catwhowalksbyhimself
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That's certainly not what I've experienced. Everyone in my group always has gotten a decent number of shards every tf we've done. Not the same amount o course, but always a decent share. Not a single person was complaining about it even while comparing how many we each got.
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I agree that you are probably just on the wrong server. The more heavily populated ones, like Freedom and Virtue have stuff going on at all hours of the game. I've personally played at 3am on Virtue and found lots of players around.
It is important, though that you use the channels used by your sever for organizing these things, otherwise it will be nearly impossible to find anything.
If all else fails and you don't see something being organized, organize one yourself. It's amazing how otherwise unknown people come crawling out of the woodwork as soon as you publicly announce you are organizing something. Just last night I was playing with a level 4 character and there was nobody playing with lowbies at all. I announced a lowbie team and had four in seconds and a couple more in 5 minutes. -
Exactly. The dusty old fifties that get pulled out once in a while for nostalgia's sake are being dusted off and played all at the same time. It's just the people usually mix their playing of 50s with leveling of new toons, but now everyone's just taking out their 50s to experience the hyped up new content for them. It should go back to normal in a couple of weeks, just like everyone made new characters when GR first game out.
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Quote:I did, in the post right before yours.Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
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There's also a global channel set up just for people to ask questions. It's call N P C (include the spaces) anyone on there is there just to answer or ask questions. No question is too dumb to ask and no time is a bad one to ask them.
I'll even send you a few million inf if you ask for me on that channel and I happen to be online at the time. -
Note that the page you linked to is one out of 3. One of them outlines exactly what things you can put into an Alpha Slot, exactly the statistics of what they do, and some info about how you get the salvage needed to make them. Apparently, you missed that one.
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I looked up information on that file, and it belongs to Intel Open GL drivers. Sounds like there may be a driver problem. A reinstall may be in order.
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That would beat one of the purposes of it--to keep the server from being too heavily overloaded. They probably have it set so only a certain number of people get the pre-download at a given time. I got it, although not as early as some people, and I'm sure you will too in time.
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Nonetheless, it does mean it's fairly close, which is good news.
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This is good news!
The pre-download means it shouldn't be too long now. Maybe the speculation about the 8th will be correct.
But yeah, they typically do this ahead of a big update so everyone won't be downloading all at once and so you won't have to wait to play once it does go live. You can cancel the pre-download if you like. It's not required like the regular ones. -
My ideas, pretty much off the top of my head. Don't expect too much.
Concealment: Disguise--AoE confuse
Fighting: Stance--self imob, small health and end recharge buff
Flight: Sonic Boom--low damage AoE with knockdown
Leadership: Reinvigorate--AoE heal
Leaping: Tumble--knockdown/immob resistence. Recieves a small amount of endurance for each time such an attack is resisted
Medicine: Painkiller--debt protection, small resis to lethal
Presence: Glory--AoE stun
Speed: Vibrate--cold/psi resist
Teleportation: Long Range Teleport--Teleport to any zone with exits from current zone. -
I had the same problem, but I may have figured this out.
My toon was on a team with level 50's in Grandville, but was only a 38 himself, outside of the zone level range. I think he got credit for costumes others on the team earned, or maybe the ones he would have gotten, but got none himself because of his natural level. -
The link to the events section is broken.
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Greetings and welcome. I've been playing for 9 months. This is my first and only MMO and I've found it easy to get into, but with loads of depth I haven't even begun to dig into. I still have only done a fraction of the mission content available after all that time.
Once you have a full account, consider joining the N P C channel. I think you've already heard of it, but that's the Mentor Project channel where you can ask any and all questions.
And if you ever make a toon on Freedom, send me a PM and I'll give you a few million inf to get you started. -
I honestly did not remember when I installed this and to this day I am pretty sure I installed it earlier.
In any case, I'm so used to the thing now, I forget that I'm even using it. I wasn't that I ignored that piece of advice, I really never thought of it. I did, in fact, respond to that question and did in fact, suggest something else.
In any case, it's not anything anyone would have thought of anyhow, but at least now we know of that particular issue. -
The issue has been resolved, thanks to the kind technical support folks.
Turns out there's a conflict between it and Stardock's fences. I hadn't noticed, but Fences runs in the system background, doesn't show up on the process list, and is apparently immune to system restore. Uninstalling it restored fps to a sluggish but workable 12-15 fps, which I can work with.
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Since nothing other than City of Heroes is affected, I see no reason to replace anything. I can even play Mass Effect 2 and Starcraft 2 with no issues at all, and most of my games have much lower requirements than that. Even if that were the problem, since it doesn't cause me problems with anything else, the best solution for me would be simply to stop playing the relevant game.
That being said, it just doesn't sit right with me. I've had overheating issues with other hardware before and the behavior is quite different. -
Again (oh how I HATE having to repeat this) turning graphics options to minimum makes no difference.
The overheating sounds like a possibility, but I ran it for four hours straight a week ago, followed but 3 hours straight last Sunday, followed by another couple of hours last Monday, all with no issues to lag whatsoever.
