fur_nes

Originally Posted by je_saist

Okay, to be blunt: Nvidia has thermal issues.



What this sounds like is

• that the game is driving the GPU to the point of overheating.
• The GPU then downclocks to lowest state and sheds the excess heat.
• The GPU then upclocks back to a higher performance state

Next question: Why only CoH? Why not other games?

CoH is the only game on the Windows market right now that is actively using the OpenGL 3.x API.

Of the other games listed, specifically Starcraft II and Civ 5, these use the DirectX API on windows, with Civ 5 leveraging DX11 and SCII leveraging DX9. According to the NZone forums, for the past... well... however long, Nvidia has been pulling back on OpenGL support, and largely leaving the OpenGL driver un-maintained compared to the DirectX driver.

This means that many of the thermal issues that the DirectX graphics driver can work around, the OpenGL driver won't work around. This is likely why CoH suffers on your particular laptop.

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What can you do about it?

Well, first, bug Nvidia over their OpenGl 3.x / 4.x driver: http://www.nvidia.com/object/driverq...assurance.html

Second: bug your computer vendor, the guys who built the laptop, that their hardware isn't living up to expectations. They'll turn around and kick Nvidia from the other side... although chances are if you bought a Dell (Alienware), HP (Voodoo), Emachines, Asus, Acer, or Toshiba laptop, the vendor is already kicking Nvidia over thermal issues.

Originally Posted by Cobalt_Azurean

Same.

Originally Posted by je_saist

short version, I'd wait for RadeonHD 6900 series.

What I've been hearing is that investors are continuing to panic over Nvidia's corporate actions. None of Nvidia's high-end cards are profitable, and Nvidia still hasn't issued an answer to the now low end market RadeonHD 5770... the segment of the market that moves the most amount of cards, and thus drives the largest profits.

The only reason to buy a GTX 580, and I mean the ONLY reason to buy it, is that you want the Nvidia badge. That's it. There's no other reason to get one.

Thing is, buying one of the GTX 580's on the street will set you back around $500: http://www.pricewatch.com/search?q=GTX+580

AMD's upcoming 6970 will reportedly be launching at a $400 price-point. The big worry for fans of green is that AMD's much cheaper card, on paper, outruns the GTX 580. Now, on-paper and in theory doesn't always translate to real world performance. Case in point, GTS 250. On paper it drastically outpowers RadeonHD 4850. In real games... it doesn't.

Now, given that Nvidia's set the GTX 580 pricing pretty much in Ludicrous-ville, AMD might launch their next highest end card with a higher price and sustain their own inflated pricing like they did with the HD 5000 series cards. It's also expected that AMD won't rush the 6900 series to market. Right now there's no need to kick a product out the door just to get a product out the door. So you'll actually probably have a shot at laying hands on one.

Now, is the GTX 580 as much of a rip-off as the GTX 480 and 470?

Well, in the absence of a direct competitor card from AMD, determining whether or not it's a complete rip-off would be unfair. If you want the absolute amount of maximum rendering power right now, today, then sure, the GTX 580 is your card of choice.

I just have to ask two questions: If you have $500 to begin with to spend on just a graphics card alone...

is your business hiring?
do they need another technician?

Originally Posted by fur_nes

yeah so what ever they did - pretty much effed up my coh - running with sli on on live - i get like 1-2 fps before (i just updated my drivers) I was getting 60+ fps (sli was enabled but not running on coh) - I am going to test taking off sli to see how it runs but at this point the live game is pretty much unplayable

Originally Posted by fur_nes

are you running duel monitors? also are you running in windowed mode.

Originally Posted by DAMIEN77

That's pretty much what I said. There is no load. My question is, with an untaxed system, why would hitting 30fps and below be acceptable? I don't think there really is an answer, other than there are often problems playing old games on new hardware.

Originally Posted by macskull

Defender debuffs are no longer unresisted, and global resistance means Psi is "just another blast set" (basically its only advantage is the increased range). That and DR means your debuffs have less effect on targets before you even factor in the target's debuff resistance, so it's not uncommon to see people hitting you reliably through Radiation Infection even when it's well-slotted. Your Rad toggles will drop every time you get mezzed, which means every 15 seconds or so you're going to need to spend 3-5 seconds waiting for them to recharge and re-activate them on your target, which is a lot of time to spend doing almost nothing offensively.

Rad is still decent in large-team matches because mez doesn't come into play as often (the odds you're going to be mezzed during the two-or-three second window when you're debuffing a target aren't that high) and -resistance is still somewhat useful, but for small-team and dueling it's really not that great.

Originally Posted by Psyrene

There is a league going on champion and that is about it for team arena matches.

Originally Posted by Psyrene

All you need is BU,AS,Placate and Sharks, I wouldn't even worry about TF except for using it for set bonuses.

Attack chain: BU,AS,then placate and shark, and that would be an almost dead target, or a dead target if they had low hp.

Originally Posted by Beef_Cake

Also, a small tip:

Verticle Sync, this is something you can disable and not notice a difference with the naked eye. It will also yield a huge FPS jump as well.

I run full Ultra Mode and if I have it on or off, I can't tell a difference, but I do see a very large increase to my FPS when it's disabled.

Originally Posted by Xecution

wat set is the stun proc in?

Originally Posted by Xecution

which gives a better chance for stun? Stun or total focus?