http://oracle.gamerstemple.com/2007/06/04/6/ The weblog of the Executive Editor of The Gamers' Temple Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:50:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://oracle.gamerstemple.com/2007/06/04/6/#comment-3 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:42:50 +0000 http://oracle.gamerstemple.com/2007/06/04/6/#comment-3 As a follow-on to my failed experiment to get Shadowrun to run on a gaming PC upgraded to Windows Vista, I decided to install Halo 2 on it and see what would happen. Halo 2 runs better than Shadowrun, but it still has its issues with slowdowns, particularly during cutscenes. I couldn't get a smooth gameplay experience even with all of the game's graphics settings set to their lowest values. Halo 2 is a game that originally debuted on the Xbox - I really have to wonder what's going with Vista when it makes a two year old gaming computer struggle so much to play a game that was originally written to run on videogame hardware that is now six years old. As a follow-on to my failed experiment to get Shadowrun to run on a gaming PC upgraded to Windows Vista, I decided to install Halo 2 on it and see what would happen. Halo 2 runs better than Shadowrun, but it still has its issues with slowdowns, particularly during cutscenes. I couldn’t get a smooth gameplay experience even with all of the game’s graphics settings set to their lowest values. Halo 2 is a game that originally debuted on the Xbox - I really have to wonder what’s going with Vista when it makes a two year old gaming computer struggle so much to play a game that was originally written to run on videogame hardware that is now six years old.

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