Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Grr, Performance issues
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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!

  • 11.24.2004 7:48 AM PDT
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Unfortunately I can only recommend freeing up some hard drive space, maybe a defrag aswell but you'll need 15% free space to do that. It's possible such a busy hard drive could cause lag, I'm not sure what else it could be since your system seems powerful enough. Get back to us if that doesn't work.

  • 11.24.2004 9:10 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

I have a Creative Soundlbaster Audigy Gamer, and I must say, the drivers for soundblaster series ain't very good... I find that webupdate2 the best for my card... you might have to roll back soundcard drivers, I find if you don't install the other stuff, and just the drivers, that helps too....

  • 11.24.2004 8:59 PM PDT
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You've made sure everything that you don't need is not running? Check the task manager? Make sure your tool bar is as empty as possible?

If you've already done this, nevermind!

  • 11.25.2004 9:45 PM PDT
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hard drive might be fraged up, defrag it, and also try another stick of ram

the computer is a very powerful and yet odd tool. You can have many many combinations of parts in it, which can come to a different conclusion to even equivelent parts that you may have.

try playing around with your catalyst drivers, i have the same card and everything is just kick ass.

also if your monitor is small like 16 or 17 inch, just put your res on 800 600, seriously you wont see a difference with the resolution if you have a small monitor :)

  • 11.26.2004 4:47 PM PDT