Halo On Windows Vista

Those who have competent systems but still have issue need to install some older drivers. You guys need to go to laptopvideo2go.com if you have a notebook and download the 169.04 driver and if you have a desktop check nvidia's site. The newer 170s drivers don't treat halo 2 well, you have notable fps issues.

and for you....

I didn't spend $3000us to run some old drivers just because 1 game runs like crap. Who ever made the game needs to fix it.

I run the latest drivers, as it so happens those very same drivers  are what my hardware macufacturer's recommend.

I have many other games (crysis for example) that are much MUCH more resource intensive than Halo2 and they ALL run fine.  I refuse to downgrade my drivers for jsut one game becuase the programmers fucked up and refuse to fix their game so all my othergames can run like Halo2 does now.

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

Urm, well i'm running the 170 Nvidia drivers with my Geforce 8400GS, and i'm getting 30-35fps average using 1024x768 resolution and medium settings, which ain't too bad considering the card is a little weak.  I plan to upgrade to a 9600GT during the next few months.

Oh and correction:  It is not the game developers fault that the new Nvidia drivers may have a slightest incompatibility issue with their game (which after all, is only a very minor problem from the sound of it).  It's up to Nvidia to fix this, and i'm sure they will.  I just LOATHE how quick people are to lash out at game developers when issues are not always THEIR fault.  Halo 2 for PC is reasonably well debugged, I've certainly found no major flaws with it, and it has also received a modicum of patch support following release, it does not necessarily require further treatment.

Especially since it is quite likely at this point that Microsoft may be thinking of working on Halo 3 for PC, as the leaks suggest.

I'm getting very good frame rates, most of the time between 200 - 250 FPS at 1920X1200 on highest settings. The problem I'm having is mouse sensitivity settings are messed up. At default settings I have to move the mouse about a foot to get just a slight movement in any direction. So I set the sensitivity all the way to "insane" and it's still not very sensitive. When I move the mouse to look around or move, the motion is sometimes jerky. I just finished Bioshock which was much smoother infact one of the most polished games I've ever played and it makes Halo 2 seem very second rate feel wise. Is anyone else having this mouse sensitivity problem?

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