Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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well my friend let me borrow halo pc until i beat it....and i popped it in loaded it up and all that stuff and started playing but everytime a plasme weapon is fired or smoke is presented in the game i get unsurmountable lag...about 20 minutes later i decided to play ravenholm on halflife two no matter how many zombies were on fire i didnt get lag anywhere near as bad as i did on halo. i put all the graphics settings on low and its still not playable

  • 08.15.2006 9:15 AM PDT
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It's not lag, dude, from what you're saying, it sounds like you're having dips in framerate. Lag has to do with your connection, not your hardware. Your PC simply sucks. Get a better system.

  • 08.15.2006 9:19 AM PDT
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Posted by: Master Kim
It's not lag, dude, from what you're saying, it sounds like you're having dips in framerate. Lag has to do with your connection, not your hardware. Your PC simply sucks. Get a better system.
its not that im positive im playing half life 2 which has graphics easily twice as good as halos on all medium graphics settings and i have to run halo on low setting which makes no sense...by the way i would only need to get a new graphics card if what your saying is the case...i wouldnt need to dump 600 more dollars on a nicer PC

  • 08.15.2006 10:22 AM PDT
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Well, it depends, dude, what kind of PC do you have? Post your specs.

And don't compare Half Life 2 to Halo, HL2 looks better but that doesn't mean it's more demanding on systems than Halo is. HL2 is optimized for gaming really well and so it can run fine even on low-end systems. Halo is a poorly unoptimized piece of crap that takes much more higher end systems to play it the way it should be played. It makes a ton of sense.

  • 08.15.2006 10:36 AM PDT
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Yeah Halo is sort of a system hog.....I know Kim will say no to it (there was a thread one itme.....) and it is your PC. Halo takes more than HL2 or other games, I thought the same as you but I soon found out..... Try turning off Vsync my Framerate went way up.

  • 08.15.2006 12:56 PM PDT