[zombieguy]

Will Halo 2 come out for PC?
I played it at my cousins house with a couple of friends a week ago... I got owned because I had never used an x-box controller. :P
I've got Halo 1 on computer... I really do hope they release the sequel for PC, too.

[Aussie Evil]

I reserved it at EBgames.

But please don't call me a fangirl/boy/thing.

I man, I play other games, and take breaks for important... bodily functions.

If I ignored bodily functions, relatives, human support, and everything else but Halo II, yeah, I can be classified a fangirl/boy/thing.

Aussie Evil: Not A Fangirl/Boy/Thing. ™

[Zenith Nadir]

ps. you're a fangirl

[Pyro1588]

depending on the computer i get, i might be able to get halo =)
ohpleaseohpleaseohplease

[Spectere]

Pyro1588, on Nov 17 2004, 08:52 PM, said:

depending on the computer i get, i might be able to get halo =)

Halo runs pretty nicely on my P4-2.0 system (GeForce3 video card with 64MB VRAM), so it should run on any newer system as long as you have a decent video card that supports pixel shaders.

It'll run without pixel shaders support (the game doesn't require shaders), but it's ugly as sin. I played the demo when I had my old GeForce4 MX and ewww. Nothing looked right.

One thing to keep in mind when determining system requirements: while the XBox is only a P3-733 (and I don't even think it has the cache of a full Pentium III) with a "GeForce3 MX" (IIRC, it's both better and worse than a real GeForce3) it only renders at 320x240 and is capped at 30fps. Also, the XBox isn't running a full operating system.

[weasel]

XBox actually runs at 640x480 interlaced. Ever notice how much sharper Halo on the XBox looks than, say, Goldeneye?

[Bramble]

yeah..nice observation

[Bramble]

ZoMbIeGuTs, on Nov 17 2004, 04:10 AM, said:

Will Halo 2 come out for PC?
I played it at my cousins house with a couple of friends a week ago... I got owned because I had never used an x-box controller.

so....is halo 2, uh, good?


And yeah those controllers are huge.

[zombieguy]

Bramblekid, on Nov 19 2004, 10:33 AM, said:

ZoMbIeGuTs, on Nov 17 2004, 04:10 AM, said:

Will Halo 2 come out for PC?
I played it at my cousins house with a couple of friends a week ago... I got owned because I had never used an x-box controller. :p

so....is halo 2, uh, good?

Yes.

[Spectere]

WildWeasel, on Nov 18 2004, 08:28 PM, said:

XBox actually runs at 640x480 interlaced. Ever notice how much sharper Halo on the XBox looks than, say, Goldeneye?

Atari 2600 graphics would look sharp on my TV, so no, I never noticed.

Also, the 320x240 in my previous post was sort of a slip-up.

[LogiCow]

The X-Box runs all right because the video hardware is good. Not because there's no OS running in the background, not because 640x480 is especially small.

Also because a TV is pretty much stuck at 30fps.


And I doubt Halo 2 will come to PC any soon.

[Spectere]

LogiCow, on Nov 19 2004, 12:23 PM, said:

The X-Box runs all right because the video hardware is good. Not because there's no OS running in the background, not because 640x480 is especially small.

Say what? My system has the same basic video hardware. Does that mean that I can load up a shitload of background applications, crank the resolution to 1280x960, and expect Halo to run fine and dandy (at at least 30fps)? Certainly not. Hell, even when my system was comparable to an XBox (P3-800 with a GeForce3) Halo was sluggish at 640x480 -- it definitely didn't hold 30fps as easily (unless the port is just shitty).

I know (with a great deal of experience thanks to the aforementioned P3-800) that the difference in framerate between 640x480 and 800x600 can be noticable, and that doesn't necessarily depend on the video chipset. If you have more memory available (which can be taken up by an operating system -- there's no way 64MB would let you run Halo and Windows 2000/XP) and more CPU time available (which can be eaten up by the OS and background tasks) you will be able to do more with less, it's common sense. Having less to render is certainly a perk.

P.S. I like parenthesis.