Players experiencing issues related to Graphics cards

So after a few years off, my friend and I desided to give "Going rogue" expansion a try - so yesterday I bought and installed the game.
After some trubble getting it to run probertly, I adlast got it up and running, now im encountering a new problem.
My problem is, that when I try to change settings "Audio and Graphic" the game freezes, as soon I click the fan under options, and I will have to use the CTRL+ALT+DEL keys and start "Task Manager" to end the game and return to desktop.

Im running the game on a HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC, the operation system is Windows Vista 64bit, and the graphic card is an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT.

I have runned the game before, on this the very same notebook, with out any problems.

Can you please help me fix the problem, as I would love to play the game again, with proper audio and graphic settings.

Seems as though theres a large number of the community suffering from the same or similar syptoms

Theres more ideas and potential fixes being suggested in this thread - http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=244211

And this thread - http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=243897

Note: None have worked so far for me

LH, I think that was a discussion/fix about shutting down the " ATI Hotkey Poller", this may help, http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=219441
GL!

Anyone getting this?

The NVIDIA OpenGL driver detected a problem with the display
driver and is unable to continue. The application must close.

Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/page/support.html for help.
Error code: 4

I have a NVidia 8500 GT...

Logged on today after the patch and discovered black screens, other than the user interface. Tested another game of mine to make sure it was not a problem on my end because I had updated my driver just a few days ago.

After a few attempts of logging in, I just rolled back the card driver. Problem solved.... for now. Hope this helps as a quick fix for those reading.

Are people blue screening like myself? I just made a post - hopefully there is some clarification if it's the game or my hardware. But with this many people... I'm starting to think I should try another game

If you are having issues with the Oroboros contact screens and you have an ATI graphics card, check your drivers. I found 10.10 and 10.11 would crash the game out. If you have 10.10 or 10.11 drivers, try rolling back to 10.9

I also rolled my drivers back to 10.9, and it fixed several problems (ATI Radeon HD 5850 Black Edition).

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

10.12 ATI driver is also causing crashes. (AtI Radeon 5850). Specifically, if I opened the contact window it would immediately crash the game.

I had exactly that. ATI Graphics card - card would crash and recover the minute I tried to access an Ouroburos mission. Rolled back to 10.9 of the graphics drivers and all was again well.

I've had a trouble ticket open since October. I'm running XP on a Lenovo box, with an ASUS ENGT240 (Geforce 240). I get weird crazy lag, jump graphics, mapserver disconnect in Outbreak, Breakout, and (I discovered) the Lord of Winter's realm, but the game plays pretty well otherwise. Is anyone experiencing this?

I too am running an sli 8800gt setup, and after being told to upgrademy drivers i may get one for 30 inutes and then the screen starts to pixellate, and then lines form and then whaamo blue screen. I was almost in the car to buy a new driver when my wife suggested it may be the game.........

My machine:
Sony Vaio VGN-FW530F, with Windows 7 64-bit, 4 GB of RAM, and an AMD 4650 Radeon Mobility.

I crashed out 3 times yesterday during the 1st red side Hami raid and twice on the second while on Virtue.

Sony, in their infinite wisdom has only the original factory driver available and their tech told me to "keep checking back for a possible update". The latest AMD driver is from 12/13/10 - not even a month old.

I've tried Mobility Modder, but I might be doing it wrong, but it appears the latest drivers don't work with it.

I checked Omega's website for a driver, and it looks like they no longer offer an alternative.

Sony has it setup so you have to use their driver (though why they'd do that is beyond me, it just makes me want to never buy another Sony laptop).

Do I have any other options besides reinstalling my OS to get rid of Sony's control software?

Is there another way to get my driver updated?

Any word on Crossfire support? Kinda bites seeing that SLI support is there but multi GPU support from the 'preferred' vendor doesn't exist.

New user, here. I got this game a couple of days ago and have been fighting with it since. My machine should be able to handle it at the lowest settings, but it can't, because... ATI Radeon graphics card. Note, that I know a little about computers, but not a massive amount.

I have a Dell Vostro 1000 with:

AMD Athlon 64 X2
Dual-Core Processor TK-57
1.9 GHz, 896 MB RAM

ATI Radeon Xpress 1150


Since the graphics card is integrated with CPU, it's not something I can swap out, and the drivers are version 8.31-061011a-053721C-Dell, which as far I can tell are the latest drivers, and are what came packaged with it.

