Graphics still no good!

Blarg-Blarg-Blarg! · Post by **Blarg-Blarg-Blarg!** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:41 am

My dad just got me a 128 mb video card, and my graphics on Halo are still no good! How many mb does it need to be?! Do I have to edit some settings or something?

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:51 am

I think if you have at at least a 256mb card, Halo should look good.

Blarg-Blarg-Blarg! · Post by **Blarg-Blarg-Blarg!** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:00 pm

GAH!!!!!!

Spartan193 · Post by **Spartan193** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:08 pm

Post a screen of everything on high?

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:37 pm

what card is it? AGP, PCI, or PCIe x16? old or new? clock speed?

what about CPU speed and system RAM?

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:57 pm

[cc]z@nd! wrote:what card is it? AGP, PCI, or PCIe x16? old or new? clock speed?

what about CPU speed and system RAM?

That shouldn't affect the graphics would it? I mean, the CPU and RAM.

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:08 pm

Cryticfarm wrote:
[cc]z@nd! wrote:what card is it? AGP, PCI, or PCIe x16? old or new? clock speed?

what about CPU speed and system RAM?
That shouldn't affect the graphics would it? I mean, the CPU and RAM.

No. The graphic card determined how the game will look. RAM and CPU power will affect the performance of the game.

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:32 am

it shouldn't directly affect the graphics, but it can make the game run slower if the CPU is to slow, or there is a small amount of RAM. halo is kind of light by today's standards, but you'll see what i mean if you try playing oblivion with 512 MB of RAM and a <2 Ghz cpu as opposed to 2 gigs of DDR and the newest quad core.

and as for the graphics card, it would be good to know more than just it's memory size. things like gpu clock speed and pipelines are important too.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:17 am

Eaton wrote:
Cryticfarm wrote:
[cc]z@nd! wrote:what card is it? AGP, PCI, or PCIe x16? old or new? clock speed?

what about CPU speed and system RAM?
That shouldn't affect the graphics would it? I mean, the CPU and RAM.
No. The graphic card determined how the game will look. RAM and CPU power will affect the performance of the game.

actually you are half wrong there, I could stick a 8800 GT into a 500Mhz machines, and it will play like a 500Mhz machine. the CPU has to do all the math to make the vectors, and whatnot for the graphics, the CPU makes the calculations, then the graphics card renders it. if you have a crappy card and CPU speeds then there is really no way to make it better without overclocking or buying new hardware.

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:48 am

bcnipod wrote:
Eaton wrote:
Cryticfarm wrote:
[cc]z@nd! wrote:what card is it? AGP, PCI, or PCIe x16? old or new? clock speed?

what about CPU speed and system RAM?
That shouldn't affect the graphics would it? I mean, the CPU and RAM.
No. The graphic card determined how the game will look. RAM and CPU power will affect the performance of the game.
actually you are half wrong there, I could stick a 8800 GT into a 500Mhz machines, and it will play like a 500Mhz machine. the CPU has to do all the math to make the vectors, and whatnot for the graphics, the CPU makes the calculations, then the graphics card renders it. if you have a crappy card and CPU speeds then there is really no way to make it better without overclocking or buying new hardware.

It won't affect the graphics, it would just be ****ing laggy :p.

HPDarkness · Post by **HPDarkness** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:20 am

It would affect the graphics. My friend has a great video card, and a bad CPU. Team Fortress 2 jacked up onto High looks like low, and things don't render in the distance. It also lagged very badly.

A week ago he bought a new processor, now the game looks fine.

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:39 am

HPDarkness1 wrote:It would affect the graphics. My friend has a great video card, and a bad CPU. Team Fortress 2 jacked up onto High looks like low, and things don't render in the distance. It also lagged very badly.

A week ago he bought a new processor, now the game looks fine.

Oh ok :p.

Blarg-Blarg-Blarg! · Post by **Blarg-Blarg-Blarg!** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:11 am

Was it in safe mode?

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:39 am

Blarg-Blarg-Blarg! wrote:Was it in safe mode?

waht are you talking about? it is a fact that you need a good CPU to take advantage of a good graphics card.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:42 am

You need a good CPU for everything. FSB and DRAM should run in 1:1 and same goes for gfx memory clock.