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Posted by: No Refunds
Posted by: Tedmouse
most computers won't be able to stand up to the graphics it has

I live in a town known as ada in ohio
talked to 25 people with pc's
new computers but can't handle halo 2 for pc very well

so yea about 2-4 years i'd give it before computer companys finally give the good graphics
DELL gave me 4 year old parts in a new laptop which i am useing :P
vista the nightmare program is what i have and my laptop can't handle halo very much and i want it to play halo 2....
FAT CHANCE LOL

your going to have to wait for the computer companys to catch up before you see a halo 3 pc game
Extorting Aggy's freedom of speech. Your an idiot. Halo 3 is small potatoes compared to Crysis and Cod4. There's no reason a modern PC can't handle the game.
Aside from the ironically grammatically incorrect "Your an idiot," No Refunds is right. Small potatoes indeed.

I felt obligated to edit this post because I only put in one space between the period and the letter S in "Small."

[Edited on 01.26.2008 4:44 PM PST]

  • 01.26.2008 5:24 AM PDT
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I never paid much attention in first grade.

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Posted by: No Refunds
Posted by: Tedmouse
most computers won't be able to stand up to the graphics it has

I live in a town known as ada in ohio
talked to 25 people with pc's
new computers but can't handle halo 2 for pc very well

so yea about 2-4 years i'd give it before computer companys finally give the good graphics
DELL gave me 4 year old parts in a new laptop which i am useing :P
vista the nightmare program is what i have and my laptop can't handle halo very much and i want it to play halo 2....
FAT CHANCE LOL

your going to have to wait for the computer companys to catch up before you see a halo 3 pc game
Extorting Aggy's freedom of speech. You're an idiot. Halo 3 is small potatoes compared to Crysis and Cod4. There's no reason a modern PC can't handle the game.

I had to log in to just lol.

  • 01.26.2008 5:15 PM PDT

Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
Posted by: No Refunds
Posted by: Tedmouse
most computers won't be able to stand up to the graphics it has

I live in a town known as ada in ohio
talked to 25 people with pc's
new computers but can't handle halo 2 for pc very well

so yea about 2-4 years i'd give it before computer companys finally give the good graphics
DELL gave me 4 year old parts in a new laptop which i am useing :P
vista the nightmare program is what i have and my laptop can't handle halo very much and i want it to play halo 2....
FAT CHANCE LOL

your going to have to wait for the computer companys to catch up before you see a halo 3 pc game
Extorting Aggy's freedom of speech. You're an idiot. Halo 3 is small potatoes compared to Crysis and Cod4. There's no reason a modern PC can't handle the game.

I had to log in to just lol.

Same

  • 01.26.2008 8:33 PM PDT
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I wish they'd get it out sometime in the next couple of years, but I doubt they will.

  • 01.28.2008 4:36 PM PDT
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I hope they come out with Halo 3 for PC in a not to distant future. I know it wil not be this year because word of a beta would have been going around. I would be very happy to see a beta in the next year and maybe a final version in 09.

  • 02.17.2008 8:28 AM PDT

If they port Halo 3 to the PC in 2014, or 2017, I'm totally not buying it. 2010, 2009, 2012? Sure, but maybe.

  • 02.17.2008 9:01 AM PDT
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Posted by: halo3leader
it will be out by 2010 wait the 360 will die that year no! every 5 years a micorsoft consle dies and the PC continues on alone.


Maybe thats because they make a new console every 5 years? /sarcasm
The pc runs on a microsoft program anyway. Unless you use Linux or Mac. Which cant support many games.

  • 02.17.2008 6:00 PM PDT

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Posted by: halo3leader
it will be out by 2010 wait the 360 will die that year no! every 5 years a micorsoft consle dies and the PC continues on alone.


Maybe thats because they make a new console every 5 years? /sarcasm
The pc runs on a microsoft program anyway. Unless you use Linux or Mac. Which cant support many games.

I have Linux and Vista (I use Linux for everything but gaming, because Vista pisses me off to much :0 )

And why would I want to see another pathetic attempt to lure PC geeks into the scam called Xbox Live? Microsoft have lost their touch. They can't create good products anymore (look at Halo 2 PC, Halo 3, Windows Vista, and, most likely, the new Xbox when it comes out). All OK products that were completely destroyed by Microsoft's every growing quest to rip off consumers and suck all the $ out of everyone.

So unless Halo 3 PC is like this:
1. Free of ANYTHING called "Live"
2. Doesn't cost 50 -blam- dollars a year JUST TO GET ONLINE!
3. Doesn't yell at me every 5 seconds because I won't fall into Microsoft's Live scam
4. Includes all the maps

Then I WILL NOT BUY IT.

Besides, m$ has used Halo 3 to rip everyone off, the only logical thing in those idiots heads to do is to do it again....

  • 02.17.2008 6:20 PM PDT

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i would buy h3 for pc mabey because of:
1. I'm afraid of the 360's "ring of death"
2. Better graphics(at least slighty)
3. And it's 2010-2012! y not have free cross-platfrom gaming?! makes a big multiplyer
and how come every time i try to post here this changes to the underground forum?

  • 02.17.2008 7:11 PM PDT
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halo 3 pc somebody time freeze me i cant wait omg!!!!!:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):): ):)

  • 02.17.2008 7:22 PM PDT

Posted by: young_and_fresh
When can we expect HALO 3 for PC? I've played it on 360 and it was very cool, but it would be much more pure awesomeness if i could play it in 1650*1050, 8AA and 16AF on the PC. After playing Gears of War on 360, i am playing it now on PC (1650*1050, 8AA, 16AF) and it looks so much more crisper. Please bring HALO 3 to PC as soon as possible.
Just relax, kid. we'll get it eventually. My guess? 2009 or 2010.

and I wouldn't be so gung-ho for it if I were you since H2Xbox > H2Vista in many aspects.

