9600PRO 256M and Halo

[postaldave]

i have emachine T2241 AMD athlon XP with
2 Ghz and 1 GB of ram
and a VGA ATIOEM|RADEON 9600PRO 256M 8X%
using the ATI driver 6.14.10.6467
halo 1.06

1024X768 on a liquidvideo LCD running 70Hz 30 Fps


anyway i LOVE playing halo but i still have to keep
the details and setting down low just to keep the screen
from being "laggy?". and it still slows down under heavy
gun fire even at the low settings.

i thought i put together a "good" system gaming but it's not.
any thoughts?

 

[Augustus]

and a VGA ATIOEM|RADEON 9600PRO 256M 8X%

using the ATI driver 6.14.10.6467
halo 1.06

1024X768 on a liquidvideo LCD running 70Hz 30 Fps

i thought i put together a "good" system gaming but it's not.
any thoughts?

LCD monitors should be run at their native resolution or they'll look blurry
generally not great.....should be 60Hz for most no-name 17" ones. When you
push the refresh rate, you decrease the picture quality. 60Hz on an LCD has
a totally different meaning than on a CRT. Anyway, this won't cause your
game to lag and hesitate. I wouldn't call your system a "good" gaming one.
It's adequate for some and marginal for newer 3D games. The XP2400+
processor is fine, 1 gig RAM is plenty, but the 133Mhz (266 effective)
system bus and the lack of dual channel slows things down. The OEM 9600 Pro
256Mb will have slow 200Mhz (400 effective) memory, 128Mb models typically
have 300Mhz (600 effective)memory. This will slow down framerates too. Cheap
integrated onboard sound can cause lags too. (Nforce onboard is an exception
to this).

 

[postaldave]

Augustus wrote
"......Cheap integrated onboard sound can cause lags too...."

funny you said that, i think my box has an Avance Logic, Inc. sound card
at least that's what the driver says. anyway when i get that "lag" the sound
goes
to crap too.

i have an old AWE64 gold sound card laying around, would that help?

 

[Chingy]

its not just your sound card thats causing the lag while u r in intense
graphics war, it is your graphics card you should use either geforece 6600
agp card or something similar to that to see any improvement...

KEeP IN MIND, I had the same card and similar comp and I play HALO too since
I upgraded to 6800GT my comp dun lag at all unless it is internet LAG.

Cheers

 

[Augustus]

Augustus wrote
"......Cheap integrated onboard sound can cause lags too...."

funny you said that, i think my box has an Avance Logic, Inc. sound card
at least that's what the driver says. anyway when i get that "lag" the
sound goes
to crap too.

i have an old AWE64 gold sound card laying around, would that help?

Yes. Go into the BIOS and disable onboard sound. Stick the SB card in and
go.

 

[/mel/]

i have emachine T2241 AMD athlon XP with
2 Ghz and 1 GB of ram
and a VGA ATIOEM|RADEON 9600PRO 256M 8X%
using the ATI driver 6.14.10.6467
halo 1.06

1024X768 on a liquidvideo LCD running 70Hz 30 Fps


anyway i LOVE playing halo but i still have to keep
the details and setting down low just to keep the screen
from being "laggy?". and it still slows down under heavy
gun fire even at the low settings.

i thought i put together a "good" system gaming but it's not.
any thoughts?

I think you'll find that it's just Halo - quite how the authors managed to
get such poor performance out of high-spec systems I don't know, especially
as there doesn't seem to be that much going on. Okay, some of the outdoor
scenes look complex, but the frame rates are appalling even in the corridors
where the environment is simple and the textures aren't great.

 

[DaveW]

Your system, compared to the current state of the art systems, is
considerably slower. Things continue to evolve. And Halo was designed for
FAST systems.

 

[postaldave]

others offered useful info to improve performance.
it was in fact the onboard soundcard slowing things down.
thank you group!(augustus)




that being said i would like to thank DaveW too.

thank YOU DaveW for taking the time to talk out of your ass.
not everyone takes the time to repeat what i had already had said.
thank you very much, the world would be boring without pricks
like you. thanks so very much for putting out even more crap on
the usenet for people read.
thank you for nothing!