Halo On Windows Vista

Mr E:

Y'know what's funny?  I have a freakin Nvidia 6150 SE (yes yes I know) and when I put the settings to low: game looks and runs GREAT, even BETTER Online.  Except for those cutscenes where there's a  ton of stuff going on.  My PC can run Halo CE excellently with everything maxed out, yet there was slowdown in snow levels.  I don't understand why some of you guys can't figure it out:

Lower your resolution
Turn off some settings
Decrease detail level (ranges from Very High, High, Medium, Low).

Sorry for the double post, but I did all of that and it's still really choppy for me, and I know it's not my Internet connection.

Just bought the game today for the wife and I (2 copies)

Games runs like crap on my system, choppy video in SP and MP.

My take on the problem is that my system is to new and the drivers aren't great yet.

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Quad Core
790i Ultra SLI
GTX 280
4 gigs
Ultimate 64bit
Watercooled

New computers aren't always built for gaming though too.  Make sure you have a medium or high quality graphics card and updated on them.  I have a 8800 GT from NVidia, maxed out graphics in settings as well.  Even so, the only problem you would ever face with it then after getting something like that is a foggy level near the end of the game.

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ya i built my own exclusively for gamin, per my sig  i have a intel quad core, 4 gigs of ram and a geforce gtx 280.

I dont buy name brand stuffs. not worth it to pay for all the bloated software they pack into the system.. IMO

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Quad Core
790i Ultra SLI
GTX 280
4 gigs
Ultimate 64bit
Watercooled

sYlon10671:

Just bought the game today for the wife and I (2 copies)

Games runs like crap on my system, choppy video in SP and MP.

My take on the problem is that my system is to new and the drivers aren't great yet.

Yea there is no way on earth that the game should be running at anything less than 100fps on that system.  Keep up to date with the Nvidia drivers for that GTX280, you might even wanna try the Beta ones.  I do, they aren't "buggy" like you'd expect a beta software to be, they're just pre-release.

Well either your system is bullshit. Or your someone who used to play on the Xbox version and is totally 'Anti-Halo 2 Vista'. No one cares whether it runs good or bad for you. Fix it, or *** off and play Halo 3.

Nah... the same problem occured in Halo PC/CE.

The engine locks gamespeed in with the framerate. Halo PC/CE fixed this by allowing a 30FPS lock mode.

Mentioned it to the PR people for Halo 2 Vista within a week of its release and they said they'd include it in the patch... unfortunately Microsoft pulled the plug before that.

Your problem is not that your computer is *too slow*... it's that it is *too fast* and the gamespeed is getting confused is to how long a game-second is (which appears as juttering).

You can sooth this issue by playing with your vSync, I did it in my driver... but since there'll be no patch for Halo 2 Vista (and no I don't count 'asserror' removal as a patch) there will be no 30FPS lock.

The problem lays in that Halo 2 is a console game and Bungie designed the engine to be locked at ~30FPS for TVs.

If you ran FRAPs or something you'd notice you probably would be getting pretty high framerates... 80-100+... but it isn't a stable high framerate.

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Conroe 2.4GHz 4MB Cache, 2GB 4-5-4 DDR2-800 Dualchannel, GeForce 7900 GT
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Actually, there was a patch for the Halo 2 that was not to do with the AssError prank. This one was released in October and now downloads automatically when you install the game and run it first time. The v1.01 was the ass-one, if you look in the GameExplorer, Halo 2 is currently v1.012. This second patch updated the engine to support a new widescreen resolution, and iron out a few more debugs that didn't make it to the final release build. As you say though, MS pulled the Hired Gun team members away from the project after this first patch. I do not seem to have the issues with framerate and stuttering that you guys have. I use Vsync and my framerate never deviates from 75fps, and it looks very clear and smooth with 4X AA enables as well. I guess it's just some people's setups.

Yea, that's common... the problem with Framerate-driven-gamespeed is if you have an unstable framerate... issues occur.

Though vSync only helps people with computers who can pop out a framerate that is greater than their monitor's refresh rate.

That's one of the reasons I was pushing for a 30FPS lock in the patch... it's much more stable even in massive slowdowns.

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Conroe 2.4GHz 4MB Cache, 2GB 4-5-4 DDR2-800 Dualchannel, GeForce 7900 GT
LG 20.1" HDCP-compliant TFT-LCD, Logitech G15, X-Fi Platinum
SATAII WD 320GB 16MB Cache, SATA Raptor 74GB, PATA 250GB Caviar, Asus P5W DH

Yea I see what you mean. Unfortunately, i cannot remember the last time i saw a game with a 30fps lock available in the graphics options, apart from Halo PC. It's either no Vsync, or Vsync. I know Jade Empire for PC had a 30fps lock by default, but it meant that a powerful PC would still always be running it at that, even if it could do 60fps stable.

Worst framerate-driven-gamespeed use i've ever seen has to be C&C Generals XP Unless you were lucky enough to be getting 30fps solid, it ran at a crawl, and a RTS is quite playable at 20fps. Obviously not an issue any more, was back in the day. As i say, H2V runs at a stable 75fps locked at the monitor refresh rate, and i really can't see it running any faster in game-speed than before.