Halo 2 Graphics Problems

[Apollyon]

I'm playing Halo 2 in win xp and have major graphics problems. I think it's down to lighting effects, or mist effects -- whenever I'm in an environment with them, say blue from nearby water or misty outdoors -- I see tonnes of lines running over every texture in sight, making it extremely hard to see anything.

Any fix ideas?

DXDIAG attached.

DxDiag.txt

[Andrew]

Have you tried disabling Transform&Lighting option in game (or whatever affects the mist stuff)?

Maybe a newer driver for video card is available? Says you have one from

Driver Date/Size: 10/22/2006 12:22:00

http://halo2pc.org/misc/halo2-pc-faq

Says vista is required to play the game??

[Apollyon]

Thanks for the reply, Andrew.

I've downloaded and updated with the latest NVIDIA driver, but the date remains the same on it -- so I guess that's the latest.

Halo 2 has pitiful graphics options in the original release -- no lighting toggles or similar, just some antisoptric settings, resolutions and so on.

Halo 2 is set to only function on vista, yes, but it should also function fine on XP (with a patch) -- plenty of other people have no problems of this kind, it seems.

I expect it's my gfx card that's simply out of date -- but if I could find some way to de-activate the lighting etc with a start-up command, it would run ok. Unfortunately I have no idea how to go about doing that.

[eid]

well what vcard you got apo?

if its nvidia.. try finding a tweak program, Nvhardpage, rivatuner- theres a few more

if its ati.. try ATI tray tools...

assuming whatever card you have may not have the required shader level,

those programs can Force the card to use a certain HLVS/HLPS target.. among a few other useful things

also try 3d Analyser and use it to tell the program that you have a 9800 pro or something..

i guess theses lines only appear with this game?? 

anyway gl with it...

[Andrew]

@ eid

Look at his dxdiag in first post. It says what his video card is.