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*kicks in the front door, storms across the room, and clonks the Sackthingy over the head with the Snowboard*

You... you... you... you SACK! I found traces of burlap on the boots! You jammed the locks closed!

*sets down in a humph, then suddenly turns all calm and asks Fey*

Can I has Cookie?

yeah. this was my thought. I was looking for the "beat the dead horse" gif that's been floating around.

Seriously, if you make a mastermind, make a mastermind. Most competent teams are going to outright laugh at you if you show up petless, and most are going to ask you to switch to your primary play build and get out of your "goofing off" build.

*aims the out-of-control snowboard for the lodge and crashes through a window, spotting a fuzzy burlapy thing inside with a portal gun*

YOU!!!

*crashes into the sackthingy at full speed, then crashes out the other side of the lodge*

Ha Ha! I have you now!

*looks up as another lodge looms closer, this one with no windows*

This is gonna hurt...

****

On the other side of the Wall Detra, Fey, and Neko Ali are sharing some cups of tea, and perk their ears as the lodge suddenly shakes and the outline of a sackthingy and a kitten appear in the walll. The three look at the wall, then resume their tea-time.

I'm speaking out of my rear on this one, but I think it's because he's not tech-savvy, but he's magic-implementation-savvy. Remember the line: "Any Technology sufficiently advanced is in-distinguishable from Magic"; or it's counter-part; any "Magic Sufficiently advanced is in-distinguishable from Technology".

It's talked about a bit in the Percy story-arc that some point there were a different set of origins, either greater or fewer, than the origins recognized today. Mutants, for example, were linked to the splitting of the first atom.

It's possible then that one of Daedaulus's super-powers is the ability to work with gadgets. He might not understand the exact details of why the device works, it's a black-box to him, but he understands how the device works, and he's able to get it to behave like he wants it to behave.

E.G. : I'm not a coder. I know HOW to write in Computer Code, and I know WHAT computer code does, and I know HOW it's supposed to operate, but if you asked me to re-write the physics engine of the game using OpenCL I'd give you a blank stare and have to go dive into some books for a few months.

However, I know HOW to fix computers. I know HOW to identify driver issues. I know HOW to identify Hardware issues. I know which tools and applications give me the most amount of useful detail in the shortest amount of time. I know WHAT to look for.

I thus can imagine putting myself in Daedalus's shoes, and for what he is, and what he's supposed to be, his ability to work with technology and magic is quite understandable.

Actually the devs have tried to address this one through the in-game mechanics, using both animations and the chat systems. Most of the low level enemies; Hellions, Skulls, Outcasts; that are "human" are normally either doing something that breaks the law, or are talking ABOUT breaking the law or causing trouble.

The non-human low-levels, the clockworks, are always taking stuff apart, and are attributed to a crime-wave that started before the events of Paragon City as the players encountered them start.

Of the other low-level enemies, the Vahzilok and the Circle of Thorns, they are also of an established criminal wave. Again though, the mob animations and chat dialog have been adjusted so that there's no confusion that these are simply people dressing UP as either villain group.

Incidentally, when was the last time you actually ran low level hero content?

GG beat me to it.

Yes, in your avatar's storyline, Countess Crey is already a criminal by the time you get to Daedalus's arc. There is the issue that Daedulus could not KNOW that the Countess was out on bail, and nor could he have known about the Revenant Project, unless of course the player informed him of how evil and corrupt this Crey Corporation was. Such passage of information is not directly indicated in the Daedalus arc.

Yes, Daedalus does say the following before instructing you to hit the Crey warehouse:

These files could of course contain the background on the Crey Corporation... but they probably don't... as the clue that provides these files say:

Now, it is possible that the Malta have targeted the Crey Warehouse with explicit notes that one thing they can be sure of: a Thief won't ever call the cops.

So, the Daedalus arc is left up to the player either reading between the lines about how Daedalus gets his information, or there is one large anachronistic plothole.

... Radeon 7800?

ATi never released a Radeon 7800 card.

I think you mean the Mobility FireGL 7800: http://ati.amd.com/products/mobilityfgl7800/index.html

As I expected from the naming schema, this was based off of the Radeon 7500 graphics card: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=98&pgno=1

The last driver to support these cards was the Catalyst 6.11 release: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...rer300-xp.aspx ... on Nov. 15, 2006

That was before the Catalyst OpenGL rewrite that arrived in 2007, which means your card only runs an OpenGL driver that actually makes Nvidia's driver sets look good.

