1762x992 no loner supported?
By
BlasterMaster,
Posted on: 2010-03-07 09:53 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Champions has nothing to do with this game at all and should have no bearing on what your resolution is doing in CoH. go into your options menu in game and set your graphics to what you want. update your video drivers also. they're almost 1 yr old. and update vista to service pack 2. and clean out your c drive. 10% free is not a good thing. i would suggest doing a disc clean up and defrag first before anything.
Never mind. Just realized that for some reason my desktop resolution had a refresh of 25 (interlaced, gotta love it :/ ) and not my usual 30. CoH apparently wont run at 25 refresh. Upped it to 30 and it works again.
What is the meaning of life?
To gain more experience/money/magic/runes/red pages/blue pages/coins/gold/whatever?
No!
It is to have fun!
i would still get the updates you need or you are going to run into more problems. i would also free up at least 25% of your C: drive.
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Why? I've run for years with only a few percent of the hard drive free.
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Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint
i would also free up at least 25% of your C: drive.
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Well, if you clean it up a bit and defrag the memory being used, it will usually increase performance. When the system tries to read/write to little bits and pieces of free space scattered all over the drive, it can take considerably longer.
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Originally Posted by Katie V
Why? I've run for years with only a few percent of the hard drive free.
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If you're running any version of Windows, depending on the amount of RAM you have installed: Windows uses hard drive space to supplement RAM (pagefile - basically virtual memory). The less RAM you have, the more likely it is that your system will need to use the hard drive to store files that would normally be loaded to RAM. While using the pagefle is not as fast as using RAM, and will therefore slow down memory hungry applications, it gets even more complicated if you don't have enough space available so that your pagefile can dynamically expand as needed. The less space you have available for the pagefile, the slower your applications will run, as there will be a lot of reading from and writing to the hard drive.|
Originally Posted by Katie V
Why? I've run for years with only a few percent of the hard drive free.
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If you run Windows on a 64 bit system with 8-16GB of RAM, this might not be an issue for you ... but if you are running Windows with 1-2 GB of RAM or less, you might find that you see performance improvement when running memory intensive applications if you have more HDD space available for pagefile expansion.
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Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm ...
Before the release of Champions Online (I know big mistake going there at all) I ran at the resolution of 1762x992, which is the highest resolution my HDTV supports while still displaying everything on the screen (through my DVI connection it will display off the screen at 1080i/p). I can get into the game at 1080i, but with the problem that some of the game is offscreen. When I run at 1762x992, it all runs beautifully. I run most games at this resolution, and in the past, CoH didn't complain about it.
Now it tells me that this is not a supported format and reverts to 1024x768
I can run it it windowed mode, but my framerate is continually dropping below 5. Any thoughts on forcing CoH to accept a perfectly reasonable resolution?
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.8---
DxDiag gathered at March 7, 2010 09:47 (-07:00)
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.090805-0102)
System Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
System Model: G50VT
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7450 @ 2.13GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
Memory: 4094MB
.Net Memory Report: 1174MB out of 4094MB available
Page File: 4569MB (3798MB currently in use)
C Drive: (ST9320421AS) 30846MB out of 294245MB (10%) free
E Drive: (HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50L) zero-size drive
D Drive: (JP8250W IDA576D SCSI CdRom Device) zero-size drive
F Drive: (MagicISO Virtual DVD-ROM0000) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 10
DirectX Diag version: 6.00.6001.18000 (64-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
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 9800M GS
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce 9800M GS
Video Memory: 2289 MB
Driver Version: 8.15.0011.8603
Driver Date: 5/27/2009 3:04:00 PM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: NVIDIA HDMI Output (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)
Driver File: nvhda64v.sys
Driver Version: 1.00.0000.0063
Driver Date: 11/11/2009 9:14:28 PM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5645
Driver Date: 6/17/2008 1:50:27 AM
Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5645
Driver Date: 6/17/2008 1:50:27 AM
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: G50VT
Motherboard Version: 1.0
BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Name: Default System BIOS
BIOS Version: _ASUS_ - 20081107
BIOS Release: 20081107000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1764x968
3D Resolution: 1764x968 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: No
Maximized: No
Screen Position: -6, -15
Refresh Rate: 0Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes
Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: 4x
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: High Quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
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: No
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: 0.297
Music Sound Volume: 0.000
Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.600
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 350065 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1600.20100114.8T
Installation Directory: C:\Games\City of Heroes
What is the meaning of life?
To gain more experience/money/magic/runes/red pages/blue pages/coins/gold/whatever?
No!
It is to have fun!