fieryblue

Hi, thanks all for responding. I did try resetting my monitor resolution and have not had the problem since then ( a few days). I am hoping that fixed it.

In the last week or so I have had an issue with my monitor suddenly unable to detect my computer while I am playing. The monitor will go blank and the message "no signal detected" will appear - the computer is still on though. This only happens while playing COH. This has happened at least once a day in the last week. Any help would be appreciated!

Attaching logs:

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.7---

DxDiag gathered at April 24, 2009 23:09 (-07:00)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090206-1234)
System Manufacturer: NVIDIA
System Model: 132-CK-NF78
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU Q6850 @ 3.00GHz (4 CPUs)
Memory: 2046MB
.Net Memory Report: 1416MB out of 2046MB available
Page File: 3407MB (532MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD1500ADFD-00NLR5) 90005MB out of 143078MB (62%) free
F Drive: (WDC WD3200AAKS-00YGA0) 302304MB out of 305242MB (99%) free
H Drive: (Maxtor 6 Y080L0 USB Device) 13825MB out of 78140MB (17%) free
D Drive: (ATAPI DVD D DH16D2P) zero-size drive
E Drive: (ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DirectX Diag version: 5.03.2600.5512 (32-bit version)

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

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce 8800 GT
Video Memory: 512.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0011.8250
Driver Date: 3/27/2009 10:03:00 AM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Z-10 USB Speaker
Driver File: usbaudio.sys
Driver Version: 5.01.2600.5512
Driver Date: 4/13/2008 11:45:12 AM

Sound Device Description: Sound Blaster Audigy
Driver File: P17.sys
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0512
Driver Date: 7/7/2005 1:14:30 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: EVGA
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: 132-CK-NF78
Motherboard Version: 2
BIOS Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Name: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: Nvidia - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20080116000000.000000+000

Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1920x1200
3D Resolution: 1920x1200 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No

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

Anti-aliasing: 4x
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
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: High
Character Texture Level: High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 2.000
Entity Detail Level: 2.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of Extra Player FX Enabled: No
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.600

Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.600
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 362773 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 18.20090324.20T2
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
.\texture_library\GUI\Icons\Powers has 75 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\city has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Safeguard has 9 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\sewers has 44 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\static has 33 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Outdoor_Missions has 9 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Static has 16 files
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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 11:02:35 PM, on 4/24/2009
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16827)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
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C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\sched.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Logitech\LCD Manager\lcdmon.exe
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\Reader_sl.exe
C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Logitech\LCD Manager\Applets\LCDMedia.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Rundll32.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Logitech\LCD Manager\Applets\LCDClock.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\kmw_run.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliType Pro\itype.exe
C:\WINDOWS\ehome\ehtray.exe
C:\Program Files\Creative\SBAudigy\Surround Mixer\CTSysVol.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jusched.exe
C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbamgui.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\KMW_SHOW.EXE
C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avgnt.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\RUNDLL32.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\GoogleToolbarNo tifier.exe
C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\TeaTimer.exe
C:\Program Files\Olympus\DeviceDetector\DevDtct2.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliType Pro\dpupdchk.exe
C:\Program Files\Sprint Instinct Applications\MEMonitor.exe
C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avguard.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe
C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehRecvr.exe
C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehSched.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe
C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbamservice.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NetworkAccessManager\bin32\nSvcAppFlt. exe
C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NetworkAccessManager\bin32\nSvcIp.exe
C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllhost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehmsas.exe
C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe

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R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Int ernet Settings,ProxyOverride = *.local
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O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime
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O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [UpdReg] C:\WINDOWS\UpdReg.EXE
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O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\Office12\EXCEL.EXE/3000
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O23 - Service: MBAMService - Malwarebytes Corporation - C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbamservice.exe
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What about healing badge? That was has hardly budged.

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Ditto....I check it every time I log in, seems like it is always in the same place (the meter ends right above the word "unlock") and never moves...

The mentoring/mission computer badge was earned by our SG during the course of the first strike force. We had 7 SG members, 3 of whom were sk'ed.

The healing badge continues to be a no-show. Not sure if this badge is still getting reset every 24 hours or what, but we never seem to get any movement past about 1/8 of a bar...and we have plenty of people with at least the first (personal) healing badge (with most of our time spent in SG mode).

Thanks Flaming1. Like I said, I assumed that was the case, but then I have assumed a lot of other things with COV that haven't been true...like the game would actually be ready to go by Halloween.

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I am also co-leader of a small COV SG. We have around 32 members, of which probably half are on regularly.

