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Subject: Way to decrease graphics quality for smoother gameplay?

Tru7h. C4RN4GE. Bungie.

I've started playing Halo 2 PC. I researched it and have all the requirements to run the game. Unfortunately my graphics card is average at best because it is running on my laptop. It is a new laptop and I've run the disk cleanup and disk defragmenter to keep as much RAM as free as possible. Even when I play campaign the lag is noticible and difficult to play with.

So is there a way to decrease graphics quality for smoother gameplay? Any other suggestions?

  • 12.19.2011 11:52 PM 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.

Posted by: ConstantC4RN4GE
I researched it and have all the requirements to run the game.

If you really had researched it, you'd know that those "requirements" are full of crap and it takes a much more powerful PC to run the game than they let on thanks to extremely bad graphics optimization.

There's not a whole lot you can do besides going into video options and making sure everything's set as low as possible.

You should post your specs, because I'm skeptical that you actually meet the requirements in the first place tbh.

  • 12.20.2011 3:55 AM PDT
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  • Noble Heroic Member

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Two things you can do is get the FPS Limiter and Game Booster. FPS Limiter will help you out by telling the game to run at 30 FPS. I noticed, on my old desktop, that I would get an average of 20 FPS without it. Then when I used FPS Limiter, it actually made it run smoother at 30. Can't really explain why, but it worked.

Game Booster is a program that cuts all services that is not needed for gaming. You just start it up, press the start up button, and start gaming. Once you're done you turn it off and everything is restored.

(Just search these on google to find them :P)

[Edited on 12.20.2011 6:18 AM PST]

  • 12.20.2011 6:17 AM PDT

Dr Syx is right, FPS limiter is your best bet for the laptop. My laptop used to have issues (weird frame skips so it looks like it lags for a split second every 2 seconds or so) and i can confirm on my laptop, locking the framerate at 30fps did boost my performance.

I've had no such issues whatsoever on my PC however, everything fine apart from being forced to use a wireless network connection since with an ethernet cable plugged in the game tells me LIVE isn't available in my country 0.o

  • 12.20.2011 6:34 AM PDT
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offtopic: willis_kid do you have xfire? try turning it off. GFWL gave me the region error too until I turned off xfire lol.

  • 12.20.2011 7:36 PM PDT

Tru7h. C4RN4GE. Bungie.

I did in fact research the requirements, but have no intention of going out and purchasing a fully capable PC to run one game at its' full potential. With that said, I'm simply looking to improve my gameplay experience with just Halo 2 with my current specs.

My specs:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Intel Pentium T4500 ~2.3GHz
4GB RAM
320 GB
Graphics Chip: Intel GMA HD (Score of 3) -Clearly the issue

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Posted by: ConstantC4RN4GE
I researched it and have all the requirements to run the game.

If you really had researched it, you'd know that those "requirements" are full of crap and it takes a much more powerful PC to run the game than they let on thanks to extremely bad graphics optimization.

There's not a whole lot you can do besides going into video options and making sure everything's set as low as possible.

You should post your specs, because I'm skeptical that you actually meet the requirements in the first place tbh.

  • 12.20.2011 8:12 PM PDT
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  • Noble Legendary Member

Halo 1&2 PC forum's resident OC ReMixer. Like rockified and metalized video game music? Subscribe to my YouTube channel.

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.

Posted by: ConstantC4RN4GE
Graphics Chip: Intel GMA HD (Score of 3) -Clearly the issue

Yup, thar she blows.

Posted by: ConstantC4RN4GE
I did in fact research the requirements, but have no intention of going out and purchasing a fully capable PC to run one game at its' full potential.

That's funny, because such PC would likely cost less than that laptop.

  • 12.20.2011 8:20 PM PDT

Tru7h. C4RN4GE. Bungie.

I bought this laptop on Black Friday this year lol. Got it for $300 which is reasonable in my opinion. I'm not typically a PC gamer so the one fallback to the laptop is not bad.
Posted by: DusK
Posted by: ConstantC4RN4GE
Graphics Chip: Intel GMA HD (Score of 3) -Clearly the issue

Yup, thar she blows.

Posted by: ConstantC4RN4GE
I did in fact research the requirements, but have no intention of going out and purchasing a fully capable PC to run one game at its' full potential.

That's funny, because such PC would likely cost less than that laptop.

  • 12.20.2011 9:06 PM PDT


Posted by: Joe333 51
offtopic: willis_kid do you have xfire? try turning it off. GFWL gave me the region error too until I turned off xfire lol.

I do, I'll have to try this, thankyou for the suggestion. But it seems odd why it would work on wireless with no ethernet cable plugged in even with xfire running?

EDIT - Well i'll be, this actually worked. Thankyou for the help, maybe now I can play GFWL games with a wired connection rather than having to suffer with wireless.

On topic - You're not going to be able to improve your framerate with an integrated intel graphics card. Those things just aren't meant for games at all. Maybe the older games would run, we're talking early 2000's but newer releases there's no chance.

[Edited on 12.21.2011 5:17 AM PST]

  • 12.21.2011 5:14 AM PDT