Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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posted by: ART1LL3RY
I'm there but, man this is really starting to sound like communism.
Long live the MAW.

hey,
just wanted a quick answer, no half-hearted attempts to get into somebody's sig or witty answers that lead to arguments.
It seems that Halo runs very , and at some points un-acceptably, slow! i've been playing Multiplayer and Single-player, and both of them have a very high choppy rate. I've been trying to cope, but I just recently got Half Life 2 Anthology, and it ALL games on it run better than halo. Half Life 2, CS:S, although some long load times and some bad frame-rate it still runs faster at points than Halo PC.
Me specs-

364 RAM
1.7 GHZ processing speed
Ge-Force 5200 Nvidia
current OS: XP professional.

I played Halo Multi on my brother's computer, and it runs nice n smooth. i actually found myself trying to convenscate for my drop of Framerate that wasn't there. so which parts would I need to upgrade, or which parts is Halo known for hogging down/ requiring alot?

Edit- my bad, all graphics are on low/off, visual setting is 30 FPS (i've tried Vsync and all that, but didn't make a difference), and res is 800-600. meanwhile my CSS/Half Life 2 is mostly low, expect for model/texture is on meduim. and it still recomends i put it everything on meduim...

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  • 01.31.2007 6:15 PM PDT
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Ram
Processor
VIdeo card

  • 01.31.2007 6:16 PM PDT

posted by: ART1LL3RY
I'm there but, man this is really starting to sound like communism.
Long live the MAW.

any particular part that is a must to upgrade? i know the graphics card is a not-to bad one.

  • 01.31.2007 6:20 PM PDT
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Try upgrading RAM. Maybe that would help. But since it's coming from me, don't follow my suggestions. xD

Your 5200 is "ok", not that bad, but not that great as well. Try also upgrading your GPU.

  • 01.31.2007 6:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: ProgramLog
any particular part that is a must to upgrade? i know the graphics card is a not-to bad one.


Actually, the Fx5200 IS pretty bad,

  • 01.31.2007 6:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: staticx57
Posted by: ProgramLog
any particular part that is a must to upgrade? i know the graphics card is a not-to bad one.


Actually, the Fx5200 IS pretty bad,


So what do you admire more? The 9250 or the 5200? (not exactly a soup question is it...)


Bonus!-Extra nerd points if you get the reference!

  • 01.31.2007 6:32 PM PDT
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try 4 GIG of Ram you wll drool at how fast it runs

  • 01.31.2007 6:33 PM PDT
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4 Gigs of ram isnt going to help that crappy card.

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Posted by: staticx57
4 Gigs of ram isnt going to help that crappy card.


Would anyone even need 4 gigs of RAM? I can't really see how people are using anything over 2 gigs...

  • 01.31.2007 7:00 PM PDT
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Counter Strike runs better because the Source engine is probably the most optimized engine ever developed. Halo was a poorly optimized, and overall, poorly done port.

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Is your processor from AMD or Intel. Cause with a slow processor like that your system will bottleneck horribly. Like my old computer with a 700 mhz processor. If its AMD you can find a nice processor fairly cheap, or if its Pentium 4 they are very cheap too.

  • 01.31.2007 7:28 PM PDT

I wonder if the Wolf thinks the Moon listens when he howls at it.

*Spits kitten juice all over screen* Dude...you need at least 512 mb of ram to run halo at a decent fps.

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  • 01.31.2007 9:00 PM PDT
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Most of the PC issues posted here are the result of PEBKAC.

Halo is very shader oriented. That's why it lags.

Yes, and that card is bad. At least get something in the GeForce 6 Series.

  • 01.31.2007 9:48 PM PDT
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Maw

Posted by: darekster2ongame
Would anyone even need 4 gigs of RAM? I can't really see how people are using anything over 2 gigs...


Now this program should count to infinity. Launching in 5, 4, 3, 2...


Now, topic creator, what is your page file?

  • 01.31.2007 9:56 PM PDT
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@ Apoc the stunter:

Off the box req's:

Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP with 128mb ram.
733 MHz processor.
1.2gb free HDD space.
32mb/3D T&L capable gfx card.

I've ran halo on a system with specs close to that, it was horrible compared to my PC with 2 gb ram, 256 mb gfx card, 3.0MHz processor rig, I recommed that you at least upgrade your ram to 512 mb's, and that you upgrade your processor to something in the 2.0 GHz range.

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Posted by: Xero852
@ Apoc the stunter:

Off the box req's:

Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP with 128mb ram.
733 MHz processor.
1.2gb free HDD space.
32mb/3D T&L capable gfx card.

I've ran halo on a system with specs close to that, it was horrible compared to my PC with 2 gb ram, 256 mb gfx card, 3.0MHz processor rig, I recommed that you at least upgrade your ram to 512 mb's, and that you upgrade your processor to something in the 2.0 GHz range.


You must be flying the the whole 3 Mhz.

  • 01.31.2007 10:20 PM PDT

*I sense a disturbance in the forum*
Jaws on Zanzibar?
Sniper 's Ed 101
my myspace
teh explosion
purchase a leaf blower at any Sears store
After kim saying pc gamers are more mature:
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we r?

upgrade RAM, 384 MB is low....

  • 01.31.2007 10:43 PM PDT
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The FX5200 IS a horrible card. I know because I own one. Framerate drops to 4 in Timberland. 4 frames per friggin' second!!!

Invest in an ATi card if you're using PCI. A know a guy who uses some 120$ ATi PCI card and he gets about 100fps constant with everything turned on.

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Let me explain:

* Your computer sucks. It's very low-end. Upgrade everything, there's no other way.

* Halo was a crappy port from the Xbox, so it doesn't perform as it should, and thus is a system whore.

* The Half Life games, including the Counter-Strike series, use the Source engine, which doesn't take that much of a system to run (and it's much prettier than Halo to boot). You can perform better for less. My outdated piece-of-junk could probably run Half Life at 1280 X 1024 with settings maxed, X8 FSAA and X16 AF at a smooth framerate.

  • 02.01.2007 3:32 AM PDT
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9200>5200 by far.

On my bro's comp, 9200, 2.2 single core processor, and 256 ram handle the game on full.

  • 02.01.2007 7:07 AM PDT

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I have found that, in general, the GeForce 5 series cards, for whatever reason, are far far far inferior at running Halo PC than the GeForce 4 series.

I believe it is because the idiots at gearbox built Halo PC to be optomized for the arcitecture of the graphics cards out at launch, with no thought towards flexibility.

My old GeForce 4 Ti 4200 ran Halo PC better than my "new" GeForce 5600 GT OC, and it only had 64MB of ram on it, my new card as 256MB. Go figure.

My only advice is to upgrade everything to kick ass standards so you can overcome the efficiency problems new cards have running the Halo engine, or turn off all graphics effects, get 512MB of ram, and play at 800x600. I can almost get acceptable framerates doing that.

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Posted by: Synthmilk
My old GeForce 4 Ti 4200 ran Halo PC better than my "new" GeForce 5600 GT OC, and it only had 64MB of ram on it, my new card as 256MB. Go figure.


Yeah, I noticed that my old TI 4200 ran Halo really well, that is, until my 4200 melted down into slag.

  • 02.01.2007 10:30 AM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

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

The problem is that your FX5200 is running pixel shader model 2.0 by default, a feature that the FX line of video cards simply can't do well. Force the game to run 1.4 or lower by adding the following to your halo.exe target path without quotes:

"use14"
"use11"
"useff"

More ram won't do a damn thing btw. Your video card is by far the determining factor in all this.

  • 02.01.2007 11:41 AM PDT

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