Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: I know you have heard it a thousand times....

But is it possible for Halo 2 to work on Windows 7, or even better, XP?
I have been searching for hours, but keep getting tons of cracker-speak regurgitated in my face...I dont understand any of that.
So if anyone can help?
Im pretty sure that you cant get the WHOLE game to work for XP, btu what about Windows 7?

  • 12.01.2010 6:39 AM PDT

My Youtube - Halo 2 Online Co-op
BUNGIE AND MICROSOFT FAILS HALO 2 VISTA.

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

Windows 7 is an OS newer than Windows Vista, so your question pretty much answers itself.

Windows XP will forever be left out of the equation.

[Edited on 12.01.2010 7:28 AM PST]

  • 12.01.2010 7:27 AM PDT
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Posted by: chotato
smart, interesting, seems out of place.


Official fan of Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, (Problem with that?) Halo, and Bungie, also a total gaming junkie.

I would like to know this too.

  • 12.01.2010 5:35 PM PDT

Cheers, I knew about Windows 7, just wanted to check, and the reason Im confused about XP is because every time you look at this on google, it comes up with a million cracker forums saying you CAN...

  • 12.01.2010 5:37 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: Henners101
Cheers, I knew about Windows 7, just wanted to check, and the reason Im confused about XP is because every time you look at this on google, it comes up with a million cracker forums saying you CAN...

You can, but it's just the campaign. It's impossible to get the multiplayer working on XP.

  • 12.01.2010 7:14 PM PDT

My Youtube - Halo 2 Online Co-op
BUNGIE AND MICROSOFT FAILS HALO 2 VISTA.

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

The pros, the true Halo fans, Halo 1 modders and even the pirates/crackers didn't want anything to do with this game, that just proves how much it sucks. xD

  • 12.02.2010 5:21 AM PDT

Is Halo 2 PC that bad?
And is Halo PC, as in HALO Combat Evolved PC, better?

  • 12.02.2010 7:08 AM PDT

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Halo Combat evolved or custom edition vs Halo 2 vista= WTF? This would be so stupid war.We all know Halo 2 is baby in front of combat evolved. psss...

  • 12.02.2010 7:14 AM PDT


Posted by: Henners101
Is Halo 2 PC that bad?


its the xbox version exactly, they say it's bad because there's no new features.

  • 12.02.2010 12:55 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

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


Posted by: Mstenger404

its the xbox version exactly, they say it's bad because there's no new features.


It's bad for a number of reason, none of which are because it is "exactly" like the Xbox version.

Your statement is a ridiculous generalization.

  • 12.03.2010 1:18 PM PDT

Could anyone elaborate? I have never played either, I wanted to get one of them for Christmas, thought Halo 2 would be better, but if not...? What makes halo 2 bad, and Halo CE good?

  • 12.03.2010 2:12 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: Henners101
What makes halo 2 bad

Aside from all the stuff that made it crap on the Xbox, it has a ton of unfixed bugs from the porting process due to Hired Gun being the American programming equivalent of cheap labor, such as terrible integration with a crap service called Games for Windows Live. Not to mention the aim assist is still there for controllers on the PC version, and gimps the mouse/keyboard controls for most players, being the first PC FPS catered towards console noob kids. It's essentially a bad console game pretending to be a PC game.

Posted by: Henners101
and Halo CE good?

It comes closer to the standards of a good PC FPS, such as a lack of aim assist, better maps, and a better editing kit. The gameplay is also significantly more skill-based than H2 ever was, which is something PC gamers like. As a result, the community is about 8-10 times larger than H2V's.

  • 12.03.2010 3:35 PM PDT

"You dead yet? No? You will be!"

"How you like them pears? Guess what I mean by pears."

"I'm gonna rip off his partridge and kick him in the pear tree!"

Actually, many people have had many problems with Halo 2 on Windows 7.

Examples:

Crashes
Errors
Bugs

There are ways around this, though.

A simple program (that shall not be named) can fix this easily.

Most problems with Halo 2 on Windows 7 are because of the update from Game for Windows Live v.1.0 to v.3.0

  • 12.04.2010 10:20 PM PDT

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BUNGIE AND MICROSOFT FAILS HALO 2 VISTA.

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

Posted by: Big fat slob 50
A simple program (that shall not be named) can fix this easily.

Most problems with Halo 2 on Windows 7 are because of the update from Game for Windows Live v.1.0 to v.3.0
What rule does this program violate and can't be mentioned?

  • 12.04.2010 11:24 PM PDT

This is getting very shady....

  • 12.05.2010 4:37 PM PDT

Anybody who wants to play Halo 3 or Halo 2 (PC) message me also 4 achievments.

hey i have win 7 and a 64 bit comp when im done installing though it says initiallization failed because "theres another win live game/thing active i tried reinstalling,updating,many things none worked on my old vista laptop it worked but was;laggy as hell any help plz like i dont care about violations. ty

  • 12.07.2010 5:41 PM PDT

I have never had any problems with windows 7.

  • 12.14.2010 10:35 PM PDT