Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Why is it the whole world is celebrating the release of Halo3 except Bungie's Halo 3 forums?

I thought i had an awesome gaming comp but now i got the demo for halo for the pc and it lags like theres no tommorow (on campaign too)
so here heres my ram and proccessor. so if a technical person could tell me, that would be great. also, heres my video card

Memory 1022MB Ram

Proccessor AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700LE

if you want to know anything else just ask.

  • 09.17.2006 4:31 PM PDT
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Try lowering decals....

  • 09.17.2006 4:40 PM PDT

Why is it the whole world is celebrating the release of Halo3 except Bungie's Halo 3 forums?

i did, everything ats low or off if possible.

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Are you running any background programs? Check your CPU usage BEFORE getting on Halo, see if its high...

  • 09.17.2006 4:44 PM PDT

Why is it the whole world is celebrating the release of Halo3 except Bungie's Halo 3 forums?

i did its zero, i mean what could be wrong? i mean its really lagging, really bad.

  • 09.17.2006 4:45 PM PDT
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Do you have the latest DX drivers?

Do you get screen lag in other games?

  • 09.17.2006 4:46 PM PDT

Why is it the whole world is celebrating the release of Halo3 except Bungie's Halo 3 forums?

whats the latest dx driver?

i get small lag on doom 3 at ultre detail

  • 09.17.2006 4:49 PM PDT
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It's not lag, your computer's just slowing down. And btw, that awesome gaming computer of yours, ain't so awesome.

  • 09.17.2006 5:01 PM PDT

Why is it the whole world is celebrating the release of Halo3 except Bungie's Halo 3 forums?

well obviosuly its not that awesome. i thought it was awesome. but how do i fix that?

  • 09.17.2006 5:04 PM PDT
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To fix it, get unlimited money, and continuously upgrade your computer.

  • 09.17.2006 5:07 PM PDT

Why is it the whole world is celebrating the release of Halo3 except Bungie's Halo 3 forums?

come on seriously, what do i need to upgrade?

  • 09.17.2006 5:11 PM PDT
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Erm...as much as he was sarcastic, he's right. You...er...need money to upgrade your computer, plain and simple. The AMD Athlon you have should be perfectly fine for Halo, however, I'm not sure about the GPU. It seems from general consensus that your GPU isn't so great, so I would recommend upgrading that for starters.

Otherwise, I'm not exactly sure where your lag comes from. If you're running other apps in the background, or perhaps hidden in the taskbar as some are wont to do, you might want to try disabling those as well.

You can also try running Halo in safe mode, which deactivates everything unecessary to the game by default.

  • 09.17.2006 5:14 PM PDT

Why is it the whole world is celebrating the release of Halo3 except Bungie's Halo 3 forums?

Posted by: me15ter
Erm...as much as he was sarcastic, he's right. You...er...need money to upgrade your computer, plain and simple. The AMD Athlon you have should be perfectly fine for Halo, however, I'm not sure about the GPU. It seems from general consensus that your GPU isn't so great, so I would recommend upgrading that for starters.

Otherwise, I'm not exactly sure where your lag comes from. If you're running other apps in the background, or perhaps hidden in the taskbar as some are wont to do, you might want to try disabling those as well.

You can also try running Halo in safe mode, which deactivates everything unecessary to the game by default.


about that i know i need money but he wasnt being constructiv.
and how do i run it in safe made?

  • 09.17.2006 5:16 PM PDT
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People don't usually like me when I'm "constructiv".

Right click on the Halo shortcut and click on properties. Then in the target, add " -safemode" (include the space) and click apply. That should do it.

  • 09.17.2006 5:25 PM PDT

Why is it the whole world is celebrating the release of Halo3 except Bungie's Halo 3 forums?

thanks guys

whats the most important thing i should upgrade?

  • 09.17.2006 5:29 PM PDT
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GPU

  • 09.17.2006 5:32 PM PDT

Why is it the whole world is celebrating the release of Halo3 except Bungie's Halo 3 forums?

at the risk of sounding even dumber, whats that?



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  • 09.17.2006 5:34 PM PDT
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You don't sound dumb, you sound ignorant, but not dumb.

GPU=Graphics Processor Unit aka Video Card

  • 09.17.2006 5:41 PM PDT

Why is it the whole world is celebrating the release of Halo3 except Bungie's Halo 3 forums?

Posted by: trekkie
You don't sound dumb, you sound ignorant, but not dumb.

GPU=Graphics Processor Unit aka Video Card


thanks. ill get that upgraded.

  • 09.17.2006 5:43 PM PDT
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Upgrading might not be the most cost-effective solution. I run a relatively cheap Radeon 9550. 1024x768, full specs, 25fps. With the latest drivers.
*hides from GPU buffs*

  • 09.17.2006 6:24 PM PDT
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1) Your vid card sucks
2) Go buy a new one

  • 09.17.2006 6:43 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

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thanks guys

whats the most important thing i should upgrade?



add this to your halo.exe command line without the quotes: " -use11"

oh yeah, if that doesn't increase your framerate enough try: " -useff"





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  • 09.17.2006 10:10 PM PDT
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Dude, your computer is good enough to run Halo PC at decent settings. I used to run the game on a freakin' Emachines with 512 Ram, a PCI ATI 9200 and a 1.8 Ghz Celeron and the game was very smooth at 640x480 with all settings up. Sometimes I even got a little balsy and ran at 800x600 and it was still playable.

Your CPU and RAM are beyond minimum spec, and your video card, although outdated, it is a DX9 card and should run the game at full graphics, but at a lower resolution like 800x600 or 640x480. What resolution are you trying to run at? Also, do you have the game locked at 30 FPS? I find that on the PC, locking the game at 30 FPS tends to feel like it's "lagging".

Check your in-game graphics settings, and make sure you aren't running at too high of a resolution, and you aren't locking the game at 30 FPS.

Also, what the other guys said about background processes is true too. Try running Adaware and checking which apps are running in the background.

Hope it helps...

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  • 09.17.2006 10:55 PM PDT
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your video card sucks.

  • 09.17.2006 11:30 PM PDT

and I thought my AMD 3200 2gb ram and 7600GT was just an alright gaming comp.. Anyways, your video cards sucks bad. That is the main source of your problem.That video card came out around the time Halo PC came out I think. Just cause it meets the requirements doesnt mean it is good. It just means it will run. The specs on the back of the box are actually the xboxs specs. No 733 mhz processor is gonna play this game at more then 15 fps at the lowest settings, if that. Since a PC has a whole operating system, your PCs gonna need to be alot better then the specs given. Everything is fine cept the graphics card.

  • 09.18.2006 1:11 AM PDT