Playing Halo on Vista/Laptop with Intel Mobile 945 chip
Well here is the scoop for any gamers who may find this blog. I have a laptop running Vista with the notorious Mobile Intel 945 chip, of course most people will tell you that Halo, Neverwinter Nights among other games will not play with this config. Some will say that Halo and NWN will squeek by. After some tweeking I have found what I believe to be the best configuration for playing Halo on my laptop.
Within the Game go to video setup and do this:
Framerate - vsync
Specular - No
Shadows - Yes
Particles - Low
Texture - Medium
Now on the computer go to “Graphics Properties” then “3d Settings” once there here’s what you do:
Async Flip - Off
Triple Buffering - Default
Flipping Policy - Flip
Depth Buffer Bit Depth - 24bit
Force S3TC Texture Compression - Off
Force FXT1 Texture Compression - On
Driver Memory Footprint - High
Texture Color Depth - 32bits
Anisotropic Filtering - On
These settings are for Halo only, settings for games like Neverwinter Nights are a bit different. This works for me but I’m sure you could tweek things further to your liking. Happy Gaming!