Here is the skinny on the Catalyst Control Center:

Driver Packaging Version 8.31-061011a-053721C-Dell
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 6.14.10.6648
2D Driver File Path System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Video/{639231E9-42C5-4439-A43C-30B49DF0E997}/0000
Direct3D Version 6.14.10.0448
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.6174
CATALYST® Control Center Version 1.2.2475.36837

I don't know if that helps, but there it is.


The major problem is that if it turn down the settings to the low-end in game, I can see what's going on, but it's painfully slow and choppy and pretty much unplayable. I turn up the settings and the screen goes black, which it seems to be a pretty common problem with ATI chipsets.

Can you help? I really, really want to play this, and I hope this is something that can be fixed.

Ha! A friend of mine on another board noticed that my drivers weren't up to date. Got it fixed, and it works beautifully now.

i am also crashing to a black screen and having to reboot system nivida 9600GT

Hi, Everyone --

CoH worked fine with my old GeForce 9500 GT, but I bought a new GTX 460 video card to take advantage of Ultra Mode properly, and after installing the latest nVidia drivers (266.58, I believe) CoH now no longer loads -- instead, it gives the dreaded "Your video card does not support ARB_multitexture" and "ARB_texture_compression" errors.

I found it unlikely that an old 9500 GT card will run CoH but not one of the newest nVidia cards (especially since I'd seen other people in the past posting about using the GTX 460, so I searched the Forums and found that I'm not alone in this ARB problem -- but there does not seem to be any common solution to it.

Below is the output of CohHelper.exe -- can anyone give me any advice as to how to get CoH to load? (Oh -- and of course, I already tried SAFE MODE, same results)

-- Vivian


---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

DxDiag gathered at January 22, 2011 00:15 (-08:00)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (5.2, Build 3790) Service Pack 2 (3790.srv03_sp2_gdr.100216-1301)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU X6800 @ 2.93GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 4094MB
.Net Memory Report: 2394MB out of 4094MB available
Page File: 8648MB (1390MB currently in use)
C Drive: (AMCC 9650SE-4LPML SCSI Disk Device) 593166MB out of 1430467MB (41%) free
J Drive: (WD My Book 1110 USB Device) 78MB out of 1907057MB (0%) free
L Drive: (WD My Book IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device) 239084MB out of 953867MB (25%) free
I Drive: (WD Virtual CD 1110 USB Device) zero-size drive
H Drive: (_NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A) zero-size drive
F Drive: (MagicISO Virtual DVD-ROM0000) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DirectX Diag version: 5.03.3790.3959 (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: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 460
Video Memory: 1024.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0012.6658
Driver Date: 1/7/2011 7:27:00 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: SoundMAX HD Audio
Driver File: ADIHdAud.sys
Driver Version: 5.10.0002.6110
Driver Date: 1/16/2007 9:05:30 AM

Sound Device Description: HD Audio front headphone
Driver File: ADIHdAud.sys
Driver Version: 5.10.0002.6110
Driver Date: 1/16/2007 9:05:30 AM

Sound Device Description: Plantronics Headset
Driver File: usbaudio.sys
Driver Version: 5.02.3790.3959
Driver Date: 2/17/2007 12:00:46 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: P5N32-E SLI
Motherboard Version: 1.XX
BIOS Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Name: Default System BIOS
BIOS Version: UNKNOWN
BIOS Release: 20070822******.******+***


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 25600x16000
3D Resolution: 25600x16000 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: No
Maximized: No
Screen Position: Unknown, Unknown
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No


Physics Quality: Unknown (2147483647)
Maximum Particles: Unknown
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No


Anti-aliasing: Unknown (2147483647)
Anisotropic Filtering: Unknown (2147483647)
Texture LOD Bias: Unknown (2147483647)
Water Effects: Unknown (2147483647)
Bloom: Unknown (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: No
Shader Detail: Unknown (2147483647)


World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Unknown (2147483647)
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 2.000
Entity Detail Level: Unknown
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Unknown (2147483647)
Shadow Map Shader: Unknown (2147483647)
Environmental Reflections: Unknonwn (2147483647)
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Unknonwn (2147483647)
Blur: Unknonwn (2147483647)
Ambient Resolution: Unknonwn (2147483647)


Gamma Correction: Unknown
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) 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: Unknown
Music Sound Volume: Unknown

Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: Unknown
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 646247 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1900.201011102104.27
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

Vivian:

Run driver sweeper: http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

THEN install the Nvidia drivers.

Chances are Windows is still trying to use the OpenGL driver from the 9500 on the GTX 460.