Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: What's the point of playing while you install the game?
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Can you really not wait 10 minutes!!? lol

Plus, who's to say playing the game won't mess up the windows configuration. Windows is sketchy enough as it is.

  • 05.08.2007 7:42 PM PDT
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There is no point, really.

It's just some feature they thought would be cool. I mean, running a game from a disc isn't new.

  • 05.08.2007 7:44 PM PDT

Ahhhhhhemmmmmm......
Wikipedia is always your friend. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_2

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  • 05.08.2007 7:45 PM PDT
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It is for advertisement and such. Something new.


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While playing during the install, you can notice how bad a game halo 2 is and quickly cancel the installation.

  • 05.08.2007 7:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nessy
While playing during the install, you can notice how bad a game halo 2 is and quickly cancel the installation.


I hadn't thought of it that way before.

Maybe it's not such a bad thing after all!

  • 05.08.2007 7:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nessy
It is for advertisement and such. Something new.


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While playing during the install, you can notice how bad a game halo 2 is and quickly cancel the installation.

good theory

  • 05.08.2007 8:00 PM PDT
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Hehe... that was good Nessy.

I think anyone who knows windows and how dissapointingly buggy it is - I'm talking about XP - will squirm at the idea of playing while installing. Still... Vista... I dunno. Is it really quite an upgrade?

I take all those Mac Vs PC commericals as fact... so many versions of Vista to choose from. (I love those guys)

  • 05.08.2007 8:05 PM PDT
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If your computer is good it will easily handle playing during installation. Yesterday I played Q4 on full settings and recorded a demo while wow was running on full settings in the background without even noticing.

  • 05.08.2007 8:07 PM PDT
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Not that WoW is that processor-intensive, and Q4 is a game written by a bunch of geniuses... still... 2 games, plus recording capability without flinching is something to marvel at.

  • 05.08.2007 8:13 PM PDT
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I don't care how fast your HDD is, installing a game from a CD/DVD-ROM drive takes a long time; especially as they become more complex. It's not unusual nowadays for an install to take up to 40 minutes or more.

Tray and Play is just a fancy feature that MS can market and sell that actually has a little bit of value. Not much value, as it's mostly for show, but it actually works as advertised and isn't harmful.

  • 05.09.2007 6:22 AM PDT
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keegan got what i was saying

this isnt halo PC where it takes 3 min to install and your ready to go

its a DVD so the compression is harder to decompress and probly around 3 gigs

IDE cables are extreamly slow. you do not want your HDD and CD drive to be on the same IDE path because IDE can only handle trasmissions going up or going down one at a time.

i will say 30-45 min to install

  • 05.09.2007 6:32 AM PDT
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I'ev installed dvd games before in 5 minutes...I highly doubt that halo 2 will take 40 minutes lol.

  • 05.09.2007 6:56 AM PDT
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Frog Blast the Vent Core!

It's supposed to be one step closer to the capability of consoles.

  • 05.09.2007 7:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: Nessy
I'ev installed dvd games before in 5 minutes...I highly doubt that halo 2 will take 40 minutes lol.

You probably haven't read the review of Tray and Play with Halo 2 Vista, then. It does take a substantial amount of time. That's simply the way it is, and stating that your Raid 5 array of SATA 3, WD Raptor* drives can install a full DVD game in 5 minutes is a flat out lie. Why? Because the world's fastest DVD drive can't really keep up with the worlds slowest HDD drive.

Installing a DVD game from an image stored on the aforementioned HDD setup could possibly install a full DVD game in under 10 minutes. But not from an actual DVD-ROM drive. Not for a long time will that happen.

*I make no attempt to pretend to know what you've got for your rig, nor do I care. But it would be...difficult, monetarily, to get an HDD setup that would be faster than this.

  • 05.09.2007 7:24 AM PDT