A Video of my ''Technical bug''

If anyone can help me sort it??

Its bugged me for nearly a YEAR
And its frustrating because its destroying my gameplay..
If i cant figure it out - i wont be able to play
As all i see is those horrible glitches and flickers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lQxaBSschs

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=009oNTYEl0Q


If anyone can help me

I WOULD APPRICIATE it!

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Can you put up your main system specs for us please.

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Is that the dxdiag?

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hi heres my system specs:

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name MANDY-PC
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP G70 Notebook PC
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5800 @ 2.00GHz, 2000 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard F.25, 04/09/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
User Name Mandy-PC\Mandy
Time Zone GMT Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 3.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 2.93 GB
Available Physical Memory 863 MB
Total Virtual Memory 6.08 GB
Available Virtual Memory 3.53 GB
Page File Space 3.22 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

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Am I missing it, or is there no video card model/driver software version?

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Looks to me like it's basic Notebook GFX rather than a dedicated graphics card.

Query: Does it happen with graphics set to safemode on starting CoX?

And yes I'm a qualified PC Tech!

Edit: Also change your game shortcut to include -renderthread 1 after the .exe"
.exe" -renderthread 1

That will let CoX run in Multi Core/Cpu mode

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i just found that my game shortcut doesnt have exe.

Only Cohupdater.eu

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Probably just that you have Windows suppressing display of "known file types".

Not sure how it works in Vista, but in XP the way to change that is to open My Computer, Tools menu, Folder Options, View tab, and uncheck the "Hide Extensions for known file types" box.

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Looks to me like it's basic Notebook GFX rather than a dedicated graphics card.

Query: Does it happen with graphics set to safemode on starting CoX?

And yes I'm a qualified PC Tech!

Edit: Also change your game shortcut to include -renderthread 1 after the .exe"
.exe" -renderthread 1

That will let CoX run in Multi Core/Cpu mode

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Holy.. what?

Does coh not automatically use multiple cores? I have a mac is there any way to invoke that? or are you a windows techie only? Gonna have to check that now...

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CoH may not use all multi-cores, I think it depends on your own set-up as well I'm sure. I've ran it with one core focusing on it, out of four. ( Although the others were occupied tbh)

Fury

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so um is there anyway to fix it? lol cuz im on a vista laptop nn idk where safemode or any of tht is?

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Ok on my mac, it uses both cores (consumes alot of both cores at that...)

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Safemode for CoX graphics is a little toggle box on the updater screen...

Page 1: Version Info
Bottom Right Button: Next >

Page 2: EULA
Bottom Right Button: I Agree

Just left of the 'I Agree' button is the CoX gfx 'Safemode []' checkbox.

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um yeah it didnt fix it

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i read a while ago that CoX code didn't always successfully detect multiple cores/processors, hence the necessity for the renderthread parameter to force it. it may not be necessary anymore, but i use it all the same just in case. it made a difference last year when i bought my first core2 duo cpu pc and i didnt see the performance gain i'd looked forward to. turning on this switch certainly made difference. whether its going to help with a graphics glitch i dont know, but it wont hurt thats for sure.

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Well i tried adding renderthread1 or whatever on the end
but it doesnt do anything
Am i supposed to do something? lol
cuz i had to add
exe on the end of cohupdater.eu

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the "-renderthread 1" should no longer be needed as CoH will now make use of multiple cores (tho i think it can only use a max of 2) also weirdly i used to use the -renderthread 1 command but found that the game actually ran better on my PC without it so adding it may not be a great idea if the game is running ok the now.

as for the problem at hand first thing to do would be to upgrade your graphics drivers you should be able to find the latest ones here

failing that try going into settings and playing about with the graphics settings you might need to switch them to advanced to get the full spectrum of options.

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