Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Blurred scope??
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Whenever I Zoom into the pistol, rocket launcher and sniper, it appears to be extremly blurry. Its impossible to aim. I have counter-strike which works perfectly. Windows XP, radeon 9000, 512 RAM, 1.2Ghz

help me yo

  • 10.29.2004 5:59 PM PDT
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that's cause halo need _some_ form of realiaty to balence the unreality of the aliens, plasma weapons, and super soliders. if you look through the scope, it's only focused there you aim. because in the real world, it's curved, and therefore, the only place it's focused is near the aimer. and in most FPS today, there is a black thinggy represinting the scope, and you can only see through the lens in the center. however, bungie is big on sticking to their stories. the scope is computerized, so there are no scope walls when you zoom

  • 10.29.2004 7:22 PM PDT
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Heyyo,

Yeah, the blurred scope is for special effects with shaders. If you don't like it, try starting halo with this in the target line: -use11

that'll force halo to use Pixel shader v1.1... of course being a weaker version of the pixel shader will lower the overall quality of the game, n' remove the scope's blur effect. if that doesn't work you'll need to force halo to be a forced function by using this in the target line: -useff

that'll kill off any pixel shaders, n' resort to vertex shaders... very old, very ugly.

Like this, you see how bad the xbox textures really are on PC. It seems they used pixel shaders to make the textures look nice instead of making high quality textures to begin with (ohh right, xbox can't take big high rez textures...). And don't BS me with "Old games all have bad textures like this..." If I remember correctly, Quake 3 Arena was pure T&L, no pixel shaders. The textures had very nice quality to them, even to today's standards they still hold together nicely.

  • 10.30.2004 12:04 AM PDT
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I have the same problem. But i have a fix (or rather a comprimise). put the game into 'safe mode'. you get the scope BUT you lose the motion tracker. So, it's up to you.

  • 11.06.2004 10:22 PM PDT