Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Very poor performance when playing
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I experience very poor performance when playing Halo single player or multiplayer (in indoor levels where everyone is crammed together). My framerate either drops below 10 fps, or it goes incredibly slow. If I want perfect gameplay with little slowdown, I have to have low textures, lowest resolution, no particles, no specular, no decals, and no shadows, low sound quality and low sound variation (basically safe mode). BUT, if I do that, it looks like '95 graphics on the N64 or PlayStation. I want to increase my FPS and increase the speed it runs at. I have:

windows 98 SE
1800 MHz processor
Radeon 9600 XT graphics card
no sound card
512 MB ram

what do I need to upgrade? I don't want to know all the technical stuff, just what to upgrade!

  • 03.03.2005 1:59 PM PDT
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You should maybe upgrade your CPU and upgrade to WindowsXP.

  • 03.03.2005 2:23 PM PDT
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Windows 98 shouldn't be a problem. Windows xp will run slower on slower CPUs. When you say no sound card, do you mean you have integrated sound? Your video card detemines what visual settings you can use so that might be your problem there as I'm not familiar with ATi cards. You might try overclocking to get more out of it.

  • 03.03.2005 3:04 PM PDT
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9600XT is okay, your processor, if it's an Intel, is a bit slow.

  • 03.03.2005 4:05 PM PDT
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Well i have an older comp (intel p3 1ghz fx5200 512mb ram) and I can play it with low particles low textures nothing else on 800x600. I dont find much of a difference between higher resolutions so I stick with the lowest one. Is the 9600 better worse or about the same as a 5200?

  • 03.03.2005 5:13 PM PDT
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your computer should be able to handle it. Maybe you should download the latest updates for: video card, Windows98, motherboard, and update to Halo 1.06 if you haven't. Cuz my computer is much slower than that and it can do about 30fps at lowest settings with medium textures, low particles, decals on, highest sound quality and medium sound variation. if that doesn't work, I don't know what to say

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  • 03.03.2005 7:22 PM PDT
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My PC is having trouble. I cant install any of my pc games on it. it always comes up with one of those send error report blocks. so i could use some real help.

  • 03.03.2005 8:17 PM PDT
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I had that problem with internet explorer. It turns out I had a broken .dll file.

  • 03.04.2005 8:57 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

Hmm, Halo running that slow? hmm.. the cpu's a little slow, but it's not that bad. Remember, I used to have a AMD AthlonXP 1900+ and the same vidcard as now which is my ATI Radeon 9600 PRO and I could crank out some good framerates.

Ok, when's the last time you defragged your HD? it's probably in peices n' that's slowing down the game. Also be sure to have the latest ATI Catalyst drivers (v5.2) cause they rock. The other ones all the way down to v4.6 suck badly with the 9600 series. v4.5 are ok.

make sure you don't have anti aliasing on, or antiscoptic filtering on cause HaloPC doesn't support either, so it just slows down your comp n' the game for no reason.

  • 03.04.2005 11:34 AM PDT