Halo misrepresents specifications

From: John Bailo (jabailo_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 03/01/04 

Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 07:46:09 GMT

I purchased the PC version of Halo.

I have an Athlon 2400 2Ghz machine, 256M, 32M video with Pro Savage DDR-K on
board a via chipset.

After installing Halo, a message appeared saying that my Pro Savage windows
drivers were probably not good enough for Halo, but go ahead. Then a
second message that looks like the first says "sorry, but Halo can't run on
my video configuration".

I feel gypped. The box said 32M video RAM. That's what I have. Now they
tell me I have to buy a new video card. Is HALO a ruse to get people to
buy video cards?

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