Grab CoHHelper and post it's report. It'll give us an idea about hardware and drivers and game settings.
A report from HijackThis will tell us what shovel ware may be running on the system (since it's a new store bought PC).
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There's not enough info to really guess - does the game manage to start if you start it in safe mode?
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OK, I must be the biggest idiot ever. Downloaded CoHHelper and ran, but don't know what it did. Does it do something? Am I supposed to run CoH after I start it?
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Grab CoHHelper and post it's report. It'll give us an idea about hardware and drivers and game settings.
A report from HijackThis will tell us what shovel ware may be running on the system (since it's a new store bought PC). |
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It produces a report of information, relevant to the operation of CoH, about your system. Paste it into a response here so that it can be reviewed. If you have too much trouble with that (though it really isn't too difficult), we could make-do with a dxdiag report.
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Originally Posted by vinque
OK, I must be the biggest idiot ever. Downloaded CoHHelper and ran, but don't know what it did. Does it do something? Am I supposed to run CoH after I start it?
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You press the button labeled Forum Output. A window will pop up with a little animation of some Spore critter. Eventually it will go away and you will get a popup that says the report is in the Windows' clipboard and all you need to to is paste (Ctrl-V) it into your post.
HiJackThis will actually create a file that you can copy and paste from.
Father Xmas - Level 50 Ice/Ice Tanker - Victory
$725 and $1350 parts lists --- My guide to computer components
Tempus unum hominem manet
Running it in safe mode was the key. After booting in safe mode and changing the graphics to some decent settings, everything is fine. Not sure what the original graphic settings were, but they must have been too much. Thanks for the help.
I've had a great run of electronics failures lately and my 7+ year old PC was the latest victim. HP had a Pres day sale and I was able to get a decent replacement for less than I thought. The only problem (and it's a big one) is that CoH won't really run. What I mean is that I can connect, login, select a character and try to get in the game. That's where I encounter a problem. I can let the program run for more than 5 min and the "loading progress" bar hardly moves - I've tried running "normally" and in compatability mode.
My old PC would load the game in about 30 secs or less when I got to this point. My new machine has much better specs in some respects, 2.8GHz dual-core/3GB Mem, but a worse video card, integrated (ouch) NVidia GeForce 6150 SE nForce 430. I know the vid card sucks but thought I could live with it for a bit b4 replacing. Is my entire issue vid card related? Anyone have any suggestions?