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Posted by: Iggwilv

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Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

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  • 07.17.2007 1:44 PM PDT
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Yeah I know what you guys are saying, and it seems we all do agree that Vista is not the worst ever (by a long shot, as I said i believe XP had a worse launch) and that eventually it will be a much better OS more Viable for pretty much everyone.

Posted by: Shdwsnipa
As for anyone complaining about how slow it is, I can say this and this only: YOUR COMPUTER IS THE ONE THAT'S SLOW, NOT THE OS.


It's hard for me to put into words. First let me say that yes, you are right. Their computers don't exactly leap over the min sys specs for Vista.
XP, after how long it has been out, is now a lightweight operating system. The crappiest systems on the market can run XP quickly and with little to no problems. Since I have a pretty High end computer, I'm used to my OS booting in very quickly, and being able to have system resources to spare for all my applications.
People aren't used to Vista. It pulls on your computer harder, takes longer to boot, even when you have more than the minimum the fact is it's GOING to boot slower than XP because it's larger and more elaborate. This doesn't mean it's loose code, it means that when you make something more complicated it's going to show even with High-end computers.
Which brings us back to the "wait and see" argument. Eventually the boot times for Vista will be lowered because of better computers, and although it will still be longer than if you had the same system with XP people will accept it because by then Vista will be the standard.

For the record though, my neighbor has a Core 2 duo Laptop (I can't remember the exact model of the proc though it was a store bought so it's probably pretty low) with 2gb of RAM. She can run Vista very well. Boot times aren't great but when you're actually using it there's only about half a second lag when she's running two or three things at the same time.

  • 07.17.2007 2:14 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

I don't even have a core 2 duo system but I can run 3 games at one time on Vista, including H2V, and they all run fine. I also only have 2 GBs of ram, the weak-link in vista is you.

  • 07.17.2007 3:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: CrinnyCow
I was just wondering why not so many people play this game. I bought it thinking the online community would be somewhat strong but I have never seen any more than 57 servers online and less than half had people in them and even less than that had a playable amount of people in them. Halo 1 has more servers than this every day! So...why aren't people playing!?

Edit: Do you think it will get better? as in do you think more people will start playing anytime soon?

I don't usually play the full thing online as I don't have the time or space to lug around the cd everywhere and install it.
So I use the demo after having bought the game to support bungie.

I usually do a game every week or three. and mine are always called (O) the Zone.

and before everyone asks why I do the demo online-
More people, more stable, 2 minutes download, install, setup and start playing.
the only time i use the full thing is for lan parties.

  • 07.17.2007 6:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: CrinnyCow
I was just wondering why not so many people play this game. I bought it thinking the online community would be somewhat strong but I have never seen any more than 57 servers online and less than half had people in them and even less than that had a playable amount of people in them. Halo 1 has more servers than this every day! So...why aren't people playing!?

Edit: Do you think it will get better? as in do you think more people will start playing anytime soon?

I don't usually play the full thing online as I don't have the time or space to lug around the cd everywhere and install it.
So I use the demo after having bought the game to support bungie.

I usually do a game every week or three. and mine are always called (O) the Zone.

and before everyone asks why I do the demo online-
More people, more stable, 2 minutes download, install, setup and start playing.
the only time i use the full thing is for lan parties.


The cd's not that heavy. Get a second drive.

The full version has more people. And it's better as far as lag goes. Demo has no dedicated servers I don't think.

  • 07.17.2007 6:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: staticx576
I don't even have a core 2 duo system but I can run 3 games at one time on Vista, including H2V, and they all run fine. I also only have 2 GBs of ram, the weak-link in vista is you.


Except this is quite flawed, because tasks that don't require memory at that point in time will be shifted to the page file and allow RAM to be used elsewhere.

Also, most games during SP will pause when they aren't in the foreground thus pretty much freeing up any CPU time they were using. :)

If you can actually play all three games in the foreground at the same time, let me know. ;D

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Posted by: staticx576
I don't even have a core 2 duo system but I can run 3 games at one time on Vista, including H2V, and they all run fine. I also only have 2 GBs of ram, the weak-link in vista is you.


I Don't get it. First, btcc is right you can have those minimized and they don't take up a lot of CPU cycles.
Second, are you trying to say that my presence makes the OS slower? I'm relatively positive that's not possible.

  • 07.17.2007 9:44 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

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Except this is quite flawed, because tasks that don't require memory at that point in time will be shifted to the page file and allow RAM to be used elsewhere.

