Really weird graphical issues
By
Captain Fabulous,
Posted on: 2009-07-23 24:55 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I'd recommend starting with Zloth's ++ Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines ++ thread that is stickied in this forum.
Secondly, post a log from running CoH Helper as it will give information about your system and the CoH installation and settings.
Thirdly, post a log from running HijackThis. This will show what else is going on on your computer while you are playing CoH.
Also, being able to play Age of Conan or one of the myriad other MMO's that are popular has no bearing on how your computer handles CoH. AoC, and most of the other "popular" MMO's use DirectX whereas CoH uses OpenGL. Yes, WoW can run on OpenGL, but from what I've read it's not always easy to enable it. Comparing how a DirectX game runs to how an OpenGL game runs is comparing apples to oranges.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
OK, well, the HijackThis deal detected that I had nothing out of the ordinary going on with my computer (and I don't run anything else while running COH), and here's the COH Helper log
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.7---
DxDiag gathered at July 23, 2009 16:23 (-04:00)
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.090302-1506)
System Manufacturer: HP-Pavilion
System Model: KT371AA-ABA a6514f
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
Memory: 3070MB
.Net Memory Report: 2442MB out of 3069MB available
Page File: 4137MB (2241MB currently in use)
C Drive: (ST3500620AS ATA Device) 341089MB out of 466719MB (73%) free
D Drive: (ST3500620AS ATA Device) 1368MB out of 10217MB (13%) free
E Drive: (TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Q ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 10
DirectX Diag version: 6.00.6001.18000 (32-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce 8800 GT
Video Memory: 1778 MB
Driver Version: 8.15.0011.8618
Driver Date: 6/10/2009 6:03:00 AM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHDA.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5789
Driver Date: 2/11/2009 12:38:14 PM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHDA.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5789
Driver Date: 2/11/2009 12:38:14 PM
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: FOXCONN
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: Napa
Motherboard Version: HP P/N
BIOS Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Name: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: HPQOEM - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20080513000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1024x768
3D Resolution: 1024x768 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes
Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: None
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: High Quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High
World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of Extra Player FX Enabled: No
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.600
Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.600
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 52465 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 19.20090702.5T2
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found
The issue you are having is related to your graphic driver. Vista don't handle the 186.xx driver very well.
If you roll back to version 185.85 I think you should be good.
You should also turn off Bloom, Depth of Field, and Desaturation. They can cause all sorts of wonkiness. Looks like you'll have to enable Advanced Graphics Options first.
Updating my graphics driver fixed everything! Thanks guys
I would also recommend upgrading Vista to Service Pack 2. It seems to help with game stability.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
Just for the record, Hijack This doesn't tell you anything is wrong. So I'm guessing you thought it did, or you went through it yourself? Just curious.
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I'm dealing with a very red game right now, and I have no idea why. I've got a decent graphics card that used to run COH perfectly, but having recently replaced the hard drive gives me this mess.
http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/f...t=CIMG1491.jpg
http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/f...t=CIMG1490.jpg
After installing the new harddrive, I went to NVidia's website and reinstalled the proper drivers, and I'm running Age of Conan just fine, so can anyone explain this redness to me?