Halo PC Help

[Krogen]

1. You won't be able to play Halo PC with less than 256 MB of RAM.
2. You won't be able to play Halo PC with less than 64 MB of Video Memory.
3. Your processor is too slow to handle the game, too.

The following might be false but I ran Halo PC on a higher-end machine not so long ago and it ran like crap.

My PC:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ OC 2.2GHz
1GB of DDRAM 3200
120 GB HD w/8 MB cache
NVIDIA 6800 OC 360MHz/730MHz

On the above with the highest settings and 1600x1200 res I don't get too much spare FPS.

 

[Alex81388]

Name: VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller
Device ID: PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_B091&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&61AAA01&0&08
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\VIAAGP.SYS, 5.01.2600.0000 (English), 8/17/2001 13:58:02, 27392 bytes

Come on kids, actually read what he is saying, hes being very helpful!

Now this is not for sure man, but judging by this, you have an AGP port. Although the device id says PCI... I did some research for you and people with that D.ID. are talking about ATI and nVidio cards they have put into their systems.

For this reason I'd be led to say you have an AGP port. You don't have to know what one is, but if you even just took a picture of the motherboard itself it would help us all a lot.

 

[VIII]

My PC:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ OC 2.2GHz
1GB of DDRAM 3200
120 GB HD w/8 MB cache
NVIDIA 6800 OC 360MHz/730MHz


Lol. 1600x1200 full AA, full AF im guessing?

Nvidia's are known to not handle AA n AF as well. Halo may be a year or 2 old, but its engine is still quite advanced.

 

[Tech NoOb]

...For this reason I'd be led to say you have an AGP port. You don't have to know what one is, but if you even just took a picture of the motherboard itself it would help us all a lot.

I will try to get get some pictures, but I can only get pics of the exterior of the computer. Will this be of any assistance?

If not, is getting a new video card the best solution? And do you need a powerful computer to run a new video card? or does it not matter?

 

[ShadowFalls]

no we need pics of the interior, the exterior will just show us the color of your case... how about you give us one of two things, the model of your motherboard (if custom build) if its a OEM system (Dell, HP, Compaq, etc.) the system model number and/or serial should do.

 

[Tech NoOb]

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System Information
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Time of this report: 4/11/2005, 15:51:17
Machine name: M-PPEORCBB7RHC0
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) (2600.xpclient.010817-1148)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: VIA Technologies, Inc.
System Model: P4X266-8233
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz, ~1.8GHz
Memory: 256MB RAM
Page File: 172MB used, 445MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.0001.0904 32bit Unicode

I'm at school right now but will get more info when i get home.