Halo is a popular game and still played by hordes of gamers, its not personally one of my favourites as I think they could have spent a little more time optimising the engine for those on slower systems, nonetheless its still an enjoyable experience and one of the more playable console ports of recent times.

The results above show quite clearly none of these cards are really capable of sustaining playable frame rates in this game, even at 1024x768 with the ATI coming out top at an average of around 17-18 frames per second. Switching to 800x600 yields better results with the ATI board pumping out around 26-27 frames per second. The FX 5200 and 5500 boards struggle to break 15 frames per second even at 800x600.

Its worth mentioning this game has many online guides dealing with optimising frame rate performance so if you are willing to take the time to research this, you can look at adding 5-7fps to these figures.

 

Next: Conclusion

 

Select 1. The Boards 2. Testing Setup 3. Shadermark 2 4. Rightmark Video Analyzer 5. Codecreatures 6. Farcry 7. Serious Sam 2 8. Call Of Duty 9. Unreal Tournament 2003 10. Unreal Tournament 2004 11. Return to Castle Wolfenstein 12. Halo 13. Conclusion