- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Like others, i'm getting laggy performance on Halo. It seems to be connected with my sound performance, and when i turn the sound options up to full my sound goes very crackly and seems to get lower quality. I'm running the game at 1027 x 768 (1290 proved smooth in some places but unplayable when the screen got busy), with my sound options turned down to medium, hardware off, all other visual effects on. When things start getting frantic (like the opening of truth and reconciliation), my framerate drops and my sound 'lags'. I'd only think it was performance related, except this sound lag can occur without framerate drops, which is just plain confusing! heres some specs:
Athlon XP 2800+
MSI K7N2 Delta motherboard
ATI Radeon 9600 XT 128 MB
Soundblaster Live! (i think 16 bit, not a flashy one)
512 MB DDR400 PC3200 Kingston Ram
60 gig HD with about 2 gig free!
5.1 speakers
Nothing overclocked, all my drivers are up to date, and i can't really see why i'd be having a problem on a machine with these kind of specs. any help much appreciated folks!