Cant enable Bloom / Depth of Field

Hi, i actually started to wonder why i cant enable Bloom / Depth of Field / Desaturation at all. In the Options its just on N/A.

I have read that FSAA with ATI and Bloom doesnt work, so i turned FSAA off but i still couldnt select above mentioned Options.

ATM i run the Game in the following Configuration:

1680x1000 Windowed Mode
Suppress Extra Player FX - disabled
Suppress FX when Close - disabled
Particle Physics Quality - high
World Texture Quality - Very High
Character Texture Quality - Very High
World Detail - 100%
Character Detail - 100%
Max Particle Count - 50000
Vertical Sync - enabled
FSAA - 4x (as i said, turned that off for testing)
Shadows - enabled
Use Geomatric Buffers - enabled
Anisoptric Filtering - 16x
Texture Crispness - Smooth
Shader Quality - High
Water Effects - High Quality

My System is:

AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+
MSI K9N Neo V3
4GB OCZ DDR2-800 RAM
ATI Radeon HD 3870 512MB with Catalyst 8.6
Realtek HD Onboard Sound
Windows Vista x64 SP1

Hope someone can help me

Thanks,

Zera

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For anyone who cares, i contacted Tech Support and its considered a Bug so there was nothing i could do about it atm.

Heres the Quote from their Email:

"Thank you for contacting the PlayNC Customer Support team. We have received your bug report and will be transferring your ticket to our Quality Assurance (QA) Team for further review. Once your report has been reviewed and logged, your ticket will be moved to "Closed" status without a response. If you wish to update your bug report, please create a new ticket and reference the ticket number shown in the subject line of this e-mail.

Our QA Team is unable to provide status updates on bug reports. This allows them to focus on quickly addressing bug reports and other issues in the game, so that our players can experience the smoothest game play possible."

So i guess now i can just hope that i can enable the Options in future Builds.

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Well, there's a new patch on the Test server right now, so it may have a fix for your problem in it.

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@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

Sounds like a graphics card driver issue. If your card is able to support those effects, it not communicating that to the game.

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I really should do something about this signature.

I had a problem like this a couple of months ago.. A driver update was causing CoH to crash, so I dropped the game to safe mode so I could reset. Since then, I lost DoF and Bloom options, and setting shader quality above medium crashed the game totally (it worked fine on high before that). I removed the drivers and went back, but it didn't help.

After a LOT of fiddling, I finally got DoF and Bloom back, but not high shader detail... That just wouldn't go above Medium any more. After much swearing, I upgraded from my X800GTO to a HD2600XT and got full quality back, but 2 days later my CPU started to fail.

Still don't know exactly whether that caused the problems or not; but I ended up getting a new PC and rebuilding my old one into a new case for my son... Which then failed to POST when I turned it back on... No beeps, nothing... Fans run, power LED came on; but no POST...

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@FloatingFatMan

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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.