was just curious as to find out if anyone else when playing the PC version of Halo ever experienced problems where guns with a zoom function, such as sniper rifle, would zoom automatically and the button to zoom doesnt work.

another problem is at times in multiplay, sometimes i get some kinda stretched out shot of a person which may also be known as a horizontal tear.

if anyone can help that would be great

No. The only problem i have found with it is when you come load/checkpoints it lags a little while it loads. Theres also some slowdown in large battles but i expected that. Other than that it seems to run just fine. I havent found any glitches with guns or anything yet.

for some reason when i use the pistol or sniper rifle, they zoom all by themselves and my zoom button doesnt work so i will be walking and it will zoom for a few mins then zoom back out, but the sniper rifle zooms to 2X for a few mins then zooms to 8X for a few mins, then it goes back to normal. i dont know how to fix this auto zoom stuff.

and yes, i do experience that checkpoint loading choppiness and the big group stuff

I've never seen that problem either Xain. The only issues I have are the same ones lalaji already pointed out. Other than that I'm pretty impressed with it.

interesting story.....turns out the auto zoom was due to the zoom button on my joystick (guess i shouldve checked every settings before actually starting ^_^;;;; ) thx for the replies though guys

Originally posted by Xain
interesting story.....turns out the auto zoom was due to the zoom button on my joystick (guess i shouldve checked every settings before actually starting ^_^;;;; ) thx for the replies though guys

You actually play it with your joystick ?

The mouse/keyboard combo is much "natural" when it comes to FPS games IMO.

One of the advantages of having Halo on the PC is being able to use that combo so I can't see why you would you insist on playing it like on a XboX...:confused:

no, i dont play with joystick, i use the mouse and keyboard, but the joystick is hooked up and the button that zoom was set to on the joystick was what was making the guns zoom on their own

keyboard/mouse combo is the only way to play these types of games

Have you tried updating Halo to the latest patch from Microsoft's Halo (http://www.microsoft.com/games/halo/downloads.asp) site?

I also have Halo (Just came out in UK), yet haven't experienced ANY problems, which is surprising considering you guys have :confused: .

If any of you fellas feel up for a multiplayer match, give me a shout ;) , who knows, we could make a TS clan if there are enough of us :) .

well if you want, when im on halo im usually on a server called [OL] Server or [OL] Game Server since im part of a group called the Outlaw Legends.

if you would like to know more, visit our web site www.outlawlegends.tk or if you have AIM, feel free to drop a message to me at xain84, in which we can get a chat room created with the group leader and see if he wants to recruit new people

oh yea, and i no longer have any problems playing halo ^_^

Ahh, very cool man, I think I will drop by in your server some time :) . This should be a challenge for me as I am so used to SOF2 (I OWN), to play Halo online should be a challlenge, makes it even more exciting ;) .

I just downloaded the demo, haven't gotten my hands on the whole game yet. I must say it looks pretty good, but it's the first game that I've played that bogs down on my computer when I have every setting at max. As some of you have said, when I get in a big battle, it slows way down. Guess I'm going to have to come off the settings some.

i heard that anti-aliasing drops frame rate for 95fps to 35fps, yet does not improve picture quality.

I would just like to know who can run it at 95 fps. But it's true, AA and AF have no effect on image quality due to the way halo does some of its special effects.

olefarte i would be interested to know what settings u have experienced lag in, as ur system is faster than mine.

btw i stopped playing it because of a lack of low latency servers, i only like the 10 or more player games and lots of people make 16 player games when they can only handle maybe 5 which is very gay... are there any dedicated servers up now and how many anyone?

XD

I haven't played online yet, so I can't comment on that.

As far as the settings I used, I had AA at 4x and AF at 8x, VSync on, Texture and Mapmap Detail at max. And all settings in the game maxed out, res at 1280x1024. That's the way I run all games. Moved the res back to 1024x768, no help there. Whenever I was in a big battle it slowed down almost to a stop.

I haven't had a chance to play any more, but I imagine I'm going to have to turn VSync, AA and AF off and see if that helps. Probably bring every setting way down.

Oh, almost forgot, I was using the latest Omega drivers, but have went back to the 3.7's, don't know if that will make any difference.

the multiplay is really cool, especially when your on a team and you and a few others decide to ride the tank, its cool having one person shoot the big cannon and side gun, and have up to 4 people on the sides with different guns shooting everywhere else.

i hope to see some of you on someday, havent played much since im usually taking care of stuff on JK2 (idiots, lamers etc etc...) but i do think about gettin a game of halo started at times

Saw some screenshots of Halo on Extremetech which showed 4X AA and none at all. The AA makes little to no difference on Halo, so it seems to be not worth the performance hit. You can run a time demo which will dump a text file to the Halo folder showing your average FPS's. Add -timedemo to the end of your shortcut path and it will automatically run.

All the above info can be found at extremetech. Direct quote

"If you want to see just how ugly Halo can look, try out that fixed function pipeline option. Ouch! On GeForce FX cards, moving from pixel shader version 2.0 to 1.4 results in a really nice speed boost—with a further boost when you move down to PS1.1. ATI cards, which run far better with PS2.0, get less of a speed gain."

