10-05-2003, 11:45 PM
Okay, I trolled the Bungie boards and found a way to slightly improve performance. Apparently, Halo doesn't take advantage of anti-aliasing or anisoptic filtering, but if you have a card capable of doing those (which is what? Everything since the late Voodoos?) they still do the computations and waste GPU processing. Solution: Disable them at the card level (Display/Settings/NVidia tab for me, I assume similarly for all NVidia cards). I can now run Halo with particle effects (oh purdy plasma grenade and pistol swirlies!) and still usually get a decent fps.
I just saw that. :blink: I didn't hear the rock hitting bottom, though. Dunno if I waited long enough or not (also, sometimes the sound seems to fade in and out, so that might have been why). That was a biiig hole...
Oh man, there are just so many little things that are so cool. Some random stuff:
- sneaking up on a sleeping (Sleeping? In a combat zone?) Grunt and killing it with a whack to the noggin is cool.
- sticking a plasma grenade to one of those energy-shield cowards and watching it run around wildly until it goes off is cool.
- tossing a grenade into a room and having the resulting flying grunt stopped by the door closing in its face is very cool.
- just about anything marines do. I saw one shooting a dead Elite and yelling "You like that? Huh!? Want more?" :ph34r:
- Running over aliens wih a Warthog is plain sweet.
I like how the human/Covenant weapons are differentiated. It seems pretty obvious that the plasma pistol/rifle is 'better' than the assault rifle, but it's... just... so... cool. The br-r-ratt! sound of it firing is just perfect, and slamming home a new clip after unloading one into an Elite is way too cathartic. B)
And also, I forgot to mention originally, Halo wins gobs of bonus points for having a ringworld. Ringworld represent!
Quote:On one level, your character will approach the edge of a huge drop, and kick a rock of the edge, after the movie ends stay still for a while and you can here the rock hit the bottom
I just saw that. :blink: I didn't hear the rock hitting bottom, though. Dunno if I waited long enough or not (also, sometimes the sound seems to fade in and out, so that might have been why). That was a biiig hole...
Oh man, there are just so many little things that are so cool. Some random stuff:
- sneaking up on a sleeping (Sleeping? In a combat zone?) Grunt and killing it with a whack to the noggin is cool.
- sticking a plasma grenade to one of those energy-shield cowards and watching it run around wildly until it goes off is cool.
- tossing a grenade into a room and having the resulting flying grunt stopped by the door closing in its face is very cool.
- just about anything marines do. I saw one shooting a dead Elite and yelling "You like that? Huh!? Want more?" :ph34r:
- Running over aliens wih a Warthog is plain sweet.
I like how the human/Covenant weapons are differentiated. It seems pretty obvious that the plasma pistol/rifle is 'better' than the assault rifle, but it's... just... so... cool. The br-r-ratt! sound of it firing is just perfect, and slamming home a new clip after unloading one into an Elite is way too cathartic. B)
And also, I forgot to mention originally, Halo wins gobs of bonus points for having a ringworld. Ringworld represent!
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