Texas Justice

I'm not sure what the criteria are for the game putting up that message, but it appears to be the date of the drivers in relation to the current date.

For example, if the drivers are dated one month ago, it doesn't put the message up. If the drivers are dated six months ago, it puts up the message. I'm not sure exactly how many months are involved in the trigger, but I think it's around four months.

Your drivers may indeed be the most current available for your video card, but the date may be outside of the trigger range the game uses.

The "Recommended Requirements" and even "Minimum System Requirements" as far as video cards go is rather laughable to most people that have any technical knowledge at all as it relates to this game.

Yes, technically the game does run on the listed hardware, but not at anything that could be considered acceptable. I'd put the video cards listed in "Recommended Requirements" in the "Minimum System Requirements" instead.

Even the "Recommended Requirements for Ultra Mode" are a bit low when you look at the video card. Similarly, I'd put the video cards listed in the "Recommended Requirements for Ultra Mode" in the "Recommended Requirements" section instead.

Yes, this is definitely a video issue, mostly due to the facts that this onboard video chipset wasn't designed for gaming and was outdated by the time Vista was released.

For that old of a video chipset, I generally recommend staying with an older driver such as the 197.45 driver. Newer drivers have made quite a few improvements for newer cards, but for older cards ... not so much. You can download the 197.45 drivers using this link. Even going back to an older driver may not fully correct all of the issues you are seeing since that chipset is such a low end chipset.

No need for messing with the Menus. On the laptop, type /wdwsave to save your options. Create a macro by typing /macro wdw wdwload

This will create a macro button labeled wdw that you can click to quickly load the laptop settings.

Do the same on the desktop so that you can have a macro on the desktop as well. Much faster than going through the menus

I don't think there is a way to make it autoload a window settings file on launch, but I could be wrong.

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This sounds very much like a video driver issue but it's rather difficult to tell with no technical information to go on.

Please follow the instructions in Hyperstrike's stickied [Guide] Asking for technical help on the forums thread and post the results of CoH Helper and HiJackThis here as it instructs. If you are running Vista or 7, be sure to right-click on CoH Helper and select Run as Administrator.

There are generally two causes for this error.

The first is a proxy setting, which you don't think you are using.

The second is usually a firewall setting, although it could be a setting in any device between you and your internet connection (I'll explain that in a sidenote at the end). I'm not overly familiar with Bitdefender Internet Security and how it's configured, but I'm fairly sure it has a Firewall built in. Make sure that you allow all of the traffic used by the game and the updater and launcher. A fairly simple way to test this would be to temporarily turn off the firewall and try to have it install Beta again. If it goes fine, you'll know it's a firewall setting.

If not, it's very possibly a proxy setting somewhere.

As a side note to all of this, I work as a Tech in a school district. I was doing some work one evening in the office and thought I'd download Beta on my laptop. I was getting the same error messages and all I could find were references to WSUS servers not updating, which really wasn't helping except that they all pointed to Firewall's and/or Proxy settings.

I knew it wasn't a proxy setting and the Windows Firewall was set to OFF since I was at my office. Then it hit me that it could be related to our Internet Content Filter used to block inappropriate websites here at school. Since the guy that configures it wasn't around, I couldn't get him to watch the traffic from that laptop's IP and see what rule was blocking it (if any) but I was fairly certain that this was the problem since in some ways the Internet Content Filter works similarly to a Firewall.

I knew a quick way to test it was to set the IP address on the laptop temporarily to an IP address that is unfiltered and see if it allowed it. I was able to successfully install Beta on my laptop using this IP, so I let it download and launch and then changed the IP back to a DHCP address. I don't play from the office, but if I'm putting in long hours I'll occaisionally bring the laptop and let it update from there since it's a much faster connection.

Rudolf Hess may be why you were confused.

I remember when the History plaques were put in and roaming the Test server with several other players searching for all of the plaques in all of the zones so we could compile lists.

Someone made a simple overlay file that painted a bright yellow and red bullseye on the plaques, making it easier for us to find and catalog them. It was especially useful in Boomtown with all the rubble and in the old Faultline for finding the ones buried in the bottom of the crevasses. It was so-so in Dark Astoria due to the fog, but it still helped.