Not all the time.
Posted by: Btcc22
Also, most games during SP will pause when they aren't in the foreground thus pretty much freeing up any CPU time they were using. :)

Thats downright wrong, I am typing this right now with H2V using CPU running just fine in the background.
Posted by: Btcc22
If you can actually play all three games in the foreground at the same time, let me know. ;D

No but they still run in the background, some do at least. ;D

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I Don't get it. First, btcc is right you can have those minimized and they don't take up a lot of CPU cycles.

Btcc said minimized, I didn't ;)
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Second, are you trying to say that my presence makes the OS slower? I'm relatively positive that's not possible.


You know exactly what I am saying, you don't know what you are doing, thats why it is slow.



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  • 07.17.2007 10:27 PM PDT
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That STILL makes no sense. I don't care if I have an IQ of five, it doesn't make the OS slower.

  • 07.17.2007 10:52 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

No but installing stupid -blam!- and not maintaining your installation certainly does. The best computer in the world can't make up for a bad user. It's just like I am not going to kid myself saying I can program like John Carmack just because my IQ is over 5.

  • 07.17.2007 11:03 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

It's O K fred_mognet, if you can't type in coherent English I don't expect you to be able to operate a computer.

I still don't get why the reading comprehension is so bad here. I NEVER said I had the games minimized when I was running them.

[Edited on 07.18.2007 1:39 AM PDT]

  • 07.18.2007 1:35 AM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

DP :(

[Edited on 07.18.2007 1:39 AM PDT]

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Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Posted by: fred_mognet
I could agree with u, not that i have used it but i have heard a lotta bad things about it...
But XP ill say will not die out anytime soon...

Fred you cheating bastard, I remember you. You used to use your lag to keep the flag from everyone on the Bungie servers for the entire game. Go to hell.

  • 07.18.2007 3:23 AM PDT
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Oh, and Vista does NOT boot slower. Quite the opposite in fact. I get a login prompt and desktop screen much faster on my Vista system than I do on my XP system. Of course I DO have a system designed to actually RUN Vista.

I worked on someone's new Toshiba laptop yesterday that was running Vista. It booted VERY slowly. The reason why? It only had 512M of RAM. Did it run with that? Yes, but again it ran really slow. I don't know why retailers sell systems with Vista on them without the proper amount of resources. It's things like that that make people think that Vista is a slow crappy OS.

So that shows that with the proper resources Vista is a good operating system and actually out performs XP.

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Posted by: n357
Fred you cheating bastard, I remember you. You used to use your lag to keep the flag from everyone on the Bungie servers for the entire game. Go to hell.


Hmmm I might have banned him from our servers too. I remember some guy that walked into the base, picked up the flag, got in a ghost and drove back and scored. All the while two tanks, a shee, a couple of ghosts and many rockets hit him with no affect.

  • 07.18.2007 6:43 AM PDT
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Like so many people said, who's gonna pay a lot of money just to play Halo 2? Besides, all those features like auto-aimers (whatever they're called) in game really can kill the game unless there's a patch to block it.

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Posted by: CrinnyCow
I was just wondering why not so many people play this game. I bought it thinking the online community would be somewhat strong but I have never seen any more than 57 servers online and less than half had people in them and even less than that had a playable amount of people in them. Halo 1 has more servers than this every day! So...why aren't people playing!?

Edit: Do you think it will get better? as in do you think more people will start playing anytime soon?

I don't usually play the full thing online as I don't have the time or space to lug around the cd everywhere and install it.
So I use the demo after having bought the game to support bungie.

I usually do a game every week or three. and mine are always called (O) the Zone.

and before everyone asks why I do the demo online-
More people, more stable, 2 minutes download, install, setup and start playing.
the only time i use the full thing is for lan parties.


The cd's not that heavy. Get a second drive.

The full version has more people. And it's better as far as lag goes. Demo has no dedicated servers I don't think.


ALready having had 2 of them lost/or stolen has dampened my enthusiam for hauling my games around everywhere, Is also part of the equation.

On dedicated demo servers:
You can download a dedicated server application. It's generally not used from what I've seen.

on how many people:
Dunno almost everytime i've done the full thing online my games have hardly ever gotten more than 4 people. SO if there's more online using the full version perhaps its all the different gametypes going on where as in the demo there are only 2 so it funnels people (and would seem like more)

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Posted by: CrinnyCow
I was just wondering why not so many people play this game. I bought it thinking the online community would be somewhat strong but I have never seen any more than 57 servers online and less than half had people in them and even less than that had a playable amount of people in them. Halo 1 has more servers than this every day! So...why aren't people playing!?

Edit: Do you think it will get better? as in do you think more people will start playing anytime soon?

I don't think a small amount of servers is the problem. I thought we were going to be able to play ranked games against 360 gamers, but noooooo.

  • 07.18.2007 3:40 PM PDT