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If you have a multiple monitor setup, that might happen depending on the screen layout. Borderless is still Windowed mode, it just means the Windows "chrome" including the boundaries, title bar and window control buttons (minimize, toggle and close) are gone. It's a fix mostly for modern "High DPI" monitors that cause issues when Fullscreen Mode means driver crashes or redraw glitching (mouse moves 1/4 the way down the screen, but is clicking tray buttons in the bottom right instead of the map window your mouse arrow is actually hovering over). Windowed and Borderless modes are best for multitasking use while playing. Using ALT-TAB or mousing away from the game and using the taskbar still has a slight lag to it, but it's not huge. This does mean Windows doesn't give up any Video RAM and there's a slight performance hit to gameplay to pull this off. Fullscreen mode is what the OP describes: Windows UI is not as accessible, and the Game UI takes center stage. This comes with a slight performance increase if it works, as Windows elements take less memory if the game is 100% in focus, mostly realized as a boost to FPS. The price includes what is mentioned above (HighDPI fail) as well as a laggy delay when using ALT-TAB to get out of Fullscreen and back to Windows. For "multibox" play, Fullscreen is detrimental as the lag in switching between fullscreen clients is considerable.

If it's bad enough that every visit to your base results in you and your guests needing /stuck to move, please file a ticket in Support and a GM can help.

METERED CONNECTIONS A general guideline for folks using a Metered Connection is one hour of City of Heroes play averages 50 to 100MB an hour. This largely has NOT changed from the Live Game back in 2012. For folks with a prepaid Hotspot with 2GB a month, that means about 20 to 40 hours of remote play away from home, with 20 being a safer bet than 40+. This is also considering ONLY City of Heroes. If Windows Updates, web browsing or other Internet activity occurs, even less time. If you do a lot of farming and raids, more data will be used. If you do an 8-person team or solo missions in less than max difficulty, less data. One strategy to consider is sticking to small team and solo play when "on the road" and saving raids and leagues for when you return home. (There's folks who have Mobile Hotspots as their sole connection, unfortunately, so that's not much help. Public Hotspots sometimes works, but some prohibit gameplay or limit customer time to 1 hour or less... the time it takes to eat a meal.) The only way I'm aware of to reduce bandwidth use includes setting "Stop Sending All Buffs" to ENABLED for windows you can live without (Group Window, Pets Window if you're not a MM or Pet Toon) in options. You'll still get HP, End and Death notifications for your team and toons with Buff display turned off. This sends a bit less data across the feed in teams and league play. The majority of client options reduces impact on your own computer, not your network connection. UNLIMITED HOTSPOTS "Unlimited Hotspots" may be able to play the game if they run out of LTE data at the reduced speed of 600Kbps, but expect a lot of rubberbanding and lag when that connection is not at it's full capacity (which often happens: keep in mind that 600Kbps is a maximum, not a promise). There will be "good days" and "bad days" under the reduced speed mode that you can play mostly unhindered, or you can't stay on longer than 30 seconds even with the game patched and other apps not drawing any other bandwidth from the connection. PATCHING DOESN'T COUNT As Hardship mentioned, patching the client does NOT count, which is 4.6-5GB of space if you're doing a fresh install. Patch sizes vary and can be as small as 50MB for minor changes all the way up to 3GB if it's a major release. (If there's one or two changes in a 700MB .pigg file, or hundreds, the effect is the same to Tequila. The entire 700MB needs to be downloaded again.) If patching is needed, we strongly recommend disconnecting from your mobile hotspot immediately and using an Internet Connection that isn't metered to patch.

This need to be addressed in Private Messages or the Support area for your individual issue. The Code of Conduct is all the guidance we can offer concerning content issues with Moderation.

Press the up arrow on the right side of the Power Tray window twice to expose all three trays. Are they all numbered one? Switch them to 2 and 3 respectively, then try it. (This is per character, by the way.)

And none of this is productive. Let's stop yelling at each other. Carry on.

Please stay on topic. Thanks!

