Halo - Combat Evolved playing Online under Vista

[Cov]

My current favourite game Halo - Combat Evolved does work fine under Vista when I play online ... but only for ONE cycle.

When one cycle is finished , it freezes and I have to go into the Task Manager and exit Halo.

Checked firewall and security settings but that didn't help.


Has anyone any idea for why that might happen please ?

[Cov]

Oh man people ... have put together my new PC a few days ago and had left the external graphics card out for the moment, to see how the onboard video performs.

Well, the performans of the G35 chipset is by far better than the old i845GL (2003) one.
Before I was able to play Halo in 800 x 600 with 15 - 30 fps.
With the Asus P5E-VM HDMI it let me play in 1280 x 1024 with 10 - 25 fps ... but the graphics quality is superior over the old PC.

Regarding my problem mentioned above ... it has resolved since I put in my eVGA GeForce 8800 GT. Oh my God ! .... I can only say awesome !
The card does get hot, but the performance doesn't let any space for complaints.

Problem solved.

Just one word about another initial problem I had. This motherboard didn't have any sound despite having sound on board. I tried everything but couldn't make it work.
Then I decided to install XP over Vista to see what difference that would make.
But before that I installed SP1 for Vista, and when it was finished with the installation - suddenly I got sound ! ... incredible.

Oh, and regarding Halo - Combat evolved. I think this game is awesome ! Well, I still have to discover Halo 2 / Crysis / Quake Wars / Ghost Reccon 3 / Doom 3 / Unreal Tournament / Flightsimulator X / CoD4 and what else there is hip at the moment.

Something funny what I noticed with Halo ... I was so hooked up playing it online on my old NEC PC from 2003. As I mentioned, it only played "just about" on a lower resolution, but still - I couldn't wait to play it for a few hours almost every day !
Only then, when I installed it on the new PC I noticed what graphics quality was hidden there in this game !!!

Suddenly there was gras all over Blood Gulch ! And another map had lots of fog - that wasn't there before. And the hog's (car's) headlights actually throw a beam onto the floor and walls ... incredible !
Of course with my new graphics card I pulled up the resolution to the max and boy, what a difference ! It's still smooth like anything but the sea in Death Island shows authentic waves moving slowly and the paint layer of tanks looks like real metal now.

The bullets have an impact when they hit any surface = bullets holes everywhere ... SMAHSING !!
When rockets hit anywhere they leave a black / charcoal burn spot = cool.
And another thing ... I never had seen any blood when killing enemies - now you can see red spots next to the dead bodies ... realism has a new meaning now !

The graphics layer of rocks looks more realistic too. Oh and not to forget the ice lakes (have forgotten the name of the map) has a reflection ... oh man, what a difference !

[mediaboy]

Lol.. I've played Halo - Combat Evolved online for a few hours (at 1 in the morning) and I agree that playing it on maxed out res it is alot better.


Watch out for massive servers though.. if you hit a bad 16 player server then you start messing up big time.

I've been on unlimited ping servers and with graphics maxed out your gameplay lags a lot more. Don't know why, it just does.
Something to watch out for

[kreeeee]

How does Halo 2 online on the PC play?

[mediaboy]

It can do, but for some reason me and my friends can't seem to get through our firewalls. Nor can we set up accounts.

Try it yourself, and if it works tell me exactly what you did

Then I'll come pwn you!!!