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Subject: The Official Halo 2 Vista "Will it Run?" Thread!
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if you can play some of the newer games out at the moment then you should have no problems with halo 2, its not up there with f.e.a.r, or oblivion in graphical greatness. remember this is a port from a console so it will likely be crap anyways. i am a fan of the first but ive seen so many ports from console to pc turn out -blam!-. resident evil 4 was good on the gamecube, but when it was released for pc it didnt even have mouse support, what kind of idiotic company does that. a pc needs a mouse so why not have support for it in a game. -blam!- absolute -blam!-. i just hope microsoft has updated everything for halo 2, because when it came out for the xbox (november 9th 2004) it was visually stunning, for the xbox anyway. but those graphics then will not cut it in todays pc market, so i hope they have done their homework.

heres hoping!!!

  • 05.13.2007 3:36 AM PDT
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I have an AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 Processor, would that meet the minimum requirements? Also, on vista, what is the video card listed under on the device manager?

  • 05.13.2007 12:04 PM PDT
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There's no "video card" category on the device manager. That's what I'm asking, what category it's under.

  • 05.13.2007 12:13 PM PDT
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Motheboard: GIGABYTE GA-N680SLI-DQ6 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX
Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Kentsfield 2.66GHz OCed to 3.3 Ghz
Memory: 8 GB ( mushkin 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel 4-3-3-10)
Hard drive: 4 x Fujitsu MAX3147NC 147GB 15,000 RPM 8MB Cache
Power supply: Thermaltake Toughpower W0133RU ATX12V / EPS12V 1200W Power Supply
Sound card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz
Monitor: 2 x SAMSUNG SyncMaster 305T Black 30" 6ms
Video card: 2 x EVGA 768-P2-N881-AR GeForce 8800Ultra 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 running at 700/2400

WILL IT RUN LOLZ?

  • 05.13.2007 1:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: got milk12
Motheboard: GIGABYTE GA-N680SLI-DQ6 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX
Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Kentsfield 2.66GHz OCed to 3.3 Ghz
Memory: 8 GB ( mushkin 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel 4-3-3-10)
Hard drive: 4 x Fujitsu MAX3147NC 147GB 15,000 RPM 8MB Cache
Power supply: Thermaltake Toughpower W0133RU ATX12V / EPS12V 1200W Power Supply
Sound card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz
Monitor: 2 x SAMSUNG SyncMaster 305T Black 30" 6ms
Video card: 2 x EVGA 768-P2-N881-AR GeForce 8800Ultra 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 running at 700/2400

WILL IT RUN LOLZ?


Excuse me, I have to go change my underpants.

  • 05.13.2007 1:48 PM PDT
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LOL, in case you didn't infer it from the post, I don't have that computer. XD

I was just bored, and decided to mess with people's heads. And I wanted to bump the topic.

My actual computer is

Motherboard: ECS KN1 Extreme
Processor: AMD 64 4000+ (939 socket) NOT the dual-core OCed from 2.4 to 2.5 GHz (whoooooo)
Memory: 2 GB [PC 3200 : ( ]
Sound card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE (Hey, it's better than on-board.)
Video card: XFX 7900 GS running at 550/742

I know how it will run it, though. Probably at a 1280 x 1024 with med-high settings.

[Edited on 05.13.2007 2:02 PM PDT]

  • 05.13.2007 1:52 PM PDT

I'm going to buy a new laptop and was thinking of an HP model but wanted to make sure it would run H2 Vista. Are these specs enough?

-AMD Turion™ 64 X2 mobile technology TL-52* (1.6GHz processor speed)
-1GB DDR2 SDRAM
-Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive
-160GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm)
-NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 (UMA) graphics with up to 288MB shared video memory
-Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition

Here is the website if you need more info: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8293483&typ e=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat103700050019&id=117 2880154277

Thanks

  • 05.13.2007 4:32 PM PDT
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'm going to buy a new laptop and was thinking of an HP model but wanted to make sure it would run H2 Vista. Are these specs enough?

-AMD Turion™ 64 X2 mobile technology TL-52* (1.6GHz processor speed)
-1GB DDR2 SDRAM
-Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive
-160GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm)
-NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 (UMA) graphics with up to 288MB shared video memory
-Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition

Here is the website if you need more info: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8293483&typ e=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat103700050019&id=117 2880154277

Thanks


Yes, but with that graphics card it's going to be terrible.

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I'm going to buy a new laptop and was thinking of an HP model but wanted to make sure it would run H2 Vista. Are these specs enough?

