Not a good CoH day for me yesterday …
- I took the standard Fifth Level Face Plant yesterday. Four levels, no problems, no deaths, competent character build and lots of downed bad guys. Fifth level, inevitably, the introduction to debt.
In this case, the first death (yes, there were more than one) came as the phone rang just as I ran in to attack an orange Lost in Kings Row. Ring, ring, ring, damn, damn, damn, kick, kick, run to grab the phone, get back, red health, crap, run, run, run, run, draw stray shot from someone, down.
*sigh*
It was, at least, someone I wanted to talk to (Margie).
The second one happened way too soon after that. Oh, look, Vahzilok, white and blue, no sweat, jump, kick, kick, kick, kick, hell, vomit, vomit, vomit, yellow, orange, ongoing toxic damage, run, run, eat concrete.
At which point it was time to grab some dinner for an evening meeting I needed to attend. - Got back from the meeting, sat down, decided to run Torchielle with Margie’s Amorpha. No probs. Headed off for a mish, got to the door, went in.
Torchielle runs over to the first corridor, peers down, sees a couple of blues. Nice. “Are you joining me?” I ask Margie.
“I’m right here.”
“Where?”
“Right around the corner here.”
Run back. She’s not there. Run back to the entrance, she’s still standing there.
“I meant, join me in the corridor where those guys are.”
“I’m right there, don’t you see me?”
At which point we got lost mapserver messages (explaining the odd situation) and were down and out, watching the cable modem reset, reset, reset, on, down, reset, reset, reset …
We’ve been having CM probs again. Tech came out yesterday, but the service was up and they didn’t see any problems. Margie — who has the Comcast number memorized now — got on the phone and called Comcast again. She talked to a very nice CSR, went over the recent history, and he promised he was going to escalate it.
How nice.
So we went to bed. Which was probably good anyways, since I was dog tired. Too bad I didn’t feel I’d gotten anything accomplished, CoH-wise, before doing so.
ok…that explains the sudden disaperance you two made.
Yup.
Another definition of frustration is finally tracking down the reason your framerate dropped to 1.8 fps, only to start getting mapserver disconnects every two minutes. >sigh
One thing that I’ve noticed over the past several days is that the system is having some graphics issues.
For me it started the day after the pre-emptive issue #4 download. Lots of rubberbanding, and herki-jerkiness at times. It was really bad after 10:00pm wednesday night, or for the first 15 minutes after loging on.
Also, the /fpsrate and /netgraph commands only give me a 0 whenever I use them to check things out.
Though, Avo has had it the worst over the past few days.
We’ve had a moderate number of discos, though the cable modem is still the number one suspect (and positively convicted in more than one case).
Makes me wonder, though, if there are some bugs in the Issue 4 code. We’ll see.
Your post made me suspect my modem. I called Charter tech support, and the guy was shocked to hear that I was using a Com21 modem; they had upgraded three years ago. So I traded it in for a cable modem that was made in this century. Now I’m not only staying connected, but the lag and rubberbanding seem to have been eliminated as well!
Now I need to save up to upgrade my video card.