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catwhowalksbyhimself

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  1. catwhowalksbyhimself
    A loss of fps isn't the problem here. That wouldn't produce clockwork like eveness in the problem reguardless of settings or graphics card. I already posted my settings in the cohhelper info, but that doesn't matter, as Safe Mode makes no difference at all.

    Again, my graphics work so well everywhere else, that a mere loss of fps would be no big deal at all.

    And Windows updates is not the problem here either. I would be tempted to consider it the potential problem, since the fresh Windows install was problem free and the old one not, but Restore does not help, and it should in case of a bad Windows update.

    Anyhow, I did mention most of this above. I would appreciate if you read the information in post #9 above before replying; it would save me from having to repeat the same things over and over again. If it were something simple like graphics settings or updates I wouldn't even be here. As a matter of fact, this is the first time I have ever posted in a help form for any hardware or software for any reason. I have always been able to solve any problem myself, which is perhaps what makes this so frustrating.

    Anyhow, unless someone else has some genius idea soon, I'll have to do the whole trouble ticket thing, which is entirely foreign to my normal independance. If this were any other game, I'd have just dumped it long ago. Oh well.
  2. catwhowalksbyhimself
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Miuramir View Post
    Some notes:
    * Your audio drivers seem seriously out of date; this is probably not the cause of your problems, but it's a good idea to fix. Wonky audio has in the past caused some unusual slowdowns, particularly if you do anything audio-related other than CoH (background music, Vent or Teamspeak, etc.).
    It's motherboard-integrated sound. In any case, I'm pretty sure it's not the problem although I wouldn't mind updating. I'm not really sure what drivers I'd need though.


    Quote:
    * It sounds like your problem is local, because things like window-moving shouldn't be affected by network lag. You may want to run
    /netgraph 1
    and keep an eye on the output, however; it should look like a neatly-trimmed short green lawn most of the time. If you have thick blocks of green, or any other color, that's a potential concern.
    That's my conclusion as well, although I might try the program you mentioned.

    Quote:
    * Note, however, that Praetoria has been pretty busy this weekend. People in our group on Labor Day were complaining about "rubberband lag" in the outdoor Praetoria zones in particular (e.g. "I've run past this fountain four times already; it's nice but not that nice!"). For me at least, this was a sprinkling of thin red vertical lines in the usual lawn.
    I experienced the rubber-banding as well during the 3 days that Praetoria was working perfectly. This is nothing like normal lag. Sever population does not make a difference though.

    Quote:
    * It's almost certain that the much higher level of Ultra-designed features (lots of reflective surfaces, water features, etc.) in Praetoria is causing your card to work harder. This may be causing heat-related issues or exposing some other problem that's normally not an issue. I'd suggest getting an appropriate temperature-monitoring utility and running windowed so you can keep an eye on both CPU and GPU temps, see if either are noticeably higher when you're seeing the problems. Depending on your computer, the upgrades could be putting more power or thermal stress on the system than previously. (I'm assuming that you carefully made sure your power supply was capable of handling your upgrade first; if not, that's also a concern.)
    The fact, that two different cards performed exactly the same even though the newest one is several times more powerful pretty much eliminates that idea.
    Quote:
    * For most cards, the most costly part of Ultra Mode is the shadows. Kicking the shadows all the way up can more than halve your frame rate in some cases. Experiment with different settings and see if they have any effect; you may want to have
    /showfps 1
    running to get a clearer idea of what is happening.
    Changing graphics settings makes no difference. Using Safe Mode makes no difference. The stuttering effect is precisely timed and the time between changes in anything is always the same. You could set a clock to it, it's so precise. The fps command is one I will try, though. The results could be interesting.

    Quote:
    * Is the behavior different on different servers? On indoor vs. outdoor missions? Solo vs. teamed? In the presence of certain special effects (e.g. a lot of fire)? Is the slowdown even, predictably bursty, or chaotically bursty?
    The effect is so bad it's basically unplayable. I have, however, seen it in variety of different environments, insides and out. As I said, it's like clockwork and never varies.

