Ultra mode!

Yes, you may.

Do it, brah. It ain't my game. But if you use any of my toon, wouldja name him as me?

...Nah, I'm kidding. Do as you like.

Awesome! Thank you both!

Also, if I'm mistaken, have they increased the draw distance with Ultra Mode?

So where are ya gonna post em'? Huh?

And no, draw distance has not been increased with Ultra Mode. Most of mine are using 200% World Detail, /vis_scale 4, or both.

Well, mine doesn't drop down to one but... You know what, you've inspired me to post one pic I took for techical illustration of a high-lag zone:



Would you believe me if I told you this lagged?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

<cough>/visscale 4<cough>

>_>

<_<

How/where do you make that entry? And what does it do? i have noticed that some things aren't appearing as far away as i am used to (SG portals, parts of the scenery) and was wondering what setting to use to fix that.

/visscale is a regular slash command you can enter into your chat like, the same as /bind, /t or /netgraph. /visscale takes a value between... I don't know, 0.5 and 4, I think.

/visscale is, as best as I can figure, a view distance scalar, or in other words, your World Detail option. The World Detail slider goes from, about 50% to 200%, which is about 0.5 to 2. /visscale 4 is the equivalent of World Detail 400%. This is not recommended, however, as it can cause serious slowdowns.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

/visscale is a (HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED) setting that controls your world detail. The value 4 means 400%. Again, HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED. This really hurts with Ultra Mode. If your CoH crashes, your PC dies, your wife leaves you, or your house burns down by the use of this command, expect no sympathy. I used it only to show CoH off at its very best.

(Aside: While in Talos teaming with a netbook-using friend around the Dark Astoria door, I had him type that command while looking towards the city. About 5 minutes later, I got a response: "do not want")

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

Give it another 3-4 years. Then the vidcards will be able to handle it no problem.

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

By then we'll have CoH2.

Can't wait to see what you'll be posting!

Out of curiosity, what framerate do you guys get on your preferred settings? What's the lowest you can tolerate?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I got my friend to upload them to his MMORPG.com account: http://www.mmorpg.com/galleries/Xond...526_Ultra-Mode

I hope that link works.

And thanks for the /visscale thing, I've felt my graphics card has been slacking off when I play CoH for a while now.

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

Yikes! Yeah, there's definitely some value dissonance going on here, because, ideally, I'd like to see 60 FPS, and whenever my framerate drops below 45, I start to turn that frown right side up. Once my framerate hits 30 ANYWHERE in the game, I start turning graphics options off.

Back in the day, I used to struggle on an old 6600, and for basically about three to four years I played with around 10-12 FPS practically everywhere. Ever since I switched to an 8600 GTS and realised how good 60 FPS looked, I've never been able to go back. Between my desire for unreasonable framerate and my need to keep FSAA at at least x4, I've found myself unable to try much of anything from Ultra Mode. Some reflections, some shadows and a light Occlusion setting is the most I can manage.

I never quite got a good answer in Beta, but does City of Heroes use more than two processor cores now? It didn't use to a while back, and with CPUs growing more and more cores, that could be problematic. I'm running a Pentium I7 860 right now, and while I can't find out exactly how many cores that has, I know it's at least four.

It seems like I'll either have to sneeze out some SERIOUS dosh to run this baby full tilt (money I don't have), or I'll just have to wait a few years, which I'll probably end up having to do either way.

Well, it is what it is

*edit*
You know, all you guys running Depth of Field just end up making me regret putting on glasses, because everyting is always fuzzy in your pics anyway

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I *hate* Depth of Field. As a glasses-wearer, it looks like either a) I'm not wearing my glasses, or b) something got smeared on my glasses. I turn it off immediately, even if I'm on someone else's computer. They can turn it back on if they really want to, but usually they go, "Wow! I didn't know the world could look so clear!" and leave it off.

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.