Vista - halo 2 min requirements

i borrowed halo 2 off a friend just to see how it would run on my system and......it didnt. in fact it didnt even load as i didnt meet the min requirements. any way around this as i would like to run it even at low settings? i have a amd 64 laptop, but i can run farcry at average settings with no probs.
thankx

Just to make sure, you know that Halo2 only runs on Vista, right? If your
laptop is XP it won't install/run.

The minimum Windows Experience Index (WEI) for Halo2 is 3.0, check your WEI
in the control panel under the "Performance information and tools" icon (in
classic view). I don't know how the installer works but if your WEI is too
small it may not let you install. You can find out what is holding the
laptop back (usually display speeds) with WEI.

Hope that helps!
Mark



"gazzacbr" <gazzacbr.2vb351@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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> i borrowed halo 2 off a friend just to see how it would run on my system
> and......it didnt. in fact it didnt even load as i didnt meet the min
> requirements. any way around this as i would like to run it even at low
> settings? i have a amd 64 laptop, but i can run farcry at average
> settings with no probs.
> thankx
>
>
> --
> gazzacbr

thanx for quick reply mark. laptop is vista, i didnt mention that as this is a vista forum my wei is 3.3 and that is the graphics thats holding it back. any more suggestions welcome. might try changing power settings to max performance as maybe the installer is seeing the 'cool and quiet' speed for the cpu, just guessing though.

2 ghz processor, 1 gig of ram, 7 gig free on hard drive, nvidia 6100/ ati
x700 or better.
"gazzacbr" <gazzacbr.2vb351@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> i borrowed halo 2 off a friend just to see how it would run on my system
> and......it didnt. in fact it didnt even load as i didnt meet the min
> requirements. any way around this as i would like to run it even at low
> settings? i have a amd 64 laptop, but i can run farcry at average
> settings with no probs.
> thankx
>
>
> --
> gazzacbr

what I had to do with my laptop was get rid of amd's power saving software
and let it run wide open all the time. Most games would read my processor
at ~800 when it was a 2ghz. That helped me out immensely......

"gazzacbr" <gazzacbr.2vb9e8@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> thanx for quick reply mark. laptop is vista, i didnt mention that as
> this is a vista forum my wei is 3.3 and that is the graphics thats
> holding it back. any more suggestions welcome. might try changing power
> settings to max performance as maybe the installer is seeing the 'cool
> and quiet' speed for the cpu, just guessing though.
>
>
> --
> gazzacbr