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You running build 7000 or an earlier one?

Ack I think I got it, whichever genius made the Halo 2 XP hack (which I use) made it put the files in the Halo 2 game directory, including a stub dwmapi.dll. That's probably causing the error. Dunno why I didn't notice it before.

OK New problem! Games For Windows Live goes into an infinite update loop even though I am positive I already have the latest Halo 2 patch. It's downloaded and applied the patch 3 times already and I've applied it manually as well but it still claims it can't let me sign onto Live without patching it.

Interestingly I had the same behavior while using the XP hack (I am positive it is completely removed) and I assumed it was a bug with said hack. Apparently not.

Aha figured it out, apparently some DLL files had screwed up NTFS permissions and the update couldn't write to them so it just gave up (but still claimed it was successful). Wiped them using FileASSASSIN and reinstalled and I THINK the update worked properly this time.

[Edited on 01.23.2009 10:55 AM PST]

  • 01.22.2009 5:40 PM PDT

Posted by: WartHogRacerman3
So do you guys think Halo 2 Vista could run on Windows 7?


Thanks! You just reminded me to go download the Windows 7 beta.

  • 01.26.2009 4:36 AM PDT
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Just want to point out the error of the statement about "meant to run in vista and every OS after that"

I do not know if that is EVER implied. There are LOTS of games that will NOT run in OSes after the one they were intended for.

  • 02.22.2009 2:28 PM PDT

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Halo 2 vista is now halo 2 for windows lol

  • 02.26.2009 9:46 PM PDT
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who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

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Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

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Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

It was meant to be on Vista, but it runs fine on Win7 because Win7 is just a modified Vista kernel.(hence the NT 6.1 designation)

  • 02.26.2009 10:47 PM PDT

Posted by: Aj6627
It was meant to be on Vista, but it runs fine on Win7 because Win7 is just a modified Vista kernel.(hence the NT 6.1 designation)
Ding.

  • 02.27.2009 12:38 PM PDT

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