Halo 2 for PC...

[BenLi]

... needs vista? Why would Microsoft release a game in May that exclusively requires a operating system only months new?

[HellblazerX]

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]

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]

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]

Perhaps you should try

[Mazer]

How about DirectX 10?

[lord_pwnerer]

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]

halo 2 is dx9, not 10

[Mazer]

Well then, I guess that just makes PC gamers a bunch of suckers. Go play your spreadsheet game or something.

[Neo]

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]

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]

Andy @ Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:30 am wrote:

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.




I'm not really following your XP vs Win98 analogy... and take it easy... sheesh.

[Andy]

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]

I care little for this thread, but I want to stop by and point out that...

Andy @ Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:20 pm wrote:

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]

and the graphics were BETTER! =P