Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Halo Frames On Good Pc!?!?
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Hello All,

Ive serched the net looking for an answer but could'nt find anything specific to my problem so ive come here.

Anyway, my problem is Halo for PC runs terible on my good machine, yet it runs good on my moms older laptop!? Basicly, all the effects in the game work but the gameplay is slow, the movement is laggy and almost unplayable. I turned graphics down to medium I have the resolution down to friggin 800x600 and im still haveing slow downs, expecially in the second level where you crash land on the planet and your outside. I look around in a 360degree radious and the movement is jerky and slow in spots where you can see long distances. Its terrible I can hardly play it!

My System Specs
Windows XP Professional
Pentium 4
3.4Ghz
1Gb of Rosewell DDR Ram
Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 8x4x AGP (256MB Version)
Direct X 9.0 C
On Board Sound
Newest Drivers From Nvidia
All Windows Updates.

Anyway, on my moms laptop it runs great. The gameplay is smooth and everything runs perfect. Her specs are
Dell Inspiron 8100
Windows XP Home
Pentium 3 2.0Ghz
Geforce 2 GO Video Card
Direct X 9.0c

Please Help, I hurd some stuff about FSAA and I dont know anything about it. Also someone told me something about running Halo directly from the ram or something? I run Doom 3 Perfectly with settings on High, I play Battlefield and tons of other games without a problem but so far Halo is the only one with a problem. I have the Newest Halo patch, and still expierence the same problem. I changed all the video options from steady 30fps to all the other 3 options but still no go. If anyone knows anything about how to solve this issue please respond.

Thanks In Advance

Wolfy

  • 03.20.2005 1:27 PM PDT
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hmmm thats strange, well it cant be the game itself so that means its your computer.
First try reinstalling it, or you could defrag your computer (right click c drive and go to tools), or run error-checking which is right next to defrag.

  • 03.20.2005 4:10 PM PDT
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Scan and delete spyware. Clear IE history and such. Get Adaware and CCleaner to do that.

What settings is it at?

  • 03.20.2005 4:13 PM PDT
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I have done a defragment since the install and it still has problems, also i have ad-aware and spybot search and destroy so spyware isnt the issue either....

Wolfy

  • 03.20.2005 6:22 PM PDT
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it's your 5200...
in most cases, it performance leaves a lot to be desired,and it works rechedly in computers that are not well ventalated. if you turn everything down, but not all the way down, it should look ok, and perform ok too

  • 03.20.2005 6:35 PM PDT
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Or, it could be your monitor. I have a Flat-Panel LCD monitor. Halo looks so incredibly laggy, it's not even funny. When I play it on a CRT monitor or my friend's laptop it works just fine. If you have an LCD monitor, that may be your problem.

  • 03.20.2005 7:22 PM PDT
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ur problem is definetly the grtaphics card. u have the a low end (but cool 256 mb version) geforce fx card. i had a 5200 last weekend and i now got a 6800. i now get avg. 70 frames on blood gulch, compared to my 30 with the 5200.

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  • 03.20.2005 9:14 PM PDT
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yeah...it is ur card...i got ATI 9600Xt...I sugest you getting an ati card., i get 60-80 frams on any thing.

  • 03.20.2005 10:03 PM PDT
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humm,

No i dont have a LCD moniter,

I guess it might be the video card, just the thing I dont understand is why my Geforce FX 5200 256mb card runs Halo bad, yet a Geforce 2 Go (For Laptops) will run it fine? I did some more testing. The mission you have to rescue the downed marines at the begining and is a outside level, im looking down the canyon at the complex they are fighting in and I take the assault riffle out and hold the trigger down.... and its pop... pop... pop... pop... pop... pop... seriouslly its that slow, i can count and even see on the counter each individual shot being fired. Thats how slow it is! I have turned all graphical settings to low. I have turn all special effects off. and the games resolution is 640x480. Halo is somewhat playable but still has slow downs in big open areas. Now, this would be the result of a terrible video card like maybe a ati rage 128? yet I have a geforce fx 5200 which is a supported card for halo, and that card will run Doom 3 on medium high graphics, it will run battlefield 1942 on high graphics, itll run Rainbow Six Raven Shield on high graphics, itll run Splinter Cell and Splinter Cell 2 Pandora Tomarrow, but it wont run Halo!?!?!?!? There has got to be something conflicting. I have hurd around the net with a lot of the gamers I play with that there is a select few people out their with high end specs that games will run slow on. Infact, i dont remember exactually what it was, but I think it was a driver from some video card company that said it fixed a problem with a specific game running terrible on good system specs. I just downloaded the new 71.84 or w.e drivers from Nvidia today, I tested halo out again and it still has the same problem. The only thing I can think of, is there is some lighting effect or some effect halo requires that my card dosent have, thus it being the only game I cant run smoothly? My next option I guess is to see if their is any tweaks out their for halo that can make it run faster to see if i cant find a workaround to my problem...

Sigh, (puts halo cd back in box)
Wolfy

  • 03.23.2005 11:51 PM PDT

Ach! Was ist los?

Your video card sounds fine. What kind of sound card do you have?

--Sgt. Smith had a great performance boost when he turned down the audio variety.

  • 03.24.2005 5:37 AM PDT