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ready for halo?

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touchmyichi

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I'm surprised that halo is being shadowed by all these new games like half life 2 and doom III. It was a great game on xbox and now we get awesome online play (and we can use keyboard/mouse instead of a controller, thank god) This game is going to look amazing, especially on newer systems. This game looks rather intensive though, you guys think your system is up for it?
 
Well, you have to take it into perspective. I mean, even my dad has heard of half-life.... if I say halo to him he'll just shrug his shoulders and say go to a church and look at some of their statue ornaments.

Is my system up to it?? Nah, needs a cash injection. Hopefully the HL2 benchmark that is coming will shed some light as to how much money I'm gonna have to hemorage.
 
Is Halo 1st person or 3rd person (the PC version)?
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Should be first most of the time, although it switches to third when piloting certain vehicles(the one thing I'm going to miss the XBox controller for). I'd say total time spent in vehicle is less then 5% of the game(if it's close to that high, barring you just taking a Banshee/Warthog out joy riding for a long time) so overwhelmingly it's FP. IMO it's comparable to Half-Life, I would say it will very easily be one of the best games released for the PC this year.

For performance, I've heard that the actual retail release is performing considerably better then the version floating around now.
 
Thanks. I can never get into 3rd person games. Just seems too weird for me. There is always this guy standing in front of me getting in my way and blocking my view. 😛

May have to check this one out.
 
Yeah you guys should definently check this one out. If you never played the xbox version, you might end up enjoying this even more than HL2 or Doom 3. The AI is excellent in this game. Just the single player game alone is awesome. But we of course get multiplayer 🙂 too.
 
I hear the retail version 1.0 is out and is very cpu intensive and some people have encountered some FPS issues even on high end systems 3200+ Barton. I hear there is a work around through the console to force the refresh rate. My beta 1.5 was just buggy but hella fun so I hope gearbox can come up with a patch to fix it. I hear EB sold some copies prior to the official release date of Tuesday the 30th.
 
Originally posted by: 1ManArmY
I hear the retail version 1.0 is out and is very cpu intensive and some people have encountered some FPS issues even on high end systems 3200+ Barton. I hear there is a work arround through the console the force the refresh rate. My beta 1.5 was just buggy but hella fun so I hope gearbox can come up with a pathch to fix it. I hear EB sold some prior to the official release date of Tuesday the 30th.
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I believe it, even with the patches this should be a very intensive game though. The minimum requirements are a 933 mhz processor and a 32 mb graphics card. This should be good preparation for HL2 though.
 
the game is still an awesome game even though its 2 yrs old, I can't wait to get my hands on it. I am very satisfied with the beta 1.5 even got to play it 2 weeks ago at our LAN party it was pretty fun playing with 10 people. I will pick up the retail on Thursday as BEST Buy is having it on sale for 39 besides I have some reward zone $$ to spend.
 
Originally posted by: virtualgames0
Originally posted by: shady06
Originally posted by: sandorski
Is there a hardware configuration that can run Halo decently?
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runs like crap during battles for me. 1280*768, 4x AA 8X FSAA, rig in sig
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maybe cuz your settings was a bit high?
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ok so the 4x AA and 8x FSAA is high, but i can't get this game to look nice at all.

i'm running it at 800x600 (! so low) all details, etc maxed.
it looks worse than any game that's come out in a long time. i know something must be wrong.

my computer specs:
p4 2.4c 800MHz FSB
MSI gf4 Ti4200 64MB OC'd to 300/600
1024MB Corsair DDR - dual channel

i know my system isn't the top of the line, but it's well above average i think. the video card is clearly the bottleneck as of now.
but seriously, it shouldn't look like crap.
i'm gonna try taking the clock back to normal and pissing with the settings, but it's still dumb.

i can't get it to look as nice as the screenshots posted on the website, regardless of framerate.
i've tried 1600x1200 max details, etc. of course the framerate is slow on my machine, but it should still look good.

i know the game's not out yet, but i couldn't resist trying it out first. there's no way i'd buy it knowing how it runs on my machine.
i'm not gonna buy it until i hear about some fixes or some ideas about how to make it better
 
Originally posted by: Acanthus
the beta release will be running debug code and will not represent retail performance.
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Exactly... I can tell you that's the case from first hand experience. I'm beta testing two games right now... the log files created by one were HUGE... 200-400 MB TEXT FILES! Now that they have a lot of the problems solved, they've reduced the amount of stuff written to log files... now they're averaging 50-100 MB. And when they made that change, I started getting about 33% higher FPS.
 
ok so the 4x AA and 8x FSAA is high, but i can't get this game to look nice at all.

i'm running it at 800x600 (! so low) all details, etc maxed.
it looks worse than any game that's come out in a long time. i know something must be wrong.

my computer specs:
p4 2.4c 800MHz FSB
MSI gf4 Ti4200 64MB OC'd to 300/600
1024MB Corsair DDR - dual channel

i know my system isn't the top of the line, but it's well above average i think. the video card is clearly the bottleneck as of now.
but seriously, it shouldn't look like crap.
i'm gonna try taking the clock back to normal and pissing with the settings, but it's still dumb.

i can't get it to look as nice as the screenshots posted on the website, regardless of framerate.
i've tried 1600x1200 max details, etc. of course the framerate is slow on my machine, but it should still look good.

i know the game's not out yet, but i couldn't resist trying it out first. there's no way i'd buy it knowing how it runs on my machine.
i'm not gonna buy it until i hear about some fixes or some ideas about how to make it better
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You're not serious are you? You're running a brand new game on a Ti4200 64 MB card with AA and AF and you can't understand why it doesn't look good? Hello McFly!?!?
 
