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Well I'm still working through my issues and today is the last day of my six month membership. Its not looking too hopeful for me to continue playing.
From: Utah | Registered: Jul 2003
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Still no answer from them. But I did manage to change my registry settings where I think that some part of CoH still was. I also updated my BIOS with a recent update from HP. This time the CoH install took a lot longer and none of my default settings were in place (like remembering my login ID) so I think I've finally got a clean install. One word of warning. If you ever have to uninstall the game DO NOT use the uninstall function from the CoH folder itself. Use Window's uninstall feature instead. If you just run the uninstall from CoH it just uninstalls the uninstall. Real stupid.
Anyway, I played for just about 30 minutes with Edgar and it seemed okay. Just didn't want to dedicate too much time to really test. But I did pick up the Jewel of Hera mission. Is that the one with the Spelunker badge higher levels pay to participate with?
From: Utah | Registered: Jul 2003
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Yeah, Scott I think that's the Spelunker mish, or at least a badge mish of some sort.
Hope this means that your problem is resolved. Wish they could figure out what caused it because if they don't it's may just be a matter of time before we all "catch" it!
On the bright side, Condo & Grev were on Virtue tonight and we teamed up with a great group of about 5-6 other people. We had blast doing a few door missions (our first Banished Pantheon experience, & first Family experience) and hunted a bunch of Warriors in Talos and Tsoo in Talos & IP.
Condo started out the night soloing to get rid of the 7800 debt he had earned recently. Even after dying once outside a door mish in an ambush, he ended the night having leveled to 23 and down to 800 debt! Grev also leveled to 22 so it was a very successful evening for both of us and a great deal of fun too.
-------------------- "Hey Jim! Get Mon out of the Zone!! And...when do we get Condo back?"
From: Paragon City on patrol | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Vee: Hope this means that your problem is resolved. Wish they could figure out what caused it because if they don't it's may just be a matter of time before we all "catch" it!
From what I gathered in my nearing 20 e-mails with tech support this game was never meant to be played on a laptop. It is a power hog and a laptop's basic settings don't mesh well. Supposedly there is a chance (they didn't mention how high of one) of the game burning out a laptop's video card. Real nice to advertise that upfront isn't it? Since I use my laptop basically as a desktop I've had to set all my settings to make the laptop think it is a desktop. And I've taken out my battery (did that ages ago) to stop more heat from building up. I may pick up a stand to place it on that will give it more ventilation than just having it sit on a desk.
From: Utah | Registered: Jul 2003
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My friend from Indiana has a really cool docking port for his laptop. It puts it an an angle so the vents are in mid-air. It's an HP too.
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quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: My friend from Indiana has a really cool docking port for his laptop. It puts it an an angle so the vents are in mid-air. It's an HP too.
That's the one I'm thinking of. Its made specially for the laptop Pavilions. It is supposed to make them more of a desktop machine. The trick is just finding one at a decent price. Maybe it'll be my Christmas present.
From: Utah | Registered: Jul 2003
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Called in sick this morning, and I spent most of the day on the couch, so I didn't get much of a chance to play tonight. I did manage to run Blue Battlette for a little bit and took down an equal level Lead Scorcher all by my lonesome. 8-)
Interesting fact, though. He had just unleeashed some fire imps on me, but that was right when I killed him, and they went down at the same time. Makes me wonder what happens with a fire controllers' imps ...
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Well after the full clean out and new BIOS I think the problem may have been solved. Still have yet to hear back from tech support but I was able to play the last 3 1/2 hours with only a momentary mapserver disconnect. I was able to get Edgar Allan Poe up to an 11. First character of mine to have Hasten six slotted.
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From: Paragon City on patrol | Registered: Jul 2003
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I don't know if I'll have time to play until this weekend (more 12 hour days the rest of the week). I'm hoping its really over. I also need to check my account to see if they auto renewed it for another six months.
From: Utah | Registered: Jul 2003
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Well that's that. I left work early today because I wasn't feeling well. I decided to see if CoH was going to work still for me. I try logging in and nothing, stuck on the connecting (CoH Updater) screen. Quit try again. Same thing. Quit try again. Same. Reboot my PC and after a 20 second or so wait the updater finally kicks in and downloads a new patch. You never would guess what happened next. One hour into playing and hey, what's this? My PC shuts down? That's never happened before after a patch.
I've had it. I don't know what the hell they were trying to 'fix' this time but I'm not wasting my time having to update my BIOS, clear out my registry, uninstall then reinstall the program everytime I want to play. Two hours work to get a couple of hours playing time is not worth it. I've sent another update to TS but I highly suspect their next answer is, get a desktop computer.
Thomas, if you haven't bought yourself the new laptop for your birthday yet, don't bother. At least not if you want to play CoH. The one we were talking about is in the same model line as mine and you are bound to, at least eventually, have the same issues.
From: Utah | Registered: Jul 2003
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Oh, and I had to log back in as quick as I could after being booted off since it left EAP stranded in the middle of Steel. He's just an 11, barely, and was surrounded by a bunch of 12th level Leads (went there for a new contact). Luckily he wasn't dead in the street when I logged back in but I had just enough time to reach AP and was selling my enhancements when it happened again. Exactly two minutes after logging in.
Comcast is giving a free 15 day trial of Asheron's Call 2. I think I'll try it out.
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