Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Just got H2V and it's broken? Help?
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I just walked into JB Hi-Fi in Chatswood (Sydney, Australia) and saw Halo 2 for vista. "Sweet, I didn't think this was out..." Picked it up. Tryed to install it and it gave me this:

"The graphics driver on this computer is out of date. You should update the graphics driver on this computer before running Halo 2 for Windows Vista. You may experience problems running Halo 2 for Windows Vista if you choose to continue without updating.

Your computer's graphics driver version information:

Driver name: nvd3dum.dll
Driver version: 7.15.10.9746

Please click the link below to obtain an updated driver from the manufacturer's website."

Now that wouldn't be an issue if my drivers actually were out of date. So anyway, I tried running it regardless of the error message and found it at first to run extremely smooth, then a new cutscene kicked in and it became broken at about 1 frame per 20 seconds with heaps of sound overlapping and then when the game started it continued to run at a broken level. I figured "hey maybe I just have the graphics too high", so i put it all down to lowest and then it worked fine for awhile. Almost too fine actually, maybe it was just the extra fps but it felt too fast, like it was slightly sped up, and had continual jitters. Then a cut scene kicked in and everything went straight to -blam!- again. So I got sick of it and went looking for a cure.

So I look for some patch only to find a lot of people angry at delays. So I'm guessing no one here can really help me out with this little problem?

  • 05.20.2007 7:06 AM PDT
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Oh and my computer is an Athlon 64 3700 2.2ghz, with a gforce 7900gt and a gig of ram.

  • 05.20.2007 7:09 AM PDT
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Posted by: Anton P Nym
who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

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Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

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Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

Go to Nvidia's website and double check. If it still gives you the message after the double check, then you could try the latest beta drivers.

  • 05.20.2007 7:17 AM PDT
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the good ol double check, it's worth a shot

  • 05.20.2007 7:20 AM PDT
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97.46 is pretty old, around January 2007. The latest is 158.18 so updating to the newest drivers would certainly be the first step.

TJS

  • 05.20.2007 10:11 AM PDT

Gaming Systems:
Intel Core i7 720QM (4 cores, 8 threads)
4Gb DDR3-1333mhz
1Gb AMD Radeon HD 4650
Windows 7 64bit

Xbox 360 w/ 20Gb HDD (2008 edition) & XBL Gold.

Yea i'd just download the latest drivers, regardless of being beta. I use them with no problems at all!

  • 05.20.2007 10:29 AM PDT

Hi, can someone please give me the exact link to update the driver :Driver name: nvd3dum and i am running windows vista ultimate, 32bit. there is only the update for windows xp 256MB NVIDIA® GeForceā„¢ Go 7900 GS , i need it for vista

[Edited on 06.04.2007 11:44 AM PDT]

  • 06.04.2007 11:38 AM PDT
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The new drivers came out june 1st. I have no issues with vista besides crappy performance.

  • 06.04.2007 12:56 PM PDT

can u give me the link please? its june 4th and i want to play halo 2 good

  • 06.04.2007 3:11 PM PDT

o never mind i got it, thanks for the help anyways, sorrry :(

  • 06.04.2007 3:16 PM PDT