----------------------------------- BenLi Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:51 pm Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- ... needs vista? Why would Microsoft release a game in May that exclusively requires a operating system only months new? ----------------------------------- HellblazerX Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:26 pm RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- Wow, a PC port that took 2 and a half years to develop, with absolutely nothing to offer in terms of gameplay, AND requires a $200 OS to run. If Microsoft thinks this is going to boost Vista sales, they're sadly mistaken. ----------------------------------- Dan Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:50 am RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- I wonder what the game could posabley need that vista offers and xp dose not. Even if there was massive performance boosts in vista, it should still be able to run on xp unless it has some very odd OS specific api requirements. I have a fealing that either Microsoft is trying to convince peoleop to buy there new operating system by making the game vista only or they just list it as a requerment when the real minmmun requirements are acuataly much smaller. I wonder if all of there new software will be vista only. ----------------------------------- BenLi Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:21 am RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- Will the game run on XP though even if MS says it can only run on Vista? IS there a way to make it run? ----------------------------------- Clayton Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:34 am RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- Perhaps you should try ;) ----------------------------------- Mazer Tue Apr 24, 2007 4:06 pm RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- How about DirectX 10? ----------------------------------- lord_pwnerer Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:23 pm Re: Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- Do you know if they're trying to make it compatible through online play of PC & Xbox??? Because that may be a reason to make it Vista only for performance reasons, they may not want shit box computers lagging the servers.... But still, they should make it available to XP even if that is a reason, just make the system requirements a bit higher... (and make it check the system requirements). ----------------------------------- Andy Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:01 pm Re: Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- halo 2 is dx9, not 10 ----------------------------------- Mazer Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:39 am RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- Well then, I guess that just makes PC gamers a bunch of suckers. Go play your spreadsheet game or something. ----------------------------------- Neo Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:47 pm Re: Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- Crysis is light years ahead of Halo 2 graphics wise and doesnt require vista. Obviously Microsoft is trying to sell more copies of Vista. ----------------------------------- Andy Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:30 am RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- err wtf are you talking about. Crysis isn't released yet. That's like saying windows 98 is shit because XP is way better. duh! Plus Crysis is DX10, and DX10 is Vista Exclusive. so stfu. And FYI, there is a huge graphics improvement in the vista version of halo 2. http://www.gamespot.com/features/6169711/index.html ----------------------------------- Neo Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:32 pm Re: RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- err wtf are you talking about. Crysis isn't released yet. That's like saying windows 98 is shit because XP is way better. duh! Plus Crysis is DX10, and DX10 is Vista Exclusive. so stfu. And FYI, there is a huge graphics improvement in the vista version of halo 2. http://www.gamespot.com/features/6169711/index.html There really is no comparison GRAPHICS WISE if you look at a Crysis screenshot/video vs one of Halo 2. Last I checked crysis is NOT DX10 exclusive while Halo 2 explicitly says VISTA only. And you know what the stupid part is? Halo 2 is not even a DX10 title! Even if it were it still doesn't make sense why it could only run on Vista when Crysis can be scaled to run on DX9 and DX10. http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2007/features/halo2_comparison/halo3.jpg http://www3.incrysis.com/screenshots/crysis-jungle-explosion.jpg I'm not really following your XP vs Win98 analogy... and take it easy... sheesh. ----------------------------------- Andy Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:20 pm Re: Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- XP came out AFTER 98, thats why its BETTER. Crysis is going to come out AFTER Halo 2, so it better be better. http://gameplanets.blogspot.com/2006/11/crysis-dx9-vs-dx10-comparison-shots.html for a graphics comparison between the dx9 Crysis and dx10. wow, the dx9 graphics doesnt seem that much better than halo2, i wonder why. i've worked at both ATI and NVIDIA so yeah i think i know what i'm talking about. ----------------------------------- Mazer Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:34 pm Re: Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- I care little for this thread, but I want to stop by and point out that... XP came out AFTER 98, thats why its BETTER. Crysis is going to come out AFTER Halo 2, so it better be better. ...Episodes I, II, and III of Star Wars came out after Episodes IV, V, and VI. ----------------------------------- Andy Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:57 pm Re: Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- and the graphics were BETTER! =P ----------------------------------- Geostigma Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:25 pm Re: Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- XP came out AFTER 98, thats why its BETTER. Crysis is going to come out AFTER Halo 2, so it better be better. http://gameplanets.blogspot.com/2006/11/crysis-dx9-vs-dx10-comparison-shots.html for a graphics comparison between the dx9 Crysis and dx10. wow, the dx9 graphics doesnt seem that much better than halo2, i wonder why. i've worked at both ATI and NVIDIA so yeah i think i know what i'm talking about. Thats not the point hes trying to make. Your flipping out because you can't read. He said "Crysis doesn't need vista and its light years ahead of Halo 2's graphics." This implies that hes trying to confirm the fact that Microsoft wants to try and force people to get VISTA because there is no other reason why Halo 2 shouldn't be released on XP because it doesn't need DX10 to function. ----------------------------------- selentic Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:30 pm Re: Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- I hate this H2V stuff, Its a pathetic marketing trick by microsoft, either way im sure someone will h4xx0r is so it can be run on XP. ----------------------------------- Windsurfer Thu May 31, 2007 4:55 pm Re: Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- I might almost have it working. I've got a fake set of DX10 dlls and just need some fake "xlive" dlls to get it to work... I think... The problem is... I don't know how to get them... Oops! I forgot! Halo 2 hasn't been released yet :wink: ----------------------------------- DIIST Thu May 31, 2007 5:22 pm Re: Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- Whats so good about Halo 2 PC, that someone would buy a brand new computer with vista on it, just so they can play. Plus doesnt vista just need 2GB minimun memory just to run the standard applications without expecting lag. How the hell are you going to play Halo 2 game on Vista, you probably need to have highs spec for your pc, probably VISTA computer rating greater than 3.0. I frankly just settle for the console game version of Halo 2. ----------------------------------- Windsurfer Thu May 31, 2007 5:52 pm RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- Hahaha, I have a decent computer. Halo is a pretty good game. There is no way I'm going to buy it, however. I love bungie (Yay for the Marathon series! I bought that when they were a REAL company!) but I dislike microsoft. I only want to be able to play the game on my PC, under windows XP, or WINE under linux... but I doubt that's going to happen any time soon. ----------------------------------- Tallguy Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:31 am RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- it doesn't make since that the game needs vista....vista takes 2g of memory just to run and doesn't have that much better graphics then xp does, ----------------------------------- Mazer Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:02 am RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- Are you guys pulling these numbers out of your asses? http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/systemrequirements.mspx ----------------------------------- rdrake Fri Jun 01, 2007 2:40 pm Re: RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- Are you guys pulling these numbers out of your asses? Maybe they meant to run the ultimate edition decently? Kinda like how XP required something like 128 MB RAM yet needed around 256 MB to run decently. Really, I'm just pulling excuses out of my ass right now too. ----------------------------------- BenLi Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:11 am RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- I've heard people say that Vista dosn't run wel on 1 gb... but then, they were using rtm... ----------------------------------- Geostigma Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:51 pm RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- I know vista doesn't run well on 1 gig. My buddies at Black Mesa who have vista have 2 gigs and are using almost all of it up. Vista is memory hungry. ----------------------------------- Mazer Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:49 pm RE:Halo 2 for PC... ----------------------------------- I think your "buddies" at Black Mesa are lying to you. They run FreeBSD on all of their machines in that facility.