Lost Shader Options?

Patched today with the 5/19/2010 patch. CoH black screened. Managed to fix it, but now I no longer have Shader options. I was running it on Low, but now "Shader Quality" displays as N/A. This is a new bug or is something else screwed up?

Read this post:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...6&postcount=25

I did read that post. That's how I got up and running again. It doesn't solve the issue of shaders deciding to become unavailable, however.

Intel Integrated graphics?

If you're using Intel GMA950 those shader options will always be missing.

Otherwise, there's a random bug which causes Cider to detect video settings improperly and then cache those settings. You may have been unlucky enough to be hit twice in a row.

Oh no, not using that GMA950. After all the horror stories I've heard about that sucker, I don't want one of 'em within 300 feet of me. Instead, I'm using a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M.

Redid everything as in the quoted post. Shaders are still unavailable. Prior to the patch, I had them. Also, since the patch, I'm also experiencing other aberrant behavior. Specifically, the CoH launcher now takes a long time to change "Quit" to "Next" after confirming my game is up to date. After clicking through the launcher to launch the actual game, the "Loading" banner no longer appears. Additionally, I get a black screen after a moment for about 10-20 seconds before the real "Loading" screen for CoH appears, whereas in the past it'd show up only a second or two after the black screen. Finally, opening the SG tab causes horrendous lag. Both this and the bug with it taking forever to let me click "Next" happened randomly in the past and are, apparently, related as they always occurred together. Now they happen every time.

This is a new one then - send a support request to help.ncsoft.com.

Otherwise, any messages in the Console log (Applications > Utilities > Console) right after you start the Mac client?

Here's what the console reports from booting up the game, going to the main screen, and then quitting. I bolded what looks like errors to me, though this isn't my area of expertise and I could be wrong.

Hmm...

In the post I linked to above, did you follow the instructions for modifying and using the Training Room client (in the quoted section)?

EDIT: Re-read the post linked above - I found an error in NCSoft Support's instructions. I'm going to ask them to correct it - but in the mean time, my instructions work properly.

Ran test, updated, updated my preferences but still no Shader options but it booted up promptly and didn't have the SG tab lag or anything of that nature. Ran the normal client out of curiosity and it booted promptly as well. Guess that one bug is still random and the long black screen is related as well (though that part is still new). In the mean time, trying to get NCSoft to move past giving me the instructions in the linked post.

Ok, forgot to post here the results. After lots of back and forth and trying multiple things, I was finally told that Shader options are temporary unavailable and should return "soon". Reminds me of the bugs with the profiles and tells.

Nothing on the other bugs though. Can't reproduce them on demand (and haven't had it at all lately), so couldn't help NC much in tracking that year old bug.