System Specs question

BaronvonTito790 · Post by **BaronvonTito790** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:34 pm

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

j4s[p] · Post by **j4s[p]** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:44 pm

Atleast the recomended settings.

CrimsonKnight · Post by **CrimsonKnight** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:47 pm

he means for specualr stuff, not running the game.

BaronvonTito790 · Post by **BaronvonTito790** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:49 pm

BaronvonTito790 · Post by **BaronvonTito790** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:01 pm

well can anybody help me?

CrimsonKnight · Post by **CrimsonKnight** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:03 pm

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.

BaronvonTito790 · Post by **BaronvonTito790** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:10 pm

speculars are the stuff that make things shine

CrimsonKnight · Post by **CrimsonKnight** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:23 pm

oh...hmm

BaronvonTito790 · Post by **BaronvonTito790** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:48 pm

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?

DankButter · Post by **DankButter** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:10 pm

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

BaronvonTito790 · Post by **BaronvonTito790** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 7:12 pm

so i need more ram, or a 256 card. But i thought that 128 MB should be ebough to support at least spectrals...

Beastman · Post by **Beastman** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 7:43 pm

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

M.A.C. · Post by **M.A.C.** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 7:53 pm

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

Demonic Spartan · Post by **Demonic Spartan** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:27 pm

I have :

512 RAM
GeForce 128 MB 5700

...and I can have full res and all on high with shadows and decals.

CrimsonKnight · Post by **CrimsonKnight** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:29 pm

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.

BaronvonTito790 · Post by **BaronvonTito790** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:38 pm

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

Demonic Spartan · Post by **Demonic Spartan** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:39 pm

Video options, sherlock....duh.

Darkstorm995 · Post by **Darkstorm995** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 9:55 pm

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

xecuter · Post by **xecuter** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 10:10 pm

look on the damn halo box der!!!

DankButter · Post by **DankButter** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:12 am

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