[danny_gasperini]

So I have a MacBook Pro 17" 2.5GHz 2Gb/8600m GT/10.5.6 and after purchasing the Halo UB update to the original Halo Mac that I bough some years ago, I ran into some performance issues with version 2.0. After updating to 2.0.2 and 2.0.3 the performance was brilliant but a whole heap of graphics bugs crept in, such as an annoying black line of pixels that moves around with any object when shadows is enabled, and another awful bug that causes the following black lines to be rendered on any water surface:

http://www.flickr.co...N03/2765661139/

After reverting to 2.0, the graphic artifacts disappear, only to be replaced by the performance issues.

So I said "stuff it" and went and bought a copy of Halo for Windows and installed Windows XP SP2 via Bootcamp. After updating to 1.0.8 (the latest version for Windows), the graphics has no artifacts and the performance is perfect........however, now the sound has issues. When firing a pistol constantly for example, you can hear "bang, bang, bang, thud, bang, bang, thud, thud, bang". The "thud" noises are sort of muffled and are almost "missing". I have disabled EAX in Halo's preferences as apparently the Realtek drivers don't support it, and tried every combination of sound quality, sample rate, hardware sound on/off, and altering the sound control panel slider from full hardware acceleration to software acceleration. The only thing that seems to help (but it's still there) is setting the sound samples and quality in Halo to low. I have also tried updating to the latest version of the Realtek drivers but that hasn't helped. I am running just with a pair of Harman/Kardon stereo desktop speakers plugged into the MacBook Pro's analogue headphone jack. All other sounds in Windows are fine.

Has anyone experienced this and solved the problem or have any suggestions on a work around? I am doubtful that MacSoft will ever update the Mac version to fix the graphics problems so it seems that Windows is my only chance......

Thanks for any help in advance!

Cheers.