    Quote:
    Ultimately, this forum is users voluntarily trying to help other users; while it can sometimes be frustrating to have a problem, there's a limit to what we can do.
    That goes without saying. Whatever we can figure out here would be good though. I've eliminated most of the things that makes sense though.
  3. catwhowalksbyhimself
    I will if nothing turns up here soon. Wanted to see if anyone else had any ideas first.
  4. catwhowalksbyhimself
    You need to buy a super expensive computer even though that obviously isn't the problem for reasons that have already been explained to me and even though the computer exceeds both the recommended and minimum specs is not being helpful.

    EDIT: Look I'm sorry, but I'm upset and I'm frustrated. This problem just makes no sense whatsoever and the only person to actually try to help had nothing really useful to say. That's probably because everyone else is just stumped, but it still does for my stated frustration. So far, I've gotten a bad impression of this particular forum, but I'm hoping someone will help me change that impression.

    Anyway, if you have any ideas, just let me know.
  5. catwhowalksbyhimself
    Okay, hopefully someone actually helpful who actually reads what I am saying will replay this time.

    Anyhow, an update. After downloading the latest drivers, things got much, much worse, and I'm not the only one to have bad experiences with those drivers. I finally upgraded my computer, doubled the ram, and get a nice NVidia 460 card, but it made no difference. The game now froze as soon as I logged into a server, except after I removed it from Zone Alarms list and only the first time. It crashed trying to load Praetoria regardless.

    Anyhow, I had other computer glitches, so I just opted to reinstall Windows completely on Saturday. And It worked. I avoid ZoneAlarm this time and installed only the latest released beta drivers. The game ran fine, Praetoria ran fine, and all was well.

    Until tonight. Praetoria is once again unplayably laggy. Safe mode makes no difference, and it's not just the 3d graphics, anything I do is delayed by a few seconds, even dragging windows or selecting options in any menus. I tried System Restore to a time before the problem, and that made no difference either. Something weird is happening here. Redside and Blueside work beautifully even with high Ultramode settings and have no lagging whatsoever.

    Now for updated data. From Hijackthis:

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    CohHelper won't run at all for some reason. I'm positive it's unrelated. I should be able to get it after a system reboot.

    EDIT: Here you go. Just a .net error. Easily fixed.

    ---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

    DxDiag gathered at September 7, 2010 21:17 (-04:00)
    Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.100427-1636)
    System Manufacturer: ECS
    System Model: G31T-M
    BIOS: Default System BIOS
    Central Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E1400 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs)
    Memory: 3328MB
    .Net Memory Report: 2873MB out of 3327MB available
    Page File: 4898MB (318MB currently in use)
    H Drive: (WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B2) 324159MB out of 476929MB (67%) free
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    Windows directory location: H:\WINDOWS
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    DirectX Diag version: 5.03.2600.5512 (32-bit version)

    Display Notes: No problems found.
    Sound Notes: No problems found.
    Input Notes: No problems found.

    Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
    Monitor's Max Resolution: 1600,1200
    Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
    Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 460
    Video Memory: 1024.0 MB
    Driver Version: 6.14.0012.5931
    Driver Date: 8/5/2010 8:08:00 PM
    Driver Language: English

    Sound Device Description: Realtek HD Audio output
    Driver File: RtkHDAud.sys
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    Driver Date: 9/9/2008 6:07:36 AM


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    Motherboard Model: (empty)
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    Motherboard Version: 1.0
    BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
    BIOS Name: Default System BIOS
    BIOS Version: 010709 - 20090107
    BIOS Release: 20090107000000.000000+000


    Registry Information for Current User
    Resolution: 1280x800
    3D Resolution: 1280x800 (Not using renderscale)
    Full Screen: Yes
    Maximized: No
    Screen Position: 0, 0
    Refresh Rate: 60Hz
    Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes


