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Subject: Questions before i open h2 vista..

rum n' coke

So i bought h2v and a vga cord to connect my laptop to my 32" lcd. I plan on using a 360 controller because this is the only game i plan on playing for pc. Is the controller decent for playing h2v or am i going to get lit up by kb&m users? Also is there a decent population for h2v or am i wasting my money?

  • 05.19.2009 12:49 PM PDT

(Bungie > 343i)

If you already bought it then enjoy it.

What are your laptop specs. (just curious)

  • 05.19.2009 12:50 PM PDT

rum n' coke

But i have not opened it so i can return if it isnt worth it because im not going to sink time into getting acclimated with a m/kb since i mainly play x360. As far as the laptop specs everthing is more than enough but the video card is only a little better then the minimum recommended (nvidia 6150 i think).

  • 05.19.2009 1:02 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

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Posted by: omg itz drunk
So i bought h2v and a vga cord to connect my laptop to my 32" lcd. I plan on using a 360 controller because this is the only game i plan on playing for pc. Is the controller decent for playing h2v or am i going to get lit up by kb&m users? Also is there a decent population for h2v or am i wasting my money?


Controller has auto-aim. There aren't many M+K users that play H2v. You will be fine.

Is there a decent population for H2v? In my opinion no, not even close.

Are you wasting your money and time on H2v? Yeah, probably.

  • 05.19.2009 2:30 PM PDT

This is an old account iDarkWint3r is my new Bungie.net user.

All right,It doesn't matter about the decent population.It's about Gameplay.And for the people who can't buy Halo 2 Vista for $33.00 does not even deserve a computer.It's a really cheap game.And The Gameplay is Great,It's just lack of population.So if you enjoy the game,Knock yourself out.I Play it and it's fun playing on Multiplayer.

[Edited on 05.20.2009 6:41 PM PDT]

  • 05.20.2009 6:40 PM PDT

I'm not too sure your video card will be able to run it well. Also, I got Halo 2 Vista for my laptop and it won't run in full screen mode unless I plug it to an external monitor. Luckily, you plan on hooking your laptop to an external monitor so you should be fine there. As for the 360 controller, it works great with Halo 2 Vista. It feels just like when you play Halo 2 on Xbox.

  • 05.20.2009 8:34 PM PDT
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The 6150 is definitely not gonna do it justice. You're probably going to want something in at least the 7 series with 512 dedicated Vram. I had a 9600 GT OC 512 mb going for a while but it ended up frying the PCI-E 16 slot on my motherboard. My guess is the poor Power supply shorted it out...

Also, MS seems to like making product keys work jack squat... I finally got 2 GTX 260s in SLI and I can't even play H2V on them because of that... =(

[Edited on 05.20.2009 9:37 PM PDT]

  • 05.20.2009 9:36 PM PDT

rum n' coke

Yeah my video card sucks. I had to turn everything to the lowest setting just to be able to turn around :( Oh well looks like im back to h2/h3.

  • 05.21.2009 3:31 PM PDT

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honestly, the game really wasnt made for keyboard and mouse. Controller works best and enjoy it. Dont worry about other people.

  • 05.22.2009 3:09 AM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

Posted by: Dark Spartan 218
honestly, the game really wasnt made for keyboard and mouse. Controller works best and enjoy it. Dont worry about other people.


Which is really sad when you think about it. There is already a version designed for the controller. You can play it on Xbox. It's called Halo 2. Sigh.

The mouse lag is so bad in H2v I don't know how anyone plays it with M+K, except for the people who claim there is no mouse lag of course, all 5 of them.

  • 05.22.2009 3:11 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

Actually the mouse lag isnt bad at all when the rest of your system sucks. I had no lag at all when I was using my 6800 gt + athlon x2 but the game ran like crap and the mouse was able to keep up. Soon as I swapped for an 8800gtx I had bad mouse lag, but was able to run the USB ports at 1000hz which practically eliminated the mouse lag though I doubt if I ran the game with my modern quad core the fix would still work. But in any case I havent played the game since oh 2007 so it doesnt matter anyways.

  • 05.24.2009 2:34 AM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

Posted by: ItsNOTJohnston
All right,It doesn't matter about the decent population.It's about Gameplay.And for the people who can't buy Halo 2 Vista for $33.00 does not even deserve a computer.It's a really cheap game.And The Gameplay is Great,It's just lack of population.So if you enjoy the game,Knock yourself out.I Play it and it's fun playing on Multiplayer.
Anyone that thinks Halo 2 Vista is good and thinks that someone who can't buy Halo 2 Vista doesn't deserve a PC doesn't deserve their life.

  • 05.24.2009 3:34 PM PDT

I'd rather spend the $33 bucks on something good and better than Halo 2 Vista. Like TF2 or CS:S or Halo PC

  • 05.24.2009 3:38 PM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

Or several boxes of condoms and time with the ladies. But then again, this -blam!- wouldn't know about that.

  • 05.24.2009 3:40 PM PDT