Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: NVIDIA 5200
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I have a Dell Laptop with the Nvidia 5200 card in it (with 64 megs of ram). I previously had an ATI Radeon 9000 video card, and Halo ran great. Now, with the nvidia, I have to have everything in the windows video card settings as well as the halo video card settings turned down all the way so that the game is remotely playable. What gives?

I have a P4 3.06 Ghz Processor with 512 Meg ram. The video card is the Nvidia 5200 Mobile card, with 64 meg ram.

  • 10.02.2004 6:56 PM PDT
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your video card sucks period, everything else is fine except for your video card.
You shouldnt have gotten a laptop cuz desktops are cheaper and you can change your video card, instead of a laptop that comes with horrible video cards, except for the really high priced ones and you cant change the video cards

  • 10.02.2004 8:05 PM PDT
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not sure, 5200's suck. you need more like 5600. and more ram

[Edited on 10/2/2004 8:51:11 PM]

  • 10.02.2004 8:50 PM PDT
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Okay... this is why I was wondering. The ATI Radeon 9000 is slightly not as fast as the Nvidia 5200. The XBox video card is a modified Nvidia GForce 4 440, but uses shared system memory instead of having it's own. I could barely run Halo in 640x480 with all details down. My computer meets and well exceeds the minimum system reqs. Doesn't make sense does it.

Well, it turns out that the halo pixel shader is the culpret. The ATI 9000 and the XBox card don't support the 2.0 or the 1.4 pixel shader, hence it ran with the 1.1. (I'd bet the Xbox card doesn't even support Pixel shading, but rather uses vertex shading.) When I forced Halo to use the 1.1 pixel shader, it ran most rightously; in hi-res I might add. (If you're wondering, I did this by using the -use11 command line option.)

I realize laptops suck. I would sell it and buy a cheap laptop and a good PC if I could. Anybody want a Dell Inspiron 5150? Cheers.

EDIT: I just checked it out. The XBox does use a pixel shader. My video card actually does suck. Dang. (At least with Halo. It runs UT2003 just fine.)

[Edited on 10/3/2004 7:50:40 PM]

  • 10.03.2004 1:03 PM PDT