noobish question

i am not a very big pc gamer, but i wanna know if halo2 will work on my pc. i dont know anything on how to check. i went to http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest to check but they dont have that game up yet. i did do halo CE and i was well over the requirments for it. is there any easy way to tell if it will worknoobish question
well the easiet was is to use that site but as you say it%26#39;s not up, post your specs are we can tell you.noobish question
I need system specs, once I see that, its a snap to tell you if you can run halo 2!!!
do you know what your pc specs are? if not, go to start and click run, then type: dxdiag, and click okunder the system tab in the system information box it will say processor, and memory and tell you the values for each, and under the display tab in the top left hand corner in the device box will be the name of your graphics cardthese are the three things a person needs to know most of all, the processor, the memory (ram) and the graphics card - you also need to be running windows vista, if you don%26#39;t have vista, you can%26#39;t run halo 2 
ok sicne i cant copy and paste it ill try to write down what it sayProcessor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ (2 CPUs), ~2.6GHzMemory: 1918MB RAMOS: Windows VistaVideo Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE is there anything else i need to say
hmmm, video card...that%26#39;s gonna kill you on playing the game. Your gonna want to get something a little more powerful, I would recommend, as long as halo 2 is the only game you want to play, a nvidia 8600 or 8500. There not as much as the oother ''uber'' cards that are around 300, 400, 500 dollars. But the 8600 is dx10, and vista ready, low power consumption, and on top of that, has amazing HD support for videos. Just a suggestion..
[QUOTE=''warriorlax1234'']hmmm, video card...that%26#39;s gonna kill you on playing the game. Your gonna want to get something a little more powerful, I would recommend, as long as halo 2 is the only game you want to play, a nvidia 8600 or 8500. There not as much as the oother ''uber'' cards that are around 300, 400, 500 dollars. But the 8600 is dx10, and vista ready, low power consumption, and on top of that, has amazing HD support for videos. Just a suggestion..[/QUOTE] I think the straightforward answer is ''yes;'' it will almost certainly run. It%26#39;s likely that your video card will be the limiting factor (your CPU and RAM are great), but it%26#39;s difficult to say how much of a limiting factor. The question is how far you%26#39;ll have to scale back detail and resolution to get framerates which suit your taste.It%26#39;s impossible to say. A demo is the best way to tell--but so far, there%26#39;s no Halo 2 demo in sight (at least not that I know of). You could 1) wait until it%26#39;s been out for a while, and check with people who have similar specs to yours, 2) buy a sexier video card, or 3) just wing it.
ok well i guess ill wing it when it comes out, either that or ill just get haloCE.
[QUOTE=''river_rat3117'']ok well i guess ill wing it when it comes out, either that or ill just get haloCE.[/QUOTE]For my money (a precious thing), it makes no sense to upgrade in preparation for a game. Do as much research as you can before buying a new game: find out what sorts of results other gamers are having, find out how scalable the game is (ie, how well it adjusts to different levels of computing power), and download a demo if it becomes available.If it seems like it might be worth a shot, go ahead and get the game--as I said before, Halo 2 will almost certainly run on your machine. If it runs to your satisfaction you%26#39;re golden. If you think you can use more power, well, than it might be time to consider an upgrade... not just for Halo 2, but because you%26#39;ll want to use your PC for gaming down the road.Good luck!