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Quote:Same here. About every other mission when I enter, it sits on the CoH or CoV splash screen, never loading the map. In the end I have to force quit. Disconnected my entire team earlier, and just barely trying to enter the last mish of the vill-side dark mirror arc did it to my mastermind. I'm also on Virtue.Originally Posted by IridiumMaster
Hi,
this is a more detailed version of my Virtue server post.
Currently, Virtue server appears to be booting entire teams from the game during the course of instanced missions. This happens randomly, but appears to be particularly evident upon loading office maps. Has happened to me six times in the past hour (entire teams kicked from the game on loading maps).
Character Name:
Darkswift
Where I am:
Steel Canyon
Level:
18/19
Difficulty:
+1
I won't post my machine specs because, like I said, it appears to be a server side issue.
Thanks,
IM
Edit: And now I see an announcement that Virtue is going to be down tomorrow morning, so it looks like they know about it. -
Quote:Reason for this is it seems his drain is unresistable and autohit, so running away when he starts it is the only way to avoid it.Originally Posted by Talbein_Vikshus
I discovered something interesting when I ran the arc with my BS/Inv scrapper. Before running the arc, I used base buffs like resist end drain, resist energy dam, etc etc and loaded up with medium to large purples.
Now I was either the unluckiest bastich because he must have siphoned at least 4 times while I was buffed. After beating up on him a few times and running out of inspirations, I ran. (Yes, I know...but bear with me...and I was on Die only 1 challenge setting heh)
The trick is to fight him by the elevators and when he gets ready to siphon, click on the vators to go down. Wait a couple of seconds and then come back up. You will find that he did not siphon you (if done at right time) and he does not follow you down. Just come back up and beat up on him and go down the vators again if need be.
On a side note, my emp/elec defender with hover was able to simply float and take him down without fleeing. The end drain from my blasts never allowed him to siphon lol.
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I'm running a BS/Fire scrapper, currently lvl 27 and having a lot of fun so far with only SO's. I plan on starting on sets at 32, my goal is to get soft-capped or relatively near it in melee and lethal defense with a single application of Parry, and let my resists and heal take care of whatever else gets through. However, I'm NOT planning an uber recharge death build, I don't care about soloing AV's or x8 anything. I would like to be able to solo +2/x3 or x4 though, and have enough recharge to keep consume up often enough so not worry too much about end. I am willing to use a cheaper rare set or two, but I don't want to break the bank, at least not too much (Yes, I realize I have a Touch of Death set in here, if it comes down to it I'll use it, but anything cheaper that will do just as well I'll take). I would also like to get an Achilles -resist proc into Slice and Whirling Sword as well, but if need be I can do without
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.704
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Ne'kata-Virtue: Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Broad Sword
Secondary Power Set: Fiery Aura
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery
Hero Profile:
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- (3) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance: Level 35
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- (A) Empty
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- (43) Multi Strike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 35
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- (A) Empty
- (A) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage: Level 35
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- (31) Serendipity - Defense/Endurance/Recharge: Level 35
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Level 1: Brawl- (A) Empty
- (A) Empty
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Level 4: Ninja Run
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Quote:I don't think you're understanding. This is not the same as looking at a wall vs looking out at the city. This is switching from the CoH game client, to another application, and the game's fps going UP, instead of down like one would think would happen due to another application taking focus. This is not normal behaviour.Originally Posted by FitzSimmons
Similar reason why you get higher fps when staring directly at a wall or your FPS goes up when there's a loading screen.
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Quote:Umm, he said CoH has more fps when OUT of focus, not in, which I will also say is quite odd. I would send in a bug report myself, but beyond that I can't think of anything that would cause this.Originally Posted by FitzSimmons
Because it has focus. Any applicaiton that's given focus has higher priority and takes more resources.
Granted I think i17 is taking up more CPU than before even with UM off but applications that have focus always have a higher priority and take up more resources. -
And more testing. Whenever CoH loses focus, whether I alt-tab out, or another program takes focus away, the frame the client is on when focus is lost gets stuck in memory. I tested this, alt-tabbing several times in different locations and zones. Every time, as soon as the game lost focus it would end up with the frame stuck in memory. Eventually I would begin to see the dark flashes occur. If I never alt-tab, or if focus is never taken away by something else, everything is fine, runs great. This also occurred in windowed mode back when I17 went live, eventually I would begin to get dark flashes while playing, even though I would never see a stuck frame upon exiting. But it would occur only after a while, during which I would regularly switch between coh, msn messenger and mids hero designer, so I'm pretty sure the same happens even in windowed; a frame getting stuck in memory upon loss of focus.
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Quote:After reading your post, I remembered that in Test I never had this problem, so I decided to test a few things. One thing was that with test, I installed the client after it had already went into closed beta, so it was beginning with fresh settings; nothing leftover from I16. With this in mind, I decided to hit the Reset to Defaults button on the graphics tab. Played around for a while, going from zone to zone and no dark flashing, closing out the client didn't show any still frames from earlier in my play session (also, the game looks so plain now with no Ultra Mode options on @_@).Originally Posted by Back_Blast
Try lowering your graphics a touch and see if that has any effect. The usual culprit there I think for that sort of thing is that your card's frame buffer isn't getting cleared properly and so what you're seeing is 'leftover' frames or partial frames still in the card's memory. Lowering your graphics ought to make the card work a little less hard and stop that from happening.
