Video Card for Halo?

BlackDeath100 · Post by **BlackDeath100** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 8:42 am

Odd...I have this exact same card but Halo refuses to run on it. As soon as the Halo logo shows up and the game prepares to enter full-screen mode, it just blacks out and completely crashes my computer. Now I have been doing some investigating and since most Nvidia drivers have their own Display Properties menu, I found out that it has a pre-set configuration for Halo itself, meaning that the card's properties are instantly configured to be able to play perfectly with Halo. Still...with no prevail Halo just "froze" my computer. I bought this card for a measly $89.99 as well thanks to some uuuh connections I have. But if I can't get this thing to work I will be frustrated that I blew off $90! Any help you guys couldoffer would be great. Thanks in advance.

P.S: If you guys think it doesn't work because I got it in a bad condition that is not true. I got this card completely in perfect condition in an unopened box. If you guys want specs I can post them later.

Spartan Foods · Post by **Spartan Foods** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:18 pm

I am pretty sure there might be something else triggering the "crash"

Like on my old computer, the TV card used to crash my computer.. so check your other hardware.

Also nVidia (bleh)

ATI is better.

{XS}Elite · Post by **{XS}Elite** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:22 pm

xboxes use Nvidia

1.ATI
2.Nvidia
120.Intel

The_Nooblet · Post by **The_Nooblet** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 9:25 pm

dro524 wrote:hey, just be lucky you have a card. 256mb is insane! all i gots is 128. you got some deal there dood. and 256 bit, i think thats also good.

Are you complaining? I only have 32 megs! It's integrated! I'm using a laptop! And yet, HPC looks excellent...

Tech^salvager · Post by **Tech^salvager** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:15 am

dro524 wrote:hey, just be lucky you have a card. 256mb is insane! all i gots is 128. you got some deal there dood. and 256 bit, i think thats also good.

That card can't ever use 256MB to its advantage. He might as well get a 128MB geforce 5200. The GPU is not powerful enough to make use of it.

Spartan Foods · Post by **Spartan Foods** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:24 pm

so? 256mb or 128 is not what makes the card good.

in fact the best video cards are the 128 mb.

Tech^salvager · Post by **Tech^salvager** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:27 pm

Spartan (Foods?) wrote:so? 256mb or 128 is not what makes the card good.

in fact the best video cards are the 128 mb.

Correct

Wrong. It depends on what the video cards are for, but we will go with gaming for now. The best video cards for gaming include 256MB of ram.
the 6600GT and up.

Robin · Post by **Robin** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:15 pm

This whole topic went off topic by far.

Spartan Foods · Post by **Spartan Foods** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:48 pm

Tech^salvager wrote:
Spartan (Foods?) wrote:so? 256mb or 128 is not what makes the card good.

in fact the best video cards are the 128 mb.
Correct

Wrong. It depends on what the video cards are for, but we will go with gaming for now. The best video cards for gaming include 256MB of ram.
the 6600GT and up.

what are you talking about.. I wasnt refering to ram.. I was refering to card memory...

Tech^salvager · Post by **Tech^salvager** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:50 pm

Spartan (Foods?) wrote:
Tech^salvager wrote:
Spartan (Foods?) wrote:so? 256mb or 128 is not what makes the card good.

in fact the best video cards are the 128 mb.
Correct

Wrong. It depends on what the video cards are for, but we will go with gaming for now. The best video cards for gaming include 256MB of ram.
the 6600GT and up.
what are you talking about.. I wasnt refering to ram.. I was refering to card memory...

So was I. Video card memory is ram.

Spartan Foods · Post by **Spartan Foods** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:57 pm

but its not ram RAM.. its video card memory.. its located on the card..

Tech^salvager · Post by **Tech^salvager** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:26 pm

Spartan (Foods?) wrote:but its not ram RAM.. its video card memory.. its located on the card..

It is RAM! Now where its set is different. Oh well you understand now. So that is ended.

Robin · Post by **Robin** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:58 am

The video card ram is different from the computer's ram.

Tack122 · Post by **Tack122** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 11:43 am

whatever... i got the card it works great...
even in half life 2

Robin · Post by **Robin** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 11:54 am

OK, good job

G0DF47H3R · Post by **G0DF47H3R** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 11:14 pm

ALL the FX series cards from nVidia suck. It's like buying an 80's car. It's the years of trying something new but they all turned out crap. They bottle-neck too much. I sold mine and got the older ti4600se. So much better!