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Nova Praetoria killing laptop

Sharker_Quint

By Sharker_Quint,
Posted on: 2010-08-20 01:27 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

Posted

So... yeah.

The title pretty much says it all; the lappy in question (Alienware Area 51 m5700 w/ GeForce Go 6800 graphics card) can handle regular Rogue Isle and Paragon City locations without much trouble, even on moderate Ultra Mode graphic settings. Try to log into Praetoria, though, and we get a pathetic, stuttering mess that accepts input every couple of minutes, and if you're lucky, you might manage a step.

This holds true even on absolute minimum graphical settings; the laptop has been scanned, optimized, drivers reinstalled... pretty much everything I can think of shy of a full Windows re-install.

Oddly, Praetoria worked for a little while on Triumph server (while it was the lowest-population server on the list) a couple of days ago, but not since. Really not sure what the problem is; even high-traffic areas like Pocket D on Virtue work alright, but Praetoria? Forget it.

"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head." Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates

MA Arcs: #12285, "Small Fears", #106553, "Trollbane", #12669, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"

 

Posted

Wellp, still no luck, despite Tech Support's help. Hoping that posting this might help prompt some responses- here's the CoH Tester-thingy readout (EDIT- Removal of pointless stuff)

"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head." Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates

MA Arcs: #12285, "Small Fears", #106553, "Trollbane", #12669, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"

 

Posted

please, post a CoHHelper report at least. dxdiag sucks to try to read through.

 

Posted

Check out this thread, Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines


Then post the results of these two programs:

  • CoH Helper - it will show us basic computer settings and your CoH configuration.
  • HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format > Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.

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