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Subject: WHAT GRAPHICS CARD U NEED TO PLAY HALO2 ON UR PC?????????
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Its not me whos lagin and any way, they did not do a good job with the online multiplayer in halo 1. It could have been way better than it is.

  • 02.28.2005 1:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: ioniz
RIGHT NOW, MY GRAPHIC BOARD CAN Hardly PLAY HALO PC. What do u think i'll need to play halo 2 on pc????????? sry bad caps lock


Whatever graphic card is out during the time when Halo 2 PC is out. If there is one that is.

  • 02.28.2005 1:51 PM PDT
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Ekul, your card will definitely be able to handle it.

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Probably but not definitely.

  • 02.28.2005 3:24 PM PDT
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[color=orange]Hey which graphics card would be better?

x800 by sapphire with 12 pipelines

or

x800 XL by sapphire with 16 pipelines

does the extra 4 pipelines make any difference??[/color]

  • 02.28.2005 4:48 PM PDT
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yes, quite a lot, but not exactly noticable

  • 02.28.2005 5:28 PM PDT
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Whats a Video Card?? Just kidding.A good ATI card will do.

[Edited on 2/28/2005 5:46:36 PM]

  • 02.28.2005 5:40 PM PDT
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WHAT GRAPHICS CARD U NEED TO PLAY HALO2 ON UR PC?????????

some people really need to mellow out with their crazy subject lines and posts. but anyways, IF Halo 2 were to come out for PC you'd probally need at least a FX 5700 to play it good, me i have a FX 5600, oh well, that still won't be for at least another couple years and I'll have a new graphics card by then.

  • 02.28.2005 5:46 PM PDT
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5700 would probably give ok performance. Truthfully, it all depends on how Gearbox not Bugnie does to the game, if Gearbox ports it.

  • 02.28.2005 8:50 PM PDT
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Ya, it all depends on how the developer writes the code. If it is slopy, you will need a better card, if it is tight, you won't but of course there will be time constraints and pressure from the community to bring it out as soon as possible.

  • 03.01.2005 11:23 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

well if they acted smart n' started now the time constraints wouldn't be bad. They're probably gonna make it a half-arsed port like Halo1PC turned out to be.. I wouldn't be amazed if I could crank ot better visuals with better framerates in Unreal 3 than in Halo2PC, lol. Epic > Bungie. :p

  • 03.01.2005 12:10 PM PDT
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OMG i just had a stupid but maybe ingenious idea. What if they were makin halo3 PC only? So they wont make halo 2 for the pc because theyr makin halo 3!

When i read that a second time, it sounds stupid but ya never know.

[Edited on 3/1/2005 5:17:32 PM]

  • 03.01.2005 5:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: GreenxPanda
Ekul, your card will definitely be able to handle it.


I'm sure also, that is if the game comes out like today or next year. But then I'm switching to ATI after that. Too bad there isn't any company that gives a lifetime warrenty like BFG.

  • 03.01.2005 5:31 PM PDT
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What if ATi and Nvidia merged?

  • 03.01.2005 5:33 PM PDT
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Bad. That would mean a monopoly on the market. In a free market system, that means they are free to put out -blam!- products and not advance technology, while charging an arm and a leg, at will.

By having competing companies pushing so hard to get the 'fastest' video cards, graphics get a lot better and such. If that happened I would not play video games at all.

  • 03.01.2005 6:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ekul1021
I'm sure also, that is if the game comes out like today or next year. But then I'm switching to ATI after that. Too bad there isn't any company that gives a lifetime warrenty like BFG.

Heyyo,

Nah, it's not when it comes out, that matter not, it's how well it runs when it comes out. I highly doupt they'll make the Halo2 graphics a lot better for PC since they barely made a diff on Halo1PC... their use of PixelShader v2.0 wasn't huge and that's why you can't tell the diff between PS1.4 and PS2.0 unless you read what they said aboot it.

Now, Half Life 2 has incredible graphics, leaps better than Halo1PC and easily ran better than Halo1PC. So remember Ekul, it's not when it comes out, it's how well it comes out... let's just hope we don't get screwed over again..

$box has been screwing over the PC community soo bad. Especially in coop gamemodes. Unreal 2, Doom 3, and Halo all had coop on $box, but those 3 games don't have coop on PC! Well, official coop. Doom 3 has a few coop mods, but they're all in just alpha stages, n' run pretty slow.. might get into it once it gets more refined.. Unreal 2 there was a coop mod in the makings that never got finished: (http://www.planetnapali.com) and HaloPC has hope with HaloSE (http://www.geocities.com/halo_specialedition) but these games should've gotten those coop modes from the beginning. Doom 3's multiplayer is pretty bland n' small.. coop would've made it tons better. Unreal 1 is one of the best coop games ever released for PC. It plays well, and it runs well. The lack of coop in Unreal 2 was highly upsetting, infact it caused me to not even buy the game. Interesting how Unreal 2 diddn't even have a multiplayer mode when it shipped.. kindof a downgrade from Unreal 1 imo. XMP's nice, I tried the demo, but with still no coop? i doupt I'll buy Unreal 2 unless there's a big price drop. I ain't gonna pay $30 cdn for that old game.. especially now that XMP project's stopped, and that people have made XMP for UT2k4. I own UT2k4, so I'm just gonna dl it for that.

  • 03.02.2005 10:28 AM PDT
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Don't want another microsoft do we, eh? Half life 2 is so much better than halo. I can run it at high and have no problems but halo, my fps will probably be negative!

  • 03.02.2005 10:43 AM PDT
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halo is a very performance demanding game end of the line

  • 03.21.2005 5:00 PM PDT
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Nvidia with SLI technology (built into my ALIENWARE)

  • 03.21.2005 8:04 PM PDT
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If I had enough money I would've gotten SLI on my pc...

However, the performance is only 1.5 times better than one single card, simply because the bus speeds are 16x/8x, so one is running at half speed. It kicks my card's butt in Doom 3. but, X850XT beats SLI's in Half Life 2 and a few other games :D

Gotta win some, gotta lose some.

  • 03.21.2005 8:33 PM PDT
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Is it the ICEq or the normal? Either way, I heard those have unmatched cooling. They use a fan to push the air over the heatsinks instead of suck air over, much more efficient and quieter. Besides, it looks hella tight!

  • 03.21.2005 9:41 PM PDT
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video card a little weak. ATI 9600 or higher or Nvidia 5700 series or better. Cheers

  • 03.22.2005 12:36 AM PDT
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Sexy Legs Davis in my alienware u mean?????
well it has 4 normal cooling fan things
and the SLI technology is not 1.5 X its 2.0 beacuse it doubles the space so instead of 1 gpu u have 2
AND MY ALIENWARE AREA 51 WITH SLI TECHNOLOGY IS BETTER THEN ALL EVEN IF IT IS 5000 DOLLARS

  • 03.22.2005 6:24 AM PDT
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well one thing for sure is that when halo 2 will come out on PC this year (in autumn) ull need a 256+ ram! But ive got a 1GB ram so im good lol, but i that ull need a good ram, very good graphics card, and a quality moniter, mine is 1600*1400 so im also luky there as well.

  • 03.22.2005 11:00 AM PDT

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