Where are my contacts' portraits?
By
Healix,
Posted on: 2010-10-24 22:29 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
A lot has changed with Ultra mode in the game. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your card. Put as much memory in your puter as possible. (Check to see if your memory, not your card is going bad.) Do your contacts show up if you start the game in safe mode?
In order for people to help you more, you might want to post a HijackThis and CoH Helper here.
�Many things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.�
Those two programs asked for are CoHHelper and Hijackthis
But this sounds like either seriously outdated drivers or else an on board graphics chip rather than an actual video card.
Don't count your weasels before they pop dink!
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at October 28, 2010 10:31 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.100216-1514)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Dell DM051
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A02
Central Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1022MB
.Net Memory Report: 394MB out of 1022MB available
Page File: 1668MB (790MB currently in use)
C Drive: (SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P) 63533MB out of 147785MB (42%) free
D Drive: (TSSTcorp DVD-ROM TS-H352C) zero-size drive
E Drive: (PHILIPS DVD+-RW DVD8701) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DirectX Diag version: 5.03.2600.5512 (32-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Video Device Name: RADEON X300 SE 128MB HyperMemory
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / RADEON X300/X550 Series (0x5B60)
Video Memory: 128.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6601
Driver Date: 2/9/2006 9:58:04 PM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: SigmaTel Audio
Driver File: sthda.sys
Driver Version: 5.10.4568.0000
Driver Date: 6/14/2005 11:40:08 PM
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: 0WG261
Motherboard Version:
BIOS Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
BIOS Name: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A02
BIOS Version: DELL - 7
BIOS Release: 20051013000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1280x1024
3D Resolution: 1280x1024 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 75Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No
Physics Quality: None
Maximum Particles: 100
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: None
Texture LOD Bias: Crisp
Water Effects: None
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: No
Shader Detail: Unknown (4)
World Texture Level: Unknown (3)
Character Texture Level: Low
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 0.500
Entity Detail Level: 0.300
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Disabled
Shadow Map Shader: Unknown (0)
Environmental Reflections: Disabled
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Off
Blur: Bilateral
Ambient Resolution: Performance
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: Yes
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.302
Music Sound Volume: 0.250
Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.000
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 261063 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1850.201009101722.15T2r
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found
you seriously need to update your video drivers if you can.
Mine does this too and this forum told me it was the card's problem with coh and to update drivers (mine are from like '07 lol).
Unfortunately for me I have some strange GFX Card and the only drivers available were some 3rd party thing, I installed them and saw no change in coh, but the computer was being annoying from it, so I rolled back.
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Problem solved, yea it was the drivers, but I still need a new graphics card. One battle at a time 
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ok, I came back to the game in mid-June and noticed that when I opened my contact list all that is displayed is a blue background but no portrait. The same thing goes for the Costume Slots, just the blue background, no actual costume.
Also when making AE missions, the characters and items are tiny. Hard to be creative when you can barely see what your workin with.
Dunno if this has anything to do with this, but i feel i should mention that my graphics card is on its last leg. My colors are outta whack, red looks dark, yellow and green look almost identical. Tried to make a guy that had purple and black pants and on my end he looked cool, til my friend asked 'are those pink pants?' ugh.
I know i need a new graphics card, but would that have anything to do with my contacts' portraits and my costume slots not showing up?