-AMD Turion™ 64 X2 mobile technology TL-52* (1.6GHz processor speed)
-1GB DDR2 SDRAM
-Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive
-160GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm)
-NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 (UMA) graphics with up to 288MB shared video memory
-Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition

Here is the website if you need more info: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8293483&typ e=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat103700050019&id=117 2880154277

Thanks


Yes, but with that graphics card it will be terrible. I mean really terrible.

EDIT: Sorry for the double post.

For $999, this Alienware will perform, much better than that HP.

[Edited on 05.13.2007 4:54 PM PDT]

  • 05.13.2007 4:45 PM PDT

If I bought that HP laptop but customized it with a better video card, which one would you recommend?

I also looked at a Dell with the same specs except for a ATI RADEON® Xpress1150 256MB HyperMemory. Is that good?

Another Dell has a 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7300 TurboCache. I don't know the differences. Could someone shed some light on which card I should look into? And are the specs of the HP model enough to run Halo normally? (except for video card)

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Mmm, that's a tough question. What's your laptop budget?

  • 05.13.2007 5:24 PM PDT

I want one for under $900. I updated/edited the post you replied to. Check it out and please reply again.
Thanks

[Edited on 05.13.2007 5:27 PM PDT]

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Is the middle one on this page the Dell you were talking about? If so, that will certainly be your best bet for under $900, but $900 can't get you much as far as gaming capable laptops go. Also note that that laptop has Windows Vista Basic. Of course, you can upgrade to Premium, but that will put you a little over the $900 mark. So will upgrading the video card to the Raedon X1400, but those are two inexpensive upgrades I highly recommend.

You will be able to run Halo 2 on that laptop, and it will run better than on that HP you listed, but it still won't be pretty at all. It will run Halo PC just fine.

[Edited on 05.13.2007 5:53 PM PDT]

  • 05.13.2007 5:38 PM PDT
Subject: The Official Halo 2 Vista "Will it Run?" Thread! *Mega-Up...

Posted by: halochimp1990


Let's take a look at the Minimum Requirements for a minute, shall we?

OS: Windows Vista
Processor: 2 Ghz Pentium 4 class processor (or x64)
RAM: 1 GB
Hard Drive: 7 GB
Video Card: DX9 graphics card: WDDM driver, PS 2.0/32BPP, At least nVidia 6000 or ATI x700 or above
Online Multi-player: Internet connection for Games for Windows – LIVE
Drive: DVD-ROM drive


b][/i][/u]


Those are the reccomended.
Mininum is:
800MHz processor
512MB RAM
CD-ROM Drive
Super VGA Graphics
20GB HDD with 15GB Free

Forget it.

[Edited on 05.13.2007 6:17 PM PDT]

  • 05.13.2007 5:51 PM PDT

NM

  • 05.13.2007 6:16 PM PDT
Subject: The Official Halo 2 Vista "Will it Run?" Thread!
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Posted by: halochimp1990


Let's take a look at the Minimum Requirements for a minute, shall we?

OS: Windows Vista
Processor: 2 Ghz Pentium 4 class processor (or x64)
RAM: 1 GB
Hard Drive: 7 GB
Video Card: DX9 graphics card: WDDM driver, PS 2.0/32BPP, At least nVidia 6000 or ATI x700 or above
Online Multi-player: Internet connection for Games for Windows – LIVE
Drive: DVD-ROM drive


b][/i][/u]


Those are the reccomended.
Mininum is:
800MHz processor
512MB RAM
CD-ROM Drive
Super VGA Graphics
20GB HDD with 15GB Free

Forget it.


Look in the stickies...they say that is the minimum requirements for HALO 2 VISTA!!! You posted the minimum for Vista, which blows. Please people read this thoroughly.

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There's no "video card" category on the device manager. That's what I'm asking, what category it's under.


Read the below. I have it posted at the very beginning of the thread. Go by which ever OS you have.

HOW TO CHECK PROCESSOR SPEED, AMOUNT OF RAM, AND GRAPHICS CARD

Windows XP: by clicking start --> Control Panel --> System
To view your graphics/video card stats in the same system window click the hardware tab --> Device Manager --> Display Apapters...This will only give you your graphics/video card name, so you will probably have to search the intertrons (internet for the noobs) or intel/amds site for integrated graphics controllers.

It should say something along the lines of... 2.8Ghz 2.79Ghz Intel Pentium 4 Processor, (underneath that), 2 Gigs ddr2 pc-4200 ram
Those are my specs, thats not what you will see!!! (Unless you have the exact same pc components that i do...)
*Note: I don't have XP on my computer anymore, I have Vista, but thats what it should be like.

