H2V freeze on loadup

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Originally Posted by Don_HH2K

So, my next question is... Is there any equivalent to switches like CE's -vidmode, -safemode, and so forth? I'm alright running it at the minimum 800x600, but if I can get a few more frames out of 640x480 I wouldn't mind doing so.

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As far as I know, there are none. Microsoft decided to mandate user-frendly (read: fucking useless) interfacing.

p0lar_bear, looks like you're right. I looked in halo2.exe but from the looks of it the only switches it takes are "-windowed", "-novsync", and "-nosound". I might've missed a few, I don't know for sure.

Some searching turned up the screen dimension settings in the Registry in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Halo 2\Video Settings, but changing the appropriate two values just reset the game back to 800x600 when it loaded up. Nice work, I even had Halo 1 running as low as 320x200 (used by a number of MS-DOS games) without any trouble.

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Originally Posted by Don_HH2K

Some searching turned up the screen dimension settings in the Registry in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Halo 2\Video Settings, but changing the appropriate two values just reset the game back to 800x600 when it loaded up. Nice work, I even had Halo 1 running as low as 320x200 (used by a number of MS-DOS games) without any trouble.

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It works somewhat, but not the way we want it to. You can run at 800x600, and set it to 1680x1050 with regedit, and it worked, but 1440x900 didn't and reset to 800x600. I think I broke something though, as the SP is unlocked now, and I didn't enter a key yet (XP install). :eyesroll:

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Originally Posted by [FBI]Xetsuei™

Dude, even if you do get it working it will hardly run. My laptop has a Core 2 Duo, 2 Gigs of ram, and a GeForce Go 7600. I can run h2v @ 640x480 low settings no aa, and get no more than 15 fps.

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lol, how does tht happen... i got exact same specs and can run @ 1280x1024 in high framerates... to be exact my laptop's a toshiba qosmio g30

I'm running a 64 bit of vista with the specs of. 2ghz amd spemphron 1gb of slow ddr400 ram and an nvidia 8500gt with 256 mem. I'm running at med detail no aa at 1024x768. I get good framerates in mp, ok ones in sp. but I can still see whats going on.

Why the hell did you get an 8500GT? What a horrible card.