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Subject: Does Halo 2 for Windows Vista work well for you?
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Runs on any mode, any resolution, top settings, no problems.

What daddies baby wants, daddies baby gets eh?

Actually, I worked for it and earned the money to assemble it myself. I got some really good buys and overall used parts that are high-quality but not tops, and got surprisingly amazing results. I like to call it a budget high-end system that runs just about anything put into it. It won't run Crysis, I'm sure (need Video Card / RAM upgrades, potentially a better processor), but for the time being it's just about near-perfect. =D And I didn't spend near $8000, either... I may have gotten close to scraping $2000, and that's a maybe. I'm thinking around $1800 though my memory's a bit fuzzy, built it about a year ago.

  • 08.28.2007 12:27 AM PDT
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The game it self is good and fun but a lot of people come on with poor connections and causes lag.

  • 08.28.2007 1:19 AM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

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

Posted by: Scarlet Crusade
Actually, I worked for it and earned the money to assemble it myself. I got some really good buys and overall used parts that are high-quality but not tops, and got surprisingly amazing results.

This is what I did, but my Halo 2 experience isn't very good.

  • 08.28.2007 5:57 AM PDT
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The game runs smoothly on my system after the appropriate upgrades; however, I do get the occassional lag while playing online but that's probably from my ISP.

  • 08.28.2007 9:42 AM PDT
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H2V works very well on my PC. However the problem I have is with my internet connection. Depending on the day/month/time/temperature or any random factor my ISP uses, (Virgin Media UK), the performance is either good or total cr*p, mostly the latter.
Vista needs lots of ram, and also some of the services can be disabled for additional performance. Vista will never be as good as XP on the same platform, as it has many DRM related services and 'features'. These constantly check everything from disk, to video, to see if any thing is trying to circumvent DRM. I read an excellent article several months ago about this and if I find it again I will post the URL. If read, you will see exactly what is using all the Vista power, and none of it is for your use !!

  • 08.28.2007 10:15 AM PDT
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works just like any other game i have played on my pc.but the only problem i get is when changeing the resolution it would f.uck up,but i think that has something to do with the nivida graphics card update cause it would never do that until i updated it.

  • 08.28.2007 12:07 PM PDT

Long live the Last Refuge!

it works real good online but when i take it offline it's a little laggy

  • 09.04.2007 2:18 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

H2V runs fine, but actually not really. I mean, *sigh*, have you guys played Bioshock yet, or the demo? Now THAT is a properly optimized game engine.

  • 09.04.2007 3:39 PM PDT
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aka lino4

Most of the PC issues posted here are the result of PEBKAC.

Posted by: Frnksnbns
H2V runs fine, but actually not really. I mean, *sigh*, have you guys played Bioshock yet, or the demo? Now THAT is a properly optimized game engine.


Sorry but the demo crashed on me.


You guys do know that cleaning the dust from your PC actually raises performance, right?

  • 09.04.2007 8:08 PM PDT

H2V runs perfectly fine on my computer as long as I'm using an xBox 360 controller. When I use the mouse, it tends to lag pretty badly. Not that I'd use the mouse and keyboard anyway -- the mouse controls are horribly optimized, and the keyboard customization is really buggy. I'm rather annoyed at the PC user-unfriendliness of H2V. It's still a great game, but they could have smoothed out the mouse, give it a better scroll speed, and added some other PC-commons features (such as multiple saves).

As for lagging online, I've noticed almost no lag (none if you properly sweep-snipe :-) ). Maybe it's just because I'm used to Halo 1 PC, which I'm afraid tends to lag fairly mercilessly.

  • 09.04.2007 9:03 PM PDT
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Ok. I have it. it runs fine. My comp sucks. Well sorta. And I dont lag unless some dumbass decides to blow up so much stuff he crashes the server.

  • 09.04.2007 9:08 PM PDT
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So far, everything has worked well for me. I've been able to host games, even. The only problem is 15 FPS with everything turned down, but that's because I'm using a $500 laptop.

  • 09.04.2007 9:18 PM 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.

I've noticed no bugs and now issues with crashing. Actually, bug wise, it's bliss they def. did a good job there.

I have:

2.8Ghz Celeron D CPU (owies...)
1Gb DDR400 RAM (eeeeh...oldish)
Geforce 6200 128Mb (may god have mercy on my soul for this old and almost obsolete card...)

Yet Halo 2 still plays, not too badly with Low settings either. Sound is excellent, visuals on low are substandard, but on a substandard gaming rig, that's acceptable. Quality is excellent in terms of bugs. Maybe another 10% performance optimisation wouldn't have gone a-miss, but oh well. Better than most ports these days. The Xbox controller button symbols on the menus don't bother me, i hardly notice em now. I just click the button and don't complain, works fine :P

  • 09.05.2007 3:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: Scarlet Crusade
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Posted by: Scarlet Crusade
Runs on any mode, any resolution, top settings, no problems.

