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Quote:What video card driver revision are you using? The reports I'm seeing still show the 11.9's as being the most stable version for most people. I've seen a few isolated reports of 11.10 or 11.11 working for someone but others are reporting still having trouble with them.Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
I've been experiencing this exact same issue since Wednesday, even after yesterday's patch. I've pretty much given up on the game until the next patch.
Edit: Windows 7 Professional 64 bit, 12 gigabytes of RAM, ATi Radeon HD 5850 video card. Ambient Occlusion, Bloom, and Depth of Field are all disabled. Water quality is high.
I've not had any problems with the 11.9 drivers myself, running Win 7 64-bit.
As usual, I recommend following the established process of uninstalling drivers and CCC, rebooting to Safe Mode to run Driver Sweeper, then rebooting to normal Windows and installing the 11.9 drivers. -
Quote:The Carnie costume is not part of the Super Packs. It is a separate item entirely.Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
Wheee! less temptation to validate this strategy by my having to have those costume parts!
My Carnie Brute sure would love to have that CoL mask.... she doesn't want it badly enough for me to start buying these packs, though.
Oathbound's previous post made that clear. -
Glad to see you've got things running pretty well now SuperOz. Those 11.9 drivers resolve several people's problems.
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So far, I've played around 18 characters and none of them have been affected, whether they were old or new, had the old badges or not.
I've been told by others that they've not been affected at all or that only a few have characters have been affected. Of the ones affected, some people couldn't find any commonality between them while other people could (as tanstaafl did). Others have reported that all of their characters are affected. There seems to be no consistency.
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Quote:Snarky is part of my basic nature, but it's extremely rare that I use it in this forum section. As a matter of fact, the previous post wasn't really an example of snarky. I only bring snarky out on this forum section when people deserve it. The rest of the forum sections, well, if you aren't reading snark in my posts then you need to read them again.Originally Posted by Fugacity
There's no need to be snarky about it, I appreciate your input but you seem to be of the opinion that the fault usually lies with the user and not with the manufacturer, information easily found by reading your signature. The fact is CoH was running just fine for me until the latest patch, which I clearly stated.
I explained in as much detail as possible what happens and when. The loading screen doing a double-take is not normal in my experience, which is why I described it to the best of my ability. Our systems are fundamentally different, so it's only logical to guess that the problem seems to spring from the latest patch and not our individual systems.
Thanks, and likewise.
I've never been of the opinion that the fault usually lies with the user and not the manufacturer. That's why I want to see logs of the output from programs like CoH Helper and HiJackThis. Without actual data, it's all a guessing game. I don't troubleshoot by playing twenty questions or shaking a Magic 8-Ball. As for the manufacturer's side of things, I've regularly reported bugs when I come across them and busted their chops about it when it's been appropriate. I also try to give as much detail as possible including technical data when relevant.
As for my signature, I'm not sure what it has to do with your interpretation that I'm trying to blame the user and not the manufacturer.
That first line is a paraphrase of something said by a game designer and it's basically just another way of saying "no matter what you do, you can't please everyone, someone isn't going to like it". It has nothing to do with anything else. I didn't have the exact quote the way he words it, or it would have been in quotes with his name attributed to it.
The second line was a thank you to Black Pebble for something he did for me a little over a year ago. One of these days I'll get around to photographing the evidence and telling the story, but until then, the signature line will have to do.
So to clarify, you've totally misrepresented my opinions as well as misinterpreting a simple signature. -
Quote:This issue was added to the Known Issues [Live] yesterday. It was also added to the City of Heroes Freedom and Issue 21 Special Update: Media Blitz Known Issues thread yesterday.Originally Posted by MisterD
Patch adds stuff and also has a very annoying bug that hits a huge amount of people: Check
People report said bug in game and on teh forums, with no response: Check
Incremental patch comes in 2 days fixing a totally DIFFERENT bug and not even adding this one to Live Issues: Check
Bug in question will possible, maybe, if we can find those jam donuts, dont ya know, get fixed NEXT week: Check?
Very sad that is not shocking at all.
Before they can fix something they have to be able to identify what is causing it. Then create a fix that doesn't break more things. Since this doesn't happen to every player, and doesn't always happen to every character that a player has, it may be a bit difficult to determine what exactly is causing the problem.
But keep your hyperbole going. I guess you need the practice. -
Quote:Previous experience with similar issues is why I make these suggestions. Since you apparently don't appreciate it when people offer to help resolve problems, I'll not try to offer any more help to you.Originally Posted by Fugacity
Why would graphics settings affect moving a character from one zone to another? I know that it has to load graphics for that new zone, but seriously, if there are no graphic problems playing within a zone, why would problems only arise during zoning? It's easy to blame an individual's computer or graphics card, but things were running just fine before the Winter Event patch.
The few bits of actual information you finally provided aren't enough to get the full picture.
Oh, and as a side note, I do have a degree in Computer and Information Systems and have been employed doing Technical Support for over a decade. All of which means nothing in the long run.
But I wish you good luck resolving your problems. -
When have they scheduled it to break next?
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Make sure you aren't in SG mode first. Go to the tailor, save the costume to a file named MessedUp. Back out of the tailor. Exit the game.
Go to your CoH installation folder, find the Costume folder, find the MessedUp.*** file (can't remember the extension, sorry) and open it in Notepad.
Copy the contents of the file and paste it into a reply here. Someone should be able to copy/paste that data to a new costume file and see if they can recreate the issues. That would likely eliminate it as being something entirely on your end.
If it can be duplicated, you can file a /petition about it and update the ticket with the contents of the costume file and let them know that others are able to recreate it using that same costume. -
Quote:If that were the only common cause, everyone that zones would have the problem.Originally Posted by Fugacity
The common cause is zoning. When people having the problem are zoning the mapserver disconnects them.
Not everyone is having that problem.
I'd wager MOST aren't having that problem.
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Individually, those settings might be OK, aside from Ambient Occlusion. It's a resource hog itself. But combining those settings on a card released 3 1/2 years ago can add up to cause issues.
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I'd also recommend cranking down or disabling Ambient Occlusion. That is using a lot of resources and has also been know to cause problems with either Anti-Aliasing or Anisotropic Filtering. And as newchemicals notes, the settings for those two are rather high as well.
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*cleans newchemicals glasses for him*
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Meowtch,
I'd recommend turning Ambient Occlusion off entirely, lowering World Detail to High, turning Bloom Off, setting Depth of Field Enabled to No and lowering the Water Quality to High rather than Ultra.
Those settings are pushing the card harder than it should be run and could be having a factor in your mapserves.
EDIT: Since hubby thinks it may be a memory leak, I'll ask another question. Do you have the NCLauncher set to close once it has launched the game? Not just minimize to the tray, but close entirely. This could help a lot as well. I'd recommend following the steps in Hyperstrike's Guide: How to make the new NCSoft Launcher as unobtrusive as possible that is stickied here in this forum section. -
Quote:Well, the drivers for the cards are not written by the people that write the game.Originally Posted by DJ_pl0x
Thanks sincerely for the help. Downgrading to 11.9 after driver sweeper looks to be working just fine for me.
What is the issue with City Of Heroes and 11.10+ CCC/Drivers? With as many players as CoH has statistically half are on ATI/AMD cards, one would think this issue would be a lot more common and therefore fixed or even patched.
CoH runs on OpenGL and it's not as widely used for gaming as DirectX is. Driver support for OpenGL has been spotty for a long time, with nVidia and ATI both. Intel's OpenGL support is a barely there proposition, so I don't even count them in the equation. -
Mostly due to the fact that they are special enemies that only exist for these events caused me to wonder. Since he specifically stated the Snowmen in the title and the two Winter event missions, that left the possibility open that if didn't follow normal rules.
I'm glad to see confirmation from players that they do indeed drop purples.
Now I don't have to wonder anymore. -
Quote:Absolutely not.Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
Let me ask this, have you experienced this bug?
Of course, I don't team, so have no experience with the iTrials.
I do have experience with /bug and discussions with people that look into them. -
Quote:Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Will there be badges in these Super Packs? I like costumes, but i don't need them all. Adding badges would encourage me to buy them, however, especially of they were hard-to-get ones like Bug Hunter.
Eco
Bwahahahahahaha.
I'm glad Zwimmerschitzel already replied. -
If they can't recreate the bug, they can't say much. If they can't recreate it consistently, it makes it more difficult.
If people aren't filing /bug reports with enough data to work from, it's difficult to recreate it and especially to recreate it consistently.
Even when they get fairly detailed /bug reports, it's possible that it's missing a critical piece of information that allows them to recreate it consistently.
We've had several examples of them not being able to recreate something consistently (such as some of the chat bugs) until they got a report with 1 key piece of data that let them finally be able to recreate it consistently, find the cause of the problem and create a fix. And at least once it was "how did this piece of code affect that piece of code? They have nothing in common". -
This isn't a new development for support. They can only grant missing rewards when they have a clear definition of the criteria for receiving the reward.
When there isn't a clear definition of what is required to receive a reward, they have to go by what they are told is working as it was designed. In those situations they are not allowed to reward things. That participation metric isn't something that is clearly defined and able to be quantified by data in the logs apparently. Or at least, not in the data that CS has available.
Only when there is a clear definition of when something is rewarded, such as tying a reward to a specific defeat, can they grant a reward when they can see a log showing that the defined criteria was met. -
Since I really don't pay much attention to the level of the rewards that drop on these types of special missions when I run them, I really don't know.
That's why I didn't state my answers as absolutes. "I'm not sure", "I think", "makes me wonder", "I really don't know" and "if" are the words to look at in my responses that let readers know that my responses aren't stated as being definitive answers, even the ones where I'm clarifying what I said previously. -
You won't hear from the development team. If they passed it along to them, it was as a bug report.
If you look at the patch notes from yesterday's patch you will see that they have made a change to the reward.
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Incarnate Rewards - The Underground- It will be easier for all players to achieve the requirements for the guaranteed Rare and Very Rare table at the end of the Underground. Please remember, however, that this is only offered to players present and working with the league for the entire trial.
I don't know if sending this information as an update to your original petition would allow CS to grant you that reward, but I don't think it would be likely. -
Quote:You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.Originally Posted by OneFrigidWitch
I am sorry it lacks the easy-mode of blueside. Real villains host theirselves up by their own petards. Unlike blueside, where they get HOORBd to death.
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Best of luck in your future endeavors.
I'll miss you.
Flirting with Zwangenstuffer at official events won't be the same as getting to flirt with you. -
I knew they were door missions, but I also knew that they scaled to the level of the mission holder.
That is what makes me wonder if they are using the same sliding Level scale as the Invasion mobs.
EDIT: Since it's been a year since I ran Lady Winter, I couldn't remember what Level the recipes were that she dropped. It's been even longer since I've run BNY missions.