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Subject: Hardware Acceleration - Halo
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Lets see you beat this computer that I have *and runs*;

-Processor: Pentium 75 Mhz
-Chipset: VLSI VL82C591FC3
-Video: Possibly VSLI Stealth 64 if I can remember right
-Ram: 40 megs (72-Pin SIMM; 8 meg pair and a 32 meg pair; possible max of 192, 6x sticks of 32 meg)
-HD: 1.01 gig Western Digital Caviar
-14.4kb VCOS Sound/Modem
-4x CD-Rom drive
-OS: Windows 95
-BIOS: Phoenix

That computer also came with:
-14in Color CRT *Max resolution of 1024x768 @ i believe 60mhz*
-Mouse
-Keyboard *which I am using to type this up, and for everything else*
-Speakers *Sadly, I don't have them anymore. They blew around 1998 and we got rid of them*

Recently I've upgraded a few little things:
-PCI AIW Rage 2 Pro Video Card
-CD-RW
-Windows 98 SE

  • 10.03.2006 9:04 PM PDT
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Oh yeah?

Take that.

  • 10.04.2006 6:20 AM PDT

Get Marathon Here
Get Marathon 2 and Infinity Here

Damn...my PC is near godlike...and it's 5 years old!

HELL Dimension 8200
512 MB SDRAM
20Gig maindrive, with addon 250 gig secondary drive (maindrive is supposedly 72000 rpm but I am seriously doubting that...)
2.4 GHz P4 (first gen)
Origional graphics card: GeForce 4 Ti 4200 with 64 MB RAM and an AGP 4x connection.
WinXP Home with SP2 and all updates.

Yea, thats right, 4x. Played Halo at 800x600 with full everything for two hours at a time before it would start to suffer, and you want to know something else? It could play Doom 3 at MEDIUM graphics level just fine. I was shocked to say the least.

And I later learned that all of this was possible with the card's cooling fan not working. Sadly that was the downfall of my card, as I attempted to play some Halo one hot summer day, and, well, there was also a lot of dust buildup...I fried my card, there was tearing in spots and lag and it just wan't a pretty sight, even when not playing a game. I have saved the card just in case it is fixable, but I doubt it. So I moved up in the world with a GeForce 5500 OC AGP 8x 128 MB card.

Expecting to kick some ass right? Nope, I can't even play Halo on 800x600 with NO graphics enabled (all settings to off or lowest) and it still lags out, even with the case open and a damned fan blowing on it. To say the least I am pissed, though I got that card in the "Please, for the love of God take this -blam!-" bin for 32 bucks so that may have something to do with it...

I am currently replaying oldschool games that actually run without lagging, like, Marathon...though it does lag a bit sometimes every now and then.

Saving my sheckles for a new comp next year with the release of Vista, three thousand dollar machine, here I come! (not including monitor, speakers, etc.)

Just felt like sharing that, as any comment I could make regarding the origional poster's computer would revert to me telling a tail about my Dad's 1995 vintage custom machine...works better with the "Universal Accelerator Card" turned off. And I love playing MechWarrior 3 on it, you can almost draw your name with a single laser shot. At least C&C Tiberian Sun works on it...ish...

  • 10.04.2006 10:55 AM PDT
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Lol. I love Tiberian Sun. RTS FTW!

  • 10.04.2006 11:39 AM PDT
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wow divx, is that liek directx 2 or something? I've seen used toilet paper look better than those screen shots!
j/k =þ

I wonder where I could look to find out how to force halo to run on specs that are lower then the required, just to see how bad it looks Xb

EDIT: wait a sec... that looks like rasterizer_environment_diffuse_textures ! Plus some other dev commands... Interesting.

[Edited on 10/4/2006]

  • 10.04.2006 1:39 PM PDT

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