1. The browser is rejecting the cookie. Probably for one of the prior reasons I've already typed. 2. You can go to Settings in Chrome and delete saved passwords for homecomingservers.com. Then when you enter the working password, Chrome will prompt to save the correct one. (3 and 4 are probably solved if 1 and 2 are taken care of.) Your browser cache doesn't include cookies: only past webpages and client-side scripts. Cookies do persist after clearing the cache out. The only other reason why it might not accept your credentials: spaces do count. If your forum login is "Eric The Grey", "EricTheGrey" isn't the same username to the forum. (But as you've already seen, email address instead of user name also works.)

The whole industry is spikey. The press hasn't had much love for Intel since Moore's Law fell apart in their face the last 6 years. Intel doesn't like NVidia as they kicked them off of their motherboards via on-board graphics as a whole. (Only way to get NVidia on-board is through a laptop from an OEM, sometimes with a complicated dual-graphics arrangement with Intel right in front.) Linus Torvalds himself flipped NVidia off during a conference before they started working together more. Regardless, NVidia doesn't like Apple, everyone loves AMD right now (but we'll see that change as Ryzen gets more popular and allegiances shift). And ARM is kind of the twice-removed nephew who doesn't really care either way.

Not really "in-universe", but Issue 9 was the Breakthrough Issue where Invention was debuted. http://web.archive.org/web/20121003093925/http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/game_updates/issue_9/issue_9_breakthrough_invention.php -- If memory serves well lore-wise, Dr. Aeon was involved in the discovery of Inventions and Invention Origin Enhancements, plot-wise. -- Invention Recipes are 'discovered' while in combat or as a reward for missions and Task Forces. As such, Invention Recipes aren't sold by contacts or vendors, and why IOs aren't able to be sold to vendors in return. (Of course, Merit Reward/Astral & Emp Merits break this rule.)

Saved passwords on a web browser is a different mechanism than "Remember Me". Saved Passwords is 100% your browser remembering username and password fields. If your browser isn't remembering your password on this forum, your user profile might be affected. (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari... etc.: instructions vary, and this isn't really a game client issue, so I can't help past that much. But at least this will get you searching for the right issue elsewhere.) "Remember Me" is our Forum saving a cookie to automatically authorize you when re-opening the browser. You can see the computers set to "Remember Me" and have the ability to force log off any of them in your Account Settings under "Recent Used Devices" at any time while logged in. Some possibilities on why this would stop working: Plug-Ins or Extensions for Privacy may be interfering with the cookie being saved. Your Browser privacy settings for cookie handling may be too strict. Also using a Private Browsing tab (InPrivate, Incognito, etc.) also prevents session cookies from being saved between uses, so closing a Private Tab wipes them out when finished. "Remember Me" never works when Private Browsing. Certain Browser Updates (Chrome and Firefox have done this each once in the last few years) that increase security with user profile handling require a new user profile going forward, invalidating prior cookies, saved passwords and history. This doesn't happen very often. Computers on a domain or part of Mobile Device Management may have a policy rejecting cookies from unknown sites. You're using a new computer user account. Windows separates user profiles with a unique user database and AppData folder for user Registry and Storage Settings on many apps, INCLUDING web browsers. So you're starting from scratch on your browser. Anti-malware or security software may also be a factor. (Norton, ESET, McAfee, etc.) Security software often has browser security settings that also affect the use of cookies. These two features DO NOT intersect. If you set a different password on the forum, and your Saved Passwords are not updated, your browser will keep filling the wrong password. And "Remember Me" cookies do not have your password at all, just a temporary authorization code to bypass login that only works on your computer alone (you'll never see the code, it's in the cookie itself and is transparently sent in the background). It DOES expire if you change your password (the authorization code will be voided) or if you click "Logout" at any time (either on the actual computer involved, or through "Recent Used Devices" in settings on this Forum). You don't have to use both. If you want the browser to remember the password, you don't have to check "Remember Me." And if you have your password well memorized, "Remember Me" is sufficient to save some time from logging in without storing your password in the browser in the first place.

Icon.exe was taken offline by accident on one of the mirrors. This should be a temporary issue, it's back online but will take DNS 24-48 hours to reach everyone. If it still persists after Thursday, let us know but it should clear up earlier.

