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System Specs question
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:34 pm
by BaronvonTito790
What system specs do i need (like how much ram and video card) to have halo support specular and shadows.
My current specs:
Pentium 4 CPU 2.53GHz
2.52GHZ
512 MB of RAM.
nVidea G-force 4 128M
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:44 pm
by j4s[p]
Atleast the recomended settings.
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:47 pm
by CrimsonKnight
he means for specualr stuff, not running the game.
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:49 pm
by BaronvonTito790
yeah
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:01 pm
by BaronvonTito790
well can anybody help me?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:03 pm
by CrimsonKnight
im sorry, i cant, i dont evenknow wtf specualars are, or what it does besides make things look better, and i have an ati radeon 7500, just enough to run the game without safe mode.
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:10 pm
by BaronvonTito790
speculars are the stuff that make things shine
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:23 pm
by CrimsonKnight
oh...hmm
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:48 pm
by BaronvonTito790
i got i new video card, it should support speculars and shadows, but it doesn't. But i have 512 ram and a pretty good processor, shouldnt it work?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:10 pm
by DankButter
i have
p4 2.8ghz
796mb RDRAM
gefore FX 5600 256MB
mp runs flawless with everything up at 1024x768 res
sp runs fine at 800x600
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 7:12 pm
by BaronvonTito790
so i need more ram, or a 256 card. But i thought that 128 MB should be ebough to support at least spectrals...
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 7:43 pm
by Beastman
ha umm do u mean 768 ddr ram there bud? not 796 rd ram
its sd or ddr. and with that set up ur not gonna have sd
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 7:53 pm
by M.A.C.
CrimsonKnight wrote:im sorry, i cant, i dont evenknow wtf specualars are, or what it does besides make things look better, and i have an ati radeon 7500, just enough to run the game without safe mode.
I have a ati radeon 7500 all-in-wonder car, which is basicly the same thing but with a tv tuner and some more features, after a week of not being able to play hpc on my computer i discovered i need to enable a secondarey moniter to play it. this is because enabling another moniter unlocks a uncontrolable feature of direct x required to play halo. So i dont have to use safe mode
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:27 pm
by Demonic Spartan
I have :
512 RAM
GeForce 128 MB 5700
...and I can have full res and all on high with shadows and decals.
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:29 pm
by CrimsonKnight
i dont have to use safe mode, and to the dude who doesnt know what rd ram is, rd ram is Rambus Ram, very fast ram, not very common either, i want to know where he got it.
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:38 pm
by BaronvonTito790
Demonic Spartan wrote:I have :
512 RAM
GeForce 128 MB 5700
...and I can have full res and all on high with shadows and decals.
but how....i have the same thing, and i dont see spectrals
or shadows...but i do see decals
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:39 pm
by Demonic Spartan
Video options, sherlock....duh.
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 9:55 pm
by Darkstorm995
well lets see i have everything on high with the res at 1024x768 and every box checked so i have decals and everything else and mine runs smooth on my
p4 2.53ghz
256 rdram
geforce ti4200 64 mb
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 10:10 pm
by xecuter
look on the damn halo box der!!!
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:12 am
by DankButter
Beastman wrote:ha umm do u mean 768 ddr ram there bud? not 796 rd ram
its sd or ddr. and with that set up ur not gonna have sd
NO RETARD I SAID RDRAM
System Memory Rambus RDRAM 1066MHz 796MB (i have a 512 and a 256 dual chip, which for tards like you, means 4 chips)
http://store.yahoo.net/s168/rambusmemory1.html
LEARN SOMETHING BEFORE YOU TRY TO MAKE A FOOL OF SOMEONE!!!! (btw that is 2x as fast as ddr ram)
i built my pc from scratch, i know what im talking about.
if you want to run halo flawless you need, at least a 1.2 ghz, 384 RAM, any DirectX9 supportive vid card, THATS IT!!!
the reason that it looks so good on xbox, is because of 2 reasons.
1) the xbox resolution is 480x600 (something like that)
2) the xbox uses a cheap "blur" layer over, so you dont notice little flaws in lines or whatnot