Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Halo 2 Vista has Errors with Windows 7

The Room where we have our server almost looks like a large empty room with an ancient death machine in it.

Honestly I have no Idea why this is. But I cannot get Halo 2 to run with Windows 7. I understand that it says vista in the name. But really? I mean usually games for last generation's Operating systems work for this generations OS.

Honestly I have no Idea why it is doing this. I bought a laptop a while ago, with Windows vista on it. I got Halo 2 and installed it to Vista. When I upgraded to Windows 7, Halo 2 no longer worked.

I have tried updating and everything, even disabling and enabling encrypted services.

I have no idea why it's not working, can someone please give me an insight on why it's not working, and perhaps tell me a work around.

Because I'm starting to get frustrated enough to turn my laptop into the most expensive Frisbee I have ever owned.

  • 03.25.2010 2:31 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

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

It does work for Win7. It's not your laptop, it's the game and total lack of support. The H2v DVD would fly a lot farther through the air than your laptop.

  • 03.25.2010 4:30 PM PDT

You know what almost always works for me that you probably don't want to do? Reinstall Windows

  • 03.25.2010 8:48 PM PDT

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

http://forums.gamesforwindows.com/t/8958.aspx
Or just downgrade to vista or reinstall 7.

[Edited on 03.26.2010 5:48 AM PDT]

  • 03.26.2010 5:47 AM PDT

The Room where we have our server almost looks like a large empty room with an ancient death machine in it.

I have actually debated reinstalling Windows 7, since I do have everything backed up on an external. But the last time I had to reinstall Windows 7 after a Failed upgrade to 7 the first time I had a DVD, It took a whole day and a half to get it back up and running at full. And there is no way in hell I'm going to downgrade to vista. I have already paid for the upgrade. and no other computer in the house is even powerful enough to handle windows 7. (Early windows xp era, I'm the only Techy geek in my house) but yeah.


If anyone has a work around to get Halo 2 working on Windows 7, could you please tell me?

Preferably without re-installing windows 7.

[Edited on 03.26.2010 10:59 AM PDT]

  • 03.26.2010 10:58 AM PDT

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

Try the link posted, it should work.

  • 03.26.2010 1:15 PM PDT

The Room where we have our server almost looks like a large empty room with an ancient death machine in it.

Cool thanks. Although during my crusade I have tried that, I got it to work once but I did not do the second part to make it a perminant change. I have decided that here in a week I'll just reinstall windows. I created the recovery disks and backed up all imporant data to make my recovery as fast as possible.

If anyone else has anything else that would work please tell me

  • 03.26.2010 1:33 PM PDT