deathkitten_EU

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Oh must try what should it do?

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Having a quick look at Paragon Wiki, it seems to alter your draw distance and the amount of detail rendered. Although, there's a warning for setting it to 4, maybe MA has a very high spec machine

Edit: ... What MA said.

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As said, it's not for every machine. I've got an 8800 Ultra in my rig, which copes pretty well it.

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My computer SHOULD be able to handle that 400% but the game is just so damn buggy grr

Maybe you and others who posted saying about these technical details can help me? I made a post on technical support a few days ago, no resolution to the problem at all, it really is a pity because my (almost brand new) PC is wonderful on every other game I've tried it on :/

http://uk.boards.cityofvillains.com/show...e=0#Post1308948

It's not a server or ping issue, google FPS or wikipedia it or soemthing and you might understand, it's too much and too boring to explain

Thanks but it doesn't seem to have any effect

I'm guessing it probly gives CPU the job of doing physics if you don't have a special card, and my CPU only sometimes goes above 50% usage on city of villains :/

http://google.com/maps?ll=38.226533,...p;z=18&t=k

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01...mbi/page2.html + http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2...ad-safety.html

if someone can't complete the first mission (which even a child can do...) they probably don't have the mental capacity for the rest of the game... it's like the first place you hit in Mercy - Fort Darwin!

ah yeah seems it was posted same day I made my first post (29th), I'll go download it see if it helps doubt it tho if City Of isn't being updated

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sapphic neko:
What no MIRV?

And it seems i have more things enabled in fallout 3, cause mine looks bettah!

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floating fat man:
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its the game thats the problem I suspect yeah it is because it is ATI but not for any good reason - it's because NCSoft/Cryptic are in that anti-competitive, monopolistic programme called "Nvidia the way it's meant to be played" - like on the loading screen for every zone at the bottom, where they have deliberately built the game for one make of graphics card while sidelining all others. >:| It's about time Nvidia and participants were prosecuted for it really >:| I don't really care about brands one way or another as long as the thing is good, but deliberately mangling things so they won't work as well with competitors isn't good for the people who buy them, it only means prices can go up unchallenged and there's no need to try make sure yours is higher quality etc...


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Actually, the problem is the Catalysts, not CoH. CoH used to work perfectly on ATI cards, right up until the 7.4's. From the 7.5's upwards things started to go downhill, first with the weird gfx effects in water that you observes, then when other odd artifacts.

[/ QUOTE ]7.4 you say... It's 8.12 now! That must be at least a year or more assuming they use all the numbers....... If NCsoft can't be bothered to keep the game updated to so it works properly with the driver from the second-biggest graphic card manufacturer it looks like a good indication they are keeping to their Nvidia-"THE WAY ITS MEANT TO BE PLAYED"-sell-out- Maybe they've even been forbidden as part of the shady little anti-competitive, anti-trust-worthy contract...

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floating fat man:
Have you tried the Omega drivers? They might work better for you.

[/ QUOTE ]No and I wouldn't use drivers that aren't official for same reason I wouldn't download windows updates from sites other than microsoft, even if it worked it would probably cause issues with other things

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Sapphic_Neko:
*notes to self*

Do not buy an ATI card.

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have you looked at the fallout screenshots I posted up there?? I has more too:
http://i41.tinypic.com/2606bn5.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/5x2wwz.jpg awwww: )
http://i44.tinypic.com/4pzj40.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/33ykum9.jpg bug http://i40.tinypic.com/9tjp4z.jpg hunt
http://i40.tinypic.com/vajys.jpg turned wrong corner Mr
http://i39.tinypic.com/1zn92dk.jpg officer who
http://i44.tinypic.com/2nkt8jr.jpg GOOPED
http://i41.tinypic.com/262urg8.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/nbyzxk.jpg i better click on the face one more time to be sure: ) http://i40.tinypic.com/23tjmuw.jpg ok... face is no longer a threat http://i40.tinypic.com/2nhfe3c.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/294qx07.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/2rm2zqt.jpg playing with nukes http://i39.tinypic.com/10f991l.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/dg07eo.jpg "someone said u have a mutant problem?"
http://i43.tinypic.com/qwy0xu.jpg if i shoot it its supposed to die http://i39.tinypic.com/1znsdox.jpg ..WHY IS IT NOT DYING

its the game thats the problem I suspect yeah it is because it is ATI but not for any good reason - it's because NCSoft/Cryptic are in that anti-competitive, monopolistic programme called "Nvidia the way it's meant to be played" - like on the loading screen for every zone at the bottom, where they have deliberately built the game for one make of graphics card while sidelining all others. >:| It's about time Nvidia and participants were prosecuted for it really >:| I don't really care about brands one way or another as long as the thing is good, but deliberately mangling things so they won't work as well with competitors isn't good for the people who buy them, it only means prices can go up unchallenged and there's no need to try make sure yours is higher quality etc...

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MajorPain:
Might -just might - that you need to flash/upgrade the BIOS of the gfx-card. I had some problems with my Sapphire HD 4870 which actually was solved after doing just that. I also HAD to turn off vertical sync or my would crash. That could haven been fixed by the flashing, hasnt dared to try it again.

