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Comment by: t.grey (Feb 13, 2006 07:50)

well i have 1g of mem.and a 9600ati card that should be enough .but to change everything just to pla halo2 or some games is still not worth it

Comment by: Pittfan (Feb 13, 2006 10:31)

I don't want it , You'll need SLI to run the game . Pfffft I like my games running stable 70 fps and graphics cranked right up!!

Comment by: oappi (Feb 13, 2006 10:34)

I have also radeon 9700 (pro) and 768 rambus mem.. I bet my system would work perfectly in vista if i had faster cpu than 1,7ghz. Probably 2ghz and above is enought to run vista. It´s like they say between the lines. You can run vista with less than they say, but you wont get all the eye candy (sad =)). if you read "http://www.apcstart.com/teched/pivot/entry.php?id=6" you notice that he says it will work with 512 mem(ddr3?) and video card that has only 64mb mem.

If you think about todays games, there are more and more games that require cpu above 2ghz. Dont know about halo2 but why not. This halo working only vista reminds me the time i couldnt play some ea games in windows 2k because ea had some wierd opinion that win2k isnt suitable for games. ^lol^

As everyone i also dont think it´s fair to gamers to make the game only for vista. Then again you cant force them to make it for winxp or 2k but as we know m$ isnt fair.

I hope i can finaly throw all ancient floppy drivers to garbage can.

Comment by: HALTRON (Feb 13, 2006 13:27)

"As everyone i also dont think it´s fair to gamers to make the game only for vista. Then again you cant force them to make it for winxp or 2k but as we know m$ isnt fair." -- How true.

Comment by: Pittfan (Feb 13, 2006 13:55)

They came out with Halo and you needed a damn good video card to run , plus the MP lags ...I have a BFG 6800 GT OC and I'm betting Halo 2 is gonna run like chit on it .. they code em on Quadros or whatever and the Grphics cards are a gen behind .

Comment by: l34merik (Feb 13, 2006 19:38)

video card with more than 256MB RAM

2GB of DDR3 memory

and a S-ATA 2 hard drive

Wow, more than 256mb Vram to run this, so it looks like you need a $500 video card to even work. and 2GB of DD3 memory? I'm not positive, but has ddr3 ram even became avaible to the public yet? I know its on video cards already because I got a ATI Radeon x700 Pro with 256mb DDR3. Will its kinda cool that it says that you could zoom up a pic and it won't become blurry.

Yea, just Halo one for PC needed a good PC to run. Before I had a P4 3.8ghz w/ HT, 128mb 9200 radeon, and 512mb pc3200 ram and it lagged so much. Now that I upgraded the ram to 1gb and the video card to the 256mb ATI x700 Radeon Pro, it runs perfectly.

Comment by: crayzsnke (Feb 14, 2006 02:45)

People, look at the business aspect, it is great!

First of all look at like this: $0.07 per dvd disc+ a low number of dollars to port the game from xbox to vista format. so there wont be much of a loss if any in the production stages.

Secondly, coupling this Halo 2 with vista is great even if they can get only 1000 people to buy vista simply for Halo 2. They are looking at most likely near a half million. That may be nothing to start in the eyes of microsoft, but it puts production of Halo out of hte way, and there will be more than 1000 who upgrade their system with halo 2, and more that will upgrade their system to be up-to-date, and more to be ahead of the curve. There is simply a "great incentive" in the eyes of some, to upgrade in Halo 2.

Halo 2 on PC will simply get the word out as well: "my halo 2 looks so much better than the xbox!" (<- of course coming from somebody with the requirements to run vista and a high end game)

"and you are using vista? maybe microsoft is on to something" (<- coming from the ever numerous speculative buyer)

lets face it, vista in 2-3 years time will be the industry standard, if they can force a good headstart with halo 2, why not?

Comment by: Pittfan (Feb 14, 2006 11:36)

The Diehards will price the price I guess your saying.I been there done that. You want HD Performance you need the video cards to do it I.E. AA, AF, Cranked right up , Halo 2 will be great looking on PC but , No Doubt ButI'm not paying $1000.00/SLI-Crossfire(Trust Me)to see it.

P.S. I'll stay Richer and buy a PS3 , Right now Console is more bang for the $$$...Computer tech done pissed me off .

Comment by: coolbrz (Feb 14, 2006 15:38)

Pittfan,

I don't know what problems you had with Halo but I had a measly p4 2.0 with 512 mb and a Geforce FX 5600 256 mb video card and it ran PERFECT! Never lagged or anything. Weird.

