- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Heyyo,
You see, Valve = good at computer games
bungie = good
so far.. gearbox = mediocre. :(
and we all know M$ = usually buying lol...
Valve created HL2, incredible engine, best FPS engine out there, smooth. ;)
Bungie created a lot of great games. If they made Halo for PC it would've turned out much better.
Gearbox made HaloPC playable, but not run as smooth as we all hoped.. and pretty much started cause of Valve's HL1 Engine.
M$ well, they bought out Halo to be more of a M$ title diddn't they? There's only 1 game series that M$ does well: Age of Empires. The others were merely clones and not as great as their AOE series... hope they don't taint AOE 3 with some of the crappyness of the clones...
As for HaloPC settings? no dude. Specular Lighting affects the framerate THE MOST. This ain't HL2 now Davis. If you think about it, it's just layers of 2d art with some filtering. Shouldn't affect framerates as much as it does. Gearbox diddn't optimize this properly, and with the lack of fast shaders in HaloPC? nasty. HaloCE has fast shaders, but still is a little unoptimized, especially compared to HL2.... Shadows don't affect the framerate too much, unless there's like 6 people and some vehicles n' stuff on the screen, then it'll lag down, especially on that videocard. I had a FX5600, it hated specular lighting, and shadows a lot. So if my old videocard card (yep, got rid of it, wasn't worth my cash..) was slightly better than your current videocard? you'll want both spec and shadows off.