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Dual monitor crashing?

Call Me Awesome

By Call Me Awesome,
Posted on: 2010-05-18 15:04 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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Well, I did a search - and as usual, nothing helpful showed up, so if it's out there, I missed it and do apologize.

My husband (was) running a Raedon 4850 with two monitors. When i17 dropped, he started crashing at irregular intervals - the kind of crash where you've got the freeze, and Task Manager reports that CoH isn't responding, and if you let it go long enough, you get the nice little notice that the program has encountered a problem and must close.

I am running a Raedon 5770, and at the time i17 dropped, I only had one monitor. Because my husband spoils me rotten, I was recently upgraded to a pair of 22" screens. Immediately after upgrade, I started having the same sorts of crashes.

The interesting thing is, it's only with CoH - so I turn to you folks, who might actually have a clue, for help.

We're both running XP home SP3. We're both on the latest ATI drivers. As far as I know, all our drivers are actually up to date. I don't think we've got that much running in the background (I'm probably worse than he is).

If I need to run a dxdialog or hijack this or anything else, I'll need someone to please drop me a quick note with slightly more detailed instructions on how - I can do it, I just haven't before.

Suggestions, comments, thoughts, questions, instructions all welcome, and thank you for any help available.

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Try playing in Windowed mode. I remember having issues when I first got dual monitors a couple years ago(using nvidia 7950GT, though not sure if that was the problem), and since I started playing in windowed mode I haven't had any issues.

 

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Hmm, I've been running dual monitors for over 8 years now so I had them from the beginning of COH... I haven't ever had any issues.

I AM running Win7 64bit now with an Nvidia 275 but I haven't heard anybody complaining about dual monitors and i17. Many, many other things yes, but not dual monitors.

Are you playing CoH on one screen and things like web browser, herostats & so forth on the other? Or are you stretching the game across both monitors? I can't really see that causing problems but you never know.

COH has just been murdered by NCSoft. http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes