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Okay: next question. Is this thing a laptop?

According to CPUZ, the mainboard is designed as a Sorrento... which as best I can tell, is this thing: http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/pi/27-2...m-Product-Info

If that is what you have... yes. You are going to need a completely new computer to run City of Heroes.

*when will controllers and dominators get Ribbon Control? I want to gift wrap my enemies in bright pink bows and streamers!

Some costume parts can help you with the roleplay in the current game.

Manticore has already been mentioned. He's a Natural hero, but he taps into the Emergency Rescue Teleport system to travel.

You can also get piston boots, which well, would help you run fast.

You can also get rocket boots... well.. which would help you fly.

Ergo, if you are stuck on being natural... there's ways around it with available costume parts. Sure, you might need to wait a day before your high level can buy the costume part and salvage and email it to yourself... but what's a sub 24 hour wait?

... not... good.... um... I don't think there's any nice way I can phrase this.

You probably are S.O.L. on this mate unless you can afford to get an Nvidia or ATi graphics card.

The short version is that it's a DX9 classified integrated chip from 2006: http://www.dailytech.com/SiS+Mirage+...rticle4182.htm However, the only OpenGL drivers available for the card supported OpenGL 1.5... not a big deal as that's all some Intel chipsets support and CoH works fine-ish against OpenGL 1.3/1.5.

Okay, so, it's not fast, but I suspect you knew that. The real big deal is that SiS can't right drivers worth a flip. You are getting a crash because the driver is incompatible with the calls being made by the City of Heroes program. Given the age of the card, SiS's driver update schedule, and that you are using Windows 7... there probably is NOT a driver update that will bring appropriate OpenGL support.

You can look here: http://www.sis.com/download/agreemen...url=/download/

However... I just tried that site in FireFox, Chrome, Konqueror, IE8, and Opera... and in all browsers I have open it just kept looping the license agreement to browse the site... I don't have a system with IE7 or IE6 handy, so it "may" work with those browsers.

SiSGIv.dll sounds like a graphics driver for a SiS graphics chip... only SiS hasn't actually done anything in graphics since the Xabre series: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.a...tno=88&pgno=13

Just... how... new... is this computer? What exactly did you purchase?

Okay. Here's the short version. The Chaos Event from 2009 was far better than the chaos event I just left.

As I remember from 2009, it was a constant spawn of Giant Monster, after Giant Monster, after Giant Monster, after Giant Monster, after Giant Monster.

This year... the event seems to based more on following cryptic clues dropped by a Game Moderator, and having to go to multiple different zones. I'm sure the setup made sense in somebody's head... like in PI having players fight Lord Recluse on one side of the Island while Ghost Widow sets up with her fortunata's atop the arena...

In practice, the 2010 event, from what I just played through... sucks. There's a strong zerg factor going on with most of the player base. The server that I was on opened up a second chaos event in Atlas Park, after the event had been moved to PI. However, nobody was really told the event had been moved to PI, so several players sat around AP doing nothing... till the announcement filtered it's way back that yes, GM's and AV's were in fact in PI... and everybody rushed there. A bit later, a red <ADMIN> message went out announcing AP would be started up again in order to fill server demand... as PI had spawned a couple instances.

Almost immediately, a majority of the player base in PI rushed off back to AP... which... well... didn't exactly solve the problem.

So... for a suggestion... Redo the event for the servers that had it tonight. Go back to the 2009 Giant Monster chaos spawn. Forget the cutesy AV manual spawn.

I thought I saw this dead horse get raised. I'm actually amazed and astounded that less than 72 hours after Positron openly shot down full re-specifications, somebody who apparently read that QA session STILL came onto the forums and requested it.

That ranks right up there with the guy who tried to get full re-specifications through customer service then threatened to tell every major news site and spam the forum with his story of "bad customer service" when he didn't get what he wanted. Seriously, I didn't think anybody was gonna top that or even get close... and now we have this thread.

PvP has never even had enough players to qualify as a community, much less a sub-community.

I think there is a perception problem though if players in the game separate what they do on the basis of what the event is, and I really think there's a problem with the opening point of view that there are sub-communities centralized around aspects of the game. Badges are a result of playing the game. Mission Architect is another way to play the game that gives badges. PvP is another way to play the game that gives badges.

Some players like to run task forces. Some players like to hunt. Some players like to run story missions. Some players like to hang out. Some players like to run repeatable missions. Some players like to farm. Some players like to do radio missions or newspapers with the safe guard / mayhem.

From a pure player traffic standpoint, the majority of the game plays the game, which is running missions and task forces. From what we know of the traffic numbers from a couple years ago, a very small minority of the game enters the PvP zones. If I recall correctly, the example that was used to paint PvP traffic stated that the Old Hollows, the pre-revamp Hollows, averaged more player traffic each day than all of the PvP zones combined on each server.

Now, as far as I'm aware, there's no official or unofficial number given for the player traffic that utilizes the AE system. Rather, the developers seem reluctant to discuss in any sort of detail just what the player traffic numbers signify. We can extrapolate from the player subscriptions as reported by NCSoft's financial department that the changes made to both the AE systems and the PvP systems had a negligible to non-existant impact on continued subscriber numbers. There was no sharp and continued drop off signaling a mass exodus of players.

This tells us that the visible players raising the points of AE and PvP in the forums, here, are a drastically small minority of the game, and so far have no visible impact on the financial basis of the game.

We also have empirical evidence, as documented by several players, that on the larger servers when a new AE exploit is found, Peregine Island has less instances, and when the AE exploits are closed, Peregine Island gains instances. This indicates that the abusing population of the game is flexible in what they do. Ergo, it's difficult to determine exactly what the traffic numbers are for AE.

We do know that the developers only anticipated maybe 10% to 15% of the player base sustaining AE involvement, which was one of the reasons why the sheer number of AE arcs in the first week of the release blew everybody's mind away. We can probably presume the developers numbers were accurate, and based on the number of new missions and missions being rated today, it's likely a higher number of players works with the AE system than projected.

That of course does mean a 10x to 15x lead over the single digit percentages reported to be involved with PvP play.

there's not really any input we can give you.

Network performance is based on several factors you don't have control over.

• First, the network speed of your ISP
• Second, the network speed of the backbone your ISP connects to
• Third, the server load on the City of Heroes servers

If you are trying to pull down the full game from no existing install, it's going to take a while. It's going to take even longer as the servers are loaded from players pulling down Issue 17 preload and pulling down Test Server versions.

If you have an existing Install disc or an existing copy of CoH, you can cut down the time by copying the existing .pigg files from your "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes" folder and have the game patch only the basic files. Outside of that, sorry, there is nothing you can do. Which is why nobody has responded.

Also, bumping a post 9 minutes after you made it is considered rude. Which is probably why you have a red-mark on your reputation.