Game freezing when using base portal/changing certain settings
By
donutzor,
Posted on: 2010-07-21 13:06 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Is the base possibly corrupted? Some of the bases can be memory hogs if there is alot of items/custom work in the base. Can others enter it w/o problems?
That was my first thought. Btw, did you try to clean the old drivers out of the system before installing the new ones?
Could TweakCoH be interfering with the settings?
side note, looks like Ramen posted on the new driver thread,
Re: New Nvidia 258.96 drivers are out
"Seems to be having problems for me. Freezes up whenever I enter SG base. Rolling back to an older driver fixed it"
Good news! (sort of!)
I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and it looks like the base is now loading. I'm still having issues where the game freezes when manually messing with those three graphical settings, but that isn't gamebreaking to me. Thanks, Terrashock 
Hey guys!
Yesterday, I bought a GTX 260 to replace my 2 year-old Geforce 8800 GT. The game runs very smoothly with a few exceptions:
1) Whenever I try to use the Base Portal, the game hangs at the loading screen. The game has no issue with freezing when using the Ourboros portal, using the train to zone, manually zoning into another area by reaching an "exit", and zoning into missions. I have tried lowering the graphic settings to see if that would somehow fix the issue, but it has not.
2) If I try to manually increase the FSAA, Ambient Occulsion, or Shadow Quality within the in-game menu, my game will automatically freeze. I used TweakCoH in order to set my FSAA to x4 so I know that I'm able to run the game on that setting, but as soon as I try to manually slide the setting up or down in-game, everything freezes. Same thing applies to Ambient Occulsion and Shadow Quality.
Other things I have already tried
-Updating to the most recent Nvidia drivers.
-Trying the 2nd most recent Nvidia drivers.
-Making sure Windows 7 was up to date.
-Trying the "verify all files" option at the CoH loader.
Here are the logs from CohHelper and HiJackThis:
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at July 21, 2010 14:38 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100226-1909)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: EP35C-DS3R
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 8192MB
.Net Memory Report: 4836MB out of 8190MB available
Page File: 12486MB (3892MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B0 ATA Device) 341356MB out of 476937MB (71%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B0 ATA Device) 444179MB out of 476935MB (93%) free
G Drive: (DCVCX TQF49QZ0P SCSI CdRom Device) zero-size drive
H Drive: (DCVCX TQF49QZ0P SCSI CdRom Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (64-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 260
Video Memory: 4069 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.12.5896
Driver Date: 7/9/2010 5:38:00 PM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 7:07:00 PM
Sound Device Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 7:07:00 PM
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: EP35C-DS3R
Motherboard Version: x.x
BIOS Manufacturer: Award Software International, Inc.
BIOS Name: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: GBT - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20080327000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
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Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
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Refresh Rate: 60Hz
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Max Particle Fill? 10.000
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Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
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Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
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Character Texture Level: Very High
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Entity Detail Level: 2.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Unknown (4)
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Environmental Reflections: Ultra quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
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Occlusion Strength: Strong
Blur: Trilateral
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Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
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Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
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Music Sound Volume: 0.380
Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 1.000
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 1153301 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1800.201006040036.8T
Installation Directory: D:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes
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