Good Luck the game is hell of cool.

Yeah, I cut all my settings back a lot, so it would run in the battle scenes, and it doesn't look good at all, but it ran good. Haven't had a chance to try again, but, I imagine I can run my settings up at least some and still be okay.

I haven't bought the game yet, although I had my hands on it yesterday, and started to. I've got the demo only, and I may be the only one in the world, but, I just can't get that excited about this game.

well, I can't say nothing about the PC version, cause mine wont ru this game, but I have wore it out on X-box

Originally posted by DLx/P
well, I can't say nothing about the PC version, cause mine wont ru this game, but I have wore it out on X-box Wouldn't want to buy a good used computer, would you. HeHe.

lol.....nah...but Im not beyond taking hand me downs! You could probably put that flat panel in your carry-on luggage!! ;)

Anyone see this problem with PC version of Halo? Anyone know what the fix is?

Thanks...

well... i don't have the same zoom problem... i have one that is somewhat weird... when i zoom in it zooms i think... WAY too far and can only see one color.. not exactly sure what it is.. .think my have something to do with the fact that they never did product testing on my the vid card i'm running(geforce 4 ti 4200 64mb) can anyone help?!?!:confused: :confused: :(

The developers recommend not using AA. Something about the game not coded to properly support it.

I just downloaded the latest driver for my nvidia geforce fx 5200 and ever since that happened the graphics would be wierd like a line drawn from a body or gun and it is soooo obnoxious. If u know wuts wrong please tell me.

Hey guys, I know you're all asking questions but I'll put one in there as well.
My PC cuts out and restarts after playing about an hour and a bit of Halo. All other games work. My settings are 1280x1024. Monitor at 60hz ( is 60hz good or bad?). Framerate at 30fps (what the hell is vsync? I turned it off cause i thought it was the problem) Everything else is on 'yes' and 'high'.
I just wondered if anyone had a similiar problem like this where it restarts. I've got the latest driver for halo (1.031). My card is great and my processor is even better but Halo just doesn't work.

Thanks in advance for your replies:grinthumb




PS: That TS Halo Clan sounds sweet. I'm in if you start it.

I don't know what kind of controller you are using but you might want to install a new driver for it. I actually using an Xbox controller with a PC adapter. I had to look around for a couple of different drivers before it started working right.

out.........

This happens alot, after i join a multiplayer game for a while it will automatically close the game down and say "the game has closed down". I even go back to the gamespy lobby thing and it still shows the game in play with everyone originally in it. This is really bad because just today i was playing a King of the Hill match (no teams) and i had 2 seconds to go to win and it just closed down (it will do this in any level with any settings).

Do you think this might have to do with someone else having the same cd key code (i accidentally gave it to someone else) or is my game just a defect? I NEED HELP PEASE!!!

woah i didn't realise this thread was still active :eek:
Anyways, Waffle man I dont think it was a good idea to give your cd key to some1 else but i doubt it that it actually prevents you from playing the game. Most games I join do close down a lot cause they dont like the ppl they play with so they restart another game (but obviously have the same ip address).

MOST LIKELY: Waffle man, earlier you said that you checked gamespy for the game that closed down and you found it. It think I know what you are having trouble with. Are you using gamespy to play halo multiplayer? Or are you using the in-game multiplayer powered by gamespy. Reason: If you are using the seperate gamespy thing that you download then you are experiencing the ADVERTS!!! The adverts appear every 30-60minutes and cut off the game that you are playing.

They do this because they want you to buy the full version of GAMESPY not download it.
I recommend you go into Halo and use the In-game multiplayer to play. I use it, it's just as good!

I hope this solved your problems.:grinthumb

im using the in-game gamespy thingy (the lobby) and i have no f***** clue what is going on. Do you think i should email microsoft or bungie or gearbox about this? Yet today while i was playing a game it went for a long time.... i guess it just does it on certain games (like almost ALL of them) or it might be my crappy computer- its 2 years old now (damn emachines!!!) man....... lol this is really sad

hey i noe other ppl who have complained about the scope thing but i hasnt happened on mine...look at halo pcs site i think theres a FAQ thing there

I had this problem insane monkey, if you still have then there are two things you need to do.

1) Install the latest graphics driver.
2) Go to start/Control Panel/System/advanced/start-up and recovery/settings/ under system failue unclick the radio button "automatically restart"

It should do it

I have been playing Halo online for months with no problems at all, but recently things have changed. When you click mulitplayer/internet a box comes up saying checking new updates, its there for about 30 secs then goes to the server select screen, I click "get" and there are no servers, I have downloaded all the patches.

Does anyone know whats going on ?

Oh the same thing happened to me! Oh how did I fix that.... :confused: I'll check back with you in a few.

hi, i need help i have a game pad whit 4 AXIS 12 BUTONS 2 ANALOG JOYSTICKS like a play station control, i want to play it in my pc in halo 1 and what i want is to look around whit the joysticks like in x box ..sow can u help me plz :D

haha! wow this is an old thread. First time ive been on these forums for 4 years :S

Why are you still tinkering around with Halo 1? Its an awfully buggy game thats been shattered by other great games repeatedly for the last couple of years. I wish it'd stayed with the Xbox!