  • 02.18.2008 6:23 AM PDT

Hello! Star Wars FTW. Also, join the MAW group. Please?

Considering the track record for the last two ports, it sould be out in about 3 years or just barely under, so 2010-2011 would be about accurate. Conveniently coordinated with the probable release of Windoes Vienna, so I'm sure M$ will make us buy that, becuase otherwise we can't play games in Direct X 11 (which will look no different then Direct X 10.1c), and will also be required to run Halo 3 Vienna, which won't even support Direct X 11, will probably still be running on Direct X 9, and will only have slightly higher res textures. Oh, and it will suck in every aspect possible, and include windows Live, which will cause Aggy (and possibly myself) to go on a killing rampage at the M$ offices Terminator 2 style. It will also probably have loads of bugs with installation, so n357 will probably be joining us on the killing rampage.

Cheers! Counting down the months! *loads shotgun*
*In Elmer Fudd voice* "Be vewy vewy quiet, we're hunting wascally programmers."

  • 02.18.2008 7:43 AM PDT

Long live the Last Refuge!

I will only buy halo 3 pc when my 360 dies and i can't get on live. (which i should have by 2010-2011)

  • 02.18.2008 8:10 AM PDT
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Well, Halo 2 vista sucked, that's for sure. I got a new computer recently, and I couldn't activate because I had already used the CD key twice before. *sigh*... why can't they go back to making them like Halo: CE for the PC was? Everything was fine then, and I still play that all the time. Maybe they should try letting gearbox do it again...

  • 02.18.2008 9:09 PM PDT

Never. Untill they find a Graphics chip that has Unlimited graphics...Like the 360 Well There is already one but no computer is that good.

  • 02.19.2008 7:54 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Fo0dNippleGrun7
Never. Untill they find a Graphics chip that has Unlimited graphics...Like the 360 Well There is already one but no computer is that good.

1. The Xbox 360's graphics card doesn't have "unlimited graphics." There's no such thing as a graphics card that's limitless.

2. PC's have been around even before the release of the Xbox 360 that are perfectly capable of Halo 3's graphics. That, and many current high-end computers smoke the Xbox 360, which is why you'll probably never see Crysis on the Xbox 360.

  • 02.20.2008 8:49 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.

Oops. I thought there was Crysis for 360, since it made a big deal out of me having a 360 controller plugged in.... silly me.

[Edited on 02.20.2008 8:56 AM PST]

  • 02.20.2008 8:56 AM PDT

(Bungie > 343i)

Just imagine how strong a PC would have to be to run Halo 3... i can run Halo 2 without any problems, at max in 1600x1200. But halo 3 would need at least a 3.0ghz cpu and it would probably take use of Direct X 10 effects....... the average gamer would need a total new system

  • 02.23.2008 1:40 AM PDT
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Posted by: Ancients
Just imagine how strong a PC would have to be to run Halo 3... i can run Halo 2 without any problems, at max in 1600x1200. But halo 3 would need at least a 3.0ghz cpu and it would probably take use of Direct X 10 effects....... the average gamer would need a total new system
Do you think that's still going to be extremely high in a year or two? Technology does advance.

  • 02.23.2008 11:01 AM PDT
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Xbox 360 specs

CPU 3.2 GHz PPC Tri-Core Xenon
GPU 500 MHz ATI Xenos
Media DVD, DVD-DL, CD,
Add-On: HD DVD
System storage 20 or 120 GB hard drive, 64, 256 or 512 MB memory cards

System specs gleaned from Wiki more specs here:

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU


* 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
* 2 hardware threads per core; 6 hardware threads total
* 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core; 3 total
* 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
* 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance


* 9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor


* 500 MHz
* 10 MB embedded DRAM
* 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically-scheduled shader pipelines
* Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance


* 500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate


* 16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4X MSAA

Shader Performance


* 48 billion shader operations per second

Memory


* 512 MB GDDR3 RAM
* 700 MHz DDR
* Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth


* 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
* 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
* 21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Ok that one was official

Now here are the specs for the the 8600 GTS which by the way is obsolete now as a mid ranged card with the 9600's release
It has :
675 Mhz core clock
1450 Mhz Shader clock
1000 Mhz Memory clock
256 Memory amount
and BILLIONS in fill rate

as for processing power and memory
A simple $100 (aus) 150 gig hardrive is sufficient,
2 gigs of DDR2 RAM wastes H3 easy

Correct me if im wrong that half the people reading this wil have no idea what they are reading, basically, an Xbox 360's Full system specifications are being torn to shreds by a custom buildt computer that easily would fit into a $1500 bill
Heck not even that, with Xbox 360's release price, someone couldve gone and built a computer for less and STILL have the same power in terms of performance.

[Edited on 02.24.2008 2:58 AM PST]

  • 02.24.2008 2:57 AM PDT
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You're certainly right about half the people not understanding what they're reading at all... I could only follow some parts of what you were saying.

  • 02.24.2008 1:41 PM PDT
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If you want the Halo 3 PC experience so much, buy a 360 and get the XFPS mouse and keyboard adapter...

Until then, shut up and play more Halo 1.

  • 02.27.2008 2:35 PM PDT
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It'll be about 3 more years before Halo 3 comes to PC. That's the approximate amount of Halo 1/2 and their PC counterparts.

  • 02.28.2008 8:51 PM PDT

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