Windows Vista (any version): You can check this by clicking the Vista Orb --> Type System in the Search bar --> Click System Information...
After you click system information a window should pop-up. Give it some time to load your pcs specs. Please note that Vista goes into detail about your PC specs. Look for your processor and total physical memory in the window that first pops up. Then click components --> Display and look at Adapter Type (ex. GeForce 6600), Adapter Description (ex. NVIDIA GeForce 6600), and Adapter Ram(ex. 256.00MB) .


I thought what I wrote was pretty self explanatory? So, I wrote this thread to help people out...it has helped about 80% of the people here...while others still respond with odd questions...i was banned for a few days so i guess people weren't able to read my thing. All i can say is...

READ THE STICKIES
READ WHAT I WROTE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THREAD
USE YOUR BRAIN...that is all :)


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  • 05.13.2007 6:56 PM PDT
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Ok, thanks, apparently I have Raedon Xpress 200m series... display, I guess. There's nothing under adapter type, but I'm going out on a limb and guessing that what I have it bad...

And for some reason, when I checked your first post on how to figure out what I had, you were blacklisted or something.

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Yeah, i got myself banned for a few days there, but its over. Anyhow, i don't know very much about mobile graphics chips/cards, but im pretty sure thats an integrated version. You might want to look it up in the manual that came with your computer or check the manufacturer's site. You can also check in windows, but it won't go into super detail and things such as pixel pipelines.

That's the other thing. Your graphics card could have 256mbs ram, but it may only have 4 - 8 pixel pipelines. They are what draws the graphics, obviously the more you have the easier it is for you to draw the graphics on your screen. Higher resolutions call for more pixels :)

  • 05.14.2007 12:28 PM PDT

I have completely no clue when it comes to computer hardware. I was looking into a laptop under $900 that would run H2 Vista and came across a dell laptop with these specs. From looking at some earlier posts I have gathered that it would probably run on this computer, but I don't know if the processor or video card is fast enough. It would be great if someone could clarify how well the game would run.


Intel® Core™ DUO T2350 (1.86GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ, 2 DIMM
120GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7300 TurboCache*

  • 05.14.2007 2:48 PM PDT
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Hows This
OS: Windows 95
CPU: Intel 80486 @ 65mhz
Ram: 32 MB
HDD: 2GB

do i need to upgrade to run halo 2 vista?!?!?!
/sarcasam

@ post above me ya it will run Halo 2

  • 05.14.2007 5:24 PM PDT
Subject: The Official Halo 2 Vista "Will it Run?" Thread! *Mega-Up...
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So, here are my current specs, how well do you think i'll fare with the new Halo 2 Vista??

CPU: Pentium 4 2.4 mhz
RAM: 2 gigs PC3200
OS: Vista Ultimate Edition
GRAPHICS: ATI Radeon X1600 Pro. AGP interface, 512megs DDR2 memory
Hardrive space: over 600 gigs free.

I have been thinking about upgrading the processor to a pentium 4 3.4EE mhz chip. I just haven't gotten around to doing it.

I can run halo 1 in full resolution with no problem. I have a 22" widescreen monitor. So I run it with the resolution cranked up. Command & Conquer 3 runs great on my machine. UT2004 runs like a dream.

  • 05.15.2007 10:16 AM PDT
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Posted by: Sardonnicus
UT2004 runs like a dream.


UT2K4 runs like a dream on all computers, it even ran on all high settings on my old geforce 6200. That game was highly optimized to run very well on PC computers, H2V is not.

With your rig, I'm guessing it will run on medium settings. Even at medium setting, and relatively high resolution, you should enjoy the graphics as it will still be better than the xbox version.

  • 05.15.2007 10:54 AM PDT
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Posted by: Fake

UT2K4 runs like a dream on all computers, it even ran on all high settings on my old geforce 6200. That game was highly optimized to run very well on PC computers, H2V is not.

With your rig, I'm guessing it will run on medium settings. Even at medium setting, and relatively high resolution, you should enjoy the graphics as it will still be better than the xbox version.


Maybe thats why it's one of my all time favorite FPS's. I'll be building a new PC in the next 6 months or so.

  • 05.15.2007 11:18 AM PDT
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What's up guys, Will this -blam!- run?

VIsta Premium
AMD 64 X2 3800+ (2Ghz)
1Gig PC6400 DDR2 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 256MB
160 GB HD
DVD Drive

  • 05.15.2007 8:59 PM PDT