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    re: Game freezing since the patch today.

    in Help & Support

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    8 hours ago, Number Six said:

     

    There's four threads of any significance: main thread that runs the game, render thread that actually renders the 3d graphics, physics thread, and audio thread. Typically only the main thread and render thread see significant CPU time, though the physics thread can under some circumstances. There are a few others like the threads responsible for loading textures, saving options and map fog of war to disk, etc, but those never use a lot and are only background threads so that they don't impact the main loop.

     

    Unfortunately for those of us with AMD graphics cards, their OpenGL drivers often end up CPU-bound in the render thread processing the very large amount of draw calls the game makes. Nvidia drivers tend to handle it a bit better, but the current AMD GL drivers assume that games use more modern techniques to reduce draw call count since that was a big focus of game optimization in the late 2010s. COH does a little bit of that and at least tries to group up things with similar textures or shader modes, but not go to the lengths that the drivers are built to expect.

     

    Thank you!

     

    Should I place any hope in COH having an OGL upgrade? 🙂

    re: Game freezing since the patch today.

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    The Graphics reset seems to have solved another long standing annoyance I have had.

     

    All of my characters were at a slightly different scale for the UI, despite the numbers being set the same. And everytime I switched characters I would have to fix the location/size of the ui windows. Specifically the buttons I have set up for powers.

    re: Game freezing since the patch today.

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    5 hours ago, WanderingAries said:

    What does Task Manager look like when loading the game? You may need to use windowed mode for that to help (but that could also change the result).

    I have two monitors.

     

    Pushing ready in the launcher almost instantly gets me to the login screen. Also doesnt seem to get COH over 0.1% cpu usage either.

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    After entering my pw and clicking login.

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    On character selection I go as high as 1.8% cpu but mostly .3% to .6%.

     

    Character load got me up to 6.1%.

    re: Game freezing since the patch today.

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    So far so good. Seeing other posts about random crashing so we will see.

     

    For my system no igpu to worry about on the desktop, I do have one in the laptop, but dont typically game on it unless away from home. 

     

    With all the recent Windows updates and Amd Adrenaline it is hard to know where to look. Hopefully enough people will post for the common factor to be identified.

     

    Win 11 22h2 build 22621.675, GPU Driver 22.10.2, at the time of this post.

     

    I did have a near miss yesterday, perhaps related, I loaded the game and selected Indomitable and the game hung, completely non-responsive, after about a minute I got a couldn't load db server type message and everything was working again. This make me wonder if the other hangs are also db server issues except the client didnt stop waiting for a response.

     

    re: Game freezing since the patch today.

    in Help & Support

    Posted · Edited by Zep

    2 hours ago, agentx5 said:

     

    Does the crash handler let you upload your game info?  It's supposed to do that, and the HC Devs have found it to be really helpful 

     

    Does this happen with any other applications (don't think it does or doesn't, you need to try to stress test it with anything else)

     

    Graphics card driver version, make, and model?

    From what your wrote, I'm guessing it's and AMD Ryzen 9 CPU and a Radeon RX 6900 XT?

     

    GPU Driver 22.10.1

     

    No crash handler. Either COx Locks up completely or my system locks up completely. 

    Guide to Using Mids' Hero Designer

    in Guides

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    It is unbelievably amazing that someone is taking their time to maintain this for the community.

     

    **Thank you**

     

    I use 2 4k large screen tv's as monitors and Mids is not readable. Is there any way to enlarge the view? Dragging the corner of the mids window makes a bigger window but the text, icons, etc, stay the same size.

     

    Thank you

    Any *old old* game things you kinda miss?

    in General Discussion

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    On 8/23/2022 at 3:59 PM, ILIWAPCT said:

    Recently did the Red Side respec and brought back all those memories of teams desperately trying and failing the quitting. 

     

    Exactly as you said "the precise type of builds which did not need a respec"

     

    Anyway now I've set it as a "goal" for all my alts to run it... 

