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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 agree with Recoton's previous post, far too many people flame Vista based on superstition and rumour, rather than first hand use. It certainly is in a lot better state than Windows XP was on release, at least i can use it on a day to day basis without fear of constant crashing. Yes Windows XP is on SP2 now and very stable, but it took a few years to get there. Once Vista is on SP1, i think it'll be just as stable as XP is on SP2. Vista has a lot of things people confuse with "Resource hogging", such as it's memory management. Despite of the seemingly increased use of people's system's RAM, it's actually just loading up the most used programs for quicker launch should they be selected. Programs i use frequently such as IE7, Windows Media Player and Word, all run extremely fast and start up all of them in less than a second. That's on a 3 year old mid-range laptop as well, just after a RAM upgrade.
H2V is not that buggy if you run it with decent drivers. I am yet to have a crash on H2V, which is certainly an improvement on Halo PC with Gearbox's job there. Yes, it is a little bit more demanding than perhaps necessary, due to this texturing issue you guys are talking about. However, with my modest PC Gaming rig: Intel Celeron 2.8Ghz CPU, 1Gb DDR RAM, AGP 8X Geforce 7600GT, i get stable and decent framerates at maxed settings, so i don't really have anything to complain about. The optimisation job is reasonable and certainly a lot better than some recent half-assed jobs such as Need For Speed: Prostreet by EA, which barely runs at 10fps on the same system, at lowest settings...
But anyway, i do think Bungie "cares" in the sense of the word, but i think their focus is not on PCGaming. It never has been with the Halo series. Had MS not bought Bungie, we'd all have to go buy Mac computers to play the games and the series would have inevitably flopped. MS saved a stunning series from that harsh treatment, think of it that way, PC gamers got the games in the end as well, rather than not at all.