Will Halo 2 work on xp ?

markotiggelaar · Post by **markotiggelaar** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:39 am

i have this problem i got a kinda new pc like 9 month old

i installed vista once before but my audio drivers arent out for vista

so my question is will halo 2 work on XP ? (because my sound works on xp)

im asking this because i live in europe and halo 2 aint out yet :S

V0Lt4Ge · Post by **V0Lt4Ge** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:51 am

Nope.

Get new audio drivers.

D · Post by D » Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:12 pm

i just re-downloaded the orignal drive and it worked...

Samusaaron3 · Post by **Samusaaron3** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:04 pm

Eventually: http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=18626

SHOUTrvb · Post by **SHOUTrvb** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:22 pm

Yeah, I found out about the Falling leaf software a few weeks back, but it may not work as planned. We can only hope I suppose.

dydomite0 · Post by **dydomite0** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:26 pm

omg that is great i hope it works but i am getting vista cause i really want to play

llama_juice · Post by **llama_juice** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:50 pm

all I know is that Sapien runs a check to see if you're running vista or not... so we'd probably need a hacked sapien to be able to run it on XP...

I can open sapien... just can't launch a .scenario file... it gives me a "###ERROR: this machine isn't vista!!!" in the debug. I tried dissasembling the app... but I couldn't find the location of the check in it... :S

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:05 pm

llama_juice wrote:all I know is that Sapien runs a check to see if you're running vista or not... so we'd probably need a hacked sapien to be able to run it on XP...

I can open sapien... just can't launch a .scenario file... it gives me a "###ERROR: this machine isn't vista!!!" in the debug. I tried dissasembling the app... but I couldn't find the location of the check in it... :S

im pretty sure the check is to see if it can use Vistas API's

markotiggelaar · Post by **markotiggelaar** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:55 am

V0Lt4Ge wrote:Nope.

Get new audio drivers.

the only thing is i got a old audio card in my pc and there are no drivers for vista :S

llama_juice · Post by **llama_juice** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:33 am

Anthony wrote:
llama_juice wrote:all I know is that Sapien runs a check to see if you're running vista or not... so we'd probably need a hacked sapien to be able to run it on XP...

I can open sapien... just can't launch a .scenario file... it gives me a "###ERROR: this machine isn't vista!!!" in the debug. I tried dissasembling the app... but I couldn't find the location of the check in it... :S
im pretty sure the check is to see if it can use Vistas API's

Yea, that's what I was thinkin... but I still couldn't find much on it.

PlasmaGhost · Post by **PlasmaGhost** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:54 am

Hmmm...If the game uses DX10, then I'm in trouble. I'll need a new video card

Reclaimer1217 · Post by **Reclaimer1217** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:41 am

PlasmaGhost wrote:Hmmm...If the game uses DX10, then I'm in trouble. I'll need a new video card

Don't worry, I heard it doesn't because DX10 wasn't around for the creation of H2V and they didn't want to have to rewrite the engine again.

gwag · Post by **gwag** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:47 am

It needs Vista. I heard of that falling leaf thing but if it works i doubt it will work very good. I does not require Direct X 10 (trust me i own it ^_^)
you need a very fast PC to run it though. My Geforce 7600 GT cant run it at the highest settings.

McJix · Post by **McJix** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:33 pm

Unfortuatly, there's no way to run Halo 2 on XP. Vista is too new, and there is no emulation technology at the moment, and may take a while to actually come out.

But dollars-to-donuts, Microsoft won't make any emulation, because they want us all on Vista. That way, all of us either buy new PC's with Vista, or we upgrade once XP is no longer looked upon.

If there is any emulation, it'll be a third party, unsupported patch that Microsoft will probably release an update to prevent an install. But, keep your eyes out for one, as I know there will be one, eventually.

SHOUTrvb · Post by **SHOUTrvb** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:01 pm

You're wrong, read the topic before posting.

Reclaimer1217 · Post by **Reclaimer1217** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:17 pm

Hmm, even though I have Vista Ikeep a drive with XP on it because I still use XP for games like HL2 so I began looking into running Halo 2 on XP. Even though this won't work if you don't have the Vista binaries(kinda defeats the point) and it would be illegal for me to give them to you, I relinked them, altered the H2 Vista dedicated server binary, and I was able to get it to initialize, but it would still crash. I am trying to find out what could be the cause(I checked everything, it's all linked correctly)the error reads as follows: "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc00000fd). Click ok to terminate the application" which is different from the normal error you get when trying to run it in XP: "The procedure entry point RegGetValueA could not be loacted in the dynamic link library ADVAPI32.dll." So it appears I have gotten somewhere, but I still can't think of what causes my new error. If any programmer out there might know, please tell me.

ZeroUltimateWarrior · Post by **ZeroUltimateWarrior** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:50 pm

Well, to me I would say that playing Halo2 on XP wouldn't be all that great because who knows if that software from falling leaf will be a bust or not. Let some tards buy it first and see what they say. That is my opinion, other than that I own Halo2 vista as of NOW but I do not have vista, I was going to update my computer majorly but I said *screw it* and went the lazy way, I am ordering a new system here in a couple weeks, it costs 745$

19 inch widescreen LCD flat pannel

Pent D Dual Cored

1GB o ram(i can buy more if I want who cares)

Radeon X1300 PRO

Home PREMIUM, never get home basic....bleck

And a 250GB SATA 7200RPM hard drive

SHOUTrvb · Post by **SHOUTrvb** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:45 am

How many GHz?

I'll be getting either the Alienware Aurora or the Road Warrior (Either one would be customized with the top Graphics and Memory settings hitting about $1600). I should have enough to buy it in a few weeks (off my 7 an hour job

).

krazykyle03 · Post by **krazykyle03** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:57 am

lol halo 2 VISTA!!!!!!!

llama_juice · Post by **llama_juice** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:58 am

krazykyle03 wrote:lol halo 2 VISTA!!!!!!!

I love it when people read the thread before posting.