    Physics Quality: High
    Maximum Particles: 50000
    Max Particle Fill? 10.000
    Physics Card Enabled: No


    Anti-aliasing: Off
    Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
    Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
    Water Effects: High quality
    Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
    Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
    Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
    Shader Detail: High


    World Texture Level: Very High
    Character Texture Level: Very High
    World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
    Entity Detail Level: 1.000
    Shadows Enabled: No
    Shadow Mode: Shadow maps
    Shadow Map Shader: Low quality
    Environmental Reflections: Low quality
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    Ambient Occlusion: High performance
    Occlusion Strength: Slight
    Blur: Fast
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    Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
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    Show Advertisements: Yes

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    Music Sound Volume: 0.600

    Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
    Overall Graphics Quality: 0.750
    Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
    Save Login Username: Yes
    Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
    Current Game Version: 1850.201007290124.24T2
    Installation Directory: H:\Program Files\City of Heroes

    Mod files in the Data directory
    No modifications found
  6. catwhowalksbyhimself
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by HeroDon View Post
    Just curious, what do you mean released through Microsoft? Like a security update?
    Through Microsoft's update site and possibly the automated Windows updates as well.

    It turns out, it's already released, and it's only for Windows 7. To bad for us XP folk.
  7. catwhowalksbyhimself
    Apparently there will be a new official version soon, but it's going to be released through Microsoft rather than Nvidia. It's already on their servers, but has not been released, so soon I hope.
  8. catwhowalksbyhimself
    The newest Nvidia drivers are bugged in a way that can make CoH unplayable for many folks, including me.
  9. catwhowalksbyhimself
    After some searching, I was able to find them too--but they made no difference.

    I don't believe heat is really an issue on mine, although I get kicked out of CoH too quickly for that to be a problem there. Still waiting for those official updates.
  10. catwhowalksbyhimself
    So there are new drivers for some of you all?

    That stinks for me then, because there are none for Windows XP. I'm stuck with 258.96, which is imcompatible with the game.

    I hope they release the ones that I need soon.
  11. catwhowalksbyhimself
    curiouser and curiouser. I defininitely had this issue, which started when I downloaded the newest drivers and is the same with my new 460, which can use only those drivers.

    The odd thing is, safe mode works, but only as long as I stay out of Praetoria. Loading a Praetorian freezes as soon as the loading bar fills up and starting a new one does it when I try to go to the ID screen. Haven't tried loading up a non-Praetorian, but I'm guess based on some things that that probably works in safe mode.

    I really hope those beta drivers someone mentioned coming out comes out soon. I plunked down cast for a GR preorder and have been unable to play the game out all since that expansion game out.
  12. catwhowalksbyhimself
    Do note, however, that the only available drivers for the 460 conflict with CoH and for some folks, like me, that means the game won't work at all. That may be something you want to consider.
  13. catwhowalksbyhimself
    Same here. I just got a new 460 after this issue first appeared, thinking that would fix it. There was another issue before that, and the old card did have trouble, so all is well that well. Anyhow, I've been prevented from playing GR thanks to this, so hopefully those betas work.
  14. catwhowalksbyhimself
    Considering my taste in gaming, Celeron is just fine for me normally.

    As for the settings, changing them makes no difference, as I already stated. Turning everything to minimal makes no difference. None. I can even play Ultra Mode in red the blue zones, albeit with some slight graphics slowing.

    I've been meaning to double my ram anyways, so I'll probably go ahead and do that. As for the rest, my problem's still not making sense at all. If it was simply a question of RAM and vid cards, turning the settings ti minimal should at least make a difference, not none at all.

    I should emphasize that I like never go to any type of support because I can diagnose and solve most errors myself, so it's not likely to be anything either simple or common.
  15. catwhowalksbyhimself
    CoH helper data:

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    Display Notes: No problems found.
    Sound Notes: No problems found.
    Input Notes: No problems found.

