MXOWinterMute

Phi, this is a godsend. To avoid crossposting, I'm going to point to a recent post on Vista issues here: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300009145 See what you think. I can't tell yet if these items are one-size-fits all, but f...

I've been struggling with Vista and MxO since Vista's release. I have a powerful laptop running (factory-installed) Vista Ultimate x64 that seems to be going just fine. I have a desktop that I built and did a straight install, but has give...

Glad to hear you have a partial success! Hopefully your upgrade will stabilize things even further. Here's a good article on upgrading the PSU, in case you'd like some info on choosing the right one: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=307...

Vinia, I'll also give you a few simple, basic maintenance checks that you can do, to help make sure this isn't something hanging at the hard-drive level: the boot-up freeze and the shutdown can also occur if there's something wrong with th...

UnknownShadow, that's a great suggestion and I'll give it a try. I managed to go for over an hour tonight without a crash, but I also stopped a ridiculous number of services and background programs to do it. I'll try forcing a re-install f...

You know, the means of delivery just might be it, too. I've done a full system check, but I'll try it again, just to see if it runs the same way twice. :-/ But you could install MXO 3 ways, and at least two of them use different folder pat...

I'm having this problem too, and upgrades are not the issue. I'm experiencing it with a Vista machine that is not only very powerful, I'm advanced enough to know which services I should/shouldn't disable for gaming. Everything runs beautif...

Same here: dual XFX 7950s in SLi on an ASUS A8N32 Deluxe motherboard deliver gorgeous graphics in MXO. I'm even relying on heatpipe technology for the video and it runs cool & quiet. One note--mind the wattage. My 7950s under full load rai...

Sometimes the account system can be problematic and/or seem confusing. If he gives them a call, they know the ins and outs. I've had to call twice and they've been very helpful for me. Let us know if he gets it worked out!

I had quite a cute one yesterday: typed in username/password, and when I clicked submit the page died. Hit the back button, tried again, and got "invalid username or password" Tried that a few times before noticing that at the top right of...

Good suggestion Havocide: Killing Superfetch seemed to have solved my problem. But if I start crashing again, I'll give Vista's compatibility mode a spin. The alternate launch profiles are a pretty useful feature, too: fixed a problem I wa...

That is impressive, Havocide: a Duo at 1.5 GHz running Vista pretty well. I blame that hefty cache of yours--that was a good pick. Phi, I remember those "good old days"--it was pretty awful. I thought I'd add that the last time we had conn...

These are all good specs, but if we are speaking in general terms, I will add a few more things I've discovered in recent weeks: If you're looking at Vista, it is a performance drain, and there are some issues, but MxO has really been the...

Unless one of the bigger brains around here (Phi?) suggests it, you don't have to do that AFAIC. I'm more curious about the guts and the OS: Your RAM, Video, if it's Vista SP1 (and if so, if it came shipped like that to you, or you put SP1...

You lucky devil! Would you be willing to share your specs? Include whether the machine came with SP1 or if you're running SP1 now? It'd be much appreciated. Thanks!

No big deal--I was just wondering. But if the performance sucks, who cares about fixing the look? Still, good to know all this, and thanks for posting the screen.

Vista is horrible, and I'm sorry to say that that is my experienced opinion. Anyhow, try doing this: If you're using the Matrix Online icon to launch the game, do the same thing: instead of clicking it to run, right-click it and choose "Ru...

Hey Phi: Heard you were ill - glad you're feeling better. Do you happen to know if any substantial changes were made to Vista SP1 between Beta and release? Just checking to see if it's worth the trouble to remove the (not very) old and ins...

Kuroidoragon wrote: Try installing XP Service Pack 3 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...;DisplayLang=en to fix bad RAM?

Hrm... 1) has been explained pretty well here: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300021674 and here: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300021407 2) Cinematics stopped working for me a long time ago (in XP), and I've nev...

