TerraShock

Ultramode in Pratoria and UM in the rest of the game are about a difference of app. 20 FPS for my 260GTX, albiet on a lowend AMD 4400, 2 gigs ram. If your not going to Pratoria, lower can suffice.

Might wanna start at Father Xmas's guide here
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...=124080&page=2

Get a good power supply.

Corsiar's are pretty good too. A quick search found these solutions to a similiar problem that you might wanna consider. Good luck to ya, maybe time to get tech support involved.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=143598
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...6&postcount=19

Running sli? Have you checked that your power supply is robust enough? Think those need 700w 50 amp? The graphics in the game are pretty demanding on GPU's.
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-260-review/4 http://www.thermaltake.outervision.com/

Seems there are problems with this machine, off asus forums, http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...age=1&count=24
one machine came with a fan disconnected, so check that, other had a vid card loose, so check for that.
Did you check for any error codes showing up?

Running advanced shadows on med, except with shadows set to "near", has helped with my flickering while moving around ingame.

Looks like your running Windows Defender and Norton?
C:\Program Files\Norton Internet Security\Engine\16.8.0.41\coIEPlg.dll
\Run: [Windows Defender] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe -hide

May cause conflicts if their overlapping protection.

Lots of toolbars and misc programs running in the back ground on that 3 GB memory prob not helping either? I'd consider tryin to shut some down that your not using.

BHO: Windows Live inloggningshjälpen - {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll
O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Helper - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar1.dll
O2 - BHO: Windows Live Toolbar Helper - {E15A8DC0-8516-42A1-81EA-DC94EC1ACF10} - C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Toolbar\wltcore.dll
O2 - BHO: HP Smart BHO Class - {FFFFFFFF-CF4E-4F2B-BDC2-0E72E116A856} - C:\Program Files\HP\Digital Imaging\Smart Web Printing\hpswp_BHO.dll
O3 - Toolbar: &Windows Live Toolbar - {21FA44EF-376D-4D53-9B0F-8A89D3229068} - C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Toolbar\wltcore.dll
O3 - Toolbar: &Google - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar1.dl

Seen several threads on this issue, seems mostly Liberty. Emergency server maintence is scheduled, maybe for the fix?
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=234375

Redside new arc's, from Dean MacArthur, and Leonard were pretty well done I thought. The last part of Leonard's arc was intense.

Thats about what I'm getting FPS wise. GTX 260 216 core oc, on an older AMD 4400, 2 gigs ram, XP. Everything turned on cept AO. I did have to reduce the world details to around 93 for a boost in outdoor areas.

Redside tends to be a lil lower overall in the outdoor built up areas.

I'm running a gtx 260 216 core, OC, and still needed to turn down world detail a smidge from 100 to 93ish. All but AO is being used on my settings atm. I'm sure that 9800GT is really struggling with the world details that high.

To update, I installed the latest 258.96 drivers and that didn't fix the issue for me. Thanks for posting Zaloopa, least I know I'm not the only one that is seeing this. TC

You might want to post a cohhelper log to get some assistance, but I get some freeze lag as well running a GTX 260 OC. I have a feeling the graphics/textures, in the game might not be coded as best as they could've been, and may be causing some issues.

I can get upwards of 35-40 FPS smooth sailing one minute and in the same area, stutter and freezing visual lag at other times, in the same area.

Noticed this happening, and wondered if others are getting the same. Havn't updated to the latest nvidia drivers, 258.96, but on the previous versions atm. I'll give the new ones a go later, but seems some have had problems with crashs while entering base portals with these.

What happens is if I open the options menu for advanced graphics, then enable advanced shadows. Move the slider to, say, near shadows only, click apply, close the menu. All is good, but if I reopen the menu to adjust something else, the slider gets reset to "far" and the graphics change. This seems to happen for other shadow adjustments as well.

I know I can make my other adjustments, then change the shadow details, "last", so they will remain in place, but was wondering if this is workin as intended or maybe it's a lil bugged?

It may also be causing some problem for other people's frame rates, thinking their lowering settings to get better frame rates, then by reopening the menu, the settings change back to higher, and thus slower frames. Thanks.

Is the base possibly corrupted? Some of the bases can be memory hogs if there is alot of items/custom work in the base. Can others enter it w/o problems?

