What does it take to play Halo

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Sam Carleton

My cousin has a 933MHz Pentium machine with 128Megs ram
and no 3D card. The question is: Can the machine be
upgraded to play Halo? If he where to up the memory to
512Megs and put in at least a Nvidia FX 5600, could he
play Halo or is the CPU simply too slow?

Also, can his system take advantage of the more expensive
cards, like the Nvidia 5900/5950 and the ATI 9800 or is
his system too slow to take advantage of those cards? If
his system is too slow, what is the fastest card that his
system could fully utilize?

Sam
 
My cousin has a 933MHz Pentium machine with 128Megs ram
and no 3D card. The question is: Can the machine be
upgraded to play Halo? If he where to up the memory to
512Megs and put in at least a Nvidia FX 5600, could he
play Halo or is the CPU simply too slow?

Also, can his system take advantage of the more expensive
cards, like the Nvidia 5900/5950 and the ATI 9800 or is
his system too slow to take advantage of those cards? If
his system is too slow, what is the fastest card that his
system could fully utilize?
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All these upgrades you're on about are totally dependant on the motherboard.
Do you what it is ?
My instincts would say, no, get a new PC. Something like an AMD 2200 or
higher. With at least 512MB RAM and ATI9600. For Halo, even that is probably
too weak :)
 
Try an XBox.

I got one a few weeks back and it runs superbly. My XP2200+, 1GB DDR, ATI
8500LE on the other is unplayable(avg frame rate low 20's). So on one hand a
£130 console: fantastic, or a mid spec PC that has cost me hundreds of
pounds over the years: pants.

Go figure.

Glenn
 
Halo is a good game for about the first hour (outdoors, vehicles,
storyline), but then degenerates to the kinda crap that we used to have 3
years ago (corridor shooting, no storyline, series of interlinked rooms that
get harder and monotonous at about the same rate).

I uninstalled my copy... and certainly would have been annoyed if I had
upgraded my machine especially to play it!

but to your question - I would say that you are not meeting the minimum
specs for many games with your 128Mb, and however you upgrade, that
processor (and by implication, the Motherboard it is on) will be the
limiting factors - too old and slow. You need to look to getting a new
motherboard+processor+memory bundle before thinking about a gfx card.

S
 
As long as you can pop in an agp card the rest should be fine, im reading
from the Halo box,

733mhz cpu,
128mb ram,
1.2 gig free hard disk space,
32mb t&l graphics card.

obviously the higher specs the better it will run.

doughnut
 
Sam Carleton said:
My cousin has a 933MHz Pentium machine with 128Megs ram
and no 3D card. The question is: Can the machine be
upgraded to play Halo? If he where to up the memory to
512Megs and put in at least a Nvidia FX 5600, could he
play Halo or is the CPU simply too slow?

Also, can his system take advantage of the more expensive
cards, like the Nvidia 5900/5950 and the ATI 9800 or is
his system too slow to take advantage of those cards? If
his system is too slow, what is the fastest card that his
system could fully utilize?

Sam
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As Glenn said, buy an Xbox, after all Halo is an xbox game and runs
very "good" on any xbox... but the pc version is rather buggy ( after
all it's a ported game ) and even with the best hardware still runs
like crap.

A xbox will solve that problem cheap... xbox + game and maybe if your
television is really small or.. old.. a new television!
 
I'm happily running it on a PIII overclocked to 770Mz because fsb is set to
140Mz (384 megs ram).

Using a Radeon 64 DDR Vivo (7200), DX9.0b installed.

Runs fine here under both 98SE (using old drivers) and XP Pro. I did have an
initial problem getting it to run that first patch cured.

Given original system specs, spend a little bit and shove in another 128 or
better yet 1 256 meg stick of ram is probablt best bang for the buck.
 
Would my laptop with P4 2,8G, 512mb Pc2100, 800MHz fsb and MobilityRadeon
9600 128mb run Halo and Doom3?
 
Maybe with low detail settings.

Halo looks better and runs better on Xbox. In fact, there is enough
difference between the two versions, no one should pass judgement on that
game until they have had a chance to really play it for a while on an XBOX.
 
Asestar said:
Would my laptop with P4 2,8G, 512mb Pc2100, 800MHz fsb and MobilityRadeon
9600 128mb run Halo and Doom3?
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Halo, yes..how good is just the question
Doom III, is not out yet and my crystal ball is at the gardners house!
 
Maybe a higher resolution but that's it. Bumpmapping is more evident and
higher quality on the XBOX version and the textures have more depth over all
because of that. The PC version doesn't even have specularity on the Assault
Rifle like in the XBOX version. Shader fx are better on the XBOX version...
the headlights and flashlight on XBOX is much softer edged, and more
realistic looking light. Some textures are better quality on the XBOX, like
the Blue Elites. More consistent frame rate. The water textures look better
on XBOX. Less texture corruption on XBOX. I also run it on a 9700 Pro, and i
think it's funny that this game runs and looks better on an XBOX overall,
than a system that is twice as fast.
 
Halo is a real resource hog and (I hate to say it) works far better with
Nvidia graphics cards than it does with ATi cards (such as mine).
I cant remember what the specs for Halo are, I'll just say that with 1gig of
dual channel DDR400 on an Athlon 3200+ and an ATi 9800XP the results are
only acceptable!

CrimsonLiar
 
I play on a XP 2400 And radeon 9600 pro 1 gig pc2100 ram, and the
games fine you dumbfuck.

Buy it enjoy it.

I play at 1024 by768 16 biy have not finished it yet though, its
alittle tedius in places and most of the time you hav NO IDEA where
your going but once you figure itout its fun, I LOVE HE SHOTGUN :)

Enjoy.
 
I played using 1Ghz Celeron and ATI 9800, 384 Mb RAM, and I was able to get
through.
Might want to turn down some of the shadow and particle options, as well as
resolution in the game, but I don't see why he couldn't play it.
 
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