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Halo UB 2.0.4 crawling on 24" iMac C2D?

cosmichobo

cosmichobo

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G'day,

Having recently changed over from a G5 PowerMac 1.8GHz dual processor with 1.5GB of RAM, to a 24" iMac C2D 2.93GHz with 4GB of RAM, I was expecting Halo to be able to run with all the options ticked, high res, etc etc...

However, instead, it's completely unplayable, even on 800x600 res with no particles, no shadows, no nothing. It is VERY unresponsive to key or mouse commands, feels like I'm running it through Screen Sharing.

What the???

Googling, I see most people say it runs like silk... What is wrong here?

I'm running the 2.0.4 universal version (as PPC wont run under Mavericks anyway)...

Thanks,

cosmic
 
cosmichobo said:
G'day,

Having recently changed over from a G5 PowerMac 1.8GHz dual processor with 1.5GB of RAM, to a 24" iMac C2D 2.93GHz with 4GB of RAM, I was expecting Halo to be able to run with all the options ticked, high res, etc etc...

However, instead, it's completely unplayable, even on 800x600 res with no particles, no shadows, no nothing. It is VERY unresponsive to key or mouse commands, feels like I'm running it through Screen Sharing.

What the???

Googling, I see most people say it runs like silk... What is wrong here?

I'm running the 2.0.4 universal version (as PPC wont run under Mavericks anyway)...

Thanks,

cosmic
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The GPU on the 24" iMac is pretty weak.

You should be playing it on a system with at least 1GB GT 650M.
 
yjchua95 said:
The GPU on the 24" iMac is pretty weak.

You should be playing it on a system with at least 1GB GT 650M.
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Ahh...

It has the stock NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 256 MB.

Though - my G5 tower only had the stock standard video card, and it ran fine (at 800x600, with generally "lower" video settings)...
 
yjchua95 said:
The GPU on the 24" iMac is pretty weak.

You should be playing it on a system with at least 1GB GT 650M.
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What nonsense is this?!

Halo was released for the Mac in 2003, in the PPC era.

Any of the Intel Macs, with the correct universal binary (that the OP has) are more than adequate to run it well. A 650M "at least" is like saying that you need "at least" a 747 to transport 15 people. The *recommended* system requirements call for a GeForce 4Ti card with 64MB RAM (minimum was a GeForce 2 with 32MB).

I was running Halo:CE on an X1600 with 128 MB RAM on a 2006 iMac with no issues whatsoever.

1GB VRAM on a 650M minimum. Man, that's the funniest thing I've read all day.
 
yjchua95 said:
Oops sorry I thought he was referring to the more recent Halos.

If it's an old Halo back from '03, then maybe even an old 9400M could do the job.
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There's a more recent Mac version of Halo than the '03 release?
 
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