- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Alright, the purpose of this thread is to show bungie that we are just contented with the way Halo 2 looks and plays, we just want to make it clear to them that we don't need them to go knocking up the graphics on the game any more like they did with the first Halo. I have a Pentium 4 3.02 gig processor (no typos anywhere in that) 1.512 gigs of ram, and a Radeon 9250 256 MHz video card, and my pc still has incredible framerate issues with the game. I'm almost certain that all of us whom have played the halo 2 xbox version are looking forward to the PC version as well, right? And I figured that so long as we have the time on our hands, much time as a matter of fact -until windows Vista becomes released- I thought maybe we should all have a discussion of the minimum hardware specifications. I don't want to have to cough up another $300 to get my processor replaced with a 3.5 Ghz Pentium 4 just so I won't have any framerate issues. Halo 2's graphics on the xbox version were amazing. This is what the xbox had that Halo 2 console version had to work with:
733 MHz PentiumIII processor connected by a P6 64 bit @ 133 MHz FSB to a 233 MHz GPU.
This is about the equivalent of a high end Windows 98 gaming PC at its prime, which costed about $800-$1000 with the monitor and all. Lets look at what we all have now. At a minimum you could go out and buy a PC with a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz processor, 256 MHz of Ram and a 40 gig hard drive (with monitor again, mind you) for about $400 dollars. Subtract the monitor and your looking at at least $300 or less.
Case in point: We (at least most of us PC gamers anyway...) already have hardware good enough to handle the game in it's original format. Just give us the standard game with all the decals, all the luster, all the texture, and everything the Xbox version's visuals had at a 800x600 resolution and we'll be fine. worry about tweaking it once most everyone can meet the needs of the game itself. We don't want a light show in a disc, we want Halo 2 for the PC in it's untainted format. Just grant us that and we won't be whining anymore.