Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Halo seetings for Grapihics
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Hey everyone

Since i have a horrbile grapihics card i like to play halo on 400x300 i do this by my target line looking like this "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe" -novideo -vidmode 400,300,60 -useff. in my shortcut. I was just wondering if it was possble if i went to settings to change my resoutiolion that 400x300 would be avaible. Cause the lowest without writing vidmode 400x300 is 640 by 480. And i hate it cause i like to switch it betwwen 640 by 480 and 400 by 3000 without restarting the game.

Thx for any replys.

  • 05.11.2005 12:25 PM PDT
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I don't think it will display it in settings, really because it's never there anyway - so why would it be there now? It wasn't really designed for anything lower - most games aren't. Nicely enough there is that target line feature, but that's not an official setting.

  • 05.11.2005 7:33 PM PDT
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Heyyo,

It's cause haloPC was only meant to support screen rez's 640x480 to 1600x1200. Anyother one is at your risk.

  • 05.12.2005 10:42 AM PDT
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Posted by: ThE_MarD
Heyyo,

It's cause haloPC was only meant to support screen rez's 640x480 to 1600x1200. Anyother one is at your risk.


the most that happens with a cusom res. is that you get a directx error message. i get it when i tried a res. of 800*640. nothing should be fatal to the comp or halo.

  • 05.12.2005 4:11 PM PDT
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No, of course not. Very rarely is something fatal, since the windows 98/p3/really old hard drive days. Back then, I remember losing windows directories due to corrupt startups and bad shutoffs.

Anyway, the OS always keeps an eye for possible errors and stuff and will take the necessary measure to prevent anything even remotely harmful from happening. Of course, the most primitive form is the BSOD when instability occurs, but the runtime errors like the DirectX error you can get are really just XP being very protective.

Anybody here ever use Linux? That doesn't have anything like that, and it's very easy to mess up anything. I think we can all thank M$ for at least making it hard for us to screw up our system :)

  • 05.12.2005 5:42 PM PDT