- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Here is your problem dude. I have an eMachines T3256 desktop with an athlon xp3200+ and 1 gig of ram and a geforce 6800 ultra, and I can run Halo at highest settings. The problem is that most motherboards on eMachine computers arent very good. Mine has a slow agp port, so the card cant go at its finest. If you have a geforce 4 built on to the computer and you added the 5200 to a PCI port, you might as well get rid of the new card. Before I got my 6800 AGP i had a 5500 PCI, and my built in card ran at least 2x as well. Also, since you have a celeron processor you are being held back. Celerons arent meant for games, and even though it may have a fast clock speed it is probably nowhere near as good as a P4 or a Athlon XP of equivalent speeds. Plus AMD processors are better at games anyways. So if all else fails and your built in card isnt better, get more RAM, and if that doesnt solve it you might as well overclock the card. I suggest getting coolbits, and then on the overclock menu of the card choose "find optimal frequencies". Make sure you are altering the 3d performance, not the 2d standard. I hope my info helped you.
Note- also make sure you have the latest drivers, or download the geforce drivers from omegadrivers.net Those drivers are really good, and run better on bad motherboards in my opinion.
[Edited on 12/11/2005]