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Posted by: strider01
Posted by: Pkmnrulz240
Mind you, Gearbox made quite a nice netcode for Halo PC. The problem was that Microsoft, being the cash cows that they have proven themselves to be, wanted them to include 56K support. Thats why the netcode was so bad. If it wasn't for Microsoft, the game would have been better optimized for faster connections, rather than slower ones.
There are plenty of online games that support 56k and have better netcode than Halo.
And how many of those games are first person shooters that are based off a server sided solution for network play?
zero.
Posted by: trekkie
Gearbox did a fine job.
wtf?
Gearbox may or may not have ****ed up the netcode. But still, what about performance issues? They barely optimized Halo for the PC, so what we got was a system-whoring piece of crap. You need a PC about 5x better than what the "reccomended system specs" say on the back of the box, to make Halo look as good as the Xbox version.
I mean come on, the Xbox had a 766 mhz CPU, a GeForce 3 GPU, and 128 MB of RAM. (I think). My 6600 GT with 1 GB of RAM and a AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU gets choppy on Halo occasionally. Gearbox did a half-assed job with the Halo port, at least performance wise. (I am talking about performance issues, not the netcode crap)
Yeah, your 6600GT with 1GB of RAM and a 3200+ also has Windows and the assload of processes, drivers, etc to deal with as well, whereas the console simply runs the code for the game. What do you play with your settings on? Lets just say that you play on 800x600. The xbox runs at 320x240@60Hz. Your computer is spitting out 6.5 times the pixels of what the xbox is.
Considering that Bungie contracted GBX for a STRAIGHT PORT SUPPORTING INCREDIBLY LOW RANGE HARDWARE, I dont see how anyone can complain. The minimum hardware specifications that Bungie MANDATED for the STRAIGHT PORT are below the level of what the xbox can do. Ever play off integrated graphics and not have colors for multiplay? It's because your video card cant do something that the xbox can. Thanks to GBX, you can play the game and not have it crash when your computer reports to the game that it's unable to do something it's ordered to do.
My AIW 9800 pro, 2.8GHz Northwood, and 2x256MB of RAM spits out 1280x1024 with no problem. That is just over 17 times what the xbox does. Once I get my new monitor, I can play at 1920x1200@30Hz. That is 30 times what the xbox puts out. You have no right to complain.