I just installed Halo on my new laptop and I'm experiencing a few issues:

When I'm moving looking around, I can see parts of my spartans model in front of me (screenshot below), on some custom map i even dragged some parts of the map with me.
Tried windows compatibility modes, halo safe mode, reinstalling halo, reinstalling graphics drivers.
I also can't select any high resolutions. On my old laptop I used to add custom resolutions in nvidias control panel that would then appear in Halo's settings.
But I'm missing all of the settings in the nvidia control panel except for the physx ones.
I saw a similar option to add resolutions for my integrated intel graphics card, but it said "custom resolution exceeds maximum bandwith" when I tried adding 1920x1080 @59Hz.
Halo also crashes when i set framerate to no vsync when running it with my nvidia card.
I hope that this optimus technology is not some hardware limitation that prevents me from using the nvidia card for Halo's video output.

Would be cool if anyone had some advice/explanation for me.



Edit:
This guy had the same problem and suggested installing open sauce:
http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?25599-HALO-CE-Graphics-bugs

But I have the same problem when playing TSC:E.


Edited by Topsi on May 8, 2016 at 02:30 PM

re-install? my best guess is something screwed up during install somehow. try that first

I remember seeing someone have a similar problem.
I think it had to do with nVidia control panel settings.
Do you have Anisotropic filtering on by any chance? Or what about Antialiasing?

Skidrow925:
Tried windows compatibility modes, halo safe mode, reinstalling halo, reinstalling graphics drivers.

Spartan314:
Anisotropic filtering and Antialiasing were both set to off/application settings.

Appearantly it was enough to create a custom profile where I set everything to off. That's the first thing I tested after creating a custom profile for haloce.exe in the nvidia control panel 3d settings and it worked.

I still wonder if there is any way to create custom resolutions with the nvidia control panel only containing the 3d settings...that can't be right. I can select more resolutions now, but it only goes up to 1600 width.
Edited by Topsi on May 9, 2016 at 07:24 PM

Yes, appearantly right clicking "run application with graphic processor -> nvidia high performance processor" was not working.

At least that's what I assume since the loading screen is not showing any errors anymore (the image seemed a bit distorted and a part of it was shifted) and because I can select different resolutions now.
Still wondering how I can make 1920x1080 available.

I thought that resolution was already available with 1.10 patch. Doesn't HAC2 add more resolutions too? Else you could just use http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?page_id=582 to have any resolution you want.

Yeah, thanks to everyone!

Unfortunately I have already patched to 1.10

I realized the available resolutions were different depending on having open sauce enabled, hac2 or neither. Hac2 adds some super low resolutions like 320x240 to the normal resolutions while open sauce enables a different set of resolutions only going up to 1440 width while the normal resolutions go up to 1600.

I have succeeded in running the game with 1920x1080 by running the game with -vidmode 1920,1080,60 but that puts an upper limit of 60fps and occasionally gets me fps drops below 30.

Also whenever I change any video settings the loading screen appears and stays. I have to minimize and maximize to be able to confirm the changes.

I have installed GeDoSaTo and its running correctly with the default config as I can check with numpad + key. I set:
presentWidth 1920
presentHeight 1080
but it had no effect.