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Subject: Halo 2 Vista, doesn't let me play online.

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Hey, I got given halo 2 vista today and it times out finding games even though i have gold membership.

What gives?

Thanks

  • 10.13.2009 3:42 AM PDT
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Posted by: Teh Phantomz
Hey, I got given halo 2 vista today and it times out finding games even though i have gold membership.

What gives?

Thanks
it died, Halo 2 Online support has been dropped.
not confirmed though...

[Edited on 10.13.2009 4:47 AM PDT]

  • 10.13.2009 4:46 AM PDT
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...BUNGIE !

Don't kill it. I only recently got into this game and want to play it online on PC. I've had it installed for a month but nly got around to playing it now and want to play onine. Don't kill the online...

Or at least give me time to get my achievements ;)

  • 10.13.2009 7:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: Cheezbrgr
...BUNGIE !

Don't kill it. I only recently got into this game and want to play it online on PC. I've had it installed for a month but nly got around to playing it now and want to play onine. Don't kill the online...

Or at least give me time to get my achievements ;)
wow you fail.
don't go crying to Bungie when they abandoned it before it was released.
go -blam!- at Microsoft.

  • 10.13.2009 8:18 AM PDT

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Posted by: Teh Phantomz
Hey, I got given halo 2 vista today and it times out finding games even though i have gold membership.

What gives?

Thanks


Mine did that like 5 times before. Just uninstall and re-do it and after you installed wait 5 minutes before you go to Live after the update. Do that couple of times until it works. That's what I did.

  • 10.13.2009 3:12 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Oh, that glitch.
It happens with h2pc and newer versions of gfwl redist, just do campagin and then do multiplayer.
Somehow, it works a lot. (i play it alot, and they still need to fix that. :( )

  • 10.13.2009 4:55 PM PDT

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so you guys are telling me it still works, but I have a problem

  • 10.13.2009 6:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: Teh Phantomz
so you guys are telling me it still works, but I have a problem
no, Halo 2 for Windows Vista is down.
no one can play on it, and its not a glitch.
this time, its actaully down, monstrmoose servers are all empty. which is pretty handy as it shows whats going on.

  • 10.14.2009 1:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: Teh Phantomz
so you guys are telling me it still works, but I have a problem
no, Halo 2 for Windows Vista is down.
no one can play on it, and its not a glitch.
this time, its actaully down, monstrmoose servers are all empty. which is pretty handy as it shows whats going on.


So, its down forever? or is it only temporary?

Do you think I should return it or something

  • 10.14.2009 2:24 AM PDT
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Posted by: Teh Phantomz
Posted by: Moifugley
Posted by: Teh Phantomz
so you guys are telling me it still works, but I have a problem
no, Halo 2 for Windows Vista is down.
no one can play on it, and its not a glitch.
this time, its actaully down, monstrmoose servers are all empty. which is pretty handy as it shows whats going on.


So, its down forever? or is it only temporary?

Do you think I should return it or something
if you can return it, I recommend you do.
this game should only be worth $1
any higher and you got ripped off.

basiclly, you would've been better of with Halo 2 on Xbox, because the Vista version does not bring in anything new.

[Edited on 10.14.2009 4:29 AM PDT]

  • 10.14.2009 4:25 AM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

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

I have a hard time believing H2v is done online. Microsoft would instantly be opening themselves up to a class action lawsuit. It's more likely just temporarily down.

Another thing, if this game has been down for 2 days why aren't there more threads from people complaining?

  • 10.14.2009 1:12 PM PDT

This is an old account iDarkWint3r is my new Bungie.net user.

Well to be honest I had this problem also HSG BriAnA too.But I don't want to tell you more "H2V Drama!"

  • 10.14.2009 9:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: Frnksnbns
I have a hard time believing H2v is done online. Microsoft would instantly be opening themselves up to a class action lawsuit. It's more likely just temporarily down.

Another thing, if this game has been down for 2 days why aren't there more threads from people complaining?
class action lawsuit should've happened when Halo 2 Fail was released.
or maybe a class action lawsuit for the source code would be good enough.
Posted by: ItsNOTJohnston
Well to be honest I had this problem also HSG BriAnA too.But I don't want to tell you more "H2V Drama!"
:'(

ok, the -blam!--ass Halo 2 Fail is back online now.

[Edited on 10.15.2009 4:53 AM PDT]

  • 10.15.2009 1:42 AM PDT

that map maker is really cool. (and something I would really really dig.) but yah. lol. when it came out I almost got vista so I could play it. good thing I avoided that mistake. a bad game and a ^@%!~% OS.

  • 10.15.2009 7:03 PM PDT

Vista is a way better OS than XP. had more problems with XP than I have ever had on Vista

  • 10.15.2009 8:27 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: noobking111
^@%!~% OS.

Explain why. Go ahead.

Unless you're just another dumb noob buying into the anti-Vista hype with no facts to back your comments whatsoever. We've been getting a lot of those here.

  • 10.15.2009 9:18 PM PDT
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just get halo 2 for xbox. it has more players than the pc version, and it does not crash all the time. the graphics might be better on the pc version and you can make custom maps, but its useless if the servers crash all the time....
o wait i play halo ce for custom content.

