Halo...

OK all you ppl out there, I call on your technical expertise. Whenever I play Halo, for some reason, it always runs at 1/2 to 1/4 speed.

System: 1ghz Duron, 512mb Ram, Radeon 9600pro, Win XP Pro

I tried turning down all the gfx settings, turning off vsync, turning down the gfx card settings and none of this helps.

have you locked your refresh rateS?

Halo is a massive resource hog that runs poorly on anything but the best PC- your Duron will especially struggle :/

Add -use11 to the command line.

It's set to use 1.4 pixel shaders as default and that slows most cards down no end. I've a P4 2.6, 512MB RAM and a GF4600 Ti and it ran like a dog until I found out about the pixel shader crap.

Getting the latest patch can't hurt either.

Halo PC is just horribly optimised. That's why it's slow.

Thanks Gearbox! gives 'em the finger

You know I and my friend had the same problem, its just your computer, you need about a gig of ram, your processor is fine (some what), but the video card isn't too great either, i have a 9600 se (sucks i know), but I got 9800 pro and its fine, just up grade your video card or type -useff in the path, it tones down the graphics, but you will be able to play online and such. And one last pice of advice, never never pay attention to the sytem requirements, its there to make people think they can play it.

whatever happened to the good ol' days, when a game examined your pc, and either set it accordingly, or refused to allow you to play if you didn't meet its minimum?

i am thinkin it should be rekindled..

whatever happened to the good ol' days, when a game examined your pc, and either set it accordingly, or refused to allow you to play if you didn't meet its minimum?

i am thinkin it should be rekindled..

Because it made the original Broken Sword uncompatible with Windows XP :sad:

Leperous said:
Halo is a massive resource hog

Damn Straight! The only other person i know who actually plays halo pc has 2 cpus, radeon 9800xt etc. etc.

Now I'll have to reinstall it, and try them cmd line options. I heard something about the pixel shaders from some guy... i didnt know how to set it tho. Thanks to Omega & Adam for giving me something to try out.

Orpheus said:
whatever happened to the good ol' days, when a game examined your pc, and either set it accordingly, or refused to allow you to play if you didn't meet its minimum?

i am thinkin it should be rekindled..

Max Payne does just that.

I've tried using the -use11 and the -useff cmd line, neither made a difference. Also tried using them both, makes no difference. Tried with vsync off, vsync, and 30fps locked. Nothing helps (30fps locked makes it slightly faster...) I think its my CPU.

So now I have to save for an Athlon, unfortunately Ive got no money atm cos I spent it all on the Radeon