Halo PC's FPS.

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For those of you that think Halo PC's FPS is 'unacceptable' or 'unbearable', have you read the FAQ? The developers wanted the game to be played at 30 FPS. Also, if you turn VSYNC off, guess what happens!

By the way, the Halo PC demo has been released. For those of you who missed someone's thread that was titled 'Halo PC demo released tomorrow'.

Link to FAQ

EDIT: You can slap me in the face a few times if this has been mentioned already. Don't tell me though.
 
YEah the FAQ helped. I am playing now with full detail.
 
actually, the game was made very poorly, screw the developers. When a new game dosnt run as good as other new games that means its bad performance wise compared to other gmaes. Whats the mean? Microsoft sucks and slice bread rules.
 
So if DOOM 3 doesn't run on your computer you are going to blame id?
 
Originally posted by ray_MAN
So if DOOM 3 doesn't run on your computer you are going to blame id?
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Doom III runs fine, even the Alpha ran fine at 40-50FPS (full detail).
It doesnt change the fact that Halo PC is one of the worst games ever.
 
Originally posted by Hallucinogen
Doom III runs fine, even the Alpha ran fine at 40-50FPS (full detail).
It doesnt change the fact that Halo PC is one of the worst games ever.
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Why is it the worst game ever for you? Look at the reviews, they are all near 100%
 
Ok, I have a problem I forgot to ask. Are all of the textures in the demo supposed to be well, textures that are just one plain color?

EDIT: Something told me I had a problem...
 
Halo, for me, was overhyped. Very repetitive and rushed to completion. Got boring after a while.

I usually get around 20-25fps, which is nice and playable on my sub-standard PC. Better than 5-15fps on Doom 3 :)
 
Originally posted by FatCombine
Why is it the worst game ever for you? Look at the reviews, they are all near 100%
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They are nowhere near 100%, all of them are 70-80% which is pretty crappy.
 
Originally posted by FatCombine
Um, No. Look here.
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Yea the paid them to rate it that high, and gamespy are gay, I never read their reviews because they are morons, and I never heard of the other 2 except Gamespot.
So like I said, most of the sites give them 70-80%.
 
Originally posted by Ridic
actually, the game was made very poorly, screw the developers. When a new game dosnt run as good as other new games that means its bad performance wise compared to other gmaes. Whats the mean? Microsoft sucks and slice bread rules.
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Wow,blaming a developer when it's actually your PC that's screwed up. Think before you post.
 
Originally posted by Solid_Raiden
Wow,blaming a developer when it's actually your PC that's screwed up. Think before you post.
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Do you even know his specs?

Think before you post.
 
How come it runs so badly on all these good computers.... yet it runs like a dream on my old compy :eek:

Meh, I love Halo, cos it's so much fun.... anyway... it DID get good reviews 91% in PCGamer, which is the only mag I trust....
 
The thing is to have the 'right' computer, not the best computer. Apparently my computer isn't the 'right' computer so it run slow as hell. Crapx0rs.
 
Hmph, mine runs it great. And it is a fun game online, singleplayer is a bit boring.
 
I read some reviews befor playing the game. Almost every reviewer mentioned the repetative level design where it looked like the level designers ctrl+c and ctrl+v some levels.

I thought, Ok maybe just a level here and there but I was amazed @ how often it was repeated. When you follow that little blue ball guy 2 the index, its like the same thing over and over. Not cool man...
 
I hate halo and its not because of performance either. I personally dont give a shit about graphics, its definetly a plus but i can look beyond it if the gameplay is good. The gameplay to me was shitty, some of the new MP maps they added in could easily be thrown together in a mere day in WorldCraft. Dont believe me?

Theres one map that is basically one small ass room with a cylinder in the middle and blocks all around it so you can jump to each one or walk to the opponents flag on foot. Any mapper will tell you that its nothing to throw a piece of shit together like that. The new maps are so horrible it baffles me, not only that but the regular maps that are actually somewhat fun are ruined by lack of ability to cummunicate.

Everyones text, death message,..etc. is in white no red text for the red team no blue text for the blue team. Thats just ****ing lazy all games at the least do this cause its common ****ing sense. Not only that but voice communication is on the rise but they are to freakin lazy to put it in the game as well. Those are some nitpicks about communication but to me communication is very important in team based games.

If your wanting to pick this up because of the vechile combat-dont. Wait for ut2k4 it will have vechile mayhem, voice chat and 32 player servers.
Plus way better quality maps then the crap that was thrown together by these guys. Not to mention the BORING and repetitive SP.
 
stop being silly, gearbox have done one hell of a job to convert the game, for starters blame microsoft if ur gonna blame someone... here are the following reasons:
halo was designed for the mac and xbox in the first place, microsoft paid em loads to make it an xbox only,delaying the game.

Xbox is a 128bit console, pcs are 32 bit, hard as hell to turn code back to 32 means they rewrote most of it and it should run approx 4 times slower on the pc with the same specs which is the reason why u need such a good spec pc.

