HALO 2 FOR VISTA!!!

PilotLN23 · Post by **PilotLN23** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:59 pm

http://www.shacknews.com/extras/2007/030607_halo2pc_1.x

Acheivements for PC like 360?
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/09/halo- ... ty-ensues/

Post by **Jason9811** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:39 pm

I seriously don't want Vista...it sucks and I hope it works for XP. Cuz I would be pissed off it wasn't. Halo 2 FTL on Vista

PilotLN23 · Post by **PilotLN23** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:19 pm

Yah that's for sure, I'd really like the Halo 2 to work for Xp. It would be nice to have a good fantasy FPS for the PC, ya know? Especially for an OS that more people have than Vista from my studies on it.

xtruder · Post by **xtruder** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:06 am

I think this is just another attempt at Microsoft to get PC gamers to pay for online deathmatch gaming.

sasuke · Post by **sasuke** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:08 pm

I heard if you get vista all your games won't work on it except for the newer ones

Post by **Pilot_51** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:22 pm

According to my tests with the Vista Beta 2, that's not true. I tried a few games without problems, one of them I remember being UT2004.

PilotLN23 · Post by **PilotLN23** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:58 pm

Just to get your test results in more detail can you explain all the games that you tried that worked on the test?

Post by **Pilot_51** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:52 pm

I never did any formal tests, I'm just going by memory. All I can remember testing for sure was UT2004 and I'm sure I tried a few others but don't remember which ones.

solar · Post by **solar** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:55 pm

Pilot_51 wrote:I never did any formal tests, I'm just going by memory. All I can remember testing for sure was UT2004 and I'm sure I tried a few others but don't remember which ones.

I use to think UT2004 is free >_<

Post by **Pilot_51** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:05 pm

It's probably as close to free as a retail game gets, not so much for price but for content. The demo is very well made and compatible with the full version and they constantly release free content. The CD isn't required to play (unlike literally every single other modern game out there) and they promote modding; the bonus DVD has hours and hours of instructional video for modding in the Unreal 2 engine. I don't think Epic/Atari has ever made any kind of addon cost extra (unlike EA and Valve).

solar · Post by **solar** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:12 pm

I'm downloading demo right now...and isn't this like mph a bit? I think I remember you saying that once.

Post by **Pilot_51** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:19 pm

Yeah, MPH takes just about every game mode from UT2004.

LakersForLife · Post by **LakersForLife** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:43 pm

well, Halo series is a joke. and I give Halo 2 for Vista 2 days to be cracked to work on XP. Also, I can post some tests for gaming compatibility for Vista 32 and 64 bit if you want...

xtruder · Post by **xtruder** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 8:56 am

sasuke wrote:I heard if you get vista all your games won't work on it except for the newer ones

some games won't work, but most are the games that were made before xp came out that still worked on xp for some reason. I had a friend's brother that did some tests and he found that newer games run better on XP because it's less memory-intensive.

I just don't want to pay $XXX for some operating system I don't need right now. I'll get Vista later, of course, but by that time it's gonna be less than $200.

Post by **Pilot_51** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:16 am

I have a few old Win95/98 games that don't work on XP even with compatibility, one of them is because it calls for a swap file or something that only exists in 95 or 98.

I saw Vista Home Basic in the store for $100 for the upgrade and $200 for the full. I also found on Newegg that there's a "System Builders" (basically just OEM) version for the same price, or a Home Premium version for about $115.

I agree, I don't want to buy Vista until I need it or until they smooth out most of the bumps. I don't think I'll really need it for a long time, but I'm sure I'll want it in about a year when Vista starts becoming the mainstream OS.
Right now I think most of the people getting Vista are the people buying new pre-built PC's from companies like Dell or building from scratch with a new Windows license.

E_tron · Post by **E_tron** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:43 pm

Halo 2 will only work on Vista, sorry buy microsoft will insure that. When does it come out; late 2007? Microsoft will abandon XP that that time too. They will stop selling it and end the extended support fase abruptly. They did the same thing to Windows 2000 during 2006, my favorite operating system of all time. The rain stopped falling on 2000, the same will happen for XP.

The only way Halo 2 will work on XP is with an extensive array of cracks and patches. Not only for halo 2, but DX10 as well. It will be a monumental effort. Even if someone succeeded, your Halo 2 will be block from online game play.

Post by **Pilot_51** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:15 pm

Microsoft will support XP at least a few more years. It took them about 5 years after XP released to drop support for 98 and 2000, there's no way they'll drop support for XP within a year of the Vista release, especially with the current condition of Vista drivers and various bugs.

LakersForLife · Post by **LakersForLife** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:20 pm

there will be a way for Halo 2 to run on XP through some crack. Halo 2 runs on DX9 not DX10.

E_tron · Post by **E_tron** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:31 am

consider, Windows 98 and ME were only 3 and 2 years old at WindowsXP's launch.

Now, WindowsXP and Windows2000 are 6 and 8 years old at Vista's launch. They were only obligated to support their OSes for 5 years (part of the EULA).

At the end of the year, WindowsXP will enter "Extended Phase" support. That means there will be no functionality improvements and critical updates. Windows2000 suffers that fate today. Microsoft will not release a patch to update the Dayligh Saving Time in window2000, because it is a "new feature."

Post by **Pilot_51** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:55 pm

Critical updates will be the last thing to go, and considering how long they supported critical updates for 98 and 2000 (until last year), I doubt they would cut critical support for XP so soon considering how incredibly popular it has been. The only reason they would cut critical support this year would be for a stupid move to promote Vista as being the most secure Windows OS. They should at least wait until XP falls back to the point where people start considering it old-school as was pre-XP when support for them was cut.

I'm not denying it, I just find it unlikely.

Awsomemic · Post by **Awsomemic** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:28 pm

I think that if microsoft wants to make vista popular under the gaming comunity, they make more vista game titles and make it so that yu can still play xp games on vista os

Post by **Pilot_51** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:47 pm

We're more worried about Vista games not working on XP, such as Halo 2.

Awsomemic · Post by **Awsomemic** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:20 am

oh ok... itl take some efort for game crackers to make it so that all vista games work on xp... im just gonna get vista for free at my mum's university... they give me all my microsoft office, and other programs for free... becuase its legal here

PilotLN23 · Post by **PilotLN23** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:17 pm

LakersForLife wrote:there will be a way for Halo 2 to run on XP through some crack. Halo 2 runs on DX9 not DX10.

That's not true, I had recently read the reason of Halo 2 Vista's capability requirements and I do recall DX10 being underneath modern graphics card. If I do get Vista there's a definite that I'm getting the Nvidia GeForce 8800 until they release the 9 series, unless they already did; I haven't been up to date on the graphics cards lately for some reason.

LakersForLife · Post by **LakersForLife** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:38 pm

PilotLN23 wrote:
LakersForLife wrote:there will be a way for Halo 2 to run on XP through some crack. Halo 2 runs on DX9 not DX10.
That's not true, I had recently read the reason of Halo 2 Vista's capability requirements and I do recall DX10 being underneath modern graphics card. If I do get Vista there's a definite that I'm getting the Nvidia GeForce 8800 until they release the 9 series, unless they already did; I haven't been up to date on the graphics cards lately for some reason.

Halo 2 is NOT running on DX10. Otherwise it wouldn't be coming out right now. Also, I'd rather get a ATi HD 2900XT at this point

HALO 2 FOR VISTA!!!

HALO 2 FOR VISTA!!!

vista and xp