Unfortantly, this means that CoH is probably not ever going to work on your card again, and it's not likely that the developers will ever implement a fix to make your card playable.

The Radeon 7000 series, and thus the Mobility FireGL 7800, was never supported to begin with.

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There is one trick you could try though. From luminous martini: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=220618

This forces the game to use the same rendering path as Intel Integrated graphics.

Which may... or may not work.

Uncheck: Users must enter a name and a password to use this computer.

Hit Okay.

You'll be given a pop-up box with the username you want to login with and an entry for passwords. Leave the password fields blank.

click on start: run

type in: control USERPASSWORDS2

he done hit China. I think he's on his way back.

fine. I poked him.

now if you'll excuse me, I need to go find a nice bomb shelter to hide in.

In theory... the scrapper: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Damage_Cap#Damage

Thing is scrappers get critical strikes, so while their base damage cap is lower than a brutes, 500% versus 850%, the scrappers effective critical damage is 500%x2, or 1000%

The big problem is that you'll rarely ever be at damage cap without outside support. Soul Drain's performance figures on a brute are actually lower than a scrapper's: 8% base / 40% base :: Scrappers do 10% base / 50% base.

Now, I honestly haven't run a DM brute and DM scrapper to 26 to compare figures, but on paper, the Scrapper's higher buff values are going to compensate for the Brute's Fury Advantage.

Then the scrapper's critical strikes add atop that.

So, in theory, the scrapper should deliver a more powerful punch.

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In reality, I think the answer is both

The Brute's higher Hit point cap means it can stay in a fight longer, and the Fury generation will enable it to sustain a higher damage rate without relying on Soul Drain to generate some punch.

Yes and no. Yes, a RadeonHd 4650 can drive pretty much any resolution screen you throw at it in 2D.

No, don't expect it to render all of your games at 30frames per second at 1920*1080 (1080p).

You should be able to run CoH in non-ultra mode at that resolution though.

The Catalyst Control center should let you configure it as such. Catalyst Control Center should also be capable of locking signal to one display or another. Your laptop may also have hard-wired controls to lock the signal to the external display or the laptop display only.

Maybe, maybe not. Details are a bit sketchy on the implementation of the RadeonHD 4650 used in the notebook. In most cases, low-end cards will only support two displays at once. This is why Matrox's Parhelia, Triple Screen-To-Go, and ATi's Eyefinity technology are so... special. The HD 5x00 series of cards has been the first non-Matrox card to support 3 or more screens natively.

Right off hand, my guess is that you can only use the HDMI OR the VGA port, but not both.

But hey, try it and see.


Oh god. Don't wait on HP.

Get thee to
32bit: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...b_win7-32.aspx
64bit: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...b_win7-64.aspx

you do it.

I think he's still mad over my propsed story arc: Dr. Aeon disrupts Satellite Access.

SLI : yes:

SLI will actually throw a hissy fit if you have two identical chip cards, but from different vendors. So if you couple and EVGA with a BFG, or a Galaxy with a Sparkle, it generally won't work.

There are driver hacks out there that get around the SLI limitations of vendor lock-in, but by and large these hacks generate more rendering and stability issues than they do improve performance.

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Crossfire : no

AMD has a list of supported card models here: http://game.amd.com/us-en/content/im...ombo_chart.jpg

Now, I do need to tell you... although that chart says you can crossfire certain cards without an internal connector...

YOU NEED THE INTERNAL CONNECTOR

Thing is, I had a couple of HD 4650's, bought mostly because they were cheap, and I wanted to test out Crossfire against the Intel D975XBX motherboard I was sent for Mepisguides. In real-life testing, the lack of an internal connector meant the cards had to use the PCIE bus to transfer data... and the result was an on-benchmark performance acceleration, but with a slow, jittering, and stuttering display.

So, if you do look at Multi-GPU, make sure you look at cards with the internal connector.

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There are some various hacks that have been posted around the forum to "force" SLI rendering with the Live engine. As of right now, these hacks don't get anywhere near the performance boost that the Test Server's testing mode does.

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Rumor has it that the Tele has another command line trigger for experimental Crossfire support. However, confirming this rumor probably would require having to sit through the full season of Lord Recluse and the Wrestler, and it's sequel, Lord Recluse and the Professor.

bzzt. WRONG

Windows Vista and Windows 7 are the SAME BLOODY OPERATING SYSTEM

If you work with Vista, you have to make sure that you grab the latest service pack and the DirectX 11 platform update to bring your system into synch with the Windows 7 release.

Oh that's it. Your getting Diakatana in your stocking this Christmas.