No Icons, XP heald and end Bars.

Well I'm no longer having crashes after updating my video card but still have a very annoying issue. My XP, Health, and Endurance bars are not visible. All icons in the map are not visible. The borders on any window are almost transparent or not visible. Same thing with the costume window and the scroll down bar and buttons are not visible on any window whatsoever. I checked my graphics, ran in safe mode, played with the window opacity option and nothing still. Is anyone else having this issue or has fixed this issue and care to help?

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

DxDiag gathered at June 8, 2010 12:22 (-04:00)
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.100218-0019)
System Manufacturer: Sony Corporation
System Model: VGN-CS160J
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5800 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
Memory: 2938MB
.Net Memory Report: 1614MB out of 2938MB available
Page File: 4426MB (1655MB currently in use)
C Drive: (FUJITSU MHY2250BH) 104460MB out of 229957MB (45%) free
F Drive: (Optiarc BD ROM BC-5500S) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 7.00.6002.18107 (32-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Manufacturer / Chip: Intel Corporation / Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Video Memory: 1340 MB
Driver Version: 8.15.0010.2104
Driver Date: 3/31/2010 3:35:24 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speaker/HP (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHDA.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5610
Driver Date: 6/23/2008 1:50:20 PM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Sony Corporation
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: VAIO
Motherboard Version: N/A
BIOS Manufacturer: INSYDE
BIOS Name: Default System BIOS
BIOS Version: Sony - 20080725
BIOS Release: 20080725000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1280x2147483647
3D Resolution: 1280x2147483647 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: No
Maximized: No
Screen Position: Unknown, Unknown
Refresh Rate: UnknownHz
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: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: No
Shader Detail: Unknown (2147483647)


World Texture Level: Unknown (2147483647)
Character Texture Level: Unknown (2147483647)
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 0.500
Entity Detail Level: 0.300
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: 1.000
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: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.000

Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.000
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 1052643 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1800.201005212331.2T
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

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Paragon Wiki: http://www.paragonwiki.com
City Info Terminal: http://cit.cohtitan.com
Mids Hero Designer: http://www.cohplanner.com

Hmm think its worth it to get it for this laptop?

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Woof, I completely missed the 'mobile' part. Sadly, most laptops are completely incapable of incorporating a video card if they didn't come with one.

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Paragon Wiki: http://www.paragonwiki.com
City Info Terminal: http://cit.cohtitan.com
Mids Hero Designer: http://www.cohplanner.com

I've been having this same bug off and on since I17 went Live and I've posted about it twice now (apparently I forgot that I had already posted about it, oops ). No mobile card here, I'm running a Radeon HD5570. I've had this happen upon loading a character for the first time in a session, or switching characters. Once this happens, restarting the client is the only thing that will fix it (although sometimes you'll hit the problem again once you relog, in which case you need to restart the client AGAIN).

Of all the problems I have with I17, this is one of the most obnoxious. The transparent UI (which incidentally seems to be a separate issue from the vanishing HP/end/XP bars) makes the game very difficult to play since I'm not used to seeing the game that way.

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"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...

Funny thing is a year ago this game ran fine and dandy with no issues whatsoever. I come back around when i17 is out and everything has issues and bugs. Its so frustrating.

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Well with I17, UM and the upcoming GR, the game has gotten a bit of a facelift and a fair amount of the graphics code has been updated along with it. Intel graphics have never been terribly good and haven't gotten better with age. The Devs have made efforts to make the game work on Intel hardware but I guess there are limits to what they can do to make the new code run on such old hardware. You can try contacting Support or (I believe) The Television and see what they can do and suggest.

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It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

All of those Unknown entries in the CoH Helper report bother me greatly.

Did you right-click on CoH Helper and select Run as Administrator? If not, please run it that way and post a fresh copy of the output.

If you did run it that way, please run HiJackThis and paste the log of the results.

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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.