Mapserver Disconnections

Hello, everyone! Unfortunately, I'm having something of a problem.

While playing the game, I'm typically fine; however, inevitably each day I fall victim to multiple crashes, each of these taking place in combat situations (thus far). I'd believed that it was only in missions that they happened until today, when they started happening outdoors in Independence Port.

I honestly have no idea what's causing this. Netgraph's showed me that my ping is steadily in the 130-170 range, though when I crash I seem to receive a brief jump upwards (I think, I'm not entirely positive on this since it's random and I haven't caught it every time) into the 200s, after which I stop doing anything.

I don't crash so much as mapserver to the login screen. If I go into my menu and hit "quit to login screen", I can actually log back in within 5 or 6 seconds like I've never left at all, since my character's still disconnecting and presumably only that client had the issue. Or something. I'm not a very technical person, so I'm unsure.

This bug's only been occurring for about a week or two, so I'd sincerely like it fixed before it becomes an issue; I'm an avid player of City of Heroes, and I'd rather not have it end that. Below is my gigantic text-block of my City of Heroes Helper extract. If I've made some dumb mistake in getting it somehow, please forgive me - I really have no idea what I'm doing.

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

DxDiag gathered at June 2, 2011 22:31 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.101209-1647)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: BIOS Date: 01/09/09 13:36:45 Ver: 14.01
Central Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor, MMX, 3DNow (4 CPUs), ~2.6GHz
Memory: 3072MB
.Net Memory Report: 2270MB out of 3071MB available
Page File: 6889MB (627MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD1200AAJS-00VTA0) 39497MB out of 114463MB (34%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD1600JS-60MHB1) 121093MB out of 152625MB (79%) free
E Drive: (PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-216D) zero-size drive
F Drive: (TSSTcorp DVD-ROM TS-H353B) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DirectX Diag version: 5.03.2600.5512 (32-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce 9800 GT
Video Memory: 512.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0011.7813
Driver Date: 9/18/2008 2:55:00 AM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Realtek HD Audio output
Driver File: RtkHDAud.sys
Driver Version: 5.10.0000.5745
Driver Date: 11/25/2008 3:37:50 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: M3A78-EM
Motherboard Version: Rev X.0x
BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Name: BIOS Date: 01/09/09 13:36:45 Ver: 14.01
BIOS Version: 010909 - 20090109
BIOS Release: 20090109000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1024x768
3D Resolution: 256x192 (Using renderscale)
Full Screen: No
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No


Physics Quality: None
Maximum Particles: 100
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No


Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: None
Texture LOD Bias: Crisp
Water Effects: None
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: No
Shader Detail: Unknown (4)


World Texture Level: Unknown (3)
Character Texture Level: Low
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 0.500
Entity Detail Level: 0.300
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Shadow Mode: Disabled
Shadow Map Shader: Unknown (0)
Environmental Reflections: Disabled
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Off
Blur: Bilateral
Ambient Resolution: Performance


Gamma Correction: 0.570
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: Yes
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.000

Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.000
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 130326 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1950.201103080206.1
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
.\texture_library\MAPS\city has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Midnight_Squad has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Safeguard has 9 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\sewers has 44 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\static has 38 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\City has 1 file
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Outdoor_Missions has 9 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Static has 16 files

And the HijackThis is as follows:

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4
Scan saved at 10:40:16 PM, on 6/2/2011
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.17096)
Boot mode: Normal

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C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast5\AvastSvc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\RUNDLL32.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\RTHDCPL.EXE
C:\PROGRA~1\ALWILS~1\Avast5\avastUI.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Search Enhancement Pack\SeaPort\SeaPort.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Avi Player\AviPlayer.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscntfy.exe
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
C:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugin-container.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE
C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Office Live\OfficeLiveSignIn.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>l\My Documents\Downloads\HijackThis.exe

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Hi,

this sounds like an Issue between the Coh/NCSoft Server Farm and your location.

How is your computer Connected to the Internet, W-Lan or via Cable Connection? W-Lan can have difficulties if heavy electromagnetic traffic (like turning on a Microwave that's between em) between W-Lan and the Router/Dsl-modem u can have described difficulties.

Also seen User that have a dieing Modem reported such (they stated about a week or so later that their modem died,...).

So if u can try it with a different Modem/Router...

Also if ur Provider decides to change ur IP u would lose Mapserver Access (Maybe the Router is set to automatic reconnect and u lost Internet Connection for a second then) so turn of the auto-reconnect function and see if u lose Internet Access too when the Mapserver DC's happens.

The last thing can be issues with a data center between u and the server farm, sadly there is only a very small chance to solve this.

Edit: Turning off a few of your toolbars for a try could help too.... u have many of em

Greetings

That's exactly what I was afraid of.

I have no ability to attempt this with another router, nor can I hook it up directly to the modem, so I'm going on the hope there's some unforeseen technical issue (hopefully supported by the fact this began around or at the time of an earlier patch).

Edit: I would also like to note that the internet has no problems anywhere else but when I boot up games on my computer. My browser and chat clients still work fine and never stop loading videos/disconnect or anything similar. Probably should've mentioned that earlier. Oops.

Edit #2: I seem to have fixed the problem by allowing a process that computer scans and searches'd deemed redundant. Doh! Thanks for the help anyway.

Edit #3: Nope. Still crashing.

I really hate to bother again, but I have to. I let things run and did a Malware check, which detected something malicious in my computer and got rid of it (it was linked to my network, which was slowing it down).

Problem fixed, right? No. It's gone (completely, I checked), but...I'm still crashing off City of.

Any suggestions? City of Heroes is my only application with this problem. Any other games work fine, instant messagers and browsers are fine. I'm not having a problem with connectivity on anything but this game.

After excluding it from Avast's protocols, the crashes persist. I've noticed they sometimes tend towards happening shortly after I alter a costume or Architect content, but I'm not certain if that's coincidence or not.