je_saist

If you check the front page of www.cityofheroes.com you'll find that AMD / ATi is the current graphics partner. The best performance cards right now, industry wide, is ATi's RadeonHD 5000 series lineup.

As to upgrading your graphics, very few laptops have the capability to upgrade, and I don't recognize your model as being an MXM compatible chassis.

So, in your specific case, a "new" system might be your only realistic option.

It is possible that Intel could update their reference drivers, but given that Intel is pretty much a laughingstock of the gaming industry who hasn't ever issued a hot-fix for any specific game before... well... You'd probably spend less time looking through their graphics documentation and writing your own driver.

It also isn't likely that HP or any other vendor will press Intel to update the drivers either, as they see this as a perfect opportunity to sell you a completely new laptop. Given that you stated you just got this laptop BACK from tech support, I'm under the impression you aren't looking to drop another $500+ on a new laptop.


I think I also need to state that while our game developers are aware of the issues with Intel compatibility, there is a limit to what code they can implement or lock-out without rekludging the engine. As the game moves forward, it's been indicated that Television and his graphics crew will do their best to keep from breaking existing compatibility.

In theory then, play on Intel Integrated graphics probably should not get any-worse when all of the changes for Going Rogue are finally implemented.

Unfortunately, I highly doubt support is going to improve. Wrangling decent performance / image quality out of Intel's Graphics Accelerators requires either using OpenGL code that makes DirectX look pretty, or writing to the DirectX API.

Here's your problem:

FYI, that's griefing, and it's against T.O.S.

Anyways, I agree with Smash Zone about not doing master run's with players you haven't ever teamed with before. Some of the Master Runs, like Dr. Kahn's and ITF, are fairly trivial for P.U.G.'s to pull off. Others, like Statesman's, Lord Recluses's, Barracuda's, or Lady Grey's need a little bit more pre-expected team-work.

Now, I won't argue that certain players will take the Master Run too far. For every player that will laugh it off and finish the TF out, there's one that will insist on starting the whole thing over again. Most of the people I run with refer to the Master runs as a "Master of Attempt" or "Attempting a Master," basically focusing on the fact that even with the best groups of players, things can still go wrong.

... I really don't know whether to role-play this one or live-play it with a WHOOHOO!

*reaches into the Tussle Cloud, pulls Becky out, pops a ribbon bomb into the tussle cloud, then carries the Becky off!*

mewhewhewhewhewhew! I am an eeeeevil genius!

Yes. This:

NVidia GeForce GT 130M

Nvidia has THERMAL PROBLEMS. Their video cards RUN HOT. Seriously, did you miss the entire BumpGate scandal Nvida's going through? Did you miss the lawsuits going against Nvidia because they outright lied to computer manufacturers about how hot their chips run? Did you miss the reports of exploding computers? Did you miss the product recalls for multiple laptops? http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...c01300427_dv20

Okay, granted, I don't see your particular laptop model in the list of HP laptops with Nivida that are known to explode. Also, it should not be running hot enough to shut your computer off. Given the state of Nvidia's drivers, it's entirely possible that the driver you are using is one of the more recent ones that had botched thermal controls: http://technorati.com/technology/it/...ting-problems/

So, we need to know what driver you have installed: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=219502

shhhh, I'm hwunting Mwindy's

*from Behind Fedor a blue kitty fades in carrying a large mallet*

SACK SEASON!!!

*WHAPS Fedor with the mallet!*

Fey!!! MOUSIE!!!

*bats at the mousie!*

*smells catnip, but hear's instructions for Fedor to run*

Ah, here's the light switch!

*flips the lights back and on and looks around. A suspicious looking Sackthingy is with Detra... a strange place for a running sackthingy to be*

Ergo... it must not be... the real sackthingy!

*flips the lights back off and stalks the Sackthingy, while keeping an ear out for the Fey*

shhh... I think we're being stalked by a Fey...

nuuuuu!!!!!!!

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Attack_Mechanics

To-Hit is a larger buff than Accuracy.

Don't take it Ali! it's a trap!

.... no.

no. it isn't.

It's. awful. It is, in and of itself, a malware package.


Okay, the status of whose good in the anti-virus world can change at the drop of a hat, and changes depending on what OS you are using. If you are on a Windows System, you will get infected no matter who you use. It's only a question of time.

*Nix type systems are harder to crack, and as the recent UnrealIRC package trojan showed, successful attempts basically require you to allow a 3rd party non-repository vetted piece of software have root access to your machine.

Keeping in mind then that no AntiVirus is going to give you 100% protection, the best on-access anti-virus's for the Windows platform are:

Avast: http://www.avast.com/
BitDefender: http://www.bitdefender.com/
Nod32: http://www.eset.com/

Now, a lot of people swear by AVG, and yes, AVG does make a good anti-malware product. One of the things you have to watch for with AVG though is that as of version 9, they tend to report a lot of false positives, and they also use an on-access link scanner. Basically, what AVG can do is scan all of the links on a browser page and make sure you can't click on a link that leads to a malicious software site... it's a neat trick, but can send your Internet connection speed into the toilet. AVG's performance / memory size has skyrockted over previous releases, and I'm not convinced that the free version is "worth" the extra processing power compared to it's rivals.

If you couple an Anti-Virus with tools such as SpyBot Search and Destroy, and avoid Microsoft software where-ever possible: don't use Internet Explorer, don't use Microsoft Outlook, don't use Microsoft Office, don't use Hotmail, and so on; you can pretty much avoid many of the problems that plague the Microsoft Windows Operating System.

Now, the worst of the security packages doesn't change as often as the best. You can pretty much bet that any compilation of the "lowest hit rate for malware" packages will include Symnatec's Norton, McAfee, and Kaspersky somewhere in the bottom 5. I've gone into why these guys tend to be dead last before.



Now, the best anti-malware package... isn't really an anti-malware package.

It's ClamAV: http://www.clamwin.com/ :: http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/

Now, what you need to know about ClamAV is that it's Windows version is not an on-access protection anti-virus. You will actually have to run ClamAV and scan files manually in order to see whether or not they have a virus. However, ClamAV has been used in the *nix realm for years and boasts an average hit-rate for malicious software that is way better than it's enterprise rivals.

Basically, the Windows version of Clam won't actively protect you from getting a virus, but it will be able to clean that virus up.

And yes, an on-access real-time scanner is expected to be added to the ClamWin client, but I couldn't tell you when.

I was talking more of the mustache and beard.

mostly it was the fact that you forgot to shave that gave it away.

Unai Kemen sends you after the Council Empire.

Detra: Mistress of Whips!