That was my first thought. Btw, did you try to clean the old drivers out of the system before installing the new ones?
Could TweakCoH be interfering with the settings?

side note, looks like Ramen posted on the new driver thread,
Re: New Nvidia 258.96 drivers are out

"Seems to be having problems for me. Freezes up whenever I enter SG base. Rolling back to an older driver fixed it"

Time for some research if it's gone bye bye. Have you done any google on the specfic monitor/problem and see if anyone had similiar issues?

I was able to repair my older gateway when it went out. The power inverter went bad. Fairly easy repair, the site that sold the inverter had all the instructions to replace it. Getting the bezel faceplate off without damage was the hardest part. Took maybe an hours time and saved me a little cash.

Here are a couple links to sites that you may need to start looking at.
http://www.pcworld.com/products/monitors.html http://dealnews.com/categories/Compu...nitors/75.html

Looks like you may be tight on memory with a page file showin 629MB in use. I think there is a "gaming" mode on that antivirus that might help, but some more memory would be nice. http://www.blackviper.com/ is a good site to learn how to disable some services to free up ram if you want to try that route. Are you using Skype while your gaming?

Actually Norton redid their virus engine a couple years ago and it's much less of a memory hog, and I do like their "pulse" feature that gets virus updates as their put out. It's not the smallest footprint AV, but it has gotten much better. I also run MS Security on a diff computer, and it's footprint is pretty small. Interesting link re: AV memory usage ratings.
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...rity-for-2010/

I'm runnin a GTX 260 216 core, I bumped up the clocks a bit but on a much slower processor, (amd 4400, 2 gig ram, XP). I'm mostly just over 30 FPS blue side, and over 25 FPS red side with some stuttering at times. Occlusion off, shadows med, 4XAA, triple buffering set in nvidia panel. YMMV but if you wanted to stay with nvidia, I think you can expect a lil better then what I'm gettin with that processor.

The pny card I bought is on sale at newegg now for about $185, inc shipping.

je_saist makes some excellent points on the radeons and they do seem to have been very good with their drivers lately, maybe even more so than nvidia. Future support of DX11 is something to consider.

Thats pretty much how it's done. I think the person has to be high enough rank to accept the coalition? You didn't mention the server your on, but I have some toons on virtue redside and would be happy to assist ya. No charge. If your on another server, lemme know and I'll be happy to create a quick toon to help ya if ya need. /t@Terra Shock

Tryin these, but some issue maybe with advanced shadow settings not being applied correctly on my GTX 260.

If I enabled advanced settings for shadows, then lower some settings, apply, then back out of the menu, then open it again the "apply" is flashing and asking me to apply the settings again. Didn't have much time to work with this bug yet, but this was causing my system to stutter some.

You should be getting better FPS I would think. EVGA Precision tool does have some problem with the 200 series cards I think, one is the "polling" of the fan speed causing games to stutter with certain cards.

I've noticed on my 260 gtx while tryin the latest drivers, that the shadow sliders don't seem to work correctly.

If I enabled advanced settings for shadows, then lower some settings, apply, then back out of the menu, then open it again the "apply" is flashing and asking me to apply the settings again. Didn't have much time to work with this bug yet, but this was causing my system to stutter some.

Sorry that didn't help ya. Lil bugs like this annoy me as well. BTW, was this costume from a "saved" costume. I dunno if they ever fixed that bug. Hopefully support can get ya some help.

I encountered a similiar issue on my crab, the jest of the problem/solution that worked for me.

Not in SG/VG, color change problem.
Trying to change the "armor pads" pants to a darker shade, made sure to be out of SG/VG mode, on my crab spider toon, 2nd costume slot.
The costume had been "loaded" from a saved costume.

I've found that if you enter the costume editor mode, and use the drop down menu for the "backpack" and actually place the larger backpack, from the available option, then changes will take place as normal. I had kept the original smaller backpack, (thought it looked better), that got placed on the toon automatically.

After assigning the optional, larger?, backpack, all worked correctly. YMMV but this seemed to work for this instance.

Here are some pics of the vid glitches I mentioned. Had these before I upgraded the video card and drivers, so I don't think their related to this new driver set, but thought I'd post and see if anyone else is seein 'em.

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s.../graphic16.jpg
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s.../graphic15.jpg
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s.../graphic03.jpg