Texas Justice

Guess I've just been lucky on the other forums I use that run on vBulletin. Of course, it still doesn't exclude the possibility of being a configuration issue.

In any event, since I've had it happen no matter what browser I'm using on these forums and others have as well, I'm pretty well ruling out the browser as being the issue.

Yes, that point was clarified in the post before yours.

The only problem I have with that line of thought is that I frequent several other forums that use vBulletin and none of them have this problem. Everyone I've talked to (that manage vBulletin forums) about various problems I've seen here on the forums seems to think it's a configuration issue caused by people not knowing what they are doing. There have been configuration problems since they moved to vBulletin that tend to make me agree with that assessment.

When I started my post, the CoH Helper ended at the Sound cards. You edited the post while I was typing my reply. The only thing that really stands out is the Ambient Occlusion settings. I'd shut off AO entirely to see if it has any effect on the problems.

As for the code tags being more difficult to handle, not everyone is running on a wide screen monitor or even a high resolution monitor. I'm often posting from an odd location while taking a lunch break or while waiting for software updates to install on a computer at work, such as on that day. The computer I was on was an older laptop with a lower resolution screen and no mouse or touchpad. The forum posts barely fit the width of the screen for normal posts. The use of the code tags expanded the width of the post making scrolling more difficult within the tags since it also required scrolling horizontally as well as laterally. That makes it difficult to scroll back and forth for referencing entries in the post. And since the code tags aren't necessary to post the CoH Helper output or the HJT output, it makes little sense to use it.


No, I was saying that there were items in the HJT logs that concerned me as they could be using resources the game wanted. Anytime people are reporting odd behavior I recommend shutting off other programs to see if they are causing an issue, that's just basic troubleshooting steps for any tech.

Did you file a /bug report?

That wasn't anywhere close to what I said. I merely reported the results of my testing and that I was unable to reproduce it. I also mentioned that one of the networks uses a content filter as well as a proxy.

Tony apparently wanted me to post something constructive, so I did. I tested what he was reporting to the best that I could and reported the results of the test. Are you saying we are only supposed to report testing results if they were the same as his?

I appreciate the friends I have locally that allowed me to use their networks to perform the tests, especially since one of them did so outside of normal working hours. Apparently people actually testing things and reporting the results isn't good enough for some people on the forums, so if all you are going to do is take potshots at someone that actually tries to test what is reported then I won't bother with the tests I was going to try on another network running a proxy.

I've now posted from behind two different businesses proxies with no problems. This is along with one of them involving a content filter as well as the proxy.

Not really.

It's a rather long list. Not at all suitable for this forum.

Sure looks like you are asking for assistance with it and that it IS apparently that important to you. If you don't want to deal with tech support and you only want to report the problem (as well as offer your assistance), PM one of the OCR team since they are in charge of the forums and they can direct it internally to whoever would be appropriate. Since this isn't a forum for official technical or QA support, it merely seems as if you are trying to blow your own horn by offering to help them solve the problem.

Mighty big of you to offer to help, although posting it here still seems as if you are trying to blow your own horn by offering to help. And it still sounds as if you are asking for technical assistance, no matter what your second post stated.

If you look at the heading at the top of the forum, you will see the text I quoted above.

Since you are asking for technical assistance, that would be the recommended course.

Your video card drivers are almost 3 years old. If you don't want to try the newest drivers for your video card, I'd recommend upgrading to at least the 197.45 drivers since they are compatible with the graphics changes made in Issue 17 that your older drivers don't support.

Download the drivers but don't install them yet. Download and install Driver Sweeper but don't run it yet. Uninstall the video card drivers and software from Add/Remove Programs. Reboot into Windows Safe Mode by pressing F8 rapidly during the boot process. Cancel any New Hardware Wizards that come up. Run Driver Sweeperand have it remove the remnants of the old nVidia drivers. Reboot into normal Windows mode but cancel any New Hardware Wizards that come up. Install the drivers you downloaded earlier.

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One thing that I'm beginning to see a bit of a trend in is that several people reporting this type of problem are running Avast Anti-Virus software. Try putting the CoH directory in the exclusion list so that the game files aren't being scanned as you play.

Well, we can start with the questions asked just a few posts before yours.

Heh, someone posted a silly drawing of the People's Elbow, but Mod 07 is much cooler than that.

He goes for either the original, the Bionic Elbow as delivered by The American Dream Dusty Rhodes



or the equally impressive Diving Elbow Drop as delivered by the recently departed Macho Man Randy Savage

Fixed that for ya.

Knopfler wasn't big on spelling.

Based on Avatea's post yesterday, I don't think that's what the problem is.

This is the only thing that really concerns me. It shows you have an ATI video card, but for some reason the nVidia Display Driver Service is running. Have you changed video cards in the computer? I'd recommend downloading and installing Driver Sweeper and then booting into Windows Safe Mode and run Driver Sweeper to remove the remnants of the nVidia drivers on your system.

The only other things I see that concern me are the Unknown entry on the Anti-Aliasing and the lack of Service Pack 1. I don't think either one would cause this problem though.

It's possible that the video driver installation may be corrupted, and you did mention there were concerns about the video card (without any details). You could always download the 11.4 drivers but not install them yet, uninstall the existing drivers and the CCC from Programs and Features in the Control Panel, reboot into Safe Mode and run Driver Sweeper to get rid of the remnants of the old drivers, reboot into normal Windows and install the drivers from the downloaded file.

I'm not seeing any of the programs that are known to cause this type of problem in the HJT logs or anything really out of the ordinary other than what's been mentioned.

Are you running the Launcher as Administrator?

As Mandu said, try running it in Safe Mode to see if that will let the game launch.