Updated Compilation of Vista Issues/Fixes
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Adar_ICT,
Posted on: 2007-03-12 11:34 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I have an issue that I hope can be helped 
I read through the thread and it's helped dramatically, however...
Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE Just updated drivers (like 5 min ago) uninstalled old drivers first, then new. COH Prompts me that I'm using older drivers. The game runs terrible in 'medium'. I need to turn the resolution down to 1bout 25% to be able to play it. playing in windowed mode does not help either.
Incase ya need:
Running Vista Home
Intel Core 2CPU 6400 @ 2.13 G
2 GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE
It's driving me crazy and I think I'm going bald from the headaches I can play the game, but it aint pretty.
Anyone have any thoughts?
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Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE
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One reason is this is NOT a performance 3D Gaming Card. You would need a 7600GT or higher to get good results. So yes, turning down the settings is about the only option.
Thanks, that's actually the response I was expecting, just needed further reasoning 
thanks so much!!
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I have an issue that I hope can be helped I read through the thread and it's helped dramatically, however...
Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE Just updated drivers (like 5 min ago) uninstalled old drivers first, then new. COH Prompts me that I'm using older drivers. The game runs terrible in 'medium'. I need to turn the resolution down to 1bout 25% to be able to play it. playing in windowed mode does not help either.
Incase ya need:
Running Vista Home
Intel Core 2CPU 6400 @ 2.13 G
2 GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE
It's driving me crazy and I think I'm going bald from the headaches I can play the game, but it aint pretty.
Anyone have any thoughts?
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What driver version did you upgrade to? And don't worry about the old driver message, it's normal in Vista.
Has anyone heard about the issue with vista kicking people of and the screen being black out but u can still hear the game and fight to i have been having the problen for a while????? ? Can someone help with this issue
Anyone know how to fix the problem of the mouse pointer not agreeing with what is onscreen? I seem to have to click roughly 1 inch below what I want to click on. Plus, the top of my screen is cut off.... It almost seems like the game wants to be a little bigger than my screen. I'm using Vista and running the game in safe mode (If I run it in normal mode, it's a small window that shows roughly 1/4 of the game).
Btw, ATI cards do not get the 'outdated drivers' message anymore and haven't for awhile.
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Btw, ATI cards do not get the 'outdated drivers' message anymore and haven't for awhile.
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It's an nVidia thing, and I believe it only happens with drivers over version 100. It has to do with the way the driver internally stores its version and the way the game reads it; for example, driver version 160.02 reports as being 6.14.11.6002. The game reads the 6002 part and thinks it's driver version 60.02, and gives you the error message.
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Anyone know how to fix the problem of the mouse pointer not agreeing with what is onscreen? I seem to have to click roughly 1 inch below what I want to click on. Plus, the top of my screen is cut off.... It almost seems like the game wants to be a little bigger than my screen. I'm using Vista and running the game in safe mode (If I run it in normal mode, it's a small window that shows roughly 1/4 of the game).
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This has come up before and I think it's because you're not playing the game in the same resolution as your desktop. If you want to play the game in 800x600 you need to change your desktop resolution to 800x600 first, then fire up the game.
If part of your screen isn't showing then it's likely your monitor and your PC aren't in agreement for how to display various resolutions. When your monitor is ready to display the screen, your computer has already sent the first inch.
Long term, you might want to see if you can find some drivers for your monitor. For the short term, though, change your game resolution to match your desktop resolution. (I'm presuming that you aren't getting this same problem when you aren't playing the game.)
Gunness84, yeah, I think you asked before. My only idea was that the monitor's power saving feature was kicking in when it shouldn't. Have you got that turned on? If so, turn it off and see if the problem goes away.
It could also be a hardware thing. Maybe the output for the video card isn't connected real well and it cuts out when the card gets hot? Or maybe it's the wires themselves - you might try unplugging them then plugging them back in. Both on the computer side and the monitor side, if the monitor let's you.
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Anyone know how to fix the problem of the mouse pointer not agreeing with what is onscreen? I seem to have to click roughly 1 inch below what I want to click on. Plus, the top of my screen is cut off.... It almost seems like the game wants to be a little bigger than my screen. I'm using Vista and running the game in safe mode (If I run it in normal mode, it's a small window that shows roughly 1/4 of the game).
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Another thing that seems to happen somewhat randomly for me, is if I leave the Windows Sidebar running when I launch the game. When that happens, and I am in any of the UI screens (Trying to move Inspirations and Enhancements are the worst) everything is shifted down and to the right. If I turn off the sidebar, everything goes back to normal. The weird thing is, sometimes it works without a problem even if I forget and leave the sidebar running.
