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Subject: Are my specs bad or something?
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I just bought Halo PC, I love it.

I have the minimum requirements, but when I played the game, the game was slow, really slow...like, I can count the bullets coming out of my AR slow. I lowered all the graphics all the way, and POA ran fairly smooth. Got to Halo, again, unplayable due to the framerate.

Here's my system specs, they seem WELL over the minimum requirements, so what's my problem?

AMD Sempton 3000+ - 2.01 GHz
512 MB Ram
GE Force FX 5500 - 256 MB

Windows XP Pro

  • 11.17.2005 6:56 PM PDT
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My dell played halo at a pretty good speed and I have a intergrated.

  • 11.17.2005 7:09 PM PDT
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Your specs look perfectly fine to me...I play on a laptop with an AMD Athlon XP-Mobile clocking at 1.7 GHZ, ATI Integrated Gfx, etc, etc. and Halo runs smoothly on it. I'd say that something's eating away at your processor power while the game's running...one time, I found out it was my Synaptics mouse driver consuming all my CPU power and rolled it back.

Here's my advice: get halo to run in a window by typing " -window " at the end of your Halo Target line under "properties", and keep the Windows Task Manager open while halo's running. Then you can see exactly what's eating the CPU in realtime.

  • 11.17.2005 8:27 PM PDT
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Halo is like that even on high end Pcs it will run jerky it even runs kinda jerky on my pc hereare my specs:

Windows xp Home sp2

AMD Sempron 1.5GHZ

256 MB ATI radeon 9550

1 GB Ram.

yea i would have said what me15er said run in a window should run smoother. or if u have a high resolution on your screen or default 800x (something) lower it to 640x(still dont know the number) and it should make the game run smoother in full screen

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  • 11.18.2005 1:07 AM PDT
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Hey you have the same video card as me! .................................So you have like 768 mb ram? That cant be it.......maybe you have a virus (no nvm that would be noticeable)....or spyware.

  • 11.25.2005 9:39 AM PDT
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Dude its the fact that you have 512mb of ram you want atleast a gig. I used to have a e-machine with those same specs and i know how you feel, then i got the knoledge to build my own computer and thier isnt nothing i can do with it. I would suggest running to like circuit city or something and grabbing some more ram, that should fix the problem. Also exit out of some background programs you are not using that will help alot. Also if you got windows XP right click on my computer>properties>Advanced> Under perfomance click settings and then do Adjust for best performance. Will make XP look like 2000 but it will run alot better and free up some memory.

  • 11.25.2005 9:45 AM PDT
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Yes, viruses and spyware could be causes. If that isn't the case, I'm thinking your graphics settings are set too high for what your graphics card can handle.

My system is a lot more powerful than yours (not trying to brag), but my graphics card is the bottleneck. It can only handle 640x480 with most settings turned on high or medium for decent fps.

Upgrading your graphics card should give you a big boost. I'm not that familiar with good AGP cards, so I'll let someone else m,ake that recommendation.

  • 11.25.2005 9:50 AM PDT
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Its not the amount of ram. I have 512 and its fine. More is over kill for halo. Now, if you wanted to play BF2, you'd want 1gb of ram atleast. Spyware, adware, viruses, processes running that you don't need, and not that greate a videocard are probably the order of causes I would say. (ug terrible sentance)

  • 11.25.2005 12:12 PM PDT
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who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

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Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

I would agree that it is probably spyware.
Try downloading the MS Antispyware program from MS's website. On the front page there should be a link.
Also download Adaware at this link and run it.
The final problem could be your processor since Semprons aren't the best, but I doubt this is the problem.
The RAM is fine for running Halo.

  • 11.25.2005 6:23 PM PDT
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The only way I can fix this problem with me is by lowering the resolution. You can leave the other graphics settings on full but if you set the Halo resolution to 640x480 then it doesnt lag.

  • 11.26.2005 1:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: Anton P Nym
who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

Posted by: Kira Onime
Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

I just researched the video card and Halo, and I agree that you should lower the display ingame to 640x480.
Here are the results of testing that video card with Halo.

  • 11.26.2005 1:38 PM PDT
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my computer runs halo fine and i only have 512 mb of ram. i have a low end nvidia card and a intel pentium 4 3.0 ghz. those specs do the job very well. i run my game on 1024 by 764 or something like that.

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  • 11.26.2005 3:15 PM PDT