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Subject: why does halo 2 only work on vista?

seriously wtf, microsoft supports both operating systems but only lets it be played on piece of -blam!- ram hog security vista..

seriously, no reason to get vista unless your going 64 bit and trying to run a quad core w/ tri sli ormore then 4 gbs of ram, other then that vista is BaaaAaAad... unless your using it for design software or something.. i dunno...

but seriously, can't you guys make a patch that will let this game run on xp sp2-3?
pretty sure you lost over 2 million customers by making vista only, you can check steam statistics to see that 60% of the users are currently running xp sp2... and halo 2 doesn't even look like it needs a good pc to run it, maybe a 2.0 p4 512 mb ram, with a 512mb video card? lol

anyway, i doubt you guys will ever patch it.. so... guess i will never buy it

  • 05.26.2009 6:41 AM PDT

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yeah...its incredibly stupid.

  • 05.26.2009 10:42 AM PDT

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Why does Halo 2 only work on Vista?


Greed and arrogance.

  • 05.26.2009 11:54 AM PDT
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Vista is great, you should actually try it instead of going by what a bunch of people said when it was first released.

PS: RAM-hog my ass, running 32bit Vista premium with only 2gb and the 500mb it uses doesn't bother me at all, I barely ever go under 700mb unless one of the programs I'm running (Firefox usually) has a memory leak.

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actually vista has more problems than xp even xp with out a service pack!! microsoft is just trying to hide it by putting the programs ppl dont use or programs that have problems and hiding them besides all microsoft computers (not firefox) have a keyloger bult into them so the problem is not with the programs but with the computer beleave me i have found the keyloger its there and so your programs (especially firefox) are probably fine your computer probably has a memory leak so i say they should make it for xp vista and windows 7 (when it comes out)


P.S. the most secure system is lenix

  • 05.26.2009 1:46 PM PDT

it is because microsoft wants to promote theyre terrible new OS

  • 05.26.2009 1:51 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

Posted by: TehBanStick
Vista is great, you should actually try it instead of going by what a bunch of people said when it was first released.

PS: RAM-hog my ass, running 32bit Vista premium with only 2gb and the 500mb it uses doesn't bother me at all, I barely ever go under 700mb unless one of the programs I'm running (Firefox usually) has a memory leak.


Well fine, but claiming Vista is great and that people should try it really has nothing to do with the topic here. Nobody was attacking Vista. It's not Vista's fault H2v only runs on Vista.

  • 05.26.2009 2:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: TehBanStick
Vista is great, you should actually try it instead of going by what a bunch of people said when it was first released.

PS: RAM-hog my ass, running 32bit Vista premium with only 2gb and the 500mb it uses doesn't bother me at all, I barely ever go under 700mb unless one of the programs I'm running (Firefox usually) has a memory leak.


Well fine, but claiming Vista is great and that people should try it really has nothing to do with the topic here. Nobody was attacking Vista. It's not Vista's fault H2v only runs on Vista.

Actually the OP is basically an "I hate Vista" post. The main reason why it sucks to him and most of this thread is because they made Halo 2 only work on it.

Also, lol keyloggers, Firefox has always had memory leaks.

  • 05.26.2009 3:53 PM PDT
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Why does Halo 2 only work on Vista?


Greed and arrogance.

  • 05.26.2009 4:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: TehBanStick
PS: RAM-hog my ass, running 32bit Vista premium with only 2gb and the 500mb it uses doesn't bother me at all, I barely ever go under 700mb unless one of the programs I'm running (Firefox usually) has a memory leak.


PS: RAM-hog my ass, running 32bit XP Pro with only 2gb and the 200mb it uses doesn't bother me at all, I barely ever go under 1300mb unless one of the programs I'm running (Firefox usually) has a memory leak.

*shrug. ;)

  • 05.26.2009 4:55 PM PDT

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Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

Or you realize that the way vista/7 handles memory is better since it caches your programs so they load faster. I don't have 8 gigs of ram just so it sits around looking pretty.

  • 05.26.2009 7:38 PM PDT

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Its Windows. They do what they want. I cant wait for W7 to get rid of crapvista.

  • 05.27.2009 1:47 AM PDT
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The memory management is so good that it's actually slower here, hm.

There's no way it's going to cache any program really. Maybe Windows resources that it used, but the program itself? No.

Anyhow, we know this won't go anywhere. ;)

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Posted by: TehBanStick
PS: RAM-hog my ass, running 32bit Vista premium with only 2gb and the 500mb it uses doesn't bother me at all, I barely ever go under 700mb unless one of the programs I'm running (Firefox usually) has a memory leak.


PS: RAM-hog my ass, running 32bit XP Pro with only 2gb and the 200mb it uses doesn't bother me at all, I barely ever go under 1300mb unless one of the programs I'm running (Firefox usually) has a memory leak.

*shrug. ;)

That's irrelevant.
We all know XP doesn't use much RAM.

He called Vista a RAM hog, which if it was, I wouldn't still be able to do whatever I want which isn't the case since I can.
To back my argument, I used my own stats to show that while it uses 500mb of RAM, it doesn't really effect much.
So you tailoring my post in attempt to be a smart ass really serves no purpose at all.

[Edited on 05.28.2009 9:38 PM PDT]

  • 05.28.2009 9:36 PM PDT

right.. but still nobody answered my question of why this game only runs on vista, now that i think about it, didn't this kill sales for halo 2? i bet halo CE sold more then halo 2 on pc, and i heard halo 2 uses that GFWL crap so there is no dedicated, i think they were asking for it not to be bought.

  • 05.29.2009 6:49 PM PDT
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Stop bashing OS's to cover up user error. I have had 0 problems with Vista since switching, and would prefer it any day over XP for more reasons than I care to count. You people are obviously doing something wrong.

  • 05.29.2009 9:27 PM PDT

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right.. but still nobody answered my question of why this game only runs on vista, now that i think about it, didn't this kill sales for halo 2? i bet halo CE sold more then halo 2 on pc, and i heard halo 2 uses that GFWL crap so there is no dedicated, i think they were asking for it not to be bought.


They were trying to promote Games for Windows Live thinking since it was such a hit on the X-box it would be just as accepted. What they failed to realize is that PC gamers already have all the tools that Live brought to the console world. It was a very bad decision, one they paid for in sales. My fear is that this botch will get Halo3 for PC shelved.

  • 06.02.2009 6:33 AM PDT