- RidiculousX
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I am going to speculate, so there might not be much accuracy in any of this.
Check the Xbox system specifications. You shouldn't need a super new, top-of-the-line computer to play it. Halo 2 targeted the same platform as Halo: Combat Evolved. The video requirements should be near to what the Xbox is capable of.
The video memory on the Xbox uses a shared memory architecture, which means that the video memory is shared with the system memory. The Xbox has only 64 megabytes of system memory, so it should need less than 64 megabytes of video memory.
But they've been tweaking with the resource system to get rid of the resource popping. They're probably caching resources in the video memory now instead of the hard drive, or a mixture of both. My guess is that they're tuning it to take advantage of the higher end machines with an excess of resources, but also keeping it working on the lower end systems would seem realistic as well, because by today's standards, the Xbox is a pretty weak machine. So if they didn't take out the hard drive resource caching entirely, you could probably get by with a 64 megabyte card.
Anyway, to answer your question, a 256 megabyte card is definitely more than sufficient (should be). The capabilities of a card with that much memory are probably sufficient as well.
I think I can definitely say that You will not need a PCI-E slot.
Again, that was just speculation, from what I thougt was realistic. I don't know how much they're tweaking with the code and mechanics of it, so It could be completely wrong, but I don't think they're going to leave the older machines in the dark, because Halo 2 was developed for the Xbox.