OT: Halo for PC

Renegade 13 · #1 July 8th, 2004, 07:23 PM

I've never played it on Xbox, and I just finished downloading the demo. Speaking of brutal, try downloading 135 MB demo when all you have is dialup! Took bloody near 14 hours of continuous d/l. Anyways, I just wanted to get a few opinions on it while I was getting the demo, and thanks for them. I've read a bunch of reviews for it, and most of them said that you needed a high-end system to play it without lag...can anyone confirm this?

PvK · #2 July 9th, 2004, 12:29 AM

You can't play co-op multi-player on the PC Version? That stinks...

PvK

Yimboli · #3 July 10th, 2004, 02:05 PM

i have halo for PC, played through on all difficulties. legendary was unbelievably hard, quite a challenge. took me a month to beat it, playing every second I could (but being an electrical engineer in college, i really dont have much free time). however, it kinda ran crappy on my desktop. I have a 2.4 GHz processor with 512 or 1024 megs of RAM (forget which, and im not at my desktop so i cant check it), and a brand spanking new nVidia 256 meg card. It ran choppy if I raised the resolution to even 800x600. I was very disappointed. 'course, it may just be cuz i'm using nVidia's drivers and not 3rd party by my manufacturers. it may run sweet on yours.

however, if it runs like ****, you will want to look up the -useFF command line option on google, which made things run a LOT smoother at higher resolutions like 1024x768, with the cost being less impressive effects (opaque shields, etc.).

overall, I must say that the game was awesome. I had never played it on console, and got it for PC and instantly fell in love with it. The lack of coop sux. but hey, there's always Halo 2. and the trailer for Halo 2 looks *amazing*

~tim

[ July 10, 2004, 20:46: Message edited by: Yimboli ]