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This discussion is failing, in part, because we have a really broad definition of "small" being used here. I've been admonished for calling my 14 member SG small and here you're calling a 32 member SG small?! There's no way I could call a 32 member group small given the upper limit is 75. What then is an average group? A mid sized group? A large group? A very large group?

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agreed, 32 members is by no means small. To me 15 or under is small.
15-40 = medium
40-60 = large
60+ super

at least IMHO

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Note that I said there are 32 members, but only half of them are on regularly. So that really brings it to about 16 players. Some of those 32 have not been on in over 2 weeks...I have no idea if they ever plan to come back or not. On a typical night, I generally see about 4 SG mates on. I know the others are playing because I can see they have been on in the last couple days. But I have not met some of them, and rarely see the others.

I've been wondering about this but haven't seen it answered on any other thread: If you have the mission computer, can you run the Silver Mantis task force more than once? I ask because we have more than 8 people in our group who would want to do it, and eventually others will be in the right level range. It seems like you SHOULD be able to run it more than once, but I don't want to assume anything here...

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My other gripe is the amount of prestige earned while in supergroup mode and how it scales with level. It's pathetic. It's discouraging, and when you're no longer earning infamy for being in SG mode, it's insulting. The bases and raids and Items of Power were hyped and marketed and people are excited to use them and the whole system is prohibitively slow for most users and most supergroups. My supergroup in CoV, Psychosis, has quite a few players and most of us are very active, playing every night for hours, and we're not even close to having enough prestige to build a raidable base. What's the point of designing the system and making it nearly impossible for the majority of the people playing the game to experience fully? Increase the amount of prestige earned and give more people a realistic shot at experiencing the raid system.

This whole system feels clunky, arbitrary, ill planned, and rushed.

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I am also co-leader of a small COV SG. We have around 32 members, of which probably half are on regularly. There are about 8 of us in the 25-28 level range, who had been the primary prestige earners for the team, until the decrease started kicking in at level 25. I have seen a marked drop in our rate of prestige earned. As Guardian Gaz said, what makes this even worse is the decrease in infamy as well. Now we are at a point where we want to buy SO's, but you have to make that choice between earning prestige for the group or earning infamy for yourself. It makes no sense. I would think that the higher level characters, as high powered representatives of their SG, should be earning more prestige than anyone else. All this system does is discourage people from playing in SG mode later on. And then it adds guilt to it!

When a game goes from being fun to being work, you can count on seeing people leave. The bases simply don't provide enough reward for the amount of effort put into them. Even if we could afford to build a raidable base, in the present system I see no real benefit to having one. Most IOPs give an extremely modest increase (I have heard 1% typically) to an attribute. But losing a raid means more than losing the IOP; there may be many items destroyed which will require the SG to go out and earn a ton of prestige to replace.

Right now we have a functional base, with a teleporter, workbench, and rez ring. As chief architect, I try to add something every week to keep it interesting. The teleporters have proved very useful. But the rez ring is a disppointment. Why not let us rez at full health? And we'd love to have a nice inspiration dispenser, but apparently we have to get the healing badge first, and of course, with the badges constantly resetting who knows when that will be possible.

I don't want to just complain, so here are my suggestions:

1. like another poster or two have said, why not split the bases into raidable vs non-raidable? And adjust costs from there.

2. make the IOP something really worth having. At least a 5% increase to a statistic.

3. Currently it seems like base attackers have nothing to lose really (besides the 100K payment). But the defenders have everything to lose: the IOP as well as repair and replacement costs. Give defenders an award for defending the base. And limit the amount of damage that can be done to a base to something like 5 or 10% of the total base cost.

4. Have the Mission computer give out multiple SG only strike forces. Perhaps we will see this in future issues.

5. Abolish the placement costs of crafted items.

6. Do away with the prestige vs. infamy system after level 25...it is discouraging (especially to small SGs).

I really want to enjoy COV, but more and more it feels like work to me. And don't get me started on the lack of new content... still fighting COT and freaks?! I still feel it was rushed out, but I'll wait until at least the next issue to see if we get any resolution to these problems.

Very nice and useful guide! I will copy it and follow with my newer heroes. Thanks for posting this.

regarding Power Push: I've been meaning to thank Mr. Fu for his recommendation of this power. Now that I have it (via respec), I don't know how I lived without it. It has greatly improved the game for me. Being able to keep a boss on his butt is just invaluable. I cycle it into my attacks and more often than not, manage to avoid any damage from the heavy hitters.