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it seems to make a very marginal difference though, I went back to the exact same spot as I took that first screenshot and jumped about there and near there and it's around 13-16 now when mercy houses and everything is in view............. jerky I tried back with my normal 1600x1200 resolution and it's 13/14 again with the town in view

I already had it set to advanced (I had set everything in the options to force maximum basically)

I just tried doing it with the catalyst AI disabled and it didn't seem to make any change, still 12/13 fps when above roof level

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posted January 2007......... pretty prophetic lol

o and OMG CITY OF KITTENS!!!?!??!?!?! DD

I don't know..... as far as I know there is no "crossfire" it is all built into the card there are no options like you describe in my ATI Catalyst Control Panel (driver options) nor any mention of crossfire

damn, I doubt there is but I will have a look, thanks for that I had no idea - i was hoping other people might have a solution like a workaround or something I was guessing it might be cos its an oldish game/not built for today cards but damn that's more serious than i thought if it's true

while you were posting I was making some screenshots to try give an example of why it's so odd, I mean I know it can't be somethign wrong with my computer because of how good it is in other games:

City of Villains:
http://i42.tinypic.com/spc10y.jpg - 10/13ish FPS at this moment of screenshot
Fallout 3:
http://i44.tinypic.com/34i5q8h.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/xp4v4p.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/2uign4m.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/5mkff6.jpg (don't look at the last one if you haven't played it through to end already but I had to include it cos of the view)

^ and this is entirely smooth not like CoV/H

^ example of why it's bad to link to the American forums where they delete everything no matter how useful!

I got a new PC for xmas, and it's very high-end, it runs crysis (i'm not actually interested in the game but i borrowed a copy to test after I bought to make sure it was working) at 1920x1600 on high and fallout 3 on max too with good speeds.....

here is the specs
Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
PSU: Corsair HX 1000W
Motherboard: Abit IP35 Pro XE Intel P35 (Socket LGA775) PCI-Express DDR2
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz overclocked @ 3Ghz (my computer is a slightly modified version of this one, you can see I copypasted most of these stats - it came overclocked I wouldn't know how to do it myself)
RAM: 8GB: 2x Corsair Dominator 4GB PC2-8500 CAS5 (2x2GB) Dual Channel Kit
Graphics card: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870x2
Sound card: Creative X-Fi Titanium Champion Series

the card is overclocked too because it has a built-in thing in the driver called "ATI Overdrive" where it cranks it up when you are in a fullscreen game (and goes back to normal when doing normal windows stuff) - mine was autoconfigured from default 507Mhz to 787Mhz, with the memory going from 500 to 970

my game settings:
resolution: 1600x1200
particle physics: very high
world textures: very high
character textures: very high
world detail: 200% (100% gives around 5-10 more fps/less choppiness BUT if it can handle fallout 3 which has much longer viewing distance why should I need to reduce it, it doesn't make sense)
character detail: 200%
max particle count: 100 (lowest, i dont like cheesy rainbow colours and glowing lol)
bloom: disabled (same reasons)
vertical sync: enabled
fsaa: 4x (seems to have no effect on speed when on or off)
anisotropic filtering: 16x (ditto)
shadows: enabled
geometry buffers: enabled
texture crispness: smooth
shader quality: high
water effects: none (turned on they seem to be buggy, it looks like a weird artifical mirror stuff is the same size no matter how far, you see a giant reflection of yourself over it etc)
depth of field effects: disabled (i dont like it, it just blurs the background)

but yeah, on City Of, it just seems to be really nasty

I did the /showfps 1 command in chat ingame and it seems to be about 20 in open areas with lots of houses in sight, and 10 when it gets bad

any tips on what's wrong? it's definitely my graphics card which again is surprising because it's the most high-end one available at the moment :/

but, when it comes to City Of, I get laggy/choppy gameplay especially in outdoor city areas like hopping around on roofs of Mercy Island

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the thing im dissapointed about is the banes we get are nothing like the ones u fight in game in terms of survivability, the defence/resistance valus are so low that if our versions were the NPC's they would probably be farmed...well maybe not but you get my point...right?

Also, im praying the Devs see the error of there ways and buff banes soon, i have no interest in the other VEATs so the banes are it for me

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yeah, that about sums it up really, you can see how bad the bane spiders are if you just compare them to the NPC ones, they are so much better AND the NPC ones have less skills too! But theirs aren't so weak

They should just make it so you have a bar the top where you can select either Wolf Spider, Crab Spider, or Normal costume editor modes

it ALREADY is 3 separate costume editors anyway, it just hasnt been made to work with all the slots

It really is [censored] being able to have only 1 arachnos outfit, and Jay's reasons just sound like 'oh it's not that important really, too hard, forget it'
.. When I'm sure I'm not the only one who would have appreciated something like that instead of yet another cheesy time travel themed area

It's all been greyed out as I progressed up to level 13, but I've seen on the boards people choosing powers from them as low as level 2.... What's the trick?

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