Zoom blur is a pain in the ass; it doesn't make your aim more challenging and it doesn't look pretty. It just sucks.

I'm going to tell you how to remove the blur when zooming with sniper. This method also increases your FPS. Disadvantage is that Specular looks very ugly and therefore should be turned off.

This is not a cheat, but a valid feature in the halo config file.

Step 1:

Find out your graphic cards DeviceID. I give you three different ways to do it:

a) Open config.txt in your Halo main folder and search for your graphic card. The ID something like "0x5455".

If you can't find your card, you have to find it's DeviceID manually:

b) Start Halo with -timedemo parameter. Your graphic card DeviceID will be included in the saved timedemo.txt in the Halo mainfolder

c) Make Halo crash or shut down improperly and next time you start Halo, it'll give you an error dialog where you see your GFX card ID

Step 2:

Now that you have your Graphic card ID found out, include it it in the config.txt file (if it already wasn't there). My card wasn't on the config.txt (6600GT), and I added it below the other Nvidia cards (don't know if it matters, but it just seemed wise to do that).

Step 3:

Add the following lines after your DeviceID line:

Code:

DisableRenderTargets break

Full example of my config.txt addition:

Code:

0x00f1 = "Geforce 6600 GT" DisableRenderTargets break

(I just gave some name to it).

There you have it, enjoy.

mukelo ftw for discovering this and looking the net!
hurray,hurray hurray!

i was wrong that halo is non-configed game, glad that i was wrong!

GREAT stuff! more? please

i too discovered those commands and didnt find any usefull anymore too bad

Caxiq wrote:

i too discovered those commands and didnt find any usefull anymore too bad

Actually, using the method I described also allows you to use antialiasing, finally

My fault, no antialiasing, but anistropic filtering works!

No Anistropic Filtering:



Anistropic Filtering apllied (16x, but probably works 2-4x only)



If you have trouble getting it work, add the parameter UseAnisotropicFilter to the config.txt under your GFX card ID.