Silk

It should be the other way around but you can do this to all the .exe

Dont use tequila to dl use the magnet link, see my guide https://score.savecoh.com/index.php/topic,372.0.html

Installation for MacOS Note this is a WIP and first write up so there may be changes and more clarifications edited in later on. Credits to Arakendo for providing the download for mac users and putting time into making this possible. For now I will provide a 30 day link to the file and will make either a torrent or a permanent link to this site later on. Everything you need to play the game should be bottled in including wine, the game files and Tequila. Step one: First you will need a program to extract the archive, Arakendo used Keka available here: https://www.keka.io/en/ Step two: Download the "cohmac" archive here: https://ufile.io/laoezbww Alternate download options: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3AFBC62D7C92B5B55739DA4467DA54FA6D92BAB1&dn=cohmac.zip or https://fil.email/jpL1toPR Step three: Extract the archive using Keka and double click the app file and run it. Put it in your apps folder but it should run fine anywhere. Step four: Now to avoid the MacOS security problem. When running anything downloaded from internet, you have to verify with System Preferences > Security > General to let it run. First run will take a while as MacOS will sit there and “verify” files for like 3-5 minutes. Notes: If "wine preloader" seems to hang and not complete, install the following: https://www.xquartz.org/ Reboot after installing the above. For troubleshooting, if you open that with explorer, navigate to Contents>MacOS folder, there is a single file like a bat file. If you run that, it will show the errors in “terminal” (Mac cmd prompt).

It's all explained in my install guide, essentially Tequila and the game files need to be in the same folder.

Stuck that in my guide thanks for letting me know it slightly different onw10. I was under the impression you could access this via the shortcut in w10 too.

Could be a driver problem tbh it hard to diagnose something like that with no information. My son had a PC with onboard nvidia graphics and his ati gpu just would not play well with the board and his screen kept going into sleep mode and we always had to reboot. The only way we fixed this was by getting a nvidia card. Also had a similar problem with another amd card but this was a driver problm and I had to boot to safe mode and completely wipe/clean out the driver then reinstall newer updated one and that fixed the problem in that case. It could also be your power plan, do you have it set to "high performance"? You can also go further in and completely turn off all that (save power mode/sleep mode) and see if that fixes the issue.

Installation for Linux. Linux users City of Heroes runs almost flawlessly on Wine, but there’s a few hoops to jump through. This section assumes you have a basic knowledge of what Wine is, and can use either Winetricks or PlayOnLinux. Note: Warpshot (Lexi) is currently working on an install script to support Lutris, so you can automate everything with one click, but it currently has some issues with setting up Tequila. Step 1: Launcher There are currently 3 launchers available for Linux. (There is also an Island Rum port as a work in progress, which may be covered here at a later date.) ~ Tequila via Wine: Has a straightforward GUI and is better supported, but relies on .NET which can throw weird errors on some systems/Wine versions. ~ etoh-downloader: Native command-line patcher. Requires compilation but it’s very straightforward otherwise. See the page for info on how to set it up. ~ Penguin on the Rocks: Another native command-line patcher, no compilation needed and is also very straightforward. Again, see the page for info on how to set it up. Step 2: Setup Wine & wineprefix Setup a new prefix (or “virtual drive” if you’re using PlayOnLinux) with the method of your choice, following these details: ~ For Wine version, use either Wine-Staging or Steam’s Proton. ~ Use a 32-bit prefix if possible. 64-bit may work, but some Winetricks verbs throw fits about it. ~ You may need to set your Wine version to “Windows XP”. ~ Install dinput8 (either with Winetricks or POL). ~ If using Tequila as your launcher: Install dotnet35sp1 and dotnet35 as well. Step 3: Patching If you haven’t already, make a new folder for your City of Heroes install and put your preferred launcher in there. ~ For Tequila: Run Tequila through the Windows steps above. ~ For etoh-downloader: Run etoh-downloader from the new folder and let it patch, then follow the instructions on their page to launch the game. ~ For Penguin on the Rocks: Run WINEPREFIX="prefix path here" WINEARCH="win32" ./penguinrocks.pl from the new folder and let it patch. If you get stuck on the loading splash screen before login, try adding -renderthread 0 to the launch parameters. Source and credit for this.

