets only buff or heal when another pet is sufficiently injured or the buffs expire(which they are constantly using as soon as recharged even when unnecessary).

2) Pet attacks are weighted by the developers. They like to use them in a certain order, if they are all recharged.

3) Pets will still buff and heal in a passive or defensive state when not attacking. The stances really only affect whether they are allowed to attack or not, and thus chase or not.

4) Pets always use powers as soon as they are recharged. That is why they like to run in to brawl so much. Any gap in the attack chain is filled by brawl(whether they can actually use it or not, meaning they may run into melee to sit there), so they brawla lot more at lower levels.


That is why I believe my idea will work.
The AI is very simple for pets. The devs have even said "they don't use AI". It's just a "dumb" priority system with simple commands.

All they need to do is stop the pets from queueing brawl(which they do whether they can use it or not) and thus activating the code for "get into range" that sends them into melee.


Currently, they try to make pets "smarter" by changing the recharges on their powers and other methods, but it isn't that successful obviously. They have had some success, but they just can't keep the pets from queueing brawl and thus running into melee.

They can't just delete brawl either, according to the developers. It's an intrinsic part of the pets, like every player character has it and every enemy has some melee whack.
It is also still useful when the pets are out of endurance.