Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Halo 2 for Vista, Live gaming failed to initialize error help plz

"There is no 'I' in team"

"Yeah? Well, there's no 'we' or 'us' either..."

Alright, so I've had H2V for a while now. I played it on my family's old vista quite perfectly for months before, but now I wanted to try playing it on my newer laptop, seeing as how the family PC likes to CTD a lot.

Before I go on, here are my basic specs for the laptop:
64-bit Windows 7 home premium
4 gig ram
AMD Phenom II N850 Triple-Core Processor @2.20 GHz
AMD M880G w/ ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250, with 320 dedicated MB graphic memory

Now, whenever I install or reinstall H2V I get the not-so-uncommon "Live gaming for windows failed to initialize blah blah blah" error message every time I try to start the game. For a few days now I've searched the magical google and these forums trying various solutions, but none so far have worked. The 'Windows 7 Workarounds' page looked promising (http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?22030-Windows-7 -Walkarounds-(Halo-2-for-Windows-Vista)) but nothing there worked for me, short of reinstalling the OS completely.

Does anybody have any suggestions for fixes they know have worked, or am I simply doomed to play a port on a crappy PC?

[Edited on 01.13.2011 10:29 PM PST]

  • 01.13.2011 9:33 PM PDT

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Hey man, I recently bought Halo 2 for my W7 laptop, and had the EXACT same problem, and let me tell you, I was with customer support for a straight week trying to figure this -blam!- out. I did so many random things that I don't even know what was going on but eventually I got it to work. I know I downloaded the work around program (I dont remember its name) to get it working but there was a bunch of other stuff too. I am willing to help because I know how it feels to not be able to play it. However it is 3 am right now so PM me and I can try to help you out some time.

  • 01.13.2011 11:54 PM PDT

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  • 01.15.2011 1:29 PM PDT

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Unistall all GFWL games install Halo 2 and then install the rest.

  • 01.15.2011 1:31 PM PDT

Yes, I AM just that awesome.

I had that same problem, do you have wireless internet?

  • 01.15.2011 1:44 PM PDT