WanderingAries

Oh great, now we're gonna have half a million female alts jumping up and down in atlas...

Lots of QoL upkeep going on here, Yay!

Having any extra system bootup processes is normally not prefered as they tend to be the root to many boot issues. I can see where you'd want it up so that the updates go during idle times, but honestly most patches don't take all that long to download and update. That and you still have that one last game-boot-time update doublecheck anyway. I usually just open the launcher once every so many days or when I've read in here about an update. You could probably get away with checking every Tues/Thurs and be safe unless you're running Beta/Test as well, then it'd be on a more random schedule. Do as you wish, we're just trying to save you the bigger headaches.

*pets Schrödinger's kitty* Are you certain about that?

That said, you can have the Task Manager set to "always on-top" *snickers* and see the effect the task has on resources.

*sighs* Showing our age huh aren't we. :-(

Windows "auto-install" simply goes through it's onhand driver database and is only as smart as the programmer who designed that specific system. Even with the microsoft online driver database option, there tends to be an iffy situation with devices created a significant amount of time after the OS was released. Even Windows Update has been known to install drivers that aren't optimal for your device simply because it thinks that newer is always better nomatter the tested stability.

Well, hold your hand out so we can smack it and then go post em on ebay or something. :-p

Well that kinda sucks, game updates have been known to introduce "interesting" issues, but there's got to be something else going on.

It figures someone would beat me to it. :-/

Heh, instinct always prevails over logic (well, atleast until Tex steps in and info-smacks me). :-p

While I agree with Ironblade's sentiment about always having a backup, fixing hardware shouldn't require a drive wipe and they're kinda required (I forget why, but in general) to warn you ahead of time anyway.

My secondary/backup laptop will arrive tomorrow because of a similar (known) issue with nVidia chipsets and HP laptops. Since it was outside of the warranty period anyway I went ahead and had this NYC company (PC Pitstop) do their GPU insulation thing that involves adding a copper plate to the existing GPU heatsink. They do a reverse blow of the system, pulling out all the builtup dust and (if you want) manually set the system fan to Full-On so that the combined effect is a system that runs upto 20deg C lower than normal.

The easiest way to eliminate a root problem is to run this:

After which you realized that holidays are just days where holi-hockeysticks is the norm. ;-)

Oh you have one of Those kind of computers...I wonder if the GPU switching is causing the problem then. Is there any setting that allows you to keep the nVidia on during the entire session of windows (IE: To keep it on before the launcher is loaded all the way until after you close the game for the nite)?

Ya-ya, just because your number's bigger than mine...I'd ask if you want a cookie, but I already gave mine away. ;-)

*snickers*
As if that's really been enforced costume wise in a while. :-p

Weird, not all of the replies had shown up for some reason...NeWay, I had no doubt that Somebody got bored enough to tinker to that point, but it's never come up in a conversation I'd ever come across of to date (not a major surprise there :-/). As Agg's pointed out, I was refering to the fact that said mod would have to involve a client-side only effect that likely involves the Data folder. Honestly I don't see the point as I've seen some barely-there costumes in-game during one of the many costume contests I've observed. :-X

Hmm, I don't play with the piggies myself, so I wouldn't know how much they change. :-p

Because the game likes to think it gets the entire 2Gb of memory even if a system only has 1.5Gb allocated to software.