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Un moddeur fait tourner Halo 2 en 720p sur la Xbox originale
Un surdoué du bidouillage nommé Ryan Miceli, alias « grimdoomer » sur GitHub, vient de réussir un truc de malade : faire tourner Halo 2 en 720p sur une Xbox première génération ! Oui, 720p sur la vénérable console de Microsoft sortie en 2001, c’est un bel exploit.
Mais alors, comment ce bon vieux Ryan a-t-il réussi ce tour de passe-passe ? Eh bien figurez-vous qu’il a littéralement mis les mains dans le cambouis pour effectuer des modifications matérielles, dans le kernel, et même sur le jeu lui-même. Un travail de titan !
Pour entrer un peu plus dans les détails techniques, sachez que Miceli a installé un câble IDE 80 broches pour connecter le disque dur de la Xbox à un PCB custom qui supporte des vitesses de transfert plus rapides. Résultat, des temps de chargement optimisés et des perfs globalement boostées. Côté kernel, notre modder de génie a optimisé la gestion de la mémoire pour augmenter la quantité de RAM disponible pour le jeu. Et ce n’est pas tout ! Il a aussi ajouté le support du triple buffering pour un rendu plus fluide, et même des sliders pour régler le FOV.
Faut quand même se rappeler qu’à sa sortie, Halo 2 faisait déjà cracher les poumons de la console alors l’idée de le faire tourner en 720p, ça relève presque de la science-fiction. Il a notamment exploité une faille dans le système de mémoire partagée entre le CPU et le GPU et en bidouillant le code, il a réussi à gonfler la mémoire vidéo. Et même si le framerate trinque un peu à cause de cet overclocking, on est quand même en 720p au final.
Et pour ceux qui voudraient (presque) la même chose sur leur XBox mais qui n’ont pas envie de sortir le fer à souder, Ryan a pensé à tout. Certes, pour obtenir le Graal des 720p, faut mettre les mains dans les composants et charcuter un peu la bête, mais une bonne partie des améliorations, comme la correction du scaling en 480p ou les options pour régler le FOV, fonctionnent sur une console stock !
Bravo à Mister Miceli, un vrai Master Chief !
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