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And people wonder why some of us have "immature" posting habbits...
To answer the subject line, Halo is not only comming to Vista, it came to Windows XP back in 2003, and will work with Vista.
Halo 2 Vista on the other hand, is only coming to Vista because it will be making use of the new Games for Windows - Live! online network, something that can not be "cracked" or "ported" to XP, or any other operating system.
Halo 2 Vista, we have been told, will not be making use of DX10.
Now I would like people to listen very closely to the following:
Games that use DX9 will run on machines with DX10 graphics cards and DX10 installed, and while they obviously won't require DX10 to run, they will gain some graphical and efficiency improvements because of some of the basic changes done in DX10, such as the graphics library, and the way DX10 interfaces between the OS and the graphics card software. Not every game makes use of the DX graphics library, and so you may see no change, or appreciable change, as the XBox uses a version of DX, and so I assume games may make use of that DX graphics library, we may see improvements in some graphics in Halo 2 Vista, or we may not, depends on how much Bungie made use of DX and how much of that can be ported to a DX9 or 10 environment, but what I do know is, is that DX10 and Vista are better optomized for high res textures, so the higher resolution you go, the more improvement you should see between a DX9 card and a DX10 card of equivalent power.
If your computer meets Vista spec, you will either not notice a gameplay difference between a XP title on Vista, or you will notice improvement depending on the game and your exact hardware.
That has nothing to do with why it's only going to Vista, but I figured it's an explanation people may read here.