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the grafics on halo pc trial are not good on my pc. the vehicles have barely any detail niether does the ground, and the color on my spartan is always grey. before evrything was normal, will full detail and the right colors, but now somethin is wrong

  • 09.23.2006 8:41 AM PDT
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Your computer can't handle HaloPC, in other words. Your GPU is likely integrated, judging from the gray chiefs, meaning either updating the drivers or getting a new card (if possible) altogether is in order.

  • 09.23.2006 10:13 AM PDT
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Yep, you probably have an intel extreme integrated chip. The answer? get a video card.

oops sorry, before everything was right?
Check your graphics chip anyway, the detail went off and on a lot when I only had int. graphics.

Check safe mode, and check video settings as well.

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  • 09.23.2006 10:14 AM PDT
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yeh i got a intell(R) extreme graphics card and video settings are high and its not in safe mode and if the intell graphics that is the problem, how do i get another card and where?

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  • 09.23.2006 6:09 PM PDT
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Newegg.com

I personally reccomend something above a Geforce 7 or a Radeon 1600 with 256 MB VRAM, if you've got the cash for it. But don't buy one yet, as the DX10 cards are just about to come out, and if you buy a card now, it'll be obsolete as soon as DX10 is released.

  • 09.23.2006 6:50 PM PDT
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Give us any and all info about your comp you know. We need to know what cards you can support, both physically with ports, and also without bottlenecking, so you don't follow Chairman's advice and waste ~$300 on a card you can't use.

  • 09.23.2006 8:09 PM PDT

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It looks like Claymation doesn't it? On my old computer (with a crappy graphics card) it wouldn't work. You don't need a stellar graphics card to run it but I advise upgrading. Sometimes I'll hop on that old computer (when I go back home) and play Claylo PC.

  • 09.24.2006 12:19 AM PDT
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no dosnt look like claymation. anyways,i have an HP Pavillion a712n with cd-rom drive and cd/dvd burner. i have a hp pavillion mx704 screen and realtek AC97 audio speakers.(i said earlier) an intell(R) extreme graphics card. ill check evrything else later but if u see that i havnt responded to any of you ppls massages, you can IM me at spartanchurch32@aim.com or e-mail chaossmushy@yahoo.com

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  • 09.24.2006 6:16 AM PDT
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(i said earlier) an intell(R) extreme graphics card.

Well, there you go! You've got an Intel Extreme graphics card! Remember kids, Intel forgot to properly label their chipsets so it was originally intended to be known as the Intel Extremely Bad chipset!

  • 09.24.2006 6:29 AM PDT
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but at first, everything was fine full detail, all of it. i had the same intell card then and i dont know what happend now. evry other game ive played ( after the problem ) was the same. i really dont know whats wrong

  • 09.24.2006 6:36 AM PDT
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Yeah...we mean more specs than just that...

Go into Start Menu, into Run, then type "dxdiag" and hit enter. All those specs that are brought up are what we REALLY need. More importantly, we need information about the processor, motherboard and your current gpu card/chipset...as well as anything else you can provide.

However, if he has an integrated like he said, I really don't think there's much he can do in terms of upgrading unless he ditches his current setup.

EDIT: Oh, and have you tried updating the drivers for your card? That may be the solution.

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  • 09.24.2006 8:39 AM PDT
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ok lets see.. i got windows xp home edition(5.1 build 2600) an intell(R) pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.8GHz processer, Pheonix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG, direct x 9.0c(4.09.0000.0904) , i tested evrything and there were no problems.


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  • 09.24.2006 9:07 AM PDT
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Like I said, intel chips tend to be off and on when displaying graphics.

I would try downloading drivers, if any exist. Not sure if that applies to intel cards.

And no, you do not need a very expensive card. To run it at full, $50 at most, but we can't tell you which one until we know what graphics port you have on your motherboard. Bottlenecking is unlikeley, as your system isn't that good, and neither are cheap cards that run the game on full.

Download a program like everest and find your motherboard make. You should be able to find the specs online at the manufacturer's site.

  • 09.24.2006 9:21 AM PDT
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anything else u can tell me besides upgrading and chips and stuff? but for now ill just be checking to see if the details and color are normal again




Edit: yes umm.. it is still gray can anyone help?

[Edited on 9/30/2006]

  • 09.24.2006 9:24 AM PDT