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Subject: Halo 2 - one or two discs??
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Well, if you have it compressed, you get the info off the disc which would be fast, then spend time uncompressing it.

If you don't have it compressed, it takes forever to get off the disc, but there is no decompressing.

The trick is to find a good compromise to save on bandwidth while not taking up to much processing time. So it's not like 2 discs will be faster than one disc.


And polys bairly take up much space at all, in lightwave(3d program), a sphere with 46080 polygons takes up 812Kbytes(just tryed it). A whole level of geometry (without textures) has gotta be less than 10MB, 20MB tops.... I guess. What takes up more space are textures and crap. So the point is taking a few hundred points off the MC isn't going to make it super crazy faster.

[Edited on 6/19/2004 7:40:15 PM]

  • 06.19.2004 7:39 PM PDT

"The way of the warrior is the path of shadow. The gift of the warrior is to percieve that which cannot be seen. The spirit of the warrior is to strike in a single moment. The destiny of the warrior is balance in all things. And when balance is lost... all that is left is the reckoning."

I think that the newer editions of the xboxs have Xbox Live already installed on them along with other fixes to bugs that they had with the first one. Personaly though, I'd want one disk. Less of a chance to lose it. But I know the special features for the Halo 2: SE are on a seperate DVD disk.

  • 06.19.2004 7:39 PM PDT

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Ya the newer versions have the 4th Xbox Live option, instead of just Memory, Settings and Music.

  • 06.19.2004 9:07 PM PDT
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yeah one disc for one player and the other for multiplayer and put some bots in there while your at it

  • 06.20.2004 11:17 PM PDT

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