XFX Radeon HD 6870 and CoH
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2012-07-11 11:57 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Summoning a mod to move this to Tech Issues, as that's where all the gear heads hang out. (Some of them occasionally stop by here, but not as many as there.)
Paragon Wiki: http://www.paragonwiki.com
City Info Terminal: http://cit.cohtitan.com
Mids Hero Designer: http://www.cohplanner.com
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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City of Heroes uses OpenGL for graphics. Most other games use DirectX for graphics. Comparisons of performance are like comparing the tastes of Apples and Oranges. If you want to benchmark and test OpenGL performance, download and run Furmark.
Make sure that you have the NCSoft Launcher set to close after launching the game.
You may want to post a HiJackThis log as well so that we can make sure that other programs aren't interfering with CoH.
Turn off Advanced Occlusion and Ambient Occlusion. Completely OFF, not at reduced settings.
You may want to consider upgrading your graphics driver as well as yours is a bit over a year old.
As always, when upgrading drivers be sure to remove the drivers and software, reboot into Safe Mode and run Driver Sweeper to remove the remnants of the old drivers still left on the system and then boot into normal Windows mode to load the new drivers.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
Runs just fine with my 6870
This is my machine running 12.1
DxDiag gathered at July 11, 2012 12:26 (-07:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120503-2030)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: BIOS Date: 02/05/10 19:13:52 Ver: 08.00.10
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
Memory: 8192MB
.Net Memory Report: 6418MB out of 8168MB available
Page File: 14271MB (2063MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD15 02FAEX-007BA0 SCSI Disk Device) 421014MB out of 510898MB (82%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD15 02FAEX-007BA0 SCSI Disk Device) 453801MB out of 510999MB (88%) free
E Drive: (WDC WD15 02FAEX-007BA0 SCSI Disk Device) 397967MB out of 408797MB (97%) free
X Drive: (TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223L ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7601.17514 (64-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. / ATI display adapter (0x6738)
Video Memory: 740 MB
Driver Version: 8.930.0.0
Driver Date: 12/5/2011 8:16:00 PM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6235
Driver Date: 11/2/2010 4:33:10 AM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output(Optical) (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6235
Driver Date: 11/2/2010 4:33:10 AM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6235
Driver Date: 11/2/2010 4:33:10 AM
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: P8P67 PRO
Motherboard Version: Rev 1.xx
BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Name: BIOS Date: 02/05/10 19:13:52 Ver: 08.00.10
BIOS Version: ALASKA - 1072009
BIOS Release: 20110608000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
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3D Resolution: 1920x1200 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes
Physics Quality: High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High
World Texture Level: High
Character Texture Level: High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Unknown (3)
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: Ultra quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Balanced
Occlusion Strength: Medium
Blur: Bilateral
Ambient Resolution: Performance
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.600
Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: 2010.201104142136.1
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
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.\texture_library\GUI\Icons\Powers\ALTERNATE-2 has 12 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\city has 2 files
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.\texture_library\MAPS\NewPlayerTutorial has 1 file
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H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD
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Originally Posted by Slider
The card was professionaly installed at a computer shop.
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Generally this means one of their techs (if you are lucky) or trained monkeys (otherwise) installs the copy that comes with the card which generally is not the latest version and even if it was may well not work well with OpenGl graphics.
AMDs drivers are generally well tested against DirectX but CoH does not use this - it uses OpenGl and here AMDs testing falls short. Their good drivers are just as good as NVidia's, however they also release a sizeable number of drivers which do not work so well.
There is a stickied thread on which of AMDs drivers are stable with CoH.
I would strongly recommend reading it and ensuring you are using a stable driver.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=278655
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Deadly Doc 50 Dark/Dark Corr
and lots more on Pinnacle,Union and Defiant
I want to thank everyone that replied. What ultimately seems to have solved it was the use of the Driver Sweeper and a new driver so thanks in particular to TJ. Without the driver sweeper I was playing hell trying to get the new driver loaded up and clean. I have great video now and no degradation. Crosses My fingers it stays that way and I don't much up something else, lol. Thanks again ya'll.
Slider
Glad you were able to get it resolved. Enjoy the game.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
I'm at My wits end so I'll post this here because I believe it has to do with CoH and nothing else. I bought this card a couple of months ago and I have had ongoing problems running in CoH. I specify CoH because I have run two benchmark programs (both got very good scores and compared well to other computers on Mark11 tests) and I played WoW for hours yesterday without a single problem.
When I initially start the game the program runs fine then over time (an hour or two) the picture starts going to hell in a handbag. Specifically, words blur to be unreadable (but not all words), letters disappear from words, icons for powers and enhancements might disappear, whole surfaces like boxes or doors turn black, and floors or the ground disappear. A couple of times I have been able to see through walls to mobs two rooms over (hmmmm, that might be useful, lol), And lastly, auras turn into vivid square patterns that alternate around the character. Not all of these things happen at once generally, but when moving from zone to zone, the aura problem did not change nor do the other problems. This occurs on all or any of my five toons.
The problem does not appear to be overheating as it does not do it on other things like WoW or Heaven's benchmarks which I ran for over two hours. I also have two fans on a well vented computer pull the heat out and I blew a fan in through the vents just to cool things more and test for that. It may occur in any environment and just comes on and gets worse if I do not reboot.
I have put up the numbers from the CoH helper so you can see the sytem.
I'm all up for suggestions so I'm willing to try anything you throw up and if you have questions I'll try and get you answers. Drivers are up to date as are all windows components. I have blocked drivers on two audio devices I didn't need (webcam and AMD which I'm not plugged into) at the suggestion of Microsoft. The card was professionaly installed at a computer shop.
Thank you for reading.
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at July 11, 2012 13:23 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120503-2030)
System Manufacturer: INTEL_
System Model: DH61BE__
BIOS: IBA GE Slot 00C8 v1365 PXE 2.1 B
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
Memory: 8192MB
.Net Memory Report: 6413MB out of 8169MB available
Page File: 14324MB (2012MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD5000AAKS-75A7B0 ATA Device) 406225MB out of 476875MB (85%) free
D Drive: (HL-DT-ST DVDRWBD GBC-H20N ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7601.17514 (64-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI display adapter (0x6738)
Video Memory: 740 MB
Driver Version: 8.850.0.0
Driver Date: 4/20/2011 2:07:48 AM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6602
Driver Date: 3/27/2012 5:03:36 PM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output(Optical) (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6602
Driver Date: 3/27/2012 5:03:36 PM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6602
Driver Date: 3/27/2012 5:03:36 PM
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: DH61BE
Motherboard Version: AAG14062-206
BIOS Manufacturer: Intel Corp.
BIOS Name: IBA GE Slot 00C8 v1365 PXE 2.1 B
BIOS Version: INTEL - 1072009
BIOS Release: 20110218000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1600x900
3D Resolution: 1600x900 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes
Physics Quality: High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High
World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Stencil shadows
Shadow Map Shader: Unknown (0)
Environmental Reflections: Ultra quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: Yes
Ambient Occlusion: High performance
Occlusion Strength: Slight
Blur: Fast
Ambient Resolution: High performance
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.326
Music Sound Volume: 0.047
Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.750
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: ?
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\NCsoft\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found