Halo-flt

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by brax@27 September 2003 - 18:47
The problem with Geforce FX cards and Halo is the pixelshader. GFX cards are set to use PS2.0. And as we all know from the HL2 bench, GFX sucks at ps2.0(at least till the new drivers) What you do is go to the properties of the desktop icon and in the target box add -use14 to the end. THis should set Halo to run in PS1.4 which should solve all the probs for the geforce FX's. There is also another way to do this in the actual file, if the command line edit dosnt work. not sure of the details though.

does that change other games as well? and wat bout that nvemulate thing? i used it and it worked for jedi academy and enemy territory. can't i just use that to fix halo? after all, it's called the gforce halo fix.

[muchspl2]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@27 September 2003 - 23:38

does that change other games as well? and wat bout that nvemulate thing? i used it and it worked for jedi academy and enemy territory. can't i just use that to fix halo? after all, it's called the gforce halo fix.

no you change the target icon of the game, not your computer
it tells the game how to run
like
-sound = no sound ect
just because you tell this game to start without sound, it doesnt turn off sound on your computer.

[3rd gen noob]

i'm having problems

the graphics look really basic, there's no real shadows/textures...i've got the settings sorted out, running at 1024x768x32

anyone else had graphics problems...?

[muchspl2]

no problems here
try to lower the res
did you turn up the detail to high & dust to high
mess around with fps I remember 2 or 3 settings
can also rais the refresh rate

[abu_has_the_power]

does the nvemulate thing fix the starup screen freezing?

[3RA1N1AC]

Originally posted by 3rd gen noob@27 September 2003 - 16:21
i'm having problems

the graphics look really basic, there's no real shadows/textures...i've got the settings sorted out, running at 1024x768x32

anyone else had graphics problems...?

you have a radeon 9700, right? what are your CPU speed + amount of system memory?

you should also be using the very latest ATI driver release (Catalyst 3.7, PLUS THE CONTROL PANEL which allows you to adjust the direct3d settings and make sure that you've got the AGP setting cranked up to 4x or 8x)... as well as the very latest Microsoft DirectX version from www.microsoft.com/directx/

if you have anisotropic filtering and antialiasing enabled under directx options, you should try fiddling with those and see if turning them down or disabling them helps. also try switching the in-game graphics options on & off, one at a time, and see if any of those fixes it.

it would help if you could post a screen capture so people can see what the graphics problem is, exactly. "no textures" sounds to me like you're just seeing a lot of plain white or grey polygonal shapes without any details-- which might not be what you really intend to say. so that's where a screen capture would be helpful-- press PRNT SCRN while running the game, then close the game, start a paint program like photoshop or MS-paint, create a "new file," paste, and then save.

i only had problems with the pre-release beta version, and thankfully everything looks right with this one... but hopefully some of these suggestions might be useful.

[brax]

there seems to be a slight prob with the crack as well. when i first got it, it ran fine, actually more than fine. 1024x768 all maxed out, ran like a charm. After i stopped playing for a bit and came back to it, it froze on the startup screen. After launching the game off the cd, i got an error message telling me to go in safe mode. I didnt. I tried launching off the cd again, and it ran perfect, just like the first time.

Seems as though there may be some iffyness (that even a word?) to the crack. However, im not bitching, its still great. better than most.

[3rd gen noob]

i've actually got a 9600 pro, with the latest 3.7 drivers and control panel, running in agp8X
athlon 2700+
asus a7n8x-d
512MB ram

i'd rather not put up a screen cap, if that's ok with you...considering the game isn't out and everything...

i'm not only seeing things in black and white, i can see walls and colours, but it doesn't look finished

also, people have no eyes and i cannot see any details on the hologram on the first level...

i've tried turning all the options in graphics on and off, plus changing resolutions, nothing has helped...

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by brax@28 September 2003 - 04:16
there seems to be a slight prob with the crack as well. when i first got it, it ran fine, actually more than fine. 1024x768 all maxed out, ran like a charm. After i stopped playing for a bit and came back to it, it froze on the startup screen. After launching the game off the cd, i got an error message telling me to go in safe mode. I didnt. I tried launching off the cd again, and it ran perfect, just like the first time.

Seems as though there may be some iffyness (that even a word?) to the crack. However, im not bitching, its still great. better than most.

erm...i didn't need a crack...it runs perfectly well with a fake serial...just put anything you want in...unless i'm missing something?

[brax]

sorry i guess its not technically a crack, i just used that for lack of a better word. (What would you call it? Ripped?)

Another thing that might be some peoples problem is that the game itself has a fix for the refresh rates, so if you are running another program to do that, it might be causing conflicts with halo. Those getting errors may want to check it out.