I ran the beta (1.5?) of Halo and it played very poorly on my rig. I had low framerates and weird things like missing doors. However, the full version of the game runs great so don't base your opinion of system requirements on the beta. I just started playing so I haven't tested it much but at 1152x864 (all details max - no aa/af) it runs very smooth and looks awesome. One refreshing thing is the quick load times. Much faster than the XBox version. I really enjoyed Halo on the XBox. I played most of it in coop mode with my bro on splitscreen. Sadly, there is no coop mode in the PC version so no hooking up over the 'net with a friend and blasting the computer enemies. 🙁 Like many other new FPS games the coop features was left out - too difficult to code or something. I hope they'll release coop sometime down the line because it really is fun.

Oh well, it will still be a fun game in single player - especially for someone who hasn't already experienced Halo on the XBox. I dunno if I'll actually finish it on the PC though. I did it once on the XBox and I don't want to go through some of those long and boring levels just to get to the really exciting ones. I hope that doesn't make the game sound bad because I don't mean it that way. Even with a couple of long levels that appear to be repeating the same area Halo is still my favorite FPS to date. The graphics and sounds are awesome and the enemy AI really makes it a challenge at times. In short, if you like single player FPS'ers you should check out Halo. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Oh, here's the important parts of my rig...

Abit IC7-Max3
P4-2.4C @ 3.2Ghz (267FSB)
512MB PC3500 (5:4 ratio)
Sapphire 9800NP (flashed to Pro and o/c'ed 400/350)
2 x 37GB WD Raptors in RAID0
SB Audigy2
 
Originally posted by: Robor
I ran the beta (1.5?) of Halo and it played very poorly on my rig. I had low framerates and weird things like missing doors. However, the full version of the game runs great. I just started playing so I haven't tested it much but at 1152x864 (all details max - no aa/af) it runs very smooth and looks awesome. One refreshing thing is the quick load times. Much faster than the XBox version. I really enjoyed Halo on the XBox and played most of it in coop mode with my bro on splitscreen. Sadly, there is no coop mode in the PC version so no hooking up over the 'net with a friend and blasting the computer enemies. 🙁 Like many other new FPS games the coop features was left out - too difficult to code or something.

Oh well, I think it will still be a fun game in single player. I dunno if I'll actually finish it on the PC though. I did it once on the XBox and I don't want to go through some of those long and boring levels just to get to the really exciting ones.

Oh, here's the important parts of my rig...

Abit IC7-Max3
P4-2.4C @ 3.2Ghz (267FSB)
512MB PC3500 (5:4 ratio)
Sapphire 9800NP (flashed to Pro and o/c'ed 400/350)
2 x 37GB WD Raptors in RAID0
SB Audigy2
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other than a better vid card and an oc'd processor, your specs are close to mine...well RAIDed raptors too...
of course yours should be faster, but you wouldn't think it was THAT much faster.

i mean...like i said i can get good framerates at 1024x768 and lower....which is what i'd expect with my vid card.
it's the graphical quality i'm worried about. i can't get this game to look anywhere close to the screenshots.
 
Hehe... You caught me. 😉 I edited my post 'cause after reading it I thought I made Halo sound bad so I added some to it.

The faster CPU and HD's will speed the game up but should not affect image quality. The big difference between our systems is the video cards. What is it about the image quality that you're having a problem with? Are you missing features or is it "jaggy"? I upgraded from a Gainward TI-4200 128MB and still have it sitting on the shelf at home. When I get some time I'm going to put it into my girlfriends system so I can load Halo on it and see how it looks.
 
i'm having a problem with texture quality. all of the textures look blurry and have low detail.
this happens with all different resolutions and graphics settings.

i haven't decreased image quality in my registry to boost benchmarks or anything like that.
something is wrong and i can't figure out what...lots of other people are complaining about this as well.
 
Is there a common config with the others having the same problem? Same video card, same driver version, game settings, display settings, etc? I haven't done any screencaps to compare to the ones posted but I'll look later on tonight if I get a chance.
 
Originally posted by: touchmyichi
I'm surprised that halo is being shadowed by all these new games like half life 2 and doom III. It was a great game on xbox and now we get awesome online play (and we can use keyboard/mouse instead of a controller, thank god) This game is going to look amazing, especially on newer systems. This game looks rather intensive though, you guys think your system is up for it?
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Beta was ok with my Geforce 3 so I think I will OK for the full version.
 
Why would I be 'anticipating' a game that has worse graphics than the year-old UT2K3, runs incredibly slower than it should, and offers no gameplay that you couldn't find in any modern FPS?
 
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