Check out my install guide: https://score.savecoh.com/index.php/topic,372.0.html

DISCLAIMER: Someone has went and used Silk as name and @global name but it's not me. If anyone in game says hey I made that guide and am the one that's been helping people be warned it's not me. It was previously on the Bree server but some joker hurried up and made sure to take it on all four of the current servers. Hello everyone! I had created a how to install guide up along with some other useful tibits and links sadly the panic fiasco that ended up with the forum and the Bree server deleted means we lost the guide too. Sadly I had not backed it up. Here is version 2. Discord link for the new Homecoming discord: https://discord.gg/TcYfy6g Discord link for the older City of Heroes (Homecoming and COX) discord: https://discord.gg/TTJGbfh *For Windows 8 and above, it is important that this is not in your Desktop, Documents, or Downloads folder due to permissions. It is possible that your anti virus or windows defender will give off a false positive and block score.exe, homecoming.exe or even Tequila.exe so be sure the check that if some files seem to be missing, you can also check your A/V quarantine to see if something was moved there. Your firewall may be an issue as well. Windows Install Guide Magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:FD5ADD155E5FD01D6013B026A8766E56C2841E3D&dn=City%20of%20Heroes You need a bitclient to download via torrents so you need something like utorrent or qbits. If this isn't a first time install but you want to install from scratch you will have to delete the tequila key in the registry. You can delete the Tequila registry key with Start -> Find/Run -> REG DELETE HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tequila You can also check manually to see if the Tequila folder in the registry was deleted by typing regedit in the start search bar and hitting enter. Then in the window that opened navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software and check see if you have a Tequila folder in the list. If there is right click the tequila folder and delete it. If this is a first time install or first time using tequila ignore the registry key deletion bit above. NOTE: Due to the server migration some of the files will need to update. Namely before doing anything you need to rename the "SCORE" folder to "homecoming". Then when you update it should make a homecoming.exe application. For a first time install Step one Download the torrent..you can simply paste the whole magnet link into your browser address bar which will open up your bitclient and ask if you want to download the torrent, obviously say yes. 😉 While that is downloading. Character max for the passwords seems to be 15 so be sure to keep your password shorter than that. Set up a forum account at: http://score.savecoh.com/ Once you sign into your forum account, proceed to the game account creation portion of the website using the following link: https://score.savecoh.com/account/ Step Two Get your install path ready. Make a folder on your C:/ drive called Games. You can make sure your anti virus has an exception for the whole Games folder. (Some people are afraid of doing this and prefer to only add an exception to score.exe (now after migration will be the homecoming.exe) and Tequila.exe in the City of Heroes folder you are downloading via the torrent). I also run tequila.exe as admin but you shouldn't have to. Step Three Once the torrent is done you will have a "City of Heroes" folder in your torrent download location. Move the whole "City of Heroes" folder, via copy and paste, to C:/Games. Since we are using the old torrent for now you need to delete the "tequila.xml", the "tequilalog.xml", the "TequilaActivityLog.txt", and the "THIRDPARTYSOFTWAREREADME.txt". Rename the score folder to homecoming (due to the server migration). Step Four Note: If on starting Tequila.exe at this point does not ask you for an install path then you had tequila installed before and need to delete it in the registry. See the top of this post. Start the Tequila launcher via the tequila.exe in the "City of Heroes" folder from C:/Games/City of Heroes. This should open a window asking you for the install path. Point it to C:/Games/City of Heroes. This will let it see you have all the games files and all the score files (homecoming now due to server migration). Let Tequila update/validate. Make sure "Homecoming" is highlighted in the Tequila launcher and hit play. You should see this: It is suggested for players to go into option and make sure to put a checkmark in the "Close Tequila after starting the game" box. Too many people were leaving the Tequila launcher open all the time and then getting errors after an update as Tequila only checks that when it starts up. Enjoy the game, kill skulls! Troubleshooting In the Tequila launcher you can hit option and verify the files to make sure it all works proper. Mouse cursor not showing up in game fix Tequila launcher crashing at loading