Cheap Card for Halo PC at 1920x1200

[3Ball]

I play halo every day and was playing before I saw this thread, I can barily play on my laptop when compared to my desktop because of the quality and frame rates that I am used to on my desktop. I promise you I can tell a difference between 35 fps and 60 fps. I can tell a difference between 55 fps and 60 fps. Believe me, I am very picky about FPS in most games! Not trying to be a dick, but my roommate is just like you in the since of he cant tell. When I watch him play on his comp even when i am not sitting in front of the comp and playing I am able to see the frame loss and the blurriness thats 40 FPS! He thinks Im crazy and he drives me crazy when he claims he cant see it. I flat out dont believe him because its so obvious to me. I think he is just tryin to piss me off! I think he may have succeeded...lol

P.S. I didnt notice his post on his budget and the ones he was looking at, so I would stay with cleeve on this one and go with the X1650XT, but dont expect great gameplay at that res. Or atleast by my standards. Im only tryin to help!

Best,

3Ball

 

[enforcerfx]

dude, my friends 6600 with a p4 3.4 ghz plays it at 2060 x 1560 or w/e fine, no lag with tons of effects.

so there.

Somehow, I do not believe that. Anyways, I think a X1650XT will do the job just fine.

 

[PR3DAT0R]

Yeah as long as it stays over 30FPS its fine with me. Cleeve do you the extra money for the X1650 XT would be worth it I would like to go as cheap as possible because I'm going to be replacing this card as soon as the DX10 cards are in the $200-$250 range.

 

[cleeve]

Even though the X1600 XT and X1650 XT have similar sounding names, they are based on a different GPU and they are worlds apart in performance.

The X1600 has 12 pixel shaders, but the X1650 XT has twice that - 24 pixel shaders! It's definitely worth the $20 or so difference, IMHO.

 

[torque79]

there's nothing humble about your opinion cleeve. 😉

 

[cleeve]

True enough. From now on it'll be IMSBO*.

*In My Smug Bastard Opinion

 

[PR3DAT0R]

Ok I think I'll go with the X1650XT I'll let you know how it goes when I get the card. Thank you guys for all your help and sorry for being such a cheap ass.

 

[cleeve]

Hey, nothing wrong with getting the best bang for you buck! But in this case the X1650 XT is so vastly superior, you'd be doing yourself a major disservice by saving the few dollars, IMSBO.

 

[djplanet]

For reference, my X600 gets ~40-60 fps on large multiplayer maps in Halo PC (768x1024). Close quarters with lots of action bring it to its knees, ~20 fps. Halo was poorly ported by Gearbox software. The X1650 is your best bet in all likelihood.

 

[3Ball]

NP, good luck with it! Hope it works out!

Best,

3Ball

 

[AdamBomb42]

yes it can, it's an extremely badly programmed game for the pc. You need a very powerful PC to max out the settings and run such an exceptionally high resolution, because it could have been better programmed by monkeys.

I ran halo at 1280x1024 on a 5600 maxed out and it ran fine. The 7600GT is more than he needs, but I also suggest the 76.

 

[TSIMonster]

To OP:

Just FYI, I just picked up a Sapphire x1950xt for $170 new from NewEgg.

The HIS 1650XT should serve you well. It is slightly faster then the x850xtpe and has SM3.0. Plus the HIS one is silent, which is a big plus to me.

Good Luck.

 

[Twisted_Sister]

wow - halo PC... that's an old one. However, does anybody have pictures of mid resolution vs. fully maxed out.

I'm really curious to see the difference and how it compares to games in 2006 (@ mid resolution).

Can anybody post some pics?

 

[corpclegg]

why dont you get a 7600 gt for a little over a hundred that way you can play some other games if you want. halo pc still was alot of fun. old games are still cool , like wolf et ect. i cant speak for ati cards but i ran halo max at 1024 768 with a 5500 and that card was poop.

 

[bullet937]

I know im a couple years late, But FYI, I use a Intel Core 2 Quad running at 3.2Ghz and a Nvidia Geforce 9600GT 512MB PCI-e to play Halo, I can get anywhere from 250 "full loaded 16 man server with grenades everywhere" to 1000fps "basically looking at the sky or in small maps like RatRace" @ 1600x1200 maxed out "the max my monitor will support".
And if you want a good ATi card for it, I've also used a Radeon 4830 512mb and got similar results.