What daddies baby wants, daddies baby gets eh?

Actually, I worked for it and earned the money to assemble it myself. I got some really good buys and overall used parts that are high-quality but not tops, and got surprisingly amazing results. I like to call it a budget high-end system that runs just about anything put into it. It won't run Crysis, I'm sure (need Video Card / RAM upgrades, potentially a better processor), but for the time being it's just about near-perfect. =D And I didn't spend near $8000, either... I may have gotten close to scraping $2000, and that's a maybe. I'm thinking around $1800 though my memory's a bit fuzzy, built it about a year ago.

My junker totals to about $1200.

  • 09.05.2007 4:12 PM PDT
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aka lino4

Most of the PC issues posted here are the result of PEBKAC.

$500 here!

  • 09.05.2007 4:29 PM PDT
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lol glass in swedish meands ice cream for us XD sorry dont have halo2 vista

[Edited on 09.06.2007 12:45 PM PDT]

  • 09.06.2007 12:45 PM PDT
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I'm considering buying it since my laptop came stock with Vista and although the video card barely scrapes by (GeForce Go 6150), I have 2 gigs of RAM on this thing and according to Xfire, 2 CPUs. I don't know whether that means dual core on a laptop, or 2 physical CPUs... either way, I can Frap on Halo PC at 640x480 full size and get 30-60 fps solid, although I use DisableAlphaRenderTargets for more FPS and disable specular and shadows. I don't mind running H2V lowest settings as long as its playable with decent FPS. Chances are, I'm going to find its config file and disable as much -blam!- as possible from there too anyways.

I'm a framerate whore. :D

My specs:
Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Processor: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56 (2 CPUs), ~1.8GHz
Memory: 1982MB RAM
Hard Drive: 151 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Sound Card: Internal Speaker/Headphone (Conexant High Definition Audio)
Speakers/Headphones: 2 tiny ass speakers
Keyboard: USB Root Hub
Mouse: USB Root Hub
Mouse Surface: Random Mouse Pad
Operating System: Windows Vistaâ„¢ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_gdr.070627-1500)


Case in point, and I know this question has been asked a billion times by random H2 kids, but would that run fairly well on my machine?

[Edited on 09.11.2007 11:03 AM PDT]

  • 09.11.2007 11:02 AM PDT
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Runs smoothly. Except for mouse issues. Although I run the game maxed, optimization can be improved greatly.

  • 09.11.2007 4:48 PM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

Posted by: Scarlet Crusade
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Posted by: Scarlet Crusade
Runs on any mode, any resolution, top settings, no problems.

What daddies baby wants, daddies baby gets eh?

Actually, I worked for it and earned the money to assemble it myself. I got some really good buys and overall used parts that are high-quality but not tops, and got surprisingly amazing results. I like to call it a budget high-end system that runs just about anything put into it. It won't run Crysis, I'm sure (need Video Card / RAM upgrades, potentially a better processor), but for the time being it's just about near-perfect. =D And I didn't spend near $8000, either... I may have gotten close to scraping $2000, and that's a maybe. I'm thinking around $1800 though my memory's a bit fuzzy, built it about a year ago.
In total, my piece of beautiful crap here must be about $1500 or so. I pretty much had to work hard for it too, do a lot of extra jobs, and simple saved up like crazy. I took a year in finishing up. I feel mediocre. But even with my outdated 6800, I'll still stick with it as with the incredible performance this baby has given me. The AMD Anthlon processor is simply endless more help, and I only have to buy some more RAM, as I have 1535mb RAM Memory, which I think is the cause of my problems with my PC getting all slow after gaming.

  • 09.12.2007 6:26 PM PDT
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i cant ever play the game bcacuse something worng cant log on live accr

  • 10.07.2007 3:57 PM PDT
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it runs okay, except this wierd mouse accelerating issue that really -blam!-s up my aim. i move my mouse and it starts to get more and more sensitive.

  • 10.07.2007 4:44 PM PDT

$800 for a :
2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
3GB DDR2 PC-6400 RAM @ 800MHz
160GB SATA Seagate Barrucuda OEM 7200RPM 8MB Cache
256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro CORE@600MHz MEM@400MHz (Wish I could get this. Good performance for the price.

  • 10.07.2007 4:45 PM PDT
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Posted by: Anton P Nym
who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

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

Posted by: Kira Onime
Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

Yes, it runs well on mine.

  • 10.07.2007 5:19 PM PDT
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Runs good on my rig:

dual core cpu
2 gb ram
x1600 ati

The only beef I have is with the following:
mouse rates on vehicles: teh suck
fov = teh suck
multiplayer server tool = teh suck
x to delay mp game = teh big huge suck, like elephant size (what moron thought this was good?)
the constant pop ups to remind you to goto gold. (like i would pay more for this crap? live sucks the big humongo burrito.)

If they would patch the above, I would give the freakin game a 9 out of 10.

  • 10.07.2007 6:37 PM PDT

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