  • 10.15.2009 9:37 PM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

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Posted by: noobking111
^@%!~% OS.

Explain why. Go ahead.

Unless you're just another dumb noob buying into the anti-Vista hype with no facts to back your comments whatsoever. We've been getting a lot of those here.

I've had problems with Vista. Halo PC ran like crap with decals enabled, but that problem's solved because it now crashes at startup. I was annoyed that Vista would not remember my folder view preferences (I like "list view" with hidden files shown), which got worse after the IE update, when clicking any file would open a new Explorer window. D3D10 cuts my frame rates down by 10-20 in the games that support it, with no obvious visual improvements (except the dust and smoke look better in Bioshock). Because of the new driver model, I can no longer limit the frames pre-rendered by my CPU before they reach the GPU, which apparently introduces more input lag when I use vertical sync. The EAX effects on my sound card no longer work without a hack that is usually innefective.

I understand Vista works great for some people, but it's been nothing but problems for me.

  • 10.15.2009 10:02 PM PDT

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:[,At least you can Play CE on your XP.

  • 10.15.2009 10:11 PM PDT
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Vista wasn't worth an upgrade to XP users.
I started on Vista, and I don't really like Vista, since Windows 7 does everything better.
I do hope Windows 7 will make those XP losers, learn what is better.
heres hoping Microsoft secretly plotting to support H2V lol.

  • 10.16.2009 3:53 AM PDT

Halo 3 for PC.

I think I must've broke it, while hosting a campaign map and spawning some ai.
Don't worry though these things happen.
Playing with ai on multiplayer causes packets to leak onto the browser list and crashes it because the mainmenu doesn't know what ai is.

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[Edited on 10.16.2009 9:44 AM PDT]

  • 10.16.2009 9:44 AM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: n357
I've had problems with Vista. Halo PC ran like crap with decals enabled, but that problem's solved because it now crashes at startup.

ATi favoritism in the code tbh.

Posted by: n357
I was annoyed that Vista would not remember my folder view preferences (I like "list view" with hidden files shown), which got worse after the IE update, when clicking any file would open a new Explorer window.

Never seen that on my setup. Hell, all that's working better for me than XP ever did.

Posted by: n357
D3D10 cuts my frame rates down by 10-20 in the games that support it, with no obvious visual improvements (except the dust and smoke look better in Bioshock).

What's your video card? After shoving a HD4870 in my PC, I don't see any difference in FPS hit between DX9 and DX10. Can't really blame the OS for your card not handling DX10.

Posted by: n357
Because of the new driver model, I can no longer limit the frames pre-rendered by my CPU before they reach the GPU, which apparently introduces more input lag when I use vertical sync.

If you're getting input lag, vsync should be off anyway. No reason to have it on if your framerates are that low. If that's not the case, just turn triple-buffering off.

Either way, I haven't seen any input lag on my PC.

Posted by: n357
The EAX effects on my sound card no longer work without a hack that is usually innefective.

MS redid audio for OS stability. Fortunately, Creative's working on a solution. But it's still in beta. Give it a read.

Posted by: n357
I understand Vista works great for some people, but it's been nothing but problems for me.

Obviously.

  • 10.16.2009 10:44 AM PDT

Halo 3 for PC.

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Posted by: n357
I've had problems with Vista. Halo PC ran like crap with decals enabled, but that problem's solved because it now crashes at startup.

ATi favoritism in the code tbh.

Posted by: n357
I was annoyed that Vista would not remember my folder view preferences (I like "list view" with hidden files shown), which got worse after the IE update, when clicking any file would open a new Explorer window.

Never seen that on my setup. Hell, all that's working better for me than XP ever did.

Posted by: n357
D3D10 cuts my frame rates down by 10-20 in the games that support it, with no obvious visual improvements (except the dust and smoke look better in Bioshock).

What's your video card? After shoving a HD4870 in my PC, I don't see any difference in FPS hit between DX9 and DX10. Can't really blame the OS for your card not handling DX10.

Posted by: n357
Because of the new driver model, I can no longer limit the frames pre-rendered by my CPU before they reach the GPU, which apparently introduces more input lag when I use vertical sync.

If you're getting input lag, vsync should be off anyway. No reason to have it on if your framerates are that low. If that's not the case, just turn triple-buffering off.

Either way, I haven't seen any input lag on my PC.

Posted by: n357
The EAX effects on my sound card no longer work without a hack that is usually innefective.

MS redid audio for OS stability. Fortunately, Creative's working on a solution. But it's still in beta. Give it a read.

Posted by: n357
I understand Vista works great for some people, but it's been nothing but problems for me.

Obviously.
omg I just witnessed a problem solving GOD!.

  • 10.16.2009 11:22 AM PDT
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Halo 1&2 PC forum's resident OC ReMixer. Like rockified and metalized video game music? Subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Not so much problem solving as problem explaining.

If I were explaining how to solve the problems, I'd say to just get a new video card (ATi?), CPU, and just be patient until ALchemy's stable release. But node can figure that out by himself, so I didn't bother saying it.

'Cept for the folder view prefs not saving. That's just weird. I've actually never seen that before.

  • 10.16.2009 12:30 PM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Too sick and tired to quote here... NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT. Could be the main source of my problems.

  • 10.16.2009 3:44 PM PDT

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