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You cannot pour new wine into old wineskins, if you do, the wineskins will burst and both will be lost.

  • 03.26.2007 9:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: Aj6627
Get a job if you can't afford a copy of Vista Ultimate for $200.


lol just buy home basic all you need to play is vista. its less than a $100 to upgrade maybe with shipping more or go to a store. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-deta ils.asp?EdpNo=2765084&Sku=M17-2502 i seen vista at target and walmart.

  • 03.27.2007 5:20 AM PDT
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im sure we can all wish it came out on XP but the matter is that it will only be on Vista due to live for windows

im getting vista for that and so i can get rid of the crappyest OS ever: XP

  • 03.27.2007 6:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: LOL WALMART
im sure we can all wish it came out on XP but the matter is that it will only be on Vista due to live for windows

im getting vista for that and so i can get rid of the crappyest OS ever: XP


Oh yeah? what abbout Windows 95? Windows ME? DOS?

  • 03.27.2007 7:59 AM PDT
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Bring Halo 2 out for Commodore 64!! And the Atari! While we're wishing, how about the Texas Instruments TI99/4?

Seriously though, Halo 2 won't ever come out for any other OS. So stop crying about it already.

  • 03.27.2007 8:15 AM PDT
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Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Bring Halo 2 out for Commodore 64!! And the Atari! While we're wishing, how about the Texas Instruments TI99/4?

Seriously though, Halo 2 won't ever come out for any other OS. So stop crying about it already.

I could do the port for the TI! I'm sure Bungie code would translate nicely into TI Extended BASIC!

  • 03.27.2007 8:47 AM PDT
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You would think that, Wouldn't you? :)

  • 03.27.2007 4:08 PM PDT
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dude thats harsh but halo2 on computer suks. grow some nuts and buy a 360 or origanil xbox

  • 03.27.2007 5:27 PM PDT
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thats all i got to say

  • 03.27.2007 5:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: Arbiter_rules
do you think halo2 should come for something older than windows vista?

Do I want it to? Yes. Will it? No.

  • 03.27.2007 5:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: ARTIC CAT143
dude thats harsh but halo2 on computer suks. grow some nuts and buy a 360 or origanil xbox
1. Halo 2 isn't out for computer yet, so how the hell would you know?

2. We've got nuts, and trust us, we don't want to buy an outdated console, or a console nonetheless when we can have a real gaming platform and rock out on our PCs. Thankyouverymuch.

3. I already have a 360 anyway, and I'll probably let it collect dust once I upgrade. :P

  • 03.27.2007 5:44 PM PDT
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Bring Halo 2 out for Commodore 64!! And the Atari! While we're wishing, how about the Texas Instruments TI99/4?

I want H2 on my abacus now!

  • 03.27.2007 8:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: trekkie
You cannot pour new wine into old wineskins, if you do, the wineskins will burst and both will be lost.
Is that a bible quote?

  • 03.27.2007 8:50 PM PDT
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I think so. Damn trekkie, getting religion in my gaming. Oh wait, they already did that with "Left Behind"

  • 03.27.2007 9:16 PM PDT
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Either way, I think someone is going to find a way to port DX10 to XP anyway. You know what that means?

HALO 2 XP -blam!-ZORZ!11

  • 03.27.2007 10:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
I think so. Damn trekkie, getting religion in my gaming. Oh wait, they already did that with "Left Behind"

Heh. And with Halo, Gears of War, and Prey.

trekkie's quote is from the book of Proverbs, correct me if I'm wrong...

  • 03.27.2007 11:34 PM PDT
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This seems to be a business trick by Microsoft to get more sales for their new product Windows Vista, the same old dirty trick they played with delaying the release of Halo 2 to boost the sale of xbox. Now they will reduce the support on XP so that people are forced to buy Vista. To the hell with them. This is so unfair....... especially for us guys from developing countries who have to save a lot just to play our favourite game... and now they put us into such a situation where we have to purchase Vista too......

  • 03.28.2007 5:29 AM PDT
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Posted by: Frnksnbns
Halo 2 on Windows 95 now!


hahaha halo 2 on windows 95. I think that halo2 for pc should be for vista and xp only. nothing lower than xp because if you dont have xp yet. then wow.

  • 03.28.2007 7:21 AM PDT
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People who know s*** about computers shouldn't post, like this kid:

Posted by: namiskuukkeli
Either way, I think someone is going to find a way to port DX10 to XP anyway. You know what that means?

HALO 2 XP -blam!-ZORZ!11

  • 03.28.2007 7:34 AM PDT

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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.

  • 03.28.2007 8:28 AM PDT
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Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
I think so. Damn trekkie, getting religion in my gaming. Oh wait, they already did that with "Left Behind"

Heh. And with Halo, Gears of War, and Prey.

trekkie's quote is from the book of Proverbs, correct me if I'm wrong...
I believe that's right. I read the entire book, and I recall that verse well.

When you think about it, religion is already in your games. Halo? Come on, that alone conjures up images of a religious entity--an angel. The Covenant have their own religion, worshipping the Forerunners. The Ark of the Covenant? Who honestly can't think up of biblical references?

But that's enough about that, I don't want this topic to get closed.

  • 03.28.2007 1:15 PM PDT
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Look having h2v coming to xp would be similar to having halo 3 come on xbox. They COULD have it on xp, but they would need to sacrifice things such as live. The game wouldn't e as good if it were to come to xp.

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Posted by: PanchoBelt
Look having h2v coming to xp would be similar to having halo 3 come on xbox. They COULD have it on xp, but they would need to sacrifice things such as live. The game wouldn't e as good if it were to come to xp.

Couldn't have put it better...

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Posted by: ARTIC CAT143
dude thats harsh but halo2 on computer suks. grow some nuts and buy a 360 or origanil xbox


i got an xbox already. But then i growed some balls and i bought a gaming PC :D
and as for Vista i got an easy solution called VistaRC1!!!!!

  • 03.29.2007 6:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Aj6627
Get a job if you can't afford a copy of Vista Ultimate for $200.


lol just buy home basic all you need to play is vista. its less than a $100 to upgrade maybe with shipping more or go to a store. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-deta ils.asp?EdpNo=2765084&Sku=M17-2502 i seen vista at target and walmart.
Actually, Home Premium is what I would strive for.

At my nearby Staples, Windows Vista Ultimate is priced around $400... ugh..

  • 03.29.2007 6:28 PM PDT