And it finally may not be ur cup of tea.

I have a 700mhz with a tnt2 but i dont complain that ut2003 doesnt run well on mine, grow up... u pay for what u get.

Anyway i have seen a vid for ut2k4, and it looks horrible bad designed levels, very bad vechiles and it looks like they really havent thought it through. Looks like its one of those games where i have to wait and see... i thought the idea of max payne 2 was bad but it turned out they have done pretty well with it...
 
Originally posted by jat

halo was designed for the mac and xbox in the first place, microsoft paid em loads to make it an xbox only,delaying the game.
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erm no, Halo was originally desinged for, Mac and PC and Microsoft paid them loads to make it into an X-Box game.....and the only X-box game that was worth buying... IMHO
 
Originally posted by Stone
erm no, Halo was originally desinged for, Mac and PC and Microsoft paid them loads to make it into an X-Box game.....and the only X-box game that was worth buying... IMHO
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I think thats what he meant to say :p

Right now I'm messing around with the demo and I think it's pretty fun. Controlling the Warthog is a little frustrating for me though, I guess I need to configure the controls better...
 
Originally posted by jat
stop being silly, gearbox have done one hell of a job to convert the game, for starters blame microsoft if ur gonna blame someone... here are the following reasons:
halo was designed for the mac and xbox in the first place, microsoft paid em loads to make it an xbox only,delaying the game.

Xbox is a 128bit console, pcs are 32 bit, hard as hell to turn code back to 32 means they rewrote most of it and it should run approx 4 times slower on the pc with the same specs which is the reason why u need such a good spec pc.

And it finally may not be ur cup of tea.

I have a 700mhz with a tnt2 but i dont complain that ut2003 doesnt run well on mine, grow up... u pay for what u get.

Anyway i have seen a vid for ut2k4, and it looks horrible bad designed levels, very bad vechiles and it looks like they really havent thought it through. Looks like its one of those games where i have to wait and see... i thought the idea of max payne 2 was bad but it turned out they have done pretty well with it...
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Yea i give them kudos for converting, but this could easily been a much better game if delayed awhile to PUT IN SHIT EVERYONE ALREADY HAS.
And if your sitting here telling me to grow up because it doesnt run with good fps on my pc go back and read my original post, it runs fine.

ut2k4 may not your cup of tea, but it seems to me that your only attacking ut2k4 only because i attacked halo. The footage shown doesnt even show whole entire levels so saying they are badly designed doesnt make any sense. All you see is cuts of footage from various maps you never see a entire map and not only that the demo isnt even out so how can you pass judgement on level design on a level you havent even played? Your obviously either a UT hater or someone who judges books by their cover. You can freely say whatever the hell you want im not telling you how to feel you might hate ut series all together i really dont care, but you should really think before you post.
 
Originally posted by FortisVir
I think thats what he meant to say :p

Right now I'm messing around with the demo and I think it's pretty fun. Controlling the Warthog is a little frustrating for me though, I guess I need to configure the controls better...
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Just finished Installing now, and going to try the PC version for first time....

I loved it on the X-box, although i never got hang of the controls
 
u dont read on much do ya? i said its another wait and see game....in other words i may like it. I was impressed with the first ut, not with the second though but i beleive they had a good attempt at it...

and ya stone thats what i ment, i was typing and talking to someone at the same time... :S
 
Originally posted by jat
u dont read on much do ya? i said its another wait and see game....in other words i may like it. I was impressed with the first ut, not with the second though but i beleive they had a good attempt at it...

and ya stone thats what i ment, i was typing and talking to someone at the same time... :S
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Argh i realize you said that but you said from vids it looked like it had poor level design that is what i was responding to.
 
Halo is fantastic! But you can easily make it boring for sure! If you just go up to the enemy and shoots him then that might get boring. Me, I always run around like a freaking maniac, hiding and crouching. And if you have the Warthog, then don't just drive around and shoot...no! Drive like a freaking maniac so all your team mates fly out of the ****ing van and die. And then tip over the jeep and run the aliens over. I myself find it quite fun!
 
Haha yeah, I've been having some fun with the warthog. Just driving it around is fun because of the great physics/suspension model. I keep killing my passenger and gunner in crashes though :p.
 
Originally posted by jat
Xbox is a 128bit console, pcs are 32 bit
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Talk about "talking out of his butt". The Xbox GPU is 128bit, not the CPU. The CPU on both PCs and the Xbox are 32bit (excluding the Athlon64), while modern GPUs in PCs differ between 128 and 256bit.

Halo performs so badly on the PC because its obvious the game is still optimized in part for the GPU in the Xbox (NV25 or NV2A), while almost no optimization has taken place for many of the current video cards.

See: http://www.gamespot.com/gshw/stories/news/0,12836,2764159,00.html and http://hackingthexbox.com/images/chapter2_sample2.pdf.
 
Warthogs are awesome. One time in MP I rammed another Warthog at a perfect 90 degree angle and sent it rolling in mid-air right into a wall, smashing both guys inside it.
 
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