Halo 1 & 2 for PC
This topic has moved here: Subject: Halo Performence.
  • Subject: Halo Performence.
  • Pages:
  • 1
  • 2
  • of 2
Subject: Halo Performence.

Posted by: Nessy

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

Posted by: Synthmilk
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.


See my post above. The FX line (5 series) has more advanced shader support, but lacks the hardware power to render properly. Your 4200 provides a higher framerate b/c it is not rendering Halo with the more advanced DX9.0 features that the FX line was designed for. If you force a FX 5200 to use the same rendering path as the 4200, the FX will render at a much higher framerate...

  • 02.01.2007 11:51 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

You sound like you don't exactly want to spend a lot of money upgrading. If you have a PCI express 16x slot, here is a decent card at a good price. It will run Halo just fine.

If you don't have a PCI express slot, and you have an AGP 4x/8x slot, you could try this.

[Edited on 2/1/2007]

  • 02.01.2007 4:17 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

You could try overclocking your GPU. It's not easy, and even though modern video cards have some built in safegaurds, there's still a risk of melting the poor thing. I overclocked my 9550 earlier today and I got a boost of 10 FPS on Oblivion.

+10 Framerate on self FTW!

  • 02.01.2007 8:46 PM PDT
  •  | 
  • Exalted Legendary Member
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Maw

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
You could try overclocking your GPU. It's not easy, and even though modern video cards have some built in safegaurds, there's still a risk of melting the poor thing. I overclocked my 9550 earlier today and I got a boost of 10 FPS on Oblivion.

+10 Framerate on self FTW!


I wouldn't overclock anything without putting in a new fan/cooling system.

  • 02.01.2007 9:22 PM PDT

Get Marathon Here
Get Marathon 2 and Infinity Here

Posted by: Frnksnbns
See my post above. The FX line (5 series) has more advanced shader support, but lacks the hardware power to render properly. Your 4200 provides a higher framerate b/c it is not rendering Halo with the more advanced DX9.0 features that the FX line was designed for. If you force a FX 5200 to use the same rendering path as the 4200, the FX will render at a much higher framerate...


Is it at all possible to do this? Even though it only cost me 32 bucks in a bargin bin, I would like it to at least work...I can't play any games on it, I'm forced to use my wife's HP machine with a stripped down GeForce 6200 POS. Which is tollerable, but I miss playing Halo at 1024x768 with all graphics to full.

  • 02.02.2007 7:28 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Yeah, I've always been a little leery of overclocking as well. As long as you don't overdo it you don't need to worry about heat buildup.

  • 02.02.2007 1:26 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Synthmilk
Posted by: Frnksnbns
See my post above. The FX line (5 series) has more advanced shader support, but lacks the hardware power to render properly. Your 4200 provides a higher framerate b/c it is not rendering Halo with the more advanced DX9.0 features that the FX line was designed for. If you force a FX 5200 to use the same rendering path as the 4200, the FX will render at a much higher framerate...


Is it at all possible to do this? Even though it only cost me 32 bucks in a bargin bin, I would like it to at least work...I can't play any games on it, I'm forced to use my wife's HP machine with a stripped down GeForce 6200 POS. Which is tollerable, but I miss playing Halo at 1024x768 with all graphics to full.


What makes you think that the Fx5200 is better than the 6200?

  • 02.02.2007 1:53 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Is it at all possible to do this?

Yes, right-click the Halo icon on your desktop, click properties, and at the end of the "Target" line, after the quotation marks, hit space once and then type -use11

This will force it to render with shader version 1.1 instead of shader version 2.0.

[Edited on 2/2/2007]

  • 02.02.2007 2:56 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

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

try "-use14" first...

no reason to go from 2.0 to 1.1 without trying 1.4 first.

  • 02.02.2007 4:04 PM PDT

Jesus loves you, even if you don't believe it.

I have a 3.2GHz with a gig of ram and a Radeon express200 on board card.
Tried halo tonight, ran like crap @800x600 and low settings.
My 1GHz with 512ram and a Quadro 64MB nvidia card ran it much better.
The 3.2 does have a PCI-e slot so maybe if I get any donations, I can stick a better card in there.
I really can't see myself spending more on a card than the entire computer ($300)

[Edited on 2/3/2007]

  • 02.03.2007 8:38 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: TheMayaMC
The 3.2 does have a PCI-e slot so maybe if I get any donations.


Donations? I hope you're not seriously suggesting we'd donate money so you could play a game.

  • 02.03.2007 9:56 PM PDT

  • Pages:
  • 1
  • 2
  • of 2