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    Driver Date: 6/7/2010 7:57:00 PM
    Driver Language: English

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    Physics Quality: None
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    Anti-aliasing: Off
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    O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper - {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} - H:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jp2ssv.dll
    O2 - BHO: JQSIEStartDetectorImpl - {E7E6F031-17CE-4C07-BC86-EABFE594F69C} - H:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\deploy\jqs\ie\jqs_plugin.dll
    O2 - BHO: HP Smart BHO Class - {FFFFFFFF-CF4E-4F2B-BDC2-0E72E116A856} - H:\Program Files\HP\Digital Imaging\Smart Web Printing\hpswp_BHO.dll
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IgfxTray] H:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxtray.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HotKeysCmds] H:\WINDOWS\system32\hkcmd.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Persistence] H:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxpers.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [RTHDCPL] RTHDCPL.EXE
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Alcmtr] ALCMTR.EXE
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NeroFilterCheck] H:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\Lib\NeroCheck.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SecurDisc] H:\Program Files\Nero\Nero 7\InCD\NBHGui.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [InCD] H:\Program Files\Nero\Nero 7\InCD\InCD.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [LVCOMSX] H:\WINDOWS\system32\LVCOMSX.EXE
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [LogitechVideoRepair] H:\Program Files\Logitech\Video\ISStart.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [LogitechVideoTray] H:\Program Files\Logitech\Video\LogiTray.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HP Software Update] H:\Program Files\HP\HP Software Update\HPWuSchd2.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "H:\Program Files\Common Files\Java\Java Update\jusched.exe"
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG9_TRAY] H:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG9\avgtray.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Adobe Reader Speed Launcher] "H:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\Reader_sl.exe"
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Adobe ARM] "H:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\AdobeARM.exe"
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "H:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTTask.exe" -atboottime
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [iTunesHelper] "H:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe"
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ZoneAlarm Client] "H:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe"
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] H:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\nView\nwiz.exe /installquiet
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE H:\WINDOWS\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE H:\WINDOWS\system32\NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
    O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ctfmon.exe] H:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
    O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Messenger (Yahoo!)] "H:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\YahooMessenger.exe" -quiet
    O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [BitTorrent DNA] "H:\Program Files\DNA\btdna.exe"
    O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SansaDispatch] H:\Documents and Settings\Daniel Himes\Application Data\SanDisk\Sansa Updater\SansaDispatch.exe
    O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [LightScribe Control Panel] H:\Program Files\Common Files\LightScribe\LightScribeControlPanel.exe -hidden
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    O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [LogitechSoftwareUpdate] "H:\Program Files\Logitech\Video\ManifestEngine.exe" boot
    O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [BSK91O3T6D] H:\DOCUME~1\DANIEL~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\Kgd.exe
    O4 - Startup: Impulse Now.lnk = H:\Program Files\Stardock\Impulse\Now\ImpulseNow.exe
    O4 - Global Startup: HP Digital Imaging Monitor.lnk = H:\Program Files\HP\Digital Imaging\bin\hpqtra08.exe
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    O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - H:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
    O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - H:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
    O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - H:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
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    O22 - SharedTaskScheduler: Component Categories cache daemon - {8C7461EF-2B13-11d2-BE35-3078302C2030} - H:\WINDOWS\system32\browseui.dll
    O22 - SharedTaskScheduler: FencesShellExt - {1984DD45-52CF-49cd-AB77-18F378FEA264} - H:\Program Files\Stardock\Fences\FencesMenu.dll
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    O23 - Service: Apple Mobile Device - Apple Inc. - H:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
    O23 - Service: AVG Free WatchDog (avg9wd) - AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. - H:\Program Files\AVG\AVG9\avgwdsvc.exe
    O23 - Service: Blue Coat K9 Web Protection (bckwfs) - Unknown owner - H:\Program Files\Blue Coat K9 Web Protection\k9filter.exe
    O23 - Service: Bonjour Service - Apple Inc. - H:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe
    O23 - Service: InCD Helper (InCDsrv) - Nero AG - H:\Program Files\Nero\Nero 7\InCD\InCDsrv.exe
    O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - H:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
    O23 - Service: Java Quick Starter (JavaQuickStarterService) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - H:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe
    O23 - Service: LightScribeService Direct Disc Labeling Service (LightScribeService) - Hewlett-Packard Company - H:\Program Files\Common Files\LightScribe\LSSrvc.exe
    O23 - Service: McAfee Security Scan Component Host Service (McComponentHostService) - McAfee, Inc. - H:\Program Files\McAfee Security Scan\2.0.181\McCHSvc.exe
    O23 - Service: NBService - Nero AG - H:\Program Files\Nero\Nero 7\Nero BackItUp\NBService.exe
    O23 - Service: NMIndexingService - Nero AG - H:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\Lib\NMIndexingService.exe
    O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - H:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
    O23 - Service: TrueVector Internet Monitor (vsmon) - Check Point Software Technologies LTD - H:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs\vsmon.exe

