[SOLVED] Halo 2 Will Not Start Installation

[dantheman0000]

yeah im going to have to, its an asus M2M-MX, so the expansion slot aint a problem. any suggestion on a reasonably priced card?

[Mr Buckshot]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130062

Geforce 7600 GT, great bang for buck ($90, hard to beat THAT). No DX10 support but that's not too much of a concern as of now.

For $10 more, DX10 support in an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT (by the way, it won't out-perform high-end DX9 cards):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102700

Of course, if you are a man (lmao):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127281

(I am joking about the last one).

This is assuming you are American or that you live in America, by the way (shipping out of the U.S. from newegg will drive the cost up a bit).

[dantheman0000]

lol i wish....

im actually from wales which is little bit at the bottom left of the uk (incase you didnt know) lol

i thought the whole point of vista was that it was the only os that supported dx10. on that note my current graphics card is dx 8.1 but i have dx10 instaled or thats what it tells me when i do a dx diagnostic....im kinda confused on that...shed any light??

[Mr Buckshot]

Installing a later DirectX driver does very little unless you actually have the appropriate hardware shader. For example, for the DirectX 10 driver to be worth downloading, you need a DX10-compliant card (that means one that uses shader model 4.0). My desktop and laptop both use DX9c (shader model 3.0) video cards, hence downloading the DirectX10 driver will do almost nothing for me.

It shows up on the vista diagnostic as DirectX10, but that's only the driver. It won't improve compatibility with games or make your graphics better, sorry. Hardware-wise you're still stuck at DX8.1.

Vista does more than support DX10. A lot more. It's just a little early to make games exclusive to it, since the OS has not yet become standard.

sorry if I was a prick on the first reply, I was just a bit frustrated.

[dantheman0000]

ahhh it makes sense then...cos i read that all newer DX versions are backwards compatible so having it wont make a diffrence but its also not detrimental.

no worries sorry for calling u a belittling prick lol i bet u get a lot of people making threads just cos they havent read up.....gues that makes me one lol.

Anywhos i think this thread has lost its tracks...i dunno if a mod will delete these last few posts or not..

will update in a couple of days with the results form the new comp just to clarify the answer to my problem

cheers again

[Patrickssj6]

Wow...lmao....how scary...the comp of my bro has the same specs..or let's say had because he upgraded his GFX card...and has the 1.4GHZ Sempron.

It's a old but still good decent rig.