Legionaire, the reason why Halo 2 ran well on the xbox was because it was optimized specifically for those parts, plus the Xbox OS is nowhere near as complicated as Windows so you don't have to compensate for background stuff. On a PC you have a complicated Windows OS plus all those malware scanners, firewalls, etc - of course a more powerful PC is required. But that means that H2V should at least LOOK the way it did on the xbox with a DX8 card (the game unfairly requires at least DX9 when it barely even uses it). So yeah, I agree H2V is among the shittiest ports ever. It's a shame that its porting job nearly kills the excellent game within.
acceleron, I believe you are actually getting high framerates in H2V. Zeph's laptop has the same video card as yours. The problem, according to him, is that when H2V's frames get very high, the game itself can't keep up so it starts to slow down despite big numbers. Therefore, 100 fps on H2V will actually feel laggy. You should force the game to run at your refresh rate (I assume that as a laptop display it's 60 hz). I don't know why you can't simply lock the game at 30 fps the way it was possible in Halo 1 for PC.
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