-= TANSTAAFL =-
Adar - Lvl 50 Emp/Elec/Psy Defender on Guardian (411 badges)
Itsy Bitsy Slicer - Lvl 50 Kat/Reg Scrapper on Guardian
Flying-Tiger - Lvl 32 Sonic/Energy Blaster on Guardian
I have long since turned that Sidebar OFF on my system. I don't need to see more bouncy-secondhand clocks ticking away at home or at work. If I need little widgets on the Desktop I'll just open up Google. 
Yeah, two minutes into playing CoH I bailed out and killed the sidebar. It wasn't playing nice and it wasn't providing anything interesting.
Hello there my fellow Heroes & Villains... I been thinking in upgrade to Windows Vista and wonder after this entire talking if is worth it buy it.
Come to RV I am going to smash you! Grrrr
Upgrading? Maybe, if you got your computer recently. What are your computer specs?
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Hello there my fellow Heroes & Villains... I been thinking in upgrade to Windows Vista and wonder after this entire talking if is worth it buy it.
Come to RV I am going to smash you! Grrrr
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Anyone know how to fix the problem of the mouse pointer not agreeing with what is onscreen? I seem to have to click roughly 1 inch below what I want to click on. Plus, the top of my screen is cut off.... It almost seems like the game wants to be a little bigger than my screen. I'm using Vista and running the game in safe mode (If I run it in normal mode, it's a small window that shows roughly 1/4 of the game).
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I had this problem and I forget how I fixed it. Try starting in Safe Mode. Also check your command line option in the CoH shortcut, I had my extra options for Vista disappear once. It may have to do with the screen res, but I know I didn't change my desktop to fix it. And I couldn't get in game either. I think it might be part of the compatible cursor bug, make sure that option is on your command line.
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This may have already been discussed, but if not, there are a couple of things people should be aware of if they are upgrading their Vista from one version to another. In my case, I just upgraded from Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate.
First, if you have the option, DON'T. On my dual core proc with 2GB of RAM, it took 2 1/2 hours to do the upgrade. As with other Windows OS's, you are better off doing a fresh install.
Second, even if you have the most current drivers installed (video in my case, but any drivers apply), you will have to reinstall those drivers after the upgrade of Vista has completed. Vista automatically defaults to using its internal drivers when it installs, regardless of what is already installed.
It is annoying that's for sure, but I had to see how it worked.
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Adar - Lvl 50 Emp/Elec/Psy Defender on Guardian (411 badges)
Itsy Bitsy Slicer - Lvl 50 Kat/Reg Scrapper on Guardian
Flying-Tiger - Lvl 32 Sonic/Energy Blaster on Guardian
Um, this may have already been addressed, but I don't feel like going past the first page, so I'll say this:
When it comes to the invisible mouse pointer, I did what it said... and the only thing that happened was it canceled from the screen when I hit "OK". Is that normal?
I think I might have found a good fix for all these problems. On bringing the game up in Safe Mode, and looking at changing the settings to Desktop I saw another option (Windowed) and decided to try it.
I no longer have an invisible mouse in CoX (and no longer have that 'compatiblecursors 1' mouse pointer either), I no longer get the graphical problem (grey scale) when trying to make or tailor a toon.
Just wanted to post this and hopefully get more of you up and running as best as you can.
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Hi, all. Just posted a new guide up here; it describes how to work around the UAC prompt that pops when running the updater. This is *per-executable*, and not turning off UAC entirely.
HTH,
Kam
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Outstanding tip! Took less than 5 mins to do and worked like a champ! Gawd it's nice to not have to click *allow* every time I run CoH.
NVIDIA Geforce 6150 LE + Vista = Issues
Specs: 32-bit. AD Athelon 64x2 Dual Core Processor 4000+, Direct X version 10
I'm posting this for a friend of mine because he can't log in for some reason, but Vista is giving him all kinds of issues. When he gets to the character creator, the model isn't standing above the rotating cursor, and is, in fact, behind the list of costume options. And when logged into the game, he's getting split screens, and everything is in black and white.
What's going on? Is there someway to fix this? Thanks!
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NVIDIA Geforce 6150 LE + Any OS = Issues
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Has anyone heard about the issue with vista kicking people of and the screen being black out but u can still hear the game and fight to i have been having the problen for a while????? ?