Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: *horror* i need dial-up help
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*insert everyone's horror here* I need help optimizing my connection. I just have a normal dell that nicely plays halo at ~20-30 fps at 1024x768, no eye candy though (extreme graphics 2). As for my connection I have [horror] Dial-Up [/horror] with a connection of around ~45.5 kbs. I believe the speed problem stems from sp2, which i can't un-install because of, reasons. i have all patches and updates. the computer is less than a week old so absolutely no spyware, *i know, i check*, no adware, no viruses. is there a way to streamline my connection with sp2?

  • 05.02.2005 4:42 PM PDT
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hmm, doubt its sp2

cause i had dialup less than a month ago and had 49.2 kbps, and even then the mozilla firefox extension bandwidth tester told me i was getting more like 100... :S

anyway... not much you can do about it that i know of, except spend the money to get broadband... and with sbc yahoo dsl and verizon dsl, just about everyone can for less than 30 bucks a month :)

  • 05.02.2005 7:28 PM PDT
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yeah, but if you live in the boondocks, like a friend of mine - there's no DSL available. BTW, he is one of the best snipers I've ever encountered - he was like the 2nd best worldwide on Swat 3 - with dial-up..... fricking insanity....

Back on topic - it's not SP2, dude, and your 100kbps, heero, is probably burst, not sustained... What important more or less is lag.... you might just have to get used to 500 - 600 ms if you can't get a better connection. It sux, but that's the way it is...

  • 05.02.2005 8:59 PM PDT
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Maybe give TZ Connection Booster a go... It's freeware (or it was the last time I saw), and you should be able to find it easily with Google.

Good luck.

  • 05.03.2005 8:03 AM PDT
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i have heard that poor quality wiring can slow down almost any connection. Also, use the shortest cord from the dialup modem to the wall, cuz the signal weakens over the length of the cord.

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  • 05.03.2005 8:35 AM PDT
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1 thing

How is it even posssible to play halo with 350mhz proccesor
with high resolution and 20-30fps?!?!?!?!

  • 05.03.2005 8:51 AM PDT
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the pc i play halo on is my mother's comp, thats why i cant do anything to xp.

its a dell, ~3 ghz, 512 mb o ram extreme gphx 2. normal modem

the comp in my siggy is my own, obviously cant play halo, but can emulate the n64 at around 30 fps out of the 60 fps it is suposed to, at the smallest resolution

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i do live in *almost* the middle of nowhere, jsut a few miles outside of town, yet too far for any high speed connection.

though it probably isnt sp2, my mother's previous computer had sp1 for a while, halo ran crapily graphics, *xtreme gphx 1* but it had a steady connection and i did not get dropped from games. once we got sp2 though, i kept getting dropped even before i entered the games. i got more ram for it, ran better, could enter games but kept getting dropped.

oh, ill try to find TZ Connection Booster, hopefully it will work

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  • 05.03.2005 7:43 PM PDT
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Lol, n64 and SNES emulators are the bomb, dude. I spend more time on Donkey Kong Country and Goldeneye than on most other pc games. Those were classics...

The connection booster may help. However, they can wire cable internet out to you. DSL's speed relies on distance from the server station, so you'd be screwed. But cable doesn't really matter for that. It'd probably cost $200 to get it wired out to you if they have existing wire transport lines underground. They did that for my bud in the middle of nowhere in the Eastern Washington desert. Now he doesn't have 900ms ping on counter-strike anymore :P

Otherwise, yeah, you may need to adapt to higher pings. however, it's possible. Many times some of the best players in a server have crap pings.

  • 05.03.2005 8:49 PM PDT