Locked out of missions
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Call Me Awesome,
Posted on: 2011-04-09 15:50 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Going back over your CoH Helper log, it looks like you are suffering the ATI / CoH / 64 bit Windows triangle many of us are.
It looks like you are running the 11.4 drivers.
Have you tried completely removing those drivers, and using something like Driver Sweeper and either reinstalling them, or trying, say, the 11.2s or 11.3s?
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I can try the driver change again. I was using updating them regularly until .5 or .6 when I started having many of the same issues others with those drivers had, so I swept and rolled back. It seems that each time ATi updated past that CoH players have had lots of issues so I've just been waiting to upgrade.|
Originally Posted by Morgan Reed
Going back over your CoH Helper log, it looks like you are suffering the ATI / CoH / 64 bit Windows triangle many of us are.
It looks like you are running the 11.4 drivers. Have you tried completely removing those drivers, and using something like Driver Sweeper and either reinstalling them, or trying, say, the 11.2s or 11.3s? |
I believe I swept last time but I will try so again and check out the 11.3s. But I have been having this issue since about the time Ultra Mode was introduced. It just appears to be happening more frequently as of late.
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I only have one computer.|
Originally Posted by Call Me Awesome
This is kind of a shot in the dark but do you have access to another computer you can try the game on?
A question... do you have any problems with anything else you run on your computer? Windows is such a packrat that after a year or more it can end up with such a convoluted registry that things can get screwy. When Windows starts having issues my usual fix is to back up my files then format and reinstall from scratch. (snipped warning). |
I do not have any other major issues like this, in game or out. Occasionally if it's been running a while and I have multiple Firefox windows open and one is playing a stream, right clicking is a graphics crash. But otherwise the computer behaves as it should.
I have done fresh installs of Windows OS before (not on this computer). It's just a time consuming pita, as you more or less stated. But I only keep programs on the main drive; all my data and files are on their own drive. Oh yeah, except bookmarks and fonts, which are pretty easy to copy to another drive. I guess I could take some time to do that too; the current install of Win7 is from when I purchased the machine, right before Ultra Mode.
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So I'm now on a fresh install of Win7. Tomorrow will have to reinstall all my art programs and such.
But yeah, fresh install of Win7, no add ons for City. Let's see if it works out.
Clearly it's the last thing I can do on my end.
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Be sure to grab the 11.9 ATI drivers. They seem to have resolved the problems many ATI users were having with the 11.5 - 11.8 drivers.
I haven't heard much on the 11.10 drivers yet, so I'd hold off on trying those.
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Yup, heard good things about 11.9 so that's what I'm running now. Played for a few hours last night with no issues.
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I'd just like to update that since my reformat over a month ago I haven't had any issues of being locked out. I do have the map pack installed, I do not have the icons pack installed. (Would like to install it.)
Since my issue was sporadic; often several lockouts in a several day period then none for a few weeks, I am going to continue to wait a few months to install the icons pack, just to be sure.
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I've also been locked out of Talos and Croatoa on Virtue and Nerva on Justice, plus some base maps. (Talos last night. Thank goodness for the maintenance.)
Have sent in a bug report and a petition so I can get my toon moved.
I am infuriated.
This is kind of a shot in the dark but do you have access to another computer you can try the game on? If so you can see if the problem is related to your account or if it's something really odd on your machine.
A question... do you have any problems with anything else you run on your computer? Windows is such a packrat that after a year or more it can end up with such a convoluted registry that things can get screwy. When Windows starts having issues my usual fix is to back up my files then format and reinstall from scratch. It takes me about 2 hours on average to completely install Windows and all my stuff and it fixes most problems that can accumulate over time.
If you aren't comfortable with backing up all your files including email, bookmarks and anything else you want to keep, formatting your drive and reinstalling Windows and all drivers & programs then I wouldn't suggest you do this without help.
COH has just been murdered by NCSoft. http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes