Launcher Warning
By
Bill Z Bubba,
Posted on: 2011-06-02 04:28 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Ah, so it's not just me then.
I just click Yes to both windows I get, and the game runs fine. It's just irritating though.
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I just followed Kats instructions above, deleted the folder myself, and now no more warning.
Im going to leave UAC control off for the time being. I cannot believe what a difference in FPS I got from just stopping that.
Can anyone explain to me why UAC affected my frame rate so much? I was typically 15-30 before, now up to 45-60 fps.
I team with friends now using skype, and the frame rate is great. With UAC enabled, I was about 2 fps, totally unplayable running skype and cox together.
-Largo
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User Account Control makes sure that the programs you are running have the appropriate rights to the hard drive and other system resources. It also helps prevent malicious or poorly designed programs from messing with things that they should not mess with.
It does eat up a bit of the CPU's processing time, true; I'm betting that you might not have a dedicated sound card for the voice applications.
A lot of problems like this can be traced to the fact that, for security reasons, Windows 7 does not want programs to write to their own folders within "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)". This is why Windows provides the Virtual Store... it diverts writes intended for "Program Files" to another location, tricking the programs in question into thinking they are writing to their own folders within "Program Files". But as some have found, this virtualization doesn't always work well.
An easy way to work around this is to never install "City of Heroes" (or any other frequently updated game, for that matter) into the default location within "Program Files"/"Program Files (x86)". I always do a custom install instead, and make a new folder elsewhere on my hard drive. In fact, I have a separate drive partition just for games.
So, if you have this problem, you might try uninstalling and re-installing to a different location, or possibly try the procedures found elsewhere on this forum to move your CoH folder somewhere else. (Those procedures were written for backing up and restoring CoH in the event a hard drive needs to be wiped and Windows reinstalled, but they should work equally well for moving CoH to a different folder.)
TargetOne
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