After going back in-game, I started setting my options to where I had them before, did more missions, moving from zone to zone, never got any kind of flashes, and exiting the game didn't show any kind of still frames. So this has me curious if maybe it could be leftovers from I16 that was keeping my card's frame buffer from properly clearing? I'll have to play more to be sure, I was playing an old toon on Liberty for my tests since Virtue is currently down, and will report back either if the flashing returns, or later tonight if everything remains fine. -
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at May 6, 2010 13:42 (-07:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100226-1909)
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Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
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Installation Directory: E:\Games\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
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In the "Players experiencing issues related to Graphics cards" sticky, some people have reported experiencing occasion split-second black or dark flashes during gameplay, myself included. Well recently I've noticed that when I close out the client, I can see some sort of still image of a point earlier in my play session, rendered right underneath the actual game. This still image looks as though it was made at a very dark gamma, and it leaves me wondering if while I'm playing, the client is switching, for just a split second, to this still image.
Example: One time I had been playing a while, had zoned to Talos, ran around then quit. As soon as the game closed out, for a brief moment I could see a darkened image of back when I was still at the train station. Another time the still image was of the level-up screen choosing a new power. It's like the game is rendering these still images and placing them under the actual game world, and has me wondering if that could be causing these black/dark flashes.
For reference, I'm running on a Radeon HD 4850 with the 10.4 drivers. CoH Helper info in next post. -
Okay, after some testing between the 10.1's and 10.4's, it seems to be 4x anti-aliasing the 10.4 catalyst's having trouble with. If set to 2x AA, I get the same framerate with both drivers, but when I up it to 4x, I see a big fps drop in the 10.4's that doesn't occur in the 10.1's. I'm gonna stick with the 10.4's for the time being though to test out a few other things.
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It's inconclusive, I'll have to play for a while to be sure, but disabling Catalyst AI seems to have solved it. I'll keep playing just to make sure and report on it later tonight before I head to bed.
Edit: Nope, still happening. It seems to be random, but so far isn't enough to keep me from playing, fortunately. -
Quote:Have you figured out what may be causing this? I'm actually experiencing the same problem; a black flash that lasts just a split second. Running on a Radeon 4850, Windows 7 64-bit, Catalyst 10.1. I would try the new 10.4, but those make me lose over 10 fps. Gonna try a few settings both in-game and in the control center, see if I can track it down.Originally Posted by Captain Fabulous
The only problem I've been seeing are frequent flashing of the screen, like a black flash that lasts for a fraction of a second. I haven't played around with the video settings much to see what might be causing it. I have a Radeon 4770.
I know the problem isn't just me as someone in chat was mentioning they were having the same problem. -
Quote:Windows 7 64-bit, 1600x900 with both versions, and no, didn't even think of reporting in the survey. Thanks for the link, I will right away.Originally Posted by je_saist
What OS are you using? What resolution are you running at? Have you filed this report in Catalyst Crew Feedback: http://www.amd.com/us/CatalystCrewSurvey
Edit: For now I'm reverting back to the 10.1 Catalysts. I'll give the 10.4s another go tomorrow when I'm not tired, for now I just wanna play CoH. -
Okay, so the official ATI 10.4 Catalyst drivers came out. I cleaned out the older 10.1's, including using Driver Sweeper and installed these. I lost about 10 fps with the 10.4's, and I'm trying to figure out what's causing it. My card is a Radeon 4850 512MB with these settings;
Catalyst Control Panel
Anti-aliasing: Application Controlled
Adaptive Anti-aliasing: Quality
Anisotropic Filtering: Application Controlled
Catalyst AI: Advanced
Mipmap Detail Level: High Quality
Triple Buffering On
In-game
Anti-aliasing: 4x
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Character and World Detail at 100%
Bloom: Heavy at 100%
Depth of Field Off
All Ultra Mode settings maxed out, except Ambient Occlusion which is off
At these settings, wandering around Kings Row gives me around 30 fps with the 10.1 Catalysts. With 10.4, it goes down to 18. -
I'll echo my agreement on the third system. Most powerful of the bunch of the three video-wise. CPU isn't as strong as the 2nd, but that's not nearly as important as the video card, and that Radeon 5850 should give the best performance. So yes, #3 will be the best for Ultra mode, and any other games you may decide to play down the road.
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Quote:Pretty much. Run in, slice/slash/smash/bash stuff til dead, repeat with next group. Just no worrying about a fury bar running down if you ever have to pause for a minute. Instead you get random critical hits for extra damage rather than a straight damage buff from fury.Originally Posted by Broken_Wings
Haha, you are right sorry. My favorite ATs would be Brutes Masterminds and Dominators, so I like a wide variety of play styles.
I never really got the hang of Stalkers and Corruptors though.
Scrappers seem interesting, especially since I love playing Brutes, I think they share the same playstyle?
