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Posted by John JCal Callaham on Sunday May 06, 2007 - 12:42 PM

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» Halo 2 Vista Delayed

Some of you may have seen in newspaper inserts today for stores like Best Buy and Circuit City that Halo 2 Vista is supposed to be on sale this week. In fact the game has been pushed back slightly and will now ship to stores on May 22.

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SS Joe (39) May 07, 2007 - 09:48 am
» Out of all the games... Out of all the games Microsoft could have chosen to be the first "Vista Only" game, they had to pick Halo 2? » Login to reply to this

dbb970s (170) May 06, 2007 - 11:41 pm

A game that was made to run on the XBox, a system with the equivalent of a GeForce 3 video card, all of a sudden "needs" Vista and a Shader Model 4 graphics card to run properly?!....riiight

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jacobvandy (1233) My XFire username is: jacobvandy May 06, 2007 - 11:56 pm
it doesn't use DX10.
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stalker_loner (257) My XFire username is: anygameldo May 07, 2007 - 07:40 pm
Nope, DX9 Vista game. Go figure. They would have been beter off just optimizing it for DX10 and SM 4.0 though. Sure it would have cost more but hey, its MS so they can afford it. Jerks.
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WallShadows (2361) My XFire username is: Wallshadows

May 06, 2007 - 05:52 pm

Jesus and I was just about ready to buy a 8800 Ultra to play this at full potential!

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pidge (508) May 06, 2007 - 07:57 pm
I have you beat. I bought two Geforce 8