Bugs that REALLY need Fixing.

[jahrain]

Additionally if you hit your team chat key while typing a regular message it will close the text box, and re-open a blank one for team chat. If you hit your team voice chat button it'll close any open text boxes too. Can't wait for these to be fixed so I can type messages with 'y', 't' and 'n' in them. Another really annoying keyboard-related bug is that after mapping crouch to left ctrl, pressing crouch while you already have any other key down on the keyboard does not register. I can only crouch if I release all keys I have down, then press it. Once it's pressed down I think I can hit any other key and it continues to work until I let off it again (so I can crouch-walk once I have ctrl down, but can't press crouch mid-walk).

I'm also a little puzzled as to why I get RAM warnings: I have 2gb, play with no other programs open, use all lowest settings and yet Vista frequently pops up "Your computer is low on memory". Also pretty annoyed that I get horrible framerate. It seems entirely CPU-bound; I can change the screen resolution to anything and I'm getting very little change in FPS. I have a single core AMD 3800+; is anyone getting decent framerate with a single core CPU? I'll upgrade shortly, it's just annoying that on lowest settings it looks worse than Halo CE and is running at a third of the framerate.

They have neglected giving the game proper keyboard/mouse support. Notice the mouse has no acceleration which is why it feels 'stiff' even at max sensitivity. Also the sensitivity doesn't increase for vehicles and turrets making the warthog and other vehicles nearly undrivable with the keyboard/mouse.

Also vista and/or halo 2 vista probably has memory leaks I guess. I use 1 gig of ram and for some reason, halo 2 just fills it right up after just a few minutes of gameplay since vista is constantly using nearly half it at all times. If this port was done more professionally with more effort put into making it run more efficiently, its quite possible that this game could only need the same minimum requirements as Halo PC, as they were both originally developed for the same 2001 era hardware. Btw, a dual core processor won't help your game performance at all. Halo 2 takes no advantage of multicore CPUs. I notice only up to 50 to 52% of my CPU being used when playing.