Halo 1 & 2 for PC
This topic has moved here: Subject: halo checkpoint lag. please post if you know anything about this.
  • Subject: halo checkpoint lag. please post if you know anything about this.
Subject: halo checkpoint lag. please post if you know anything about this.
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

ok i know a lot of people have this problem with lagging suddenly right after checkpoints, but it should not happen to me. my computer ran it perfectly with almost zero lag on max settings in 16 person multiplayer games. but when i got a new hard drive, all of a sudden it gives me the checkpoint lag, and it ruins the campaign experience for me. don't tell me my computer sucks, it's fine, as i just pointed out. does anyone know how to fix this AT ALL?!

  • 11.18.2008 6:58 PM PDT
  •  | 
  • Elder Legendary Member

Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Check in the Hardware Manager and see if your new hard disk is using DMA. If it isn't, that's probably causing the lag.

  • 11.18.2008 7:53 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

i looked. it's using DMA all right. =(

  • 11.19.2008 3:42 PM PDT
  •  | 
  • Elder Legendary Member

Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Crud. I have no idea then, I'm sorry. Well you could defrag but I doubt that's it.

[Edited on 11.19.2008 7:38 PM PST]

  • 11.19.2008 7:37 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

i defragged my hard drive last saturday. =/

  • 11.20.2008 1:19 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

I've had a similar problem where it slows down a short bit in campaign mode at checkpoints but that is because the game has to save its data to a hard drive. Since hard drives are the slowest memory loading and writing data to/from them causes a bit of lag. There is no lag in multiplayer games because there is no writing to the hard drive during them.

I would say check your drivers to see if they need updates. But really if its a short amount of lag followed by smooth gameplay, thats normal. If its something that totally freezes up halo's gameplay, then it might be something to check into... possibly even with graphics. If you're running vista or are on a multicore machine, theres all sorts of weird happenings like decals severely reducing FPS during multiplayer games, some processors running halo better when a core is disabled, etc... =\

[Edited on 11.23.2008 8:24 AM PST]

  • 11.23.2008 8:22 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

let's see...what drivers you talking about? i have a single core, XP SP2, a Radeon 9550.... idk. but it does kinda freeze it up, but only for a few seconds. but it still ruins campaign for me because i can't stand that kind of lag and enjoy it.

  • 11.25.2008 3:49 AM PDT