- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: sexy legs davis
What version of Catalyst do you have? The new one sucks (hmm, latest drivers for everything seem to suck. SP2, 1.06 for Halo...). Roll back to the previous one. Otherwise, like panda, it's beyond me.
What would help are system specs. Also, check the sticky about 256MB graphics card issues. I think 9800 may be on there, but I'm not 100% sure. The sticky has a solution.
Catalyst 5.1 doesn't suck, it owns every other driver I've ever had for my 9800 series. T3h Mard agrees. Also, I'm not sure about the SP2 problem since on my 9800 and my g/f's 9600, both 256MB XT versions running on SP2, Halo runs fine without exceptions and without needing the procedure described in the sticky. It sounds more like the rest of this guy's spec is too low to run Halo smoothly.
Posted by: GreenxPanda
is vsync better than no vsync?
No vsync means Halo will run as fast as it possibly can, but this almost always results in 'tearing', which is when one frame tries to load before the previous one has disappeared, causing a horizontal line to appear across your screen. I would never recommend no vsync. Halo's other options are 30fps and vsync. 30fps is fine, and is usually smooth enough. Personally I prefer vsync because I can get a consistent 60fps with it, which no matter what people say about not being able to tell between 30 and 60 fps, it is noticable improvement. By the way, if you press Ctrl + F12 during the game you can see your FPs displayed on a nice graph. The number which doesn't change is your refresh rate, the one which tends to flicker occasionally when lots of stuff happens is your FPS.
[Edited on 2/2/2005 9:44:28 AM]