    --
    End of file - 10095 bytes

    Also note, I'm updating graphics drivers now. My current ones are fairly new, but there's a new set, so we'll see if that helps any.
  16. catwhowalksbyhimself
    Anytime I log into Praetoria, the game is laggy to the point of being unplayable, but blue or redside is absolutely fine. The graphic basically stutter every couple of seconds between a series of still images, no real animationg. There are other strange graphical glitches too, but those occur in all areas, and go away when I move the graphics slider back and forth.

    The Praetoria problem, though doesn't go away. At first I thought it was just because of all the people trying out Praetoria, but no one else is having lag troubles at the same time as I am.

    2 gig dual core with Nvidia Geforce 9400GT
  17. catwhowalksbyhimself

    Mentor Project

    POST-ACTION

    I may see about organizing some arc runs/tfs for neophytes on Freedom soon. I'll start looking into it.
  18. catwhowalksbyhimself
    I had to ask about it and have them check to see if the pre-order included the bonuses, but it showed up right in the description on their computer, which the guy read out to me. None of the Gamestops around here normally carry PC games anyways, so pre-ordering it is the only way I could ever get it through them.
  19. catwhowalksbyhimself
    I might be able to make it, but I'd be limited to 2 hours, as I have to leave for church.

    So it's up to you as to whether you'd want me along or not.

    EDIT: Nevermind, it would likely be far too much trouble.
  20. catwhowalksbyhimself
    If you do Saturday Nights, then I could join in.

    I have a level 1 Stalker and Mastermind on Virtue, but I'd be willing to create a new toon of any AT you might need, if you need something in particular.
  21. catwhowalksbyhimself
    I haven't played Virtue before, but have been interested in a static team like this for a long time.

    My suggestion for the teams origin would be that they are siblings of sorts, taken in by a master assassin as children for their potential. Some already possessed powers or mutations that made them useful--others may have been given them by their "father." This allows for any original or powerset combo to be used.

    I'm normally available afternoon and evenings Saturday, roughtly noon to 4 Sunday and 5-10 pm on weekdays, all est.
  22. catwhowalksbyhimself

    Mentor Project

    POST-ACTION

    Heard about this project on the podcast and am quite excited about it. I joined the game a bit under 6 months ago, but I was fortunate in that quite a few people from a fan community for another game that I am involved in play and they welcomed me, walked my through everything and put up with all my dumb questions without complaining. Not everyone has that advantage.

    So kudos to you guys for doing this and I hope to be of service to you all.
  23. catwhowalksbyhimself
    Said thought here. I was excited about this even, then found I couldn't participate because only the first instance of each zone could participate and it filled up in a matter of seconds. There were three instances up to, so more people were left out than could participate. VERY poorly planned and this has quite ruined my night.