- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Okay, people, if your textures are white or your graphics suck, then you're going to need to get a new graphics card. There's no way around it, and it's going to get far worse with today's games. Recall that Halo is five years old.
The problem is, many of you who have integrated graphics which produce the cruddy graphics have nothing except a PCI slot to add in a graphics card...and that only affords you a 5700 series card at the most, which isn't very good at all.
I can only say that the most surefire thing is to get a new pc. Not from Hell, not from Crapway, but from your own hands. Yeah, I know it seems daunting for you to build a pc, but visit The Guides sticky here, visit guru3d.com, tomshardware.com, and invest some time into understanding the pc. Catch up on which components are "in" now, and see what performance they can give you. I can tell you that if you settle for a brand pc, you'll experience this again.
I'll tell you that an AMD Athlon 64 3200 or 3500 Venice, Chaintech VNF4 Motherboard, 1GB of Corsair value RAM, a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 [16MB buffer] hard drive, and a 6800 ultra, will cost you under $1000, even after buying a case, power supply, and the like, and it will last you a long time.