FX 5600, HALO probs

[The Anti Rice]

So i have an FX5600 and I bought HALO. It acts like the games graphics are too much for the card to handle and i get a huge amount of slowdown ne time i set it too play above 800X600, and ne time i turn on ne of the special effects in halo..specular, shadows, etc...Is the vid card too weak to handle the game?

[Synthohol]

forgive the silly questions but,
is your system 733mhz 32m vid t&l compatible?

[The Anti Rice]

im a newb...It is a nforce2 mobo with and AMDXP3000+ cpu, gig of ram, 120gb hdd, how do i find out the what it is compatible to, as you asked?

[Player0]

Halo slows down on ALL machines at above 800x600. Make sure you download the patch. Also, try adjusting some of the display options. One of the 'light' settings I beleive (not shadows) had a huge performance impact.

But yeah, Halo goes slow over 800x600.

[The Anti Rice]

ive already downloaded and installed a patch...i belive it was this one: patch1.0-1.02 is that the one...cause it didnt help...

[Player0]

I assume its because XBox version is 800x600, and the conversion really sucked ;)

[Kill-Switch]

Yeah the conversion of Halo to PC (doesn't that just sound shitty considering Halo was almost ready for release as a PC title :mad: ) isn't all that great. Most systems will feel the strain trying to run it due to crappy coding ... saying that though I run it at 1280 x 960 with everything maxxed out and it runs smooth and fast :confused:

[The Anti Rice]

your vid card is freakin awsome though...mine is just mediocre...