TorontoSunshine

Maybe it's just my hearing going, or some sort of glitch in the sound files of the client, but I hear either "RACE" or "BRACE" spoken as if in unison by a group of people everyt time I use Aqua Bolt. Am I hearing things?

How about that? Done in under an hour. That's an accomplishment even in a time of high inflation and gas prices.

All right, let me work on that. I'm looking at other options like re-installing HCoX on SSD storage: I just ordered a 512GB flash drive and waiting for it to arrive. Thanks for your help.

All right, I added a column in the Task manager to show priority and then added -priorityboost 1 to the launcher. I've seen no change to the priority status (Below Normal) in Task Manager and when I type /priorityboost with no number in the chat window, it shows a value of 1. Apparently I can enter any number with no error message because entering /priorityboost 999 in chat returns a value of 999 when /priorityboost is entered without a number.. I have a suspicion that Windows 10 might be intervening.

That is correct. I was trying to find a way to speed it up a bit as it lags sometimes and while going in Task Manager I discovered that.

It's an Acer Aspire 7, Nvidia GTX 1050Ti with 16GB RAM

Is this a parameter I pass to cityofheroes.exe? To answer your question about overlays, no I don't use one. I don't even use process hack as someone suggested yesterday I should use.

This is a problem I had when I was on Live (Virtue Server) but back then I had a gaming desktop so it really didn't matter: I had the horsepower for it back then. I'm now on a middle of the road laptop that runs Homecoming CoX (HCoX) fine....when I run nothing else. When something starts running, HCoX lags behind like a sullen child on his first day back to school after the summer vacation's over. Even when my Chrome browser loads a web page, the game slows down. The reason this happens is not because of specs, but because of task priority: HCoX runs at Below Normal. I've tried to change the priority of cityofheroes.exe in Task Manager to at least Normal but it won't stick, even under an Administrator account. Any suggestions?

Donated and the window is closed after 35 minutes! Love this community!

A lot of you who play Katana powerset toons know of the invisible blade bug, where other players can't see the blade you are holding even though you can see your toon holding it. It's a maddening bug. I almost deleted my katana toon at level 29 because of it....but she's saved thanks to the patience and help from a friend. Perhaps this news might help the devs figure this problem out. Apparently the only blade that is visible to other players --- even if it is for a few seconds before it vanishes ---- is the Rulaaru Fang blade. If other katana players are willing to use this blade as a workaround rather than fret about other players seeing your toon grasp at thin air, use it. It's not a bad look for my own toon.