- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Your right in fixing yourself up with the 2GB. As far as I can tell, thats the best investment option you have at the moment. Windows has always been a a RAM hog, and Vista is particularly enhanced with 1GB+.
Your graphics situation (PCI and the like), worries me a bit. An X1300 is descent in many respects, but I expect H2-Vista to be a bit sluggish (port'ed software, modern enhancements and all). I could be wrong however, Halo 2 was an original Xbox game after all - not 360. I would expect that 800x600 would run "OK" with most settings up to a "Functional" level *(by functional I mean textures and lighting being displayed correctly - perhaps not the higher quality versions, but by no means dumbed down from the Xbox version i.e. How Halo:CE would behave when running the lower settings. You know just bad.)
If I were you I would go ahead and prepare for the possibility of a not so enjoyable presentation with your current setup. And no I don't run off elite specs - I only use an X1600 myself and am generally concerned about how my own experience will be.
Bus Timeline
1)A shameful disgrace
2)PCI (out of the primordial soup, at last!)
3)AGP (Graphics Only)
4)PCI-E (too late in the game, other devices needed it earlier - now they've gone and ruined things...well at least it's here anyway.)
[Edited on 04.08.2007 1:34 PM PDT]