Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: What type of video card do I need to play H2V smoothly

Games I like:,
Half-Minute Hero
MBU
Portal
Halo 3 is the best Halo ever
Maps I like: Turf, Avalanche, Pylon, Sandbox, Breakpoint and many more.

What type of Video card do I need in my laptop to run Halo 2 Vista smoothly without frame lag?

  • 05.29.2011 12:52 AM PDT

When we began to play Halo, we took an oath!
According to our station! All without exception!
On the blood of our fathers, on the blood of our sons, we swore to uphold the Seventh Column!
Even to our dying breath!
Those who would break this oath are heretics! Worthy of neither pity nor mercy!
We shall grind them into dust! Wipe them as excrement from our boots!
And continue our march to glorious salvation!

Laptop? Laptops are not built for gaming, unless you have around $2000 (£1750) to spend.

But, i recommend a 1GB nVidia Card. the Geforce series is brilliant, i have a 9500 GT.

  • 05.29.2011 1:34 AM PDT

The Geforce 9 series is a good choice, cheap but powerful.

If you see a 200 series for a good price, go for it. Ive got a 260 and it runs flawlessly, all games can run on max settings.

I don't know enough about ati's to give a valid point, oh and do not get an intel graphics card! I think we can all agree on that.

  • 05.29.2011 5:05 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Nothing will run h2v smoothly, h2v is so broken.

  • 05.29.2011 5:50 AM PDT

Laptops can't usually have their graphics cards replaced anyway. Using a GTX 560 Ti here and no issue's with any game.

  • 05.29.2011 9:32 AM PDT

Laptop graphics cards are nearly always integrated for a start, and usually have to share RAM with the system, so desktop is always the way to go

  • 05.29.2011 10:40 AM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Of course, gaming laptops are an exception.

  • 05.29.2011 1:08 PM PDT

Posted by: DusK
Of course, gaming laptops are an exception.

Indeed, however there are some regular laptops which can do. I have a laptop with a G105m, 512mb dedicated. Whilst not very powerful, it could handle Halo and Halo 2, which the op was asking. It cost me £500 but then again we get ripped off here in the UK anyway. Lasted me a year and a half, now it overheats when running any game after 10 mins..

[Edited on 05.29.2011 2:46 PM PDT]

  • 05.29.2011 2:46 PM PDT

I remember trying to play it with an NVidia 8200m, technically it was playable, but not at all fun. I'd say 8600+ and an ATI 3850+ can both play them with solid fps, so you could probably go slightly lower end if you need to be.

  • 05.29.2011 11:49 PM PDT

Haha $2000 for a good Laptop, your funny. I play Halo 2 fine on a cheap Laptop from 2002. Get some Windows Vista and there ya go.

  • 05.30.2011 3:06 AM PDT


Posted by: ghostspartan8383
Haha $2000 for a good Laptop, your funny. I play Halo 2 fine on a cheap Laptop from 2002. Get some Windows Vista and there ya go.


^^ all wrong, i'd be surprised if it could run Duke Nukem 3D, learn2compute

  • 05.30.2011 9:14 AM PDT