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  • #1

    Halo for PC



    Just picked it up. Great fun to play this with a mouse and keyboard with higher resolutions as well (well, if you didn't have a HDTV anyway ). I'm having a blast playing it.

    Haha, Bill thought he could get me to get an X-Box because of keeping games like this off PCs for a year or so, but I'm patient, I wait (while playing it at friends' houses ).

    Any of the rest of you picked this up?
    “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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    Not yet, and while I did hear it has great graphics, it has been terribly ported, with constant drops in frames per second, many below 30 fps even in top-notch hardware specs.

    Do us a favour:
    Go to http://www.fraps.com and run the program before playing Halo. Then tell us how often it drops below 30 fps with your PC specs.
    The game doesn't support Anti Aliasing, so don't bother checking its performance with it... Don't know about Anisotropic Filtering, so go ahead and try it please.

    Thanks!
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    • #3
      I'll do it when I play tomorrow . Sleepy time now .
      “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
      - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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      • #4
        Hadn't even heard it had come out yet, thanks for the heads up.

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        • #5
          I'll probably pick this up as soon as I get around to doing my upgrade.

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          • #6
            It actually just came out. It was still in the boxes (not on the shelf) when I went to the Game store .
            “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
            - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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            • #7
              Downloaded a couple of days ago (oops, shouldn't have said that really), and I'm loving it. My graphics card isn't really up to the really fancy stuff (GeForce4 MX), so I can't have things like shadows and specular lighting, and I can only play it in 800x600 before it gets a bit sluggish, but it's still fantastic.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Paul Hanson
                Downloaded a couple of days ago (oops, shouldn't have said that really), and I'm loving it. My graphics card isn't really up to the really fancy stuff (GeForce4 MX), so I can't have things like shadows and specular lighting, and I can only play it in 800x600 before it gets a bit sluggish, but it's still fantastic.
                Try it with an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro/XT. Now THAT's a video card!
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Zealot


                  Try it with an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro/XT. Now THAT's a video card!
                  Have you tried it on said card? I have a 9700 Pro and look forward to testing it out on Halo.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Osweld


                    Have you tried it on said card? I have a 9700 Pro and look forward to testing it out on Halo.
                    No, and of course yours' better. But little more, and much more expensive.
                    Good buy though, IMO.
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                    • #11
                      Re: Halo for PC

                      Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
                      Haha, Bill thought he could get me to get an X-Box because of keeping games like this off PCs for a year or so, but I'm patient, I wait (while playing it at friends' houses ).
                      If you think about it, it was (and still is) a brilliant business decision.

                      Bungie had as part of their purchase agreement a guarantee that Halo would be allowed to come out on PC. So it had to at some point.

                      MS waited until they began giving Halo away for free with Xboxes before it came out on PC, and just in time to get a whole bunch of PC users hooked on Halo 1 because Halo 2 comes out on Xbox, and will never be out on PC, early next year -- and it looks way better.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Zealot
                        No, and of course yours' better. But little more, and much more expensive.
                        Good buy though, IMO.
                        /me will try it on his Radeon 9800 Pro overclocked to 486MHz core (Pro is 380MHz, XT is 412MHz).

                        Now that is a video card.
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                        • #13
                          For the record, here are the Halo benchmarks: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1890&p=9

                          It's amazing that the Xbox, with a 733MHz Pentium III and a GeForce 4, gets such great framerates -- this was at a time when no one had programmed for the GeForce 4 yet and the Xbox was in a beta state, too.

                          Shows you just how much more efficient console hardware is.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Asher

                            * Asher will try it on his Radeon 9800 Pro overclocked to 486MHz core (Pro is 380MHz, XT is 412MHz).

                            Now that is a video card.
                            Congrats on the Overclock, if you have it truly stable you have there a great video card! Hercules?
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                            Always thought settlers looked like Viking helmets. Took me a while to spot they were supposed to be wagons. - The pirate about Settlers in Civ 1

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                            • #15
                              It's an ATI, but I took off the stock cooling and replaced it with a Zalman heatpipe with fan.
                              "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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