My Laptop Hates Great Justice
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oh, I just kind of read over it and saw bugs, and figured it was more specifically for dealing with bugs in the game rather than my computer attempting to stab me for wanting to play this game again. Well, time to repost this there then.
I have a laptop too. It's got an NVIDIA 9700 GS, which is pretty much minimal these days.
I think one thing that happened was the default graphics got turned up so everyone got something like Ultra Mode (but not quite) by default. It make sense because most people do have better computers and the devs wanted to make the game look as nice as possible. But if you have an older comp then it'll preform worse than you remember it.
The solution for me was to manually set the graphics to "Performance" on the basic slider. Leave everything else on the Advanced menu at their default for the Performance setting. See if that fixes your issue.
I recently decided to renew some time on City of Heroes, remembering that my laptop could run the game fine back when Architect came out (the last time I played). I wound up downloading the game, getting some time shovled onto my account on the backs of the time card gremlins and everything seemed to be going swimmingly. Until I got to the login screen. It stated clearly that my computer seemed to be running on old drivers that may not be compatible with city of heroes and could cause stability issues.
I did not think this would be a problem. I was very, very wrong. I can generally go for about 5 to 20 minutes before the game crashes and I have to wait for the game to finish freezing, Vista to realize something is wrong, and finish closing the game before I can start the game back up, only to have it crash again shortly thereafter. This is, of course, excessively frustrating. I want to throttle the makers of my laptop (Toshiba) for not only using customized drivers for their product, but never updating them since the product's release in 2008.
Full details of what I'm working with are here: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...ily=1073768663
I have attempted downloading Nvidia's driver to update that, but it fails to detect compatible hardware. An Intel driver update similarly failed to complete, going so far as to 'install' then pop up with a window which could be best summarized as 'oops, we're not compatible, canceling installation'.
If anyone knows of a solution I could use to fix this problem of attempting to run the game with "out of date" drivers that, apparently, refuse to be updated, I would be quite happy. I recall that my desktop (which died a few months ago when the video card, or something caused it to refuse to display anything ever again), could run City of Heroes just fine, and it was not as technologically capable as this laptop.
Edit: I forgot to mention clearly that I did not purchase the going rouge expansion because I wasn't sure at the time if I really wanted it. I now know that I would quite enjoy purchasing it, but I'm not about to sink 40 or 50 bucks into purchasing it if the game is going to fail to run properly on this laptop.