banner and other similar crashes This is more than likely caused by your anti virus detecting one of the .exe as a virus which is likely a false postive OR your firewall blocking the game. Windows 10 users note that windows defender can cause this too even if you think it is off. Files deleting themselves is also caused by this. You need to make an exception/exclusion for homecoming.exe and tequila.exe at minimum or to avoid future problems make an exception/exclusion for the whole City of Heroes game folder. How to do this will vary depending on which antivirus or firewall you use. Adding an exclusion to Windows Defender on windows 10 Adding an exclusion to Windows Security Adding an exclusion to Norton Antivirus Adding an exclusion to Eset Adding a whitelist and exclusion to Avast Adding an exclusion to Malwarebytes For crashing problems, including crashing on start up, you can also try deleting the tequila.xml and the tequilalog.xml as this has helped some users according to reports. Resolution Problems: Note: When at the log in screen after changing your setting hit apply then to close the window look for the tiny tiny red circle under the cancel button. You can fix by using Alt+Enter switch from fullscreen to window. If you still have problems you need to disable display scaling on the "launchers" which means on "Tequila or Island Rum". To do so you just right click the shortcut for either Tequila or Island Rum, click properties and choose the compatibility tab and make sure to check the box for "Disable display scaling for high dpi settings". Click apply and ok. For windows 10 Start > PC settings > Display > Under "Scale and Layout," change the drop down option for "Change the size of text, apps, and other items" to the recommended setting (100% in my case). You can do the above for all the .exe's if you're still having problems as someone mentioned they had to do this to homecoming.exe and not just on the tequila.exe. Some 4k user had trouble and this helped them: Remember that the graphical settings are stored in your system registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cryptic\coh . You can run Regedit to access and modify the values if needed. See page 4 for more details on the regedit fix. Simpler way to reset video settings to defaults: Start -> Find/Run -> REG DELETE HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cryptic\CoH Some also report having to turn off vsync to get the image correct. Patching Errors One user had problems updating with Tequila and found his patch.xml had the wrong address. He had "https://patch.savecoh.com/manifest.xml".. note the s after http. You should have http://patch.savecoh.com/manifest.xml Wrong Game version fix (credit to The Fifth Horseman): Quote updated with new code. 5/7/2019 You can also just delete the tequila.xml and and revalidate the files via options in the Tequila launcher, you can also just replace the tequila.xml with the one in the attachment of this post. If the above still doesn't work you need to check: Credits to Jacke for this! You can replace the instructions on deleting Tequila registry settings with Start -> Find/Run -> REG DELETE HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tequila (Hit Win Key +R to get to the find/run for windows 10 users) Fix for the above issues, see post 6 on this page for details. Also those with "laptops" like the Surface Go you may be having heat/throttling issues and need to use an "ice pack" to keep the heat down. credits to Skawt, see page 9 Fix for movement lag: https://score.savecoh.com/index.php/topic,1711.0.html Tequila.xml updated to 6/17/2019 https://ufile.io/axbgyoip

Is bound to happen someone took my name too "Silk"....

Same issue here with offset image on fullscreen. Haven't found a fix yet. Disable display scaling on the launcher Tequila or Island Rum you can do the same on the coh.exe too.

These forum need fixing before we start making guide. Dunno if this happens to everyone or it's just me but when I type a post it the line just keeps going to the right on and on and on and on and on etc. I looks like one long line in my post windows even though once posted it looks fine

Ah mines still only 10 so hasn't reached the grunty/mopey stage...sounds like fun.....lol

Nice.

Screwy res can be fixed by alt+enter to switch modes, so you can click on the settings button and also right clicking on the launcher, Tequila shortcut or Island Rum shortcut, and clicking properties/compatibility tab and make sure to checkmark "Disable display scaling on high dpi setting". click apply and ok.

The new start is looking good. I am really psyched about the whole idea of them torrenting out a "server in a package" like they call it in discord so that hopefully we get several servers running to spread the load. That said I wont be making a Install Guide this time around until I am sure it wont all be lost and go poof like it did the first time. Will make one later when we have a permanent server that up and running a little smoother