These messages really surprise me. I'm running Halo on my dual 1 GHz G4 with a GeForce 4 Ti and it runs SUPERBLY at 1344x840, the highest resolution it will allow me (which is about 20% shy of full res on my Cinema Display).

I also loaded it onto my little 867 MHz G4 PowerBook and, while it doesn't support the higher quality effects, it still runs fast and is totally playable.

I would agree with you. I have been pleasantly surprised with the playability of Halo on my old Sawtooth G4 (upgraded with a Sonnet 800 G4 and Radeon 8500). My 1 GHz tiBook (Radeon 9000) is also playable.

I think that the frustration of some comes from:

(a) folks with G5/Radeon 9800 rigs expect to be able to max out every setting (probably not an unreasonable expectation); and

(b) for a new game it doesn't really look that much better than games based on the venerable Q3 engine (e.g., RTCW).

However, given that the PC guys have also been having problems and that this is a console port (i.e., was not designed to support high resolutions), I'm pretty happy with the current state of affairs and look forward to some improvements with the expected 1.03 update.

I honestly think that it is just because i had an absolute beast of a computer before this laptop which i had to sell. AMD Athlon xp 2800+ with ati 9700 allin wonder and a gig of pc3200 ram. I think if you guys looked at halo on a souped up intel or amd machine you would see a big difference.

When i say slow for my laptop i'd say it gets around 20 fps in lots of action with the resolution way down. It is still playable, but it makes me miss my other computer :)

Despite it's speed flaws, is the game any good? I've 1/2 a mind to purchase it..

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i ran the time demo, but where are the results of the benchmark?

I double clicked "timedemo.txt" in my Halo folder, but it just opens timedemo, it isn't a text file...

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When one says "pcs are better for gaming", this is meant to reflect the market reality that there are more games for PC; and if a game does make it to mac it's not always the best done port.

It has nothing to do with the hardware[1].


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[1] The exception could be high-end OpenGL cards, but if you're using these for gaming you're just wasting your money.

i agree, and when rereading my post i realize i didn't mean that, but i also think the drivers aren't as good for mac b/c the companies realize the pc market is much larger

basically, we're gettingthe shaft in games

I'm one of those guys with 9800, although it's on my PM 1,24 G4 with 768 Mb RAM. However, Im running the game at 800x600 and I want it to atleast run smoothly all the time, which it doesn't. Now it runs okay in small indoor levels and pretty choppy in outdoor with fighting.

Anything else you can do to make it run better? I mean, I thought a Radeon 9800 Pro would be... well... good. Up until now I haven't noticed any difference at all when compared to my old Radeon 9000 Pro.

Maybe it's just coded poorly. i have another problem with Halo now, it seems after about 20 minutes of gameplay my ram fills up to around only 50 megs free (out of 512). i know 1 gb would be good for games with beefy requirements...but 256 is the requirement on the box (with 512 recommended)

My guess is, just another crappy port, sadly..