I'll second that with this: When you buy legit, you get the support you need. I had a pair of OCZ sticks that was to upgrade an existing pair (go from 2 pair to 4). When the new pair turned out to have a bad stick, OCZ not only swapped the...

I dunno - that tie-dye effect has some potential! Just curious--because I am a curious person--in the settings, would that be the result of the over-bright filter? I'm wondering, if you haven't wiped that out already, if the effect would c...

I won't even begin to describe the Vista issues I've encountered outside of MXO...but I can confirm that I've been running SP1 for 3 weeks with no real change to MXO's appearance or performance. A video upgrade fixed most of my Dali-esque...

Might I suggest that this ties into the Vista issues already documented? Check out this thread: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300009145 Since "Sneak" affects your appearance, this might be triggering the bug(s) just the same...

RichardM is right that we would benefit from some system information (see the rules about posting your DXDiag at the top of the Forum), but in the meantime, one thing this does remind me of is firewall issues. Sometimes I'd get what you're...

By the way, to answer the question about controlling the clock speeds in an nVidia card: I don't know whether Coolbits is relevant any more because the nVidia Control Panel rolls up a lot of features and settings in it that you can use to...

AlphaCoder does make a good point--SOE might consider even a marginal increase to the budget--I can't imagine it's razor-thin if the whole thing was dumped in SOE's laps by Warner Brothers. Not my business, but I'd be surprised if MxO wasn...

9mmfu, you mention that an object coming into view may be the most likely cause. And it reminded me of something... Unlike textures, doors, NPCs & etc. perform actions. In other words, they move and animate in some way. Given what I've bee...

I have a Maxtor OneTouch II that I've been unhappy with. It was slow from day one and it's become very finicky over time, requiring multiple connections/attempts before showing up. Looking online, I'd discovered a lot of people with the sa...

Same here on both issues...on more than one machine, the sounds are just generally inconsistent. Some days it's just amazing the 3-D environmental effects and the clarity of the playback. Others, it's just me and the creepy sounds of my fo...

GypsyJuggler wrote: MXOWinterMute wrote: Any speculation to be had about the "Biological Interface" so far? I have some ideas, but would be interested to hear others' take on it first. It's the program that allowed Neo to have power over M...

Procurator wrote: Which bridges would those be? One of them is downtown: it has a toll booth in front of it, and slopes upward into the distance. I'd give you a screen grab if I weren't currently stuck on a Vista machine.

Any speculation to be had about the "Biological Interface" so far? I have some ideas, but would be interested to hear others' take on it first.

If I were the devs, I'd be giggling with glee at all the excitement this is producing. And...I'd be playing my cards close to my chest. I'm betting that for all our speculation, we find some interesting surprises when this area is finally...

Cool! Glad to hear it helped someone Incidentally, for those of you who recently migrated from the ATI world to nVidia...you *can* still use ATITool to adjust your settings on an nVidia card. The program does work. But I am not recommendin...

Symmetric, I don't know where you'd cadged Walrus' statement about working with Microsoft and nVidia, but it occurred to me they have another partner they may get some help from: ATI. I hope they know this/can get some cooperation, because...

Paige6 wrote: hmm I wish we could whip up something like a trick/treat setup...where all mission doors (doors inside buildings that normally go to instanced missions) would function as a trick-or-treat door instead when there's no mission...

Love 'em or hate 'em, I'm just pleased to be able to read a nice, reasonable discussion without having to wade through dozens of bad puns about "bump-mapping" and "pants" Nice job Rare--any content we get is always better than nothing.

I agree with you on that one MatrixRefugee...things need to be in context. Billboards don't sing (yet! thank god) in the Real, they need to not yammer for my attention in the Matrix: just the color palette will do, like with all static adv...

The 440 was compatible with MxO...briefly. That was my point, but Paige6 perhaps worded it better: if you're not feeling the love from the manufacturer, and you're desperate, you can try 3rd-party drivers. The worst that happens is you go...

