My system is :
NF7S 2.0
Barton 2500
Audigy sound card
2x256 pc2700 crucial ram
60gig barracuda IV hard drive
Win98se
latest Omega drivers

When I first started playeng Halo, the game was running fine but without any
colour textures just the various 3d models. Eventually sorted it by going to
the D3D settings in 3D section of the advanced section for display settings.
Moving the settings from performance, to Balanced got everything running as
it should be. Running at 800x600 instead of 1024x768 as it is beyond my
system. Have not put in either of the patches yet, havent found any need for
them, game is stable and apart from occasional slow down when it gets hectic
game runs fine. Will maybe experiment later, and probably foul it all up.
One final thing have added -use11 to the halo.exe so that it reads
halo -use11.exe when highlighted.

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:50:09 +0100, "Richard Rollins"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>system. Have not put in either of the patches yet, havent found any need for
>them, game is stable and apart from occasional slow down when it gets hectic
>game runs fine.

As the patch addresses some performance issues and you are having
performance issues, the maybe you do have a need for it.
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"Richard Rollins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bn6g0t$hhm$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> My system is :
> NF7S 2.0
> Barton 2500
> Audigy sound card
> 2x256 pc2700 crucial ram
> 60gig barracuda IV hard drive
> Win98se
> latest Omega drivers
>
> When I first started playeng Halo, the game was running fine but without
any
> colour textures just the various 3d models. Eventually sorted it by going
to
> the D3D settings in 3D section of the advanced section for display
settings.
> Moving the settings from performance, to Balanced got everything running
as
> it should be. Running at 800x600 instead of 1024x768 as it is beyond my
> system. Have not put in either of the patches yet, havent found any need
for
> them, game is stable and apart from occasional slow down when it gets
hectic
> game runs fine. Will maybe experiment later, and probably foul it all up.
> One final thing have added -use11 to the halo.exe so that it reads
> halo -use11.exe when highlighted.
>
>

You do not rename the EXE file with -use11, you use it in the command line.
Right click on the shortcut icon, click properties, and in target go the the
end of the line and add -use11. You can also add -novideo to get rid of the
intro movies that play when you launch halo. Click the link below for an
example of the above.

http://thejzone.virtualave.net/other/halo.shortcut.jpg

Summat seriously wrong if 1024*768 is beyond your system, I run halo at
1280*1024 smooth as owt

Abit NF7 V2
Athlon 2400+ XP
256mb 3200 DDR
Radeon 9500pro Modded to 9700

Ogre

"Jonathan DeVowe" <AddressUponRequest> wrote in message
news:1bidnYSKrqDhdAuiRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "Richard Rollins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:bn6g0t$hhm$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> > My system is :
> > NF7S 2.0
> > Barton 2500
> > Audigy sound card
> > 2x256 pc2700 crucial ram
> > 60gig barracuda IV hard drive
> > Win98se
> > latest Omega drivers
> >
> > When I first started playeng Halo, the game was running fine but without
> any
> > colour textures just the various 3d models. Eventually sorted it by
going
> to
> > the D3D settings in 3D section of the advanced section for display
> settings.
> > Moving the settings from performance, to Balanced got everything running
> as
> > it should be. Running at 800x600 instead of 1024x768 as it is beyond my
> > system. Have not put in either of the patches yet, havent found any need
> for
> > them, game is stable and apart from occasional slow down when it gets
> hectic
> > game runs fine. Will maybe experiment later, and probably foul it all
up.
> > One final thing have added -use11 to the halo.exe so that it reads
> > halo -use11.exe when highlighted.
> >
> >
>
> You do not rename the EXE file with -use11, you use it in the command
line.
> Right click on the shortcut icon, click properties, and in target go the
the
> end of the line and add -use11. You can also add -novideo to get rid of
the
> intro movies that play when you launch halo. Click the link below for an
> example of the above.
>
> http://thejzone.virtualave.net/other/halo.shortcut.jpg
>
>
>

Cheers for the that Johnathan I can now run Halo with the textures enabled -
looks great now )
"Ogre" <big-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:qXElb.844$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Summat seriously wrong if 1024*768 is beyond your system, I run halo at
> 1280*1024 smooth as owt
>
> Abit NF7 V2
> Athlon 2400+ XP
> 256mb 3200 DDR
> Radeon 9500pro Modded to 9700
>
> Ogre
>
> "Jonathan DeVowe" <AddressUponRequest> wrote in message
> news:1bidnYSKrqDhdAuiRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> > "Richard Rollins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:bn6g0t$hhm$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > >
> > > My system is :
> > > NF7S 2.0
> > > Barton 2500
> > > Audigy sound card
> > > 2x256 pc2700 crucial ram
> > > 60gig barracuda IV hard drive
> > > Win98se
> > > latest Omega drivers
> > >
> > > When I first started playeng Halo, the game was running fine but
without
> > any
> > > colour textures just the various 3d models. Eventually sorted it by
> going
> > to
> > > the D3D settings in 3D section of the advanced section for display
> > settings.
> > > Moving the settings from performance, to Balanced got everything
running
> > as
> > > it should be. Running at 800x600 instead of 1024x768 as it is beyond
my
> > > system. Have not put in either of the patches yet, havent found any
need
> > for
> > > them, game is stable and apart from occasional slow down when it gets
> > hectic
> > > game runs fine. Will maybe experiment later, and probably foul it all
> up.
> > > One final thing have added -use11 to the halo.exe so that it reads
> > > halo -use11.exe when highlighted.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > You do not rename the EXE file with -use11, you use it in the command
> line.
> > Right click on the shortcut icon, click properties, and in target go the
> the
> > end of the line and add -use11. You can also add -novideo to get rid of
> the
> > intro movies that play when you launch halo. Click the link below for an
> > example of the above.
> >
> > http://thejzone.virtualave.net/other/halo.shortcut.jpg
> >
> >
> >
>
>