Subluxation

Ok, awesome! Thanks for the reassurance! Happy Hero-ing!

So I checked my systems' activity monitor when it was running at 200 degrees Fahrenheit and it said it was using 120% of the cpu, so that might be the culprit. I upped the quality to 'Recommended.' I capped the fps at varying intervals between 30-60fps. 60fps runs fine in a solo mission, the temperature was at 160 degrees Fahrenheit! That's an acceptable temperature for long term gaming in my opinion. When I turn it down to 30fps it stays at 170 degrees in a crowded Atlas Plaza. Not too bad. Capping the fps was very good troubleshooting, so thanks! I think this will be a good temporary fix and I'm comfortable playing for a few hours at a time every day. But moving forward, I assume this won't be optimal for high-level endgame content with a full team if I make it that far. If I do decide to get a gaming computer of sorts would a better processor sort things out? I'd probably still cap the fps, but that's fine. I heard a few things about CoH working the graphics card hard, and that some modern PCs actually don't handle it well?

So as many people have already said and experienced, I am so excited that CoH is back, even if unstable and temporary. I definitely want to take advantage of this opportunity to play again. I managed to play for about 2 hours today and get a tanker to level 4 while doing a few missions. On a MacBook air! Definitely not optimal, but the game ran fine, no lagging, little rubberbanding, etc. I think I set it to the lowest graphics settings which was what I had to use when I played before anyway. The only issue is that my cpu was reaching temperatures consistently around 200 Fahrenheit (93 Celsius). Again, the game was running fine, I just don't feel comfortable overheating my laptop that much, especially if I get back into playing many hours every day for a few months. The macbook specs are: MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012) Processor: 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory: 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB I'm looking into getting a gaming laptop anyway, because there are a few games coming out this year and next year I'm excited to play, so I'm probably looking in the ballpark of 800$-1200$. Since it runs fine I'm assuming the memory and cpu are ok, so should I be looking for a better graphics card in a new laptop? What specs in a gaming laptop/pc should I get to reliably run City of Heroes smoothly without overheating, or what have you all been using that runs it fine? Thanks so much for any responses! I'm so excited to jump back into this game and experience it as well as helping to form a new community!