Your forum account is not the game account. The Account Center has your game username (set once by you, cannot be changed) and password. Enter that password into the client. Beerand92 you have a different issue. If it can't be reached, your network settings need to be checked: is Windows Firewall blocking it? Are you trying to play at school or work? Is your wi-fi working if you're on a laptop?

Per character, Primary and Secondary ATs are permanent choices. A respec lets you reselect powers in the AT combo you've picked without changing the Primary and Secondary ATs, as well as repick Pool Power sets and powers within those pools (Villains, kinda... it's complicated). But if you want to change the Archetype Sets themselves to completely different ones, you need to spin up a new character.

winspooler.drv is a Print Spooler for any print command in Win apps you run on Wine. It should be safe to ignore.

There's a medical saying, "When you hear hoofbeats, you think horses, not zebras." (Unless you live in Africa, then maybe the other way around.) Hard drive failure would cause bigger issues in other applications: files missing across the board, apps not working, Windows booting sometimes and not others. There's too little info to go on to consider hardware failure.

Depends what this is... Login Screen - playerslot.txt might be corrupted or not writeable in your user folder in Tequila (if your forum name is your login name, it would be /liability for example). This is a common error when users see multiple characters in the same slot (move a toon, a new one is in the place you left it.) Costume Creator - Load Costume screen - The costume directory is in your Tequila Directory under /costumes. Any files deleted there will disappear from that list. Doesn't help now, but you can back up costumes you saved in there (*.costume) wherever you want. (Got 10 slots and free tailor tokens? Cycle out seasonal costumes or older ones you don't like using as much anymore but save them as costume files so you can recall them back someday.)

That error can appear when your computer or Tequila cannot reach the server in question. In Tequila's case, you can do the following: Make sure Antivirus apps have the entire directory for Tequila whitelisted. Windows Firewall, make sure Tequila is able to use Private and Public networks. If both of those are good, try entering the manifest address into a web browser. If your computer can connect to the address, you'll see an XML file appear with file listings. If it can't, you'll see a 404 error message. Either the ISP being used isn't allowing the site through (don't play this game at work or school... If they block games you'll get into trouble over us for no good reason), or you may have other Internet issues occurring.

Your client login name is displayed in the Account Center. Once picked at account creation, it cannot be changed. You can also reset your client password at any time.

Just went through and removed several posts. Once more, please don't make or respond to personal attacks on the boards. Carry on.

Logical Fallacies and semantic discussion of arguments can be fun at times, but this is a gaming forum. An Associate's Degree is not required as a prerequisite to be able to post. Stay on topic please.

As a starting point, I'd check the Event Viewer in Administrative Tools (inside Control Panel). Open up Windows Logs and either Application or System should have clues around the same time the crash happened.

It appears you're having issues with the ISP reaching the game server. Your client and PC are most likely fine (judging from the bottom window... The top command was a small error forgetting ping, but the second one completed. Your Internet settings on your PC are most likely okay.) If you play on our servers, the connection is made in North America, with the exception of "Reunion" which is in Europe. If you make a character in Reunion, does it stay online any better? If it doesn't and it "Lost Connection to Mapserver" just as often, you might have a home network issue reaching outside. (Weak Wi-Fi connection, DNS timeouts, etc.)

Enter "/netgraph 1" the next time you login and watch it while playing the game. When it starts to freeze, the graph will show network activity when it occurs. When the game freezes up, if the graph stops (not moving, crawling, or otherwise), it's a problem with the system. This is verified if you click on the game window and it turns white with Windows reporting "City of Heroes is not responding" in a popup message. If the graph stops rising and falling and instead is crawling from right to left as a solid color block when it freezes up (usually yellow or red) then it's a network issue. This is verified if you can still operate the client (open menus, close windows in the client, etc.) although you can't move in-game.

Sounds like a network issue that is preventing Tequila from obtaining the files. You can try the Beta Manifest to see if it's an issue with mirrors. (The Beta Manifest will have links to the live game as well.) Or see if the computer will get the files by using a Hotspot or Cellular connection (only do a few files -- the full client is 5.2GB, and will eat through a low LTE Data allowance... just enough to see if it's your network that is the cause or not.)