I just borrowed Halo from my library and I just got a new Vista laptop. It just has an Nvidia geforce 6150, but the sound seems to skip (not the video) every once in awhile. I dunno if it has to do with Vista and how it decreasing gaming speed, but I was wondering if anyone knew anything about it.
Reinstall/update sound drivers, then patch Halo to the newest version. If that doesn't work then its probably just Halo showing another reason why it was a pretty terrible port.
Reinstall/update sound drivers, then patch Halo to the newest version. If that doesn't work then its probably just Halo showing another reason why it was a pretty terrible port.ProudLarry
Halo? Horribly optimized? -AMD Athlon XP 1800+ -512 MB DDR-266 SDRAM -ATI Radeon 9600 XT 128 MB I can run Halo PC on this old hunk of junk just fine, probably even better than the Xbox! No framerate problems whatsoever! And I get online multiplayer, to boot-not to mention mods! However, it could very well be buggy and have mysterious issues for all I know. What I do know is that low framerates aren't the problem. Oh, and does Halo PC use DirectSound? M$ made a stupid-ass decision to cut DirectSound entirely out of Vista, which means that games that use it can't use hardware acceleration for sound. (Games that use OpenAL are unaffected, fortunately.) The only solution seems to be getting a X-Fi card(XtremeMusic or better)and running ALchemy to wrap the DirectSound calls into OpenAL...and that still may not fix the Halo PC sound issue. But it's worth a shot.
I had a similar bug on my vista system when i first got it. I realized the times it was cutting out was when didnt have something making noise on either side of me... It was stuck in 7.1 surround mode when I just had the 2 speakers. I had to go download the audio drivers from the companies website. After that it worked fine.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I almost pissed my pants after reading that! Anyways your library lets you borrow PC Games? Lucky bastard. Oh and I don't think Halo will work on Vista (at least not properly) Sorry.
Halo? Horribly optimized? -AMD Athlon XP 1800+ -512 MB DDR-266 SDRAM -ATI Radeon 9600 XT 128 MB I can run Halo PC on this old hunk of junk just fine, probably even better than the Xbox! No framerate problems whatsoever!NamelessPlayer
That's more than enough hardware to Halo. The problem was with even older hardware. The first time I tried to run Halo when it was released on the PC I was running a P4 1.8GHz, 384MB RAM, GeForce 4 Ti 4200, which ran Unreal Tournament 2003 perfectly fine on a mix of mostly high and some medium settings. Yet trying to play Halo resulted in low framerates and stuttering. And its quite clear just by looking at screenshots which game between UT2003 and Halo was the more technically advanced and better looking (hint: UT 2003).
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