- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
SLD - First of all, thanks for the great thread as I've used it recently to help purchase my new video card.
I have a graphics issue when playing Halo PC that I haven't been able to solve, and I was wondering if you (or anyone else contributing to this thread) might be able to help. I've recently posted this issue as a separate post on The Maw, but it did not yield any answers (as of yet). Here goes:
When Halo PC is loaded my game menus, gamespy multiplayer listing, etc. act as if the corner of the menus were being grabbed and pulled across the screen. Any text on the screen flickers and jumps. While playing the game the ammunition meter, radar and any text that displays acts the same way. All other play seems to be normal during the game, except in CTF multiplayer games where the flags appear as if they are shooting colored light in all directions on the board.
I've recently purchased and installed an eVGA GeForce 6600GT video card to replace my FX5200 card. However, I've experienced these issues with both cards, and it has been the case through first playing the Halo PC demo that I downloaded and now the retail version that I recently purchased.
Can someone please help me determine how to resolve this?
Thanks.
Soyo KT600 Dragon Plus Version 1.0
1GB RAM
GeForce 6600GT 128MB (AGP)
Athlon XP 2600+
Since the post above, I've downloaded and installed:
- the latest AGP drivers for my board
- the latest version of direct x (which I believe was 9.0c)
- the most up to date drivers from eVGA's website for my 6600GT
...and still no solution.
If anyone is wondering however, the graphics performance of the card is superb (obviously with my errors described above not included). My FX5200 would crawl around in campaign mode at around 6 to 7 fps when enemies (and drop ships especially) filled the screen, and this was on 800 x 600 resolution and all settings turned off (or on low if they couldn't be turned off). The 6600GT provides an fps of 50+ on 1024 x 768 with all settings on.
Thanks for your help.