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Posted by: NIKITSTulin
My god, I have tried just about everything to play Halo 2 again, I did everything you told me, didn't work,compatability issues I guess. Bought it for Xbox, but it didn't work on my Xbox Slim 4gb, when I tried to play it, I get a message telling me to redownload it(wtf?), or go to xbox/support. So I go to xbox/support, and finally I try removing the harddrive, it works, and then the Xbox starts downloading an update, and I get all excited thinkng I'll finally be able to play H2. So the update takes about an hour; finally when it is finished I insert the Halo 2 disc, and I get a message telling me that to play original Xbox games I need a harddrive, so I insert the harddrive, and I get the same f-blaming- message that I got the first time, so the entire week I'm ape-blam!- angry. Then I realize I could use the Halo 2 XP crack files to download it on my other WXP supporting PC. I do that(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XotEksrJFEI), follow every step, and the game works, I am filled with nostalgia, and immediately start the game. I am told to sign in to Live, no problem, but then updates, and all that -blam- so in the end, I need to update the game or I will be logged out of Live, and I need to be logged into Live to be able to play, and then I get a f-blaming- error message that closes the game, and tells me that their is a command option error, for help type in Command/?. Wow! I am this f-blaming- close, and then all my hopes are dashed to pieces again! If I didn't know any better I'd say Microsoft is conspiring against me.
1. Original xbox games are not compatible for the 4GB Slim Xbox 360's. You either need one of the pre-slim xbox 360's with an actual hard drive or a 250 GB Slim Xbox 360.
2. Halo 2 on Windows XP is technically illegal as you are using a crack. Therefore, don't expect live to work on Windows XP that way since it's cracked.
3. The only guarenteed ways to get Halo 2 Vista to work are to either install Windows Vista or install a clean install of Windows 7. I noticed that OEM versions of Windows 7 might contain weird drivers or settings that causes compatibility issues. But if you do a fresh install without any of the OEM stuff, then Halo 2 will work on Windows 7. That's how I got it to work on every Windows 7 PC that had compatibility issues.
I suggest you try what I suggested in #3. A quick fun fact, Android fragmentation is caused by this exact same reason, but to a more severe scale. Inconsistent drivers cause apps to be incompatible across the same versions of Android. With Windows 7, different drivers can also cause the same incompatiblity with Halo 2 Vista.
A clean install of Windows 7 with the default generic drivers will definitely work with Halo 2 Vista. Install Windows Vista will work too. If you don't want to re-format your hard drive, you can just create a new partition and dual-boot two versions of Windows 7 or Windows Vista.