Please help. Having problems starting it.
By
Captain_Karate,
Posted on: 2011-02-11 16:22 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Quote:
Make sure all your drivers are up to date. You could also try to click the "Safe Mode" box in the updater before you click "Next". This will reduce the settings to the lowest possible. You haven't posted any other specs etc, so it's hard to troubleshoot, but I would check the drivers first.
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Originally Posted by Vanyr77
Okay, so i've had city of villains before on a DIFFERENT computer that was pretty slow. And since i have a new one now, i'd like to get back into CoV so i went ahead and bought the Going Rogue pack for 30$. I did the updater thing and click next. Then it just sticks to loading screen. I left it loading for about an hour and a half and the log in came up. As soon as i click anything CoV Cuts OFF. Anyone PLEASE able to help? I've launched it then clicked anywhere on the screen and that cuts it off too.
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I've done safe mode and left it there for about an hour and it went to log in part after a while and then when i tried to click on anything it shuts off. My drivers are up to date but when i go to Device Manager it shows my PCI input device with a yellow exclamation point. Don't think the PCI would affect it but dunno.
Hope this helps----
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at February 11, 2011 12:16 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP d530 CMT(DC577AV)
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Central Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz, ~3.0GHz
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.Net Memory Report: 1879MB out of 3071MB available
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Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
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Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
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Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce FX 5200
Video Memory: 525 MB
Driver Version: 9.6.8.5
Driver Date: 10/9/2006 8:55:00 PM
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Mod files in the Data directory
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Well if your video card is PCI, it might be the problem, and why it is showing the exclamation point. I know my desktop has a PCI slot video card, but my other computer uses AGP type.
Also from your coh helper...
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce FX 5200
Video Memory: 525 MB
Driver Version: 9.6.8.5
Driver Date: 10/9/2006 8:55:00 PM <-----
Driver Language: English
It also looks to me like your video display driver is from 2006? lol.
I've tried to update the driver for my graphics card and it says it's already up to date. Any ideas what to do? I'm not very good with computers 
Go to the Nvidia website, and download the latest driver for that card.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
I went there, and it seems there is no option to download the driver for that card for Windows 7 Ultimate, 32 bit OS. There is an automatic option however, on that page that might help you. It searches your hardware, and looks for the right driver.
The reason you probably have the exclamation point for your PCI device is the driver is wrong, or not compatible with your Windows 7 OS? That's my guess.
I tried all that and nothing really happened. =(
Did some digging around on the site below...
http://www.w7forums.com/nvidia-gefor...sue-t1762.html
I found some info which might help you. It's below. I just cut and pasted it from the forum site:
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For 32 bit - http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_96.85_2.html
That's the latest driver available and the one that should be installed on 7.
In device manager, it is currently shown as the Standard VGA in display adapters section. Installing the driver will fix that.
Use the device manager to install if needed, while pointing it to the extracted folder from the downloaded driver.
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So looks like they recommend downloading the windows vista one, and manually updating your video driver with that one for windows 7. Supposedly it works.
Good luck!
I got it working yesterday using "CoHTweak" and i switched it to windowed mode and it works fine now. It's just full screen that wont work for some reason.
Okay, so i've had city of villains before on a DIFFERENT computer that was pretty slow. And since i have a new one now, i'd like to get back into CoV so i went ahead and bought the Going Rogue pack for 30$. I did the updater thing and click next. Then it just sticks to loading screen. I left it loading for about an hour and a half and the log in came up. As soon as i click anything CoV Cuts OFF. Anyone PLEASE able to help? I've launched it then clicked anywhere on the screen and that cuts it off too.