This tutorial will show you how to set up Halo & Xfire, so that you can play in a window. A window is basically where Halo doesn't fill up the whole screen, and you can Alt+Tab out without any text lag. If Halo freezes only Halo will, so you can Alt+Tab out again and fix the issue, rather than it being in full screen, and freezing up your whole computer.Loading through Halo (GameSpy)- Right-click on your Halo icon (shortcut) and go to properties.
- Make sure you are in the "shortcut" tab.
- In the target line, add (SPACE)-window
- Click ok. Now when you start Halo through this shortcut, it will be in a window.
- (SPACE) Refers to a space, don't actually type (SPACE)
It should look like this when done:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe" -window
Loading through Xfire.- When in Xfire, go to Tools > Options
- Select the game tab, and select Halo from the list.
- Check the "manual setup" circle.
- The lower section should say "Advanced Options, and "Extra Command line parameters:"
- In the box below, put "-window" (without the quotes)
- Click apply, then ok.
Now when you boot from Halo or Xfire, you will always be able to play in a window.Adjusting window size!To adjust the size of the window, you can either:
- Change the game resolution, this will make the window bigger or smaller, depending on the resolution size.
- Drag the corner as you would a normal window.
Other command line parametersIt's not just -window you can add to the target lines, there are many other commands you can put in to do various things, follow the same steps as above, but just leave a space between each, and you can add many more:
-console :This enables you to access the rcon commands in Halo, and kick/ban people in yours other peoples servers.
-novideo :This stops Halo from playing the videos at the beginning when you load Halo, such as the bungie and Gearbox one.
There are many more, but they mainly focus on graphical settings, and you can find them with a quick Google search. Or check out this thread by Chaindog, which covers more of the parameters:
LinkHappy Racing!
~Igor