Comment by: Pittfan (Feb 14, 2006 15:52)

I had a FX 5200at the time when I first tried Halo and Was'nt big Into PC Gaming. I Tried Halo PC demo like a month ago and I still was'nt Inpressed, For a $400 vid card you should be able to run a Game on the Highest settings AA , AF Maxed out. I like HD I guess . :)

Comment by: coolbrz (Feb 14, 2006 16:39)

I agree. I have the exact same video card as you do now.

Comment by: Phoenix09 (Feb 14, 2006 18:17)

Hmm, I dont know why your systems didnt run Halo well.. my 1.25Ghz P3 1GB of RAM with a geforce 5200FX ran it sweet. 1024x768x32 with AA 2X on. Meh, oh well

Comment by: halorockz (Feb 21, 2006 18:00)

ya i also hope that halo 2 comes out for pc...but dose any1 know if halo ce needs halo pc to run

cuz i dont have that much memory and i would like to get rid of halo pc cuz i never use it i only use halo ce...so if u do know if u do or dont need to have halo pc to run halo ce that would be great just send me a priviate message

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Feb 22, 2006 16:57)

Halo can run on basic settigns on a 1.2Ghz XP or better CPU 500MB+ ramm and at the least a DX8 ready 64DDR vid card this is what I had when I ran halo and for the most part it ran ok.

Comment by: halorockz (Feb 22, 2006 17:31)

that is great yeah...but do i need halo pc for halo ce to run?

Comment by: rihgt682 (Feb 22, 2006 18:21)

forget microsoft.

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Feb 22, 2006 21:59)

halorockz

It seems Halo Custom Edition is an addon,sicne it adds more graphic fuetures and editing tools yes it needs Halo PC,AAaahhhhhh I see thier getting the furbur up for halo now alil befor Vista will be out ><

god I hate M$.oh well I wonder if it will work wif my back up :3

Comment by: iguanaman (Dec 30, 2006 15:11)

It would be better to just buy a Xbox 360. Why spend all that money upgrading your PC?

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Dec 30, 2006 15:19)

iguanaman

I been thinking about that but KB and mouse rules the dim lil pad even more so now adays with bare minuim controller setups and halos "innovative" aim system that cant be used by some with no "normal" control option button config and such games are playing worse add the lack of detail and polish to game play....blah.....

Does this mean I will get vista no it just means I like to bitch

Comment by: dc133 (Dec 31, 2006 01:44)

im useing rc2 the beta for vista on a 128nvidia 6200 and 756ram and it runs really smooth but its only the beta....

and i can run halo maxd out and it runs smooth on my system no lag nothing and im on a p4 2.4GHz ocd to 2.8GHz but people shouldnt have to get vista to play H2 i bet some1 will find away to hack it and play on XP....

but heck if ur in a computer support class in high school and working with cisco u can talk to ur teachers and get vista for free next month thats what im doing and just use a duel boot on my new comp im making...

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Dec 31, 2006 14:10)

dc133

vister works its like XP was works for some not so much for others.

Comment by: quagpeter (Mar 30, 2007 05:06)

Originally posted by ZIppyDSM:

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wheelman7
dont forget you will also need 2gig of the fastest ramm your mobo can run *L* Vista is goign to be a ram eater 0-o

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I wonder if you still will be able to do superjumps and glitches on halo 2 for pc

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Mar 30, 2007 06:35)

Quote:

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[quote=quagpeter]I wonder if you still will be able to do superjumps and glitches on halo 2 for pc

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Knowing how cheap MS is thos gltichs were probably not dealt with,and in all fairness thos are not the glitches that need to be dealt with :P

Comment by: mechtech (Jun 01, 2010 15:29)

I signed up here just to post on this subject and post my opinion.
Halo was a fun game and now that it is not out for the pc on any of the newer halo editions i have not played halo since halo 1. I only buy pc games. I like a keyboard vs a controller.

My pc's are fast enough to run any game out there on a 64 bit os including crysis at high res. For os i choose winxp 64 because vista and win7 sux. vista is buggy and reminds me of windows me and windows 7 sux because they changed the file system so i get lost in it where winxp i could fly. It takes me 3 times as long to do what i want. I have windows 7 on my laptop and hoping i will be able to load winxp 64 on it because this win7 is crap. anyway all current games should be programmed to play on any 64 bit os not just one as halo2 did. Microsoft makes too much money off us and should be using some of that money to fix the economy and creating jobs or donating for education instead these billionaires keep stashing money away while we are all broke.
No wonder steve jobs seperated from bill gates and made his own company. Bill if your out there do something about our economy and make some jobs you rich selfish baSt@rd.

Comment by: ddp (Jun 01, 2010 18:34)

mechtech, if correct, steve jobs never worked for bill gates as steve is co-founder of apple computers.