On a side-tangent...I have a laptop with the most accursed of nVidia Cards, the geForce 440. I found that recklessly throwing away nVidia's drivers and installing Omega Drivers fixed a lot of the annoying compatibility problems that croppe...

Nicely done! One thing I might add: if you're going to replace the video card yourself, you can often confirm if it's compatible with your mobile hardware by looking up the form factor . Not the kind of thing you'll see in the sales brochu...

You're right that RAM makes a huge difference in overall game performance, but I'm not seeing where it would affect your network response time. But yes, all those background programs that use your bandwidth do affect lag: I run SIRadio on...

Roukan wrote: Walrus said the reason is because none of them know how to work the tool to make the old cinematics. You know, it makes me really sad to hear that. Just in general, nowhere I've ever worked and nothing I've ever worked on has...

By the way, without branching into a technical issues forum: has anyone noticed an oddity about the existing advertising? I have my draw distance set to full, and I'll see signs and billboards that show an ad (for real or bogus companies)....

I agree that CoH/CoV does a great job of managing the gaming experience, and the graphics run much better. I suspect MxO is limited by its own continuity: the world is supposed to be grays and greens. I'm glad you can turn off the green fi...

Oh, in case you're curious, here's a 4.8 out of 10: ASUS A8N32-SLi Deluxe motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ dual-core processor 3GB OCZ PC-3200 RAM, OC'd for performance 250GB SATA 2.0 (3GB/s) HD Dual gigabit Ethernet direct-connect to 8M...

Hiya Archy! It's just my 2 cents, but if I were in your shoes, I'd keep Vista on the laptop if it comes that way from Dell. First, laptop hardware is always shaky because they're trying to cram desktop performance into a smaller, more cust...

Probably because they've been (literally) all over the map in the Real lately: "It's a rather busy time for those of us on the Community Team. This summer has been chalked full of events from Block Party, to Fan Faire, to every Con imagina...

Thank you for telling us how you do your QA. I often wonder what goes on behind the scenes of an ongoing application like this, and it was nice to know you're doing pass/fail QA Testing. ^_^

Update: I think my problem may have been a leveling one. I've tried to replicate it in solo, groups higher than me or lower, and I'm not seeing the 1-point-damage loop. What was puzzling about it was that an IL session wouldn't start off t...

I've got to admit, at the very least a few official T-shirts would sell. Okay, so maybe I was dreaming a bit too high when I name-dropped some of the biggies...but still, I'm convinced there are some companies who might be willing to throw...

I think what you all are saying really expands the potential here. We know that Syntax, Vector and Recursion are our "servers", but the truth of the matter is that there are many physical and/or virtual boxes behind managing each of these...

Good thinking Raviola! They don't even need to be enhanced or buffed, so long as they bling nicely

I've been reading a lot about in-game advertising lately, and I thought we could use this thread to post our thoughts. At this time, the impression I get is that MXO is understaffed because it's underfunded. More sponsorship would mean mor...

Thanks for the suggestions! I will give that a try. It may be that it's switching me around in the background--after all, I know some techniques are supposed to auto-switch: if I drop a Static Blast, I should be switched to Hacker, and Low...

I think the fix for this is easier than that: just call up a prompt: Invite [person-name] to Crew? The user understands that this particular action is a big deal; can't imagine them griping about one extra click, given all the trouble it s...

Um, don't worry--it's not "abuse". It's supposed to work that way. The /radio command also contains switches to let you name your favorite stations so you can call them back up again at any time. ^_^

I agree with Darkhawk that those cinematics aren't working. They just don't strike me as "Frank Miller arty"--they simply look rushed and cheap. Sorry if that sounds mean--I know someone put effort in on them, but the end product just remi...

Mendelevius, I wish we could get a mood like that avatar of yours--but I've got a feeling /mood johnnycash would be a little too complex to program. Sorry--couldn't resist: here we are in a thread on mood emotes, and that pic's got some se...