Also, I'm not a big gamer. I normally don't play games until they are 5-10 years old and never play MMOs except for this one, and I only started 8 months ago. I will not upgrade either the processor or the motherboard for a while yet. If that is my only recourse, I will simply leave the game. Everything else I want to play runs just fine, and I've already spent $300 on resolving this problem, money which I don't exactly have a lot of.
As for background programs, everything that can be disabled is. No one's answered my questions as to whether they think SecuROM might have something to do with it. I'm also not going to go through the hastle of reinstalling Windows just try to make the game work again. I don't have that kind of endless time and lack of things to do. Again, I will simply drop the game first.
Anyhow, I've already send this to support, and if they can't figure out anything, I will simply let my account expire come October. Or rather cancel it when what I've already paid up comes to an end.
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Alright, check the cpu usage as requested and the results are very interesting, although not at all what any of you are expecting.
In Praetoria, I get no more that 15% CPU usage. Loading areas takes more for a few seconds, maybe as much as 40%.
In the areas that run well, however, like Pocket D, CPU usage is 90%.
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Quote:Actually, yes, yes I did. But since you missed it, I'll simply tell you again that netgraph was green all the way and fps were 2 in Praetoria and 45 elsewhere.Originally Posted by Mandu
Well you still haven't posted the results of your /showfps 1 and /netgraph 1. But I'll tell you something else to do anyway. Turn off FSAA completely.
As I've repeated before, turning off all graphics options does nothing and makes no difference whatsoever.
I honestly never though of AVG as a possible culprit. It's definitely worth exploring. Thanks for the tip.Quote:I had a weird performance issue recently, which was entirely fixed by disabling the Resident Shield component of AVG
Another possibility that occured to me earlier today is SecurRom. I have loaded a handful of other games on them, at least two of which use this utility. While I have not had problems with it so far, it has been known to cause strange issues with some computers. I'm pretty sure it's immune to System Restore too, although I could be wrong on that. What do you all think about that possibility? -
Quote:Nothing that I can think of. Just to bbe sure, I ran system restore back to the day previously when it was working. Nothing.Originally Posted by V-Tron
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.
All reasonable enough ideas, but I've been very careful to reinstall the bare minimum. There's very, very little running other than Windows itself. That being said, it certainly won't hurt to go over everything just to be on the safe side.Quote: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)
Maybe, but if that were the case, it should be effecting more than one specific game in one specific case. Then again, who knows. Computers are weird though. None of those things are more than a year old, though, although that doesn't necessarily mean anything.Quote: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 don't like this either, but Windows would not allow me to change it. I tried to do so when reinstalling, but Windows informed me that it had already downloaded it's install files to H, and would not allow me to make any changes there. Sheesh.Quote: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: -
Quote:Um, I have a 460, not a 6400. The 460 was just released a month or so ago.
Secondly the Nivda 6400
Again, guys, we're not talking normal lag here. I'd expect a bit of that. Turning all graphics off makes not a single big of difference.
Besides, as I stated, and you all are ignoring, once I reinstalled Windows, Praetoria worked fine. Maybe a bit of lag, but I expected that and didn't really care. This lasted 3 days and suddenly, what I am about to describe in more detail below. Not a simple system not good enough problem.
Perhaps I'm not explaining myself well, so here goes. What I'm experiencing is a frozen scene. A second or so later, I get a different frozen screen. Basically, it's a fps of 1. This effects not just the 3d graphics, but the 2d stuff, the windows, even text typed into the chat window. The interview between screen changes not varies, no matter what. As I've said, it's like clockwork, and safe mode makes no difference, where I am makes no difference, nothing does. I"ve experienced actual lag, it's not that precise. It slows down as the computer gets behind, then gets faster as it catches up, than gets slower again. This is, as I've tried to explain, clockwork like in it's eveness.
Again, I am very good with computer issues. If it were merely my computer system being behind, I would have diagnosed that myself easily.
EDIT Okay, some stats. The netgraph showed green all the way. Fps in Praetoria is 2. In Oroboros, 45. Wish I could give you fps immediately after reinstalling Windows, but didn't think of it at the time, as I assumed my problem solved. Wasn't 45 though, but definitely was better than 2. -
I'll certainly try both of those things later today, but that fact remains that if it were merely a CPU problem, then reinstalling Windows would not fix it, for however brief. This would also impact other games, like SC2 or ME2, but it does not.
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Quote:I appreciate the fact that you're genuinely trying here. I'll look into the audio updates, but I'm positive that's no the issue. Then again, nothing that makes sense is, so it's worth a shot.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
1. Check with your computer or motherboard manufacturer to see if there's a driver update for your motherboard chipset/CPU.
2. Check to see if the lag persists after server maintenance on Thursday.
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Quote:Sigh. Will people actually start reading what I'm posting?Originally Posted by V-Tron
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.
No, this is not the issue. UM run perfectly. This is NOT a normal graphics lag problem. Adjusting graphics, as I've stated about 4 times, makes no difference whatsoever. I can turn UM up very high outside of Praetoria,a nd turning all graphics to minimum, make no difference in Praetoria.
My system exceeds the recommend specs. It should work. It did work for free days after my system restart. The hardware runs Praetoria fine. Something odd is happening here, and it's not because my system is inadequate.
I give up. People here are too obssessed with the easy answer and not at all interested in actually reading what I'm saying. Could someone lock this topic please?