Now that is late: Halo Demo

[Damrod]

Wow, is that late or what? More than 1 and a half years after Halo was released for the Mac, MacSoft released a Demo for it this week. Wouldn't that make more sense when a game is newly released rather then when it's already a while on the market and rather... old?

 

[Decado]

got it on my xBox (and halo 2, the only two games i play), but gonna download it anyway just to see how it runs

to bad about the download speed of the server they have the demo on. it won't let me download faster than 100kb/s, anybody else with this problem?

 

[Damrod]

got it on my xBox (and halo 2, the only two games i play), but gonna download it anyway just to see how it runs

to bad about the download speed of the server they have the demo on. it won't let me download faster than 100kb/s, anybody else with this problem?

I started with about 160, and from there it went constantly down to about 90... Just get a cup of tea or watch some Red vs Blue to kill the time until it's finished

 

[HoZ]

i downloaded it also... if you wanna play me my name is SAINT.... see you around...

 

[redhawk11]

do any of you have problems with halo demo?

 

[Damrod]

Not really... what kind of problems?

 

[Decado]

no, just a few weird things concerning performance. as long as the covenants don't shoot at me with their purple energy rifles everything is smoother when i have maxed out all the graphic options than when i have them on a minimum (when i say "max out", i mean picking the highest options availible on my computer, well aware of that someone with a G5 and better graphics card have a few higher options to choose from).

 

[Damrod]

I tried maxing out the settings both inside and 'outside' the game (in the dialog before the game starts), and I must say it's pretty suprising good. Could be smoother, but ok.

Still, on the PC at my parents place it looks more precious... Must be because of their RADEON 9800 Pro, that's just better compared to my Readeon 9000

EDIT: I noticed that my machine goes to it's knees especially when something with a constant sound appears, like Covenant Dropships for example. Apart from that, it runs really quite fine