Halo's really some pain - Page 2

UmarOMC · #9 December 14th, 2005, 05:11 AM

I've got the latest Halo update (make sure you have that, too!) a Radeon9800Pro (128MB VRAM), OS 10.4.3, latest drivers and 1GB RAM and I still suffer from slowdowns...

I began playing Halo when I'd a stock Radeon 9000 64MB and Halo wasn't as visually appealing... but even now there are slowdowns on my 1GHz MDD G4 so I'd expect your setup to be "worse for wear" as far as Halo goes... I suggest at least a RAM upgrade.

Doom 3's freakin' gorgeous, too! The Radeon 9800 Pro allows for a lot more visual niceties... the lack/shortage of system RAM and VRAM is very likely a culprit when it comes to textures, et al., not loading/displaying correctly...

HoZ · #10 December 14th, 2005, 08:16 AM

yeah, i have a gig and a quarter of ram and it is still slow....

Barose · #11 December 14th, 2005, 10:09 AM

The funny thing is that a friend of mine plays Medal of Honor: Allied Assault on a '99 PC with 500MHz processor and 128 RAM memory. It's no bluff, i've seen that. Life's unfair.

Damrod · #12 December 14th, 2005, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Specs

# PII 450 CPU
# 128MB RAM
# 8x CD- or. DVD-ROM
# 3-D-card

Well, it does not have high requirements, so...

Lt Major Burns · #13 December 14th, 2005, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by SuperTyphoon

Doom 3 runs for mac?

it was developed for mac by John Carmack i believe. he likes macs it seems.

hypertron · #14 December 15th, 2005, 02:18 PM

yeah i have the demo. Its pretty nice. Dood did you try to change the sttings before the game in halo.nib?

maz94protege · #15 December 16th, 2005, 01:10 AM

i heard doom3 runs on mac but needs 1.5gb ram or more to run correctly and you needa G5 too. i bought it for PC right when it came out and cant get it to run on PC without it gettin soo jumpy or laggy.

I did get a copy of HALO for MAC, works fine, but since i dont have a legit key i cant try it online. NO problems yet with the mac mini and halo. 1.42 and 512 ram runs good at 800x600, havent tried higher yet

baby_bratz · #16 December 16th, 2005, 11:16 PM

I HAVE LEARNED MANY

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Originally Posted by Barose

Hello guys. I'm experiencing some graphic and gameplay trouble with that pain in the ass Halo. First of all i can't see the characters properly (master chief is colored differently than the box and the marines' faces are a mess), then when i'm fighting in big areas the game gets REALLY slow. The following are my eMac specs

Processor: 1 GHz PowerPC G4
Memory: 512 MB SDRAM
Graphics: ATY,RV200
VRAM: 32 MB
Producer: ATI
Resolution: 1024x768 Refresh:89Hz

As you can see the minimum requirements are matched and slightly surpassed, considering that Halo is a 2003 game. I think i've read somewhere on the Bungie FAQ that i need to update my graphic driver, but the update software included in the CD (ATI stuff) doesn't work: it says no ATI card is present on my Mac. WTF? Isn't ATY RV200 another name for the Radeon 7500??? Anyone can help me? I understand that you guys all have uber powerful G5 computers, but i'd like at least some advice to run Halo better. I've tried the lowest settings possible, like switching to 640x480 and eliminating particles, details, decals etc., but it's running even slower than the previous 1024x768. Halo's a great game, but i can't really say i've enjoyed it, with bad graphics and slow gameplay. I'm not really good when it comes to graphic on Apple computers...

EDIT: i think i've posted this help request on the support application "help" aswell, but i'm not sure what i did exactly, i'm a newbie to this site...sorry if i double posted anyway.