I want to either buy Halo 2 or Dawn of War 2.. but heres the thing...

elite_destroyer

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#1 elite_destroyer

Member since 2005 • 1118 Posts

Okay I want to buy one of those but the problem is that I have the Nvidia Geforce 8400 gs.. So I was wondering how high can I put the settings on them and get smooth performance.. Thanks :)

15 years ago

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#2 Ned_Flandish

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I'm not sure about Dawn of War 2, but you'll be able to max out all of the settings on Halo 2. That being said, I really wouldn't recommend getting Halo 2 for pc. If you have the PC version of Halo 1, I'd recommend you'd stick with that as it has a much larger community .

15 years ago

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#3 OoSuperMarioO

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From experience I ran Halo 2 with a 8400GS(256mb) GPU and the performance was very poor, and this is due to Halo 2 not being very scalable. I will certainly priority Dawn of War 2 over Halo 2 bud.

15 years ago

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#4 DigitalExile

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I ordered Halo 2 the other day, only because my Xbox copy broke 2 years ago and I figured I might as well get the PC version. It hasn't come yet so I can't help you, granted I have a GTX280 so I wouldn't expect any problems on my end anyway.

15 years ago

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#5 pvtdonut54

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doesn't hao 2 on pc equal terrible port? go DoW 2

15 years ago

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#6 kozzy1234

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Pick up Dawn Of War2, its awesome!

15 years ago

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#7 deactivated-64ba3ebd35404

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Go with DoW2. Neither of those games are particularly good, but DoW2 is...less bad? It's a rather odd coincidence that you are trying to decide between a heavily dumbed down FPS and a heavily dumbed down RTS. Performance wise, you can probably max Halo 2 if you are using XP + The Unofficial Patch. I hear the performance is really bad on Vista though. DoW2 is quite a resource hog, but it's also pretty scalable, so you will definitely be able to play it with a smooth framerate (and even then, it's an RTS, smooth framerates aren't as big a deal) at probably low-med settings.

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