Halo: Combat Evolved Revisted

Judas · Sep 28, 2010, 08:51 PM

I had a youngen come in asking a question and requesting assistance with something i haven't visited for quite some time.

Obviously with the thread title someone could easily decern what that might be.

Long story short.. the Disk he had was scratched or damaged making it impossible for him to play it. He had picked up for cheap and wanted to try it on his machine. Course not knowing his machine i couldn't say anything. But it raised a question about how windows 7 64bit home premium + intel's i3 would handle it.

So.... in order to help the kid... i found my orginal copy in a split second.. and downloaded 120% to make a copy.

went into the VIEW ~> Options and down to extra emulation and checked ALL 3 options because i know i never could burn a copy of this game before due to many reasons.... what a pain..

Hit the button to copy and crossed my fingers..

total RIP time tooks 3 hours and 54 minutes....

took less then a minute to burn however.

Pop the disk in.. installed it no problemo

Went online to get latest patch.. unfortunately microsofts and bungies and gearbox's websites all are circular.. resulting in it redirecting to the xbox halo 3 reach page which is anything but helpful at all...

Gamershell had the latest 1.04 patch.. downloaded.. installed.. then ran the Updater included to patch to the latest

Then i punched in the command line variable to properly suite..

Heres the results after setting it up and running the timedemo

Quote:

Date / Time: 28/09/2010 1:44:03 PM (16455890ms)
3100MHz, 1024MB, 64M Intel Unknown (DeviceID=0x0042) Driver=8.15.10.2119 Shader=2.0
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe -console -use20 -window -vidmode 1280,720,60 -screenshot -timedemo (Version=1.0.9.620)
Frames=4700
Total Time=86.43s
Average frame rate=54.38fps
Below 5fps= 1% (time) 0% (frames) (1.567s spent in 4 frames)
Below 10fps= 2% (time) 0% (frames)
Below 15fps= 2% (time) 0% (frames)
Below 20fps= 3% (time) 0% (frames)
Below 25fps= 3% (time) 0% (frames)
Below 30fps= 4% (time) 1% (frames)
Below 40fps= 24% (time) 14% (frames)
Below 50fps= 51% (time) 35% (frames)
Below 60fps= 60% (time) 44% (frames)
###Sound Options###
Hardware Acceleration= No
Sound Quality= High
Environmental Sound= No
Sound Variety= High
###Video Options###
Resolution= 1280 x 720
Refresh rate= 60 Hz
Framerate throttle= No Vsync
Specular= Yes
Shadows= Yes
Decals= Yes
Particles= Off
Texture Quality= High

For a Microsoft supplied Video Driver update for the i3 (not direct from intel)... and what i can say for how smoothly this game plays... and scales....

this little intel i3 has yet to let me down.. and continues to impress me...

Tipstaff · Oct 4, 2010, 01:38 PM

Edit: NVM. I was going to mention that you can go higher with the rez using a command line switch, then I noticed you mentioning altering it.

SFOSOK · Oct 5, 2010, 06:28 AM

He put it up there so he could display is Halo editing prowess to unnecessarily reinforce himself as DH Tech savvy.

I luv u too Judas

Man you should have seen how many red squiggles were in this message before I posted it. I googled half that message to spell check it. It took me longer to do that and write this then the message itself.

Judas · Oct 5, 2010, 05:11 PM

well the command line things are childs play.... so no guruness required..

i was just a little shocked because the last time i really played through the game was on a 9800pro/x700pro and while i could get good framerates.... they weren't exactly stellar

i remember stuttering and sound issues and all that garbage... tons of people having major performance issues.. most people playing at between 5-15fps average lol

Oct 4, 2010, 01:38 PM	#2
Tipstaff HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Real capital of Canada: Torauna Posts: 6,773 Rep Power: 190 System Specs	Re: Halo: Combat Evolved Revisted Edit: NVM. I was going to mention that you can go higher with the rez using a command line switch, then I noticed you mentioning altering it. __________________ Portal: The Flash Version _________________________________ Brain: So, you sacked the cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker? Mr. Sackett: The second cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker I've sacked since the sixth sitting sheet slitter got sick.

Oct 5, 2010, 06:28 AM	#3
SFOSOK 939 Goin Strong Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 7,033 Rep Power: 90 System Specs	Re: Halo: Combat Evolved Revisted He put it up there so he could display is Halo editing prowess to unnecessarily reinforce himself as DH Tech savvy. I luv u too Judas Man you should have seen how many red squiggles were in this message before I posted it. I googled half that message to spell check it. It took me longer to do that and write this then the message itself. __________________ Warning - Explicit Content Preceeding METAL!!