Halo 2 Xbox vs. Vista Screenshot Comparision - Overclock.net

Malachor · 05-02-07

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6169711/p-2.html

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By: Sarju Shah and James Yu - Posted on Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2007

Halo 2 is finally making its way to the PC platform after its initial 2004 release for the Xbox console. The game is still going through the official GameSpot review process right now, but based on our initial impressions, the Vista version feels like an accurate port. The game doesn't include any new DirectX 10 features, but the platform switch alone will ensure that Halo 2 looks better on Windows Vista than on the Xbox. Going from 480p to PC resolutions will still give players a sharper picture and more detailed environments.
Moving a game from the Xbox to the PC still requires a significant amount of graphics work. Games can get away with using low-resolution textures at standard definition, but those fuzzy surfaces will stand out once you get to high-definition resolutions. The Hired Gun team in charge of the Halo 2 for Vista project updated the game textures to ensure that the quality level remained high at PC resolutions. Some textures have increased detail. For example, weapon textures went from 256x256 to 512x512. The team also upgraded other textures with higher-quality compression settings.
You can see the texture improvements by toggling the level-of-detail option in the video settings menu. According to the developers, setting the level of detail to low will reduce the textures down to the Xbox level. The Xbox 360 gave Halo 2 a slight image quality boost, but the graphics in the Vista port put the older version to shame. DirectX 9 hardware and more efficient shaders let the Windows Vista version of the game use more "cinematic" shader effects, such as environmental mapping and normal mapping during gameplay. Models will also retain high levels of detail rather than degrade down to low-polygon versions at far distances.

Halo 2 for Windows Vista definitely offers a visual upgrade over the Xbox version, but don't expect a DirectX 10-sized graphics leap. The graphics in the Vista port are a polished version of the original Xbox game. Some of the differences are so subtle that you might miss them without a side-by-side comparison. We've put together a set of comparison screenshots to show the improvements we noticed while taking a short tour of the game.

Xbox Version

Vista Version

Xbox Version

Vista Version

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All the Vista versions are set to high, the lowest settings will look like the Xbox version.

Looking good though.

Twinnuke · 05-02-07

everything looks like it has more pixels. lol

kevg73 · 05-02-07

wow... i cant wait for halo 2. it almost looks like dx10

JoeUbi · 05-02-07

As to be expected... X-Box = SDTV... PC = XHD. If the PC version looked the same or worse it would be a failure to computers and to all who worked on the game. I would cry tears of sadness.

ELmo1989 · 05-02-07

Did they do a test with a 360? No
Also Did they try the best resolution problay not!!
They re test setup is really lame.
Have mod Halo 2 and the bit maps are that bad some is up with test setup.
I wonder how they got it to look that bad.

Akatsuki No Tobi · 05-02-07

I would definitely re buy Halo 2 for the PC if I could pawn Xbox Live users with my G15/G7.

Malachor · 05-02-07

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Originally Posted by ELmo1989

Did they do a test with a 360? No
Also Did they try the best resolution problay not!!
They re test setup is really lame.

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Halo 2 for Windows Vista definitely offers a visual upgrade over the Xbox version, but don't expect a DirectX 10-sized graphics leap.

They did test a 360, check out the article before bashing it.
Plus there is still a huge difference with the 360.

And you don't even know of the resolutions....

StepsAscend · 05-02-07

The 360 can't really increase the resolution of an xbox game, it just adds full screen AA. So they are comparing a game at essentially 480p to a PC. Of course the pc looks better. Bungie probably did put some extra work into it to refine the detail as well. There are also differences like a PC uses RGB color space and a TV uses YCrCb colorspace. It may or may not have much of an effect but its something to think about when doing comparisons like this.

ELmo1989 · 05-02-07

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Originally Posted by Malachor

They did test a 360, check out the article before bashing it.
Plus there is still a huge difference with the 360.

And you don't even know of the resolutions....

No But have play on screen and have mod up and down.
And it not that fuzzing.
Someone did some croping (Please note I not promoting console I just state there no way it that fuzze)

Sorry I didn't check the article fully soldering new leds to a 360.

RickJS · 05-03-07

Who cares, I own you all and I cant wait for halo 2. Unfortunately, I dont think I can get it for my birthday as I get vista ultimate and a zune.

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