City of Heroes

What works

* Ultra-mode graphics (but see notes)
* Most, but not all, old-style graphics settings
* Vertical sync in fullscreen mode
* Multithreaded rendering
* Sound
* The Icon offline gameplay launcher

What does not

* The "Depth of Field Effects", "Bloom", and "Desaturation Effects" settings are all disabled
* Vertical sync in windowed mode

Workarounds

What was not tested

* Online gameplay
* Hardware PhysX
* Installation (see notes)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Performance with high settings for "Ambient Occlusion" or "Shadow Quality" was abysmal (seconds per frame). I don't know how much of this is due to having an underpowered graphics card, how much is due to low Wine performance, and how much is due to the reams of debug information that the Nouveau driver prints to the console. Installation from official sources is no longer possible and was not tested. Test results are provided for people who have kept their copy of the City of Heroes client and are using the unofficial Icon launcher for offline gameplay. Tested with the Nouveau 1.0.4 driver, Mesa 9.1.2, libtxc_dxtn 1.0.1. See other reports for the closed-source Nvidia and ATI drivers.

Information courtesy of Dan.

"There seems to be an issue currently with the ingame resolution options. If you change them, then click apply, it will reset the resolution back to before you changed it and tell you to restart. When you restart, the resolution won't have changed. To get it to change you have to set it to the correct resolution, apply, set it again, and then quit the game with the options menu still open."