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Manga already posted what the cause probably is. I've also posted the logs for the exact same crash under Transgaming's G.T.L. code-base.

As to why it has not been fixed yet?

If you want a gut-reaction / opinion... NCSoft decided to throw all their OSX / Linux users under a bus; Making the game compatibility so bad or the barrier to run so difficult that subscribers would go find something else to do. Presto, everybody homogenizes and chants the "Oh Great Microsoft" line. Neither Manga nor I were invited to the Beta before the VIP beta, which meant that the two players who have given the most feedback / aid to the developers and Transgaming to locate and determine these types of bugs... were not involved in any stage before the effective "open-beta".

Now, I cannot answer why NCSoft made that decision, if it was indeed the decision they decided to make.

My personal opinion is that it was a critically bad decision to make. I do not think that NCSoft has the luxury of deliberately antagonizing any portion of their player-base, but that is what NCSoft seems intent on doing.

Changing the direction apparently taken by NCSoft likely won't be easy. As evidenced by the .NET launcher and the Linux compatibility problem, I've been banging on that drum since... well.. January of this year when Second Measure mentioned the "new" launcher. Did any other subscribers get involved in attempting to address the problem / send feedback / "do anything"? Nope, not until AFTER the launcher change had gone into effect: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=267988

Kind of late there.

Apple users are pretty much in the same boat. The development decision / resource management was already set in stone. Everybody was scheduled. Now that the "die" as it were has been cast, only NOW are OSX subscribers starting to speak up. Again... a little late.

Sadly, until or unless the non-Microsoft-Windows-Operating-System users are more Pro-active in raising living hell for design directions... NCSoft really has no incentive to change the direction they apparently have decided to take.

Oh yeah, as an afterthought.

You need to make a post even if the Catalyst 11.4 drivers and Driver-Sweeper resolves the problem.

All City of Heroes subscribers experiencing problems with AMD graphics chips need to let AMD know about the problems.

http://phyxion.net/item/driver-sweeper.html

Also, try Catalyst 11-4: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...ition&rev=11.4

You'll likely need to use the Mobility Modder to get it to install: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/modtool.php

out of wondering, did you run Driver Sweeper to clear out the crippled HP drivers before installing the new Catalyst Drivers?

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Also, there is a thread on the AMD forums for problems with Catalyst drivers and City of Heroes: http://forums.amd.com/devforum/messa...&enterthread=y

So far nobody BUT me has actually posted there. If you are having a driver issue with City of Heroes and an AMD graphics card: Please Post in the Thread on the AMD Forums.

There's an ongoing OpenGL bug with the Catalyst driver set. The bug has only reliably presented itself since 11.5. For the most part Catalyst 11.4 is stable for most players, but some system configurations can trigger problems in the Catalyst 11.4 set.

A thread for the OpenGL issues in Catalyst 11 series has been opened on the AMD general discussion forums: http://forums.amd.com/devforum/messa...&enterthread=y

To date no-body BUT me has actually posted about their problems there.

(hint hint, if you have a crashing driver issue with an AMD graphics card, GO POST IN THAT AMD FORUM THREAD)

You'll find that is entirely normal.

one hell of a necropost.

Anyways, this problem seems to be more often associated with Nvidia graphics cards: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine...ry/267186.html

Which version of Catalyst are you using?

Pardon Xenos. I'd like to borrow what you said here and mod it a bit.

Personally I am hoping that Freedom will give many more Mac and Linux users the opportunity to try City of Heroes, and we all know about first impressions.

Okay, I think I'm done.

working on it.

The un-named server problem was one of the reasons I provided the pre-install enviroments for my two Game-Tree-Linux guides.

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Also, as a note because I didn't see it mentioned, for the perl script, it looks like libxml-simple-perl should satisfy the XML::Simple requirement linked to by the perl-script author.

You need to use quote marks, and take the renderthread out.

Jsut do :

-project "Coh"
-project "CohTest"
-project "CohBeta"

Lxdr: currently there is reliable method that I'm aware of to get around having to use either the OSX or Windows Patcher to bring the game up to date.

It is quite a necro-past. Perhaps it will be allowed to stand.

Has nothing to do with the game itself. To repeat myself from the first post here:

Support for Stereoscopic rendering is handled by your driver vendor, not by Paragon Studios / NCSoft.

Personally I don't see the benefit of layered vision in games, but hey, some people do.

As before, you'll need to take support up with your graphics card vendor.

... um...

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Mastermind_Strategy

You can use the existing MM controls to tell each individual pet exactly where to stand.

Heh. I want video you telling Dr. Aeon you need either Retcon's or story corrections :P

so?

Sales of the comic weren't exactly... "great" if I remember.

I don't know what the download numbers on the comics are either, could be low or could be high.

Keep in mind that a good number of people who play CoH don't read the comics... and there are good number of new players in the game today that don't know those comics are available on the web-site to download and read.

It's assumed from here: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Surviving_Eight

The rest of the Surviving 8 were all Freedom Phalanx members.

BaB's has also appeared in promotional art with the other Freedom Phalanx members, such as the recently stated Who Will Die promotional campaign.

There is also the Lord Recluse Strike Force where BaB's is one of the combatents, and the mission objective is to defeat "Statesman and the Freedom Phalanx... not "Statesman, the Freedom Phalanx, and the Remaining Regulator: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Lord_Rec...reedom_Phalanx

For the same promotional reasons, Miss Liberty is also commonly lumped in with the Freedom Phalanx as she is Statesman's Sidekick, despite her own affiliation being The Vindicators.

I seriously doubt that: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=98&pgno=3

The Mobility RadeonHD 4250 has a theoretical Megatexel / MegaPixel throughput of 2,000 M/T / 2,000 M/P; and it's best performing memory configuration has 8.53 GB/s.

The Mobility RadeonHD 2600, which I have on hand, has a theoretical Megatexel / MegaPixel throughput of 4,000 M/T / 2,000 M/P; and it came with a bandwidth configuration of 12.8 GB/s.

While I can't say how a RadeonHD 4250 would perform, I can tell you how the more powerful 2600 performs:









Even in a low resolution, in this case 1024 * 768, I would be hard pressed to describe these frame-rates as playable.