Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: halo PC has backward specs???
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it seems to me that halo PC only works properly (doesnt lag) on smaller sized hard drives. when i got my new PC it lagged when i played it, and i know people who find it laggy on their high spec HD's aswell, then i downsize (my harddrive failed, must have got a virus or something) to my old HD, which was in a PC which made halo use about 4, very bad, colours. the hard drive i now use is about 10 gig, the new one is 80. no other game i have works like this...

has any one else realised this, or even the creators, have they acknowledged it???

  • 10.15.2004 5:42 AM PDT
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I'm willing to bet a loooot of money that the size of your hard drive has a miniscule effect on the performance of Halo. You could argue that the larger your partition, the longer it will take to find data on the drive, but if this virtually unnoticable inconvenience bothers you enough you can always partition your drive into smaller chunks. I bet there are at least 1,000,000 other things things that have changed since you reinstalled and configured everything on the smaller drive.

Btw, can I have your old Hdd that seemingly died because of a virus? It's very rare to have hardware die because of a virus. Very rare. ;)

  • 10.15.2004 1:26 PM PDT
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The performance of your HDD could have something to do with it, e.g. rpm, cache size, file format (NTFS or FAT32).

Also don't forget smaller HDD's have less junk on them so usually doesn't take as long for your comp to find what it wants. However my fastest HDD is a 120GB 7200rpm 1MB cache monster, so it hardly validates your point that smaller HDD's are better.

  • 10.15.2004 2:26 PM PDT
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heyyo,

You guys forgot one of the main aspects about HD affecting framerate n' such: framentation.

You see, your bigger HD, probably being more full of stuff, had much more file fragmentation. Over the years it builts ud. If you don't defrag every once inna while, your frames will die... horribly.

Usually after a year or so you lose 5f/s... Just a guestimation. :p

  • 10.16.2004 11:40 AM PDT