Frequent crashes since I19

No luck. I have updated to the newest nVidia driver for my particular video card, uninstalled and reinstalled City of Heroes, lowered the graphical settings such as no shadows and other effects which I could understand what exactly they did. However I still lag on occasion for varying lengths, on average five seconds. I'm not sure what else to do.

Random question about CCC/ATI cards...

I looked in the settings to make sure the Catalyst AI was disabled and it was but I saw another option that I was curious about...

"Triple Buffering" was the last option and it was not checked...should it be?

Hmm...well this was interesting...

I right-clicked on the CCC icon in the sys. tray and there are 3 'options' or outputs listed (all listed as ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series) and looked in the first one (since I only have 1 monitor plugged in), then looked in '3D Settings' and Catalyst A.I. was set to "Standard" even though if I open up and look in the "All" settings it has Catalyst AI disabled and the xml file has it disabled too... o_O

Clicked on 'Disabled' in the menu selection....now I wonder if I'll get anything better

And I'll try the triple buffering if it doesn't work

Hmm....well, okay an update or two here...


So a few hours ago I was having an issue with only one of my toons (Magmificent, a lvl 50 Fire/Earth Dom.). Whenever I clicked the Contacts tab to open it up I'd lock up/freeze and have to ctrl+alt+del kill CoH. Then I could never log in to him again...if I tried to, I'd lock up.

So I have been in contact with technical support about my frame rate issues and mentioned my toon was 'stuck'....they forwarded the ticket to the GM team to move the toon but mentioned to me to try to launch CoH in safe mode to see if I could move the toon myself.

So while waiting for GMs, I tried and sure enough CoH Safe Mode worked...I moved Mag. to a diff. zone to see if that'd help, log out, back in (not in safe mode), click on Contacts and 'bam' lock up again...

After a few times of going into CoH Safe mode to move Mag. around I got an email from GMs saying, "we moved your toon to pocket D (paraphrased)."


During all of this I did that disabling of Catalyst A.I. as well as checking the "triple buffering" box in the CCC settings.

I log in to Mag. in Pocket D...and instead of clicking on contacts right away I wanted to test frame rate issue. So luckily I have one mission saved on him (Freaks and DE mission in Grandville (saving actors one)). Load the mission and away I went (diff. setting was -1 x6). No frame rate issues (or at least nothing like it was before hand)!

So now I'm feeling lucky....I click on the Contacts tab....wow, I didn't crash!

I finish off 5 more tip missions (plus the morality mission) on Mag. and had no issues! (beyond little hickups/whatever that is/was 'normal' for me).....


Now to see if it holds up and doesn't revert back to icky nasty frame rate issues....time for a TF to test it out too!


Edit:


Well I just finished an ITF with using my Magmificent toon. It was okay...still have some frame rate issues during some instances but in general it is at least slideshow slowness instead of slideshow death.

So after a small break I'm back to help out again. A friend of mine was having some serious issues with his comp. A little about it:

CPU: AMD Phenom X2 Quad Core 3.2ghz
Memory: 4gb DDR2
Video: ATI Radeon HD 5770

I think that's all I need to tell you about his comp. His problem was constant BSD's. One day he got 7 in a row so we started doing some research into the problem thinking it might help out here as well. First time we encountered the error someone had it traced back to the Video card cause the error was translated to "Faulty CPU 2." I didn't think that sounded right but we tried a driver wipe and reinstall. Three more BSD's later we encountered a different MESSAGE but the same code. We traced this back to memory, so we switched each stick of RAM out one at a time with not a single one failing, then two at a time until we had all 4 back in place.

To make a longer story short, we traced every single error we got to a different solution but none of them worked. Now, what we failed to realized is that most of the error codes we were getting were all traceable back to the CPU, hint hint. He hadn't updated the drivers for his CPU. This is especially true of AMD CPU's aparently, and something I didn't know before now. I'm not sure if it's the same for Intel (I honestly refuse to use Intel for personal reasons) but goto their websites and check out to see if there are any updated drivers. Also if you happen to know your motherboards make and model check for updated chipset drivers or if you have a prebuilt system (HP, Dell, etc.) check their website for any updates for your system.

Yeah, I just logged on to play a little bit on my Magmificent toon and he is now crashing every time I click on the 'Contacts' tab/window again.

I get the

Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

error message in the Windows Event Viewer. I've un-installed the CCC totally and that didn't help.

Looking online with that error message some people have seen voltage changes help with the crashing....but I've never done anything like that before so somewhat leery about doing so....but this is really annoying

Well I tried a few more things (un-installing drivers/CCC and re-installing/etc...diff. ways of doing it) and still have issues as far as frame rate/crashing goes (at least for one of my toons (Magmificent)).

I have turned on manual fan control in the CCC and turned it to 75% instead of the 40-50% or whatever it was at before.

There is an "Auto-Tune" button in the CCC ATI Overdrive section and when I clicked on it, it hung (didn't finish)...I was able to do other things (open programs/etc) but the Auto-Tune program/test just hangs....

Ive been getting the sound loop crash A LOT.....

So have I big time,along with a BSOD with a 101 code.I'm really Hoping its the game and not my hardware.I've went as far as to turn off all ultra setting and i still get the crashes even if I'm just standing around in atlas (by myself no less!!).

My frustration level with this is hitting my hardpoint.

New update for game? No fix.
New update for drivers? No fix.

Do either of these companies give a damn about users?

Have there been any solutions yet? I just recently started playing again and I'm having constant crashes and its getting rather frustrating.

I've played before pre-i19 and I never had problems with crashing before.

The only solutions that work consistently are to downgrade to the 10.9 drivers, or to turn ALL settings (except AA and AF, they don't seem to matter) to the lowest.

When you refer to 10.9 drivers I assume you're talking about ATI graphics cards? I've got a GTX 460 so I guess I'm turning down all my settings...

Just recently bought GR and started having these issues. All my characters seem fine except the one new character I started in Preatoria. That character is now almost unplayable as I can't interact with any contacts or adjust difficulty without a crash. I started another character at the same time but in AP, and that character has no problems.

Strangley, and it may or not be related, the problems started when I began doing tip missions on the Praetorian. Crashes were few at first, but it seemed the more tips I did, the more frequent the crashes came. The last time I was able to play him was on his 10th tip mission. Since finishing that mission I haven't been able to interact at all with his contacts.

Running 11.1a now. It actually runs slower in terms of FPS.

About 10% slower since I was getting around 60fps with 11.1 and 10.12 but am getting 54 now. I still see lag spikes when I open wentworths, trade or contacts windows but now only down into the 19 FPS range instead of the 11 FPS range.

I haven't had any problems with crashes (like I did with 10.10 and 10.11)but I do see the graphical spikes still.

Here is what I run

Resolution: 1920x1200
3D Resolution: 1920x1200 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes

Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No

Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: No
Shader Detail: High

World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Unknown (4)
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: Ultra quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Quality
Occlusion Strength: Medium
Blur: Trilateral
Ambient Resolution: Quality

Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
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: 0.600
Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Current Game Version: 1950.201101250108.0
Installation Directory: E:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes

Thanks!