Edit: Oh, and less hp, but a higher base damage. Still plenty soloable. -
Quote:Hehe, I'd LOVE that. So would my /SR and /shield scrappers, they've been waiting for a challenge and would happily dive down there and attack everything in sight.Originally Posted by Redbone
The Ghouls (thank you Devs for using the proper term) do appear to be the Pretorian Vazh (with or without Dr V they're filling that genra niche). I just want to know what the collars and wristlettes are for now. And I want to know how accurate the Descript is, especially the "beating one makes the others angry." It would be very cool to have a foe that, if you engage one others in the area get an aggro range bonus (say an "aggro range boost" that extends 100 feet and triples the aggro range) and come after you. It would make them a particularly challenging foe to fight because you'd have to be very careful about your movements and when and where you engaged them or risk massively overaggroing.
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Quote:For clarification, the 512MB computer is my sis', who doesn't run CoH. I just mentioned hers to explain why I run MSE rather than AVG. My computer, which is the one that had the problems, has 8GB RAM. No idea why my computer has problem with real-time protection and CoH, where yours doesn't, but I've been playing and it looks like adding an exception for my CoH folder fixed it so I can leave the AV on.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Interesting. I run MSE on my 32-bit Windows 7 installation on my old computer that dual boots to XP with no problems. I dual boxed that Windows 7 install with my 64-bit Windows 7 install on the new computer (running AVG) during the last double XP weekend with no problems on either computer.
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Quote:Yeah, it's Microsoft Security Essentials, although this same exact problem occurred back when I tried out Windows 7 RC. Back then I believe I used AVG. I can only guess that AVG was causing my performance woes back then as well. Switched to Security Essentials because I needed a lightweight antivirus to put on my sis computer (1.3 GHz Celeron with 512MB RAM I also upgraded to 7 from XP), and decided to try it myself.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Would you mind letting us know what Anti-Virus program it is? That way if someone else has a problem we can use the information to help them troubleshoot it.
Also to help with any future diagnosis, my performance issues were gradual. Basically a degradation of performance over time that didn't go away with a computer restart. -
Quote:That's a good idea, I'll give it a try. Thanks.Originally Posted by DJ_Shecky
Might want to see if you can put in an exception for the CoH folder and try it with everything still on. If that works then you don't have to worry about shutting it off and turning it back on.
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Well, I figured out what was causing it; the real time protection on my anti-virus. Decided to try disabling it this morning, and sure enough, game's playing smooth as silk. Funny that it only affected CoH and none of my other games, but ah well. Just have to remember to re-enable it after I'm done playing.
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Ok, this is frustrating me to no end. I recently got Windows 7, and at first CoX ran great on it. However, beginning last night I will get a massive frame rate drop whenever there's a large amount of power effects going off. Say, I use fire sword circle on a large group, and frame rate will briefly go down into single digits. Using shield charge in that same group is even worse, as the game will utterly freeze for a couple seconds. These lag spikes are also happening in teams, as every attack with any kind of graphical effect that is used, whether by a player or an enemy, causes a small frame rate drop. They all start going off at once, it becomes a slide show. Thing is, when I had Vista this never happened, and it's leaving me wondering if there's some setting in Windows 7 that's causing it, but I have no idea what, and I'm pulling my hair out trying to fix it.
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.8---
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Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
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Motherboard Product: P35-DS3L
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BIOS Version: GBT - 42302e31
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Gamma Correction: 0.671
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of Extra Player FX Enabled: No
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Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
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Current Game Version: 1600.20091015.6T
Installation Directory: E:\Games\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
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And I agree that the backstory is wretched. I can't imagine any of my characters being stupid enough to use any technology created by either Aeon or Crey, and I can only assume at this point that the devs are deliberately messing with our heads by describing AE as such.
[/ QUOTE ] Heh, that reminds me what I said on the first day of open beta; "Built by Aeon and funded by Crey. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?" Yah, I agree with the setiment that as far as I'm concerned, the contact for my story arc is real as is the quest she sends you on. Otherwise, I can't possibly imagine any of my characters entering an AE building knowing who built it (with one exception, a bots/traps MM of mine who is probably more insane than Aeon >.> ). -
Arc Name: The World of Atheria
Arc ID: 16038
Faction: Heroic
Creator: @Lynia
Length: Long (put aside about 30-60 minutes for it)
Difficulty: Medium-hard (AV at the end, recommend teammates)
Level Range: 1-54 (made for high-level toons, recommend be 40 or higher)
Synopsis: A feline hero comes to you requesting aid in her world...
Honest ratings and constructive feedback will be greatly appreciated. -
Arc Name: Clipping Whiskers
Arc ID: 15596
Faction: Villainous
Creator Global: @Lynia
Difficulty Level: Hard (1 AV/EB in mish 1, 2 AVs/EBs in mishs 2 and 3)
Synopsis: A strange feline villain contacts you to take care of a few problems...
Estimated time to play: About 30 - 60 minutes
(Note: It's soloable with certain ATs and/or powersets, I did it on a ss/wp brute, but you may want an ally or two. Also, due to a current invalid level glitch, the first mission is set at lvl 35-40 due to having to change an ally to compensate)