- Shadow2
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heres another solution, click start, run, type in "msconfig" then go in the services tab, check "hide all microsoft programs" and uncheck everything, even video drivers and anti viruses (they will still run, just without control panels) now click the startup tab, and unselect everything there too, now goto start > programs > accessories > system tools > disk defragmenter, run that and defragment the drive that halo 2 is installed, when that is finished, restart and run halo 2, set resolution to 800x600, set refresh rate to your highest your monitor can support (this doesn't affect performance, but it would feel like it is running faster the higher it is) set graphics to lowest, turn off AA, then go into audio settings, set sound do headphones or 2 speakers (dunno which one uses less processing power) and finally run halo 2, but alt+tab out of it and ctrl+alt+delete to run the task manager, then find halo2.exe or whatever its called, right click it, and set priority to high or real time (don't know which one would be better) also, if you can close as many processes running on vista without actually crashing the system that would be great, because i know vista averages and runs like 50+ processes, and xp only uses about 20
[Edited on 06.10.2007 10:47 PM PDT]