V-Tron

I took video of most of it, but I'm probably not going to be able to get it up on to youtube till I get back home. It'll need to be broken up and I don't have the means to do that here in the hotel room I'm staying in.

a few of the high lights from the 30 minute power point presentation and Q&A

• They love our rampant speculation, but it's way more than they could ever possibly do.
• something new for the winter even, by the name of miss December...er Lady Winter
• A new Warehouse tile set.
• Concept art for Mother Mother Mercy's hospital was shown. It's going to go...somewhere
• i19 release date: Nov 16th...ish
• i19 will have 2 free respecs, one at launch and another a week later
• they can't talk about crossfire support yet
• Pretoria is expanding.

San Francisco, here I come

Personaly I'd save and get a low end Radeoon 5xxx or GeForce 4xx card.

I just picked up a Radeon 5850 and it performs beutifly in Pretoria getting around 30-40 fps in the outside world with everything but ambiet occ turned up.

you may also need a new power supply with what ever new card you get. push a power supply to it's max out put all the time is bad and will cause it to fail sooner than later

and of course case size is a concern for any new video card. not just how deep it is, but also how long. you need to make sure that what ever you get isn't going to be longer than the available space that your case has. for instance the 5850 i just got is about 10 inchs long it's an inch sorter that the main part of my case. If i got a 5870 or 5970 i'd have had to cut my case to make them fit. the 5970 is 12 1/2 inch's btw.

sounds like your CPU might be being throtled back. might be temprature, might be bios, might be windows. General tab in the system control panel should tell you both max and current clock speed.

only thing I can sugjest would be to monitor temprature, turn off all start up apps and unneeded services (msdonfig works great for this) or do another reinstall with only drivers and no windows updates and add apps and updates one at a time checking game performance after each untill your performance degrades then uninstalling the last installed item.

if after that you still have issues in preatoria, your next step is going to be either replacing the CPU and Mother board as well as ram if needed or taking it to a professinal

Here's the thing, all of the other games you mention you play are not only using different graphical engines, they also may not have as many layers of objects as preatorea does.

personaly I see a performance hit as I move from Paragon, to RI, to Crimoria and to preatorea. The map makers of this game have been adding layer upone layer of objects to make up what you see. This will cause some rigs to have severe amounts of lag in them. thus even if you were getting 60 fps in steel canyone you'll get like 30 in preatorea.

but I can't point you in any direction untill you post what your overal cpu usage is and what are the process using what percentage of that usage.

ok, you added more ram, upgraded your video card, and reinstalled windows. worked great for 3 days then boom, massive loss of FPS. I assume you checked it with /showfps 1 in game, and that you downloaded and installed the latest video drivers from nVidia and installed them and never installed the drivers that were shipped with the card.

So I have to ask, what did you install on day 3 after you reinstalled windows?

From what you describe there is something running on your system that is chewing up CPU time causing you to have low FPS.

Do you use any 3rd party game programs for things like badge traking? or Hero Stats?
don't start them or shut them down if you do and try playing.

Start your task manager check your CPU usage while just standing still in Preatoria. If you CPU is pegged at 100% use the process tab and see what's using it all. my rig only uses 10% of my CPU your should be somewhere between 25 and 50% just standing around.

Use msconfig and disable everything in the startup tab and any non microsoft service in the services tab and try again.

you may also want to look in the nVidia control panel and make sure any option that can allow the application to control it is set to allow the application to control it (should be set that way by default)

after all that you still have crap performance in Preatoria your looking at an issue with your RAM, CPU or motherboard. Possibly your Hard drive. by issue I'm talking about something is broken, failed or failing.

I also noticed your report states that you OS drive is Drive H: or atleast you have windows installed on drive H:. Windows doesn't really like this, next time you reinstall make sure windows is on drive C:

unfortunatly the answer to your problem is that your comptuer is not adapt to running this game in any zone in preatorea. I have a quad core with 8 gigs of ram and the ATI equivilant of your video card and I still have to turn off all of the UM features as well as many leagacy video features.

Sorry if the answer is not the one you are looking for.

My recomendations

Screen/UI Resolution: lower than what you have it at currently.
3d Resolution Scalling: drop this if you can't the above.
Refresh rate: na
Gama: na
FSAA: Off

UM Ooptions
Environment Reflections: Disabled
Water Effects: none
Shadow Quality: disabled
Advanced Occlusion Settings: disabled
Ambient Occlusion: Off

Particle Physics Quality: None (this uses more of your CPU if you don't have a physics card)
World Texture Quality: low
Character Texture Quality Low
World Detail: 50 - 75%
character detail : 50-75%
Max Particle COunt: 35K - 75K
Vertical sync: na
Mouse cursors: na
Use Geo Buffers: na
Anisotropic filtering: off
Texture Crispness: smother
Shader Quality: either low option or medium
Depth of Field effects: disabled
Bloom Effects: none
Desaturation Effects: na

even with that, you still have lag, sorry there isnt' much your going to be able to do till you can afford new hardware

is Everything an acceptable answer?

But I'd really like to see the ability to select an option that allows those powers that have alternate animations the ability to select an option that allows them to alternate between the two animations

also, color custimization for APPs (my soon™ to come elec/elec dominatior would love blue Energy Transfer)

I was wondering why it was so cold today.

This is total awesomesauce!

*fly's around in circles*

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

woah, i'm dizzy

it's good being home

Allways bring an extra cowbell, there's never enough

Best Memmory:

The First Time I zoned into Atlas Park from the tutorial and looked up at the awe inspiring statue of Atlas holding the world on his sholders.

And how can I forget when I got my first character up high enough to get Hover. floating over the wall in Perez Park at a whole 2 mph (That Character now hovers at over 30 mph with out power boost =P )

Happy Aniversary CoH, Here's to a great 6 years, and another 6 to follow. Can't wait to see what comes next

Willowpaw I was on my 38 stalker last night and had mentioned i would have liked to teamed.

But since I don't mind soloing any any character I have I just went about soloing in nerva. I even asked on Virtue's LFG Alpha.

But with the next issue being in open beta and the fact that you where looking for a team after midnight PST most of the server is asleep.

ofcourse that's the same time i'm usually on I've become accustomed to soloing

I'm fairly sure that the Angry Angels on Virtue has been around since launch, But I do know the founder of them is still in charge.

Also The People's Vanguard has been around since then, but is now for the most part defunct, a few original members still do log on from time to time.

Star Strider Forces Registry:

Name - V-Tron
Global Contact - @V-Tron or @V-Tron Nuvidious
Level of Classification- 50 Blast-Tank
Origin - Tech built by a Mutant
Super Group & Rank - V-Tronix ProtoType

The thing is not everyone in Virtue LFG, and Virtue TFs is also in VU2010 or vice versa for one reason or another.

Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year.

Weeeeeee *rolls around on the floor*

I like new carpet

Can't say that I've been Knocked back, down or up since I got grounded...but I also haven't gone up against and of the Know to kock people around Critters since then either.

I also have KB Io in Hover...and I play in Hover 100% of the time...even WH doesn't make my Grounded KB protetion drop off. Might not have the resistance to KB only Protection with Grounded which would cause some Critters to KB an Elec anything