     

    I remember when the respec trial first came out and everyone and their brother was running it with all the 'broken' characters.

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    Bios

    in General Discussion

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    On 7/8/2022 at 2:12 PM, Ukase said:

    So, just to play devil's advocate, I should start stating that I'm a hetero male in my bio? 

    I honestly don't think anyone gives a whit about what gender pronoun anyone goes by, nor their preferences and frankly, nor should they. If I ever stumbled across such a thing, I'd likely 2 star them with a comment to avoid them simply because they chose to share useless info. 

    We're all just pixels in this game. 

    It would not bother me.

     

    At the same time we are still in a place where anyone who doesn't declare is assumed to be a cis gender, white, hetero person. Statistically not a good guess that everyone meets all those criteria but ppl sure do like to assume. Invisible, un-named, groups are easier to exclude and discriminate against, which is why so many ppl declare. 

     

    IMO:

    In a world where orientation and gender identity are not thought of as any more special than eye and hair color, at that point no one should need to declare. 

    Bios

    in General Discussion

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    Virtue was the unofficial secretly official RP server. No telling what you might see or hear while moving about the City, specially in Atlas Park. 

     

    The ERP could get annoying sometimes - do that stuff in private people - but not too often.

    Graphics: how far would you take it?

    in General Discussion

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    I'd like to see the API updated to something current. This would allow for newer technologies that would support better performance.

     

    As I recall the engine is dx9.

     

     I get this would entail a lot of work. Once the api is modernized lots more features would be available to update textures, models, etc. 

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    Game starts rapidly strobing on/off if I tab out or click another monitor

    in Bug Reports

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    This is a recent development so I dont know if it is Windows Update, or GPU Driver related.

     

    I forget if COH is DX 9 or OGL. I have read a recent windows update has problems with some dx 9 games.

     

    Ah Yes, Specs:

    Asus Crosshair TUF x570, Ryzen 5950x, 128GB DDR4 3200, RX6900XT

    Use 4k tv using hdmi @ 60hz sync

     

    Any thoughts or ideas on how to resolve this, as it is annoying, are appreciated. 

     

    Thanks!

     

    If you lived in City of Heroes/Villains

    in General Discussion

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    Talos Island - top floor corner apartment/condo. -OR- Atlas park in one of those fancy new Sky Scrapers with an Atrium at the top.

     

    As near the train station as possible.

     

    I work in Payroll and Accounting - So long as I am not working for Crey I'll be happily employed somewhere.

     

    Put up some Dream Catchers and hopefully catch me a Kheldon to combine with - happy with either type.

    dude im so hyped to play this game again

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    5 hours ago, tidge said:

    Welcome back!

     

    I thought I was moved when I cast my first sound effect in the tutorial, but it was the opening music when first approaching City Hall in Atlas Park that really got me.

     

    I was lucky enough to find Homecoming fairly early. Not at the beginning but within a few months of the public date. 

     

    I was all nervous, made a character - I mean I had been able to use the character generator before with the City of Chat thing, but then I was in Outbreak...... and nothing worked. Quick reload and OMG I am really playing the game and the MUSIC hit me like a smell keying up memories. 

     

    Then it was a matter of remembering how to do binds and macros. 🙂 

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    Weekly Discussion 85: T1 Immobilises in Control Sets

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    My Controllers are Fire/Storm, fire/kin and a low level Grav/Storm, My dominators are many but the main is elec/elec.

     

    I usually take the single target immob on my controllers. It is the best single target damage at low/mid level. Even at high level if I need to burn a specific target I stack hold/immob as fast as they recharge.

     

    Also at end game/TF's a lot of big bad boys/girls have less immob resistance then hold. Nailing an AV's feet to the floor can be helpful. Stacking Ring of Fire and the Crey Cold Gun right at the start of the fight helps build immob up fast.

     

    On my main Dominator I dont know I will take Electric Fence - I have other better powers for doing damage. When I do want to immob Chain Fences gets the job done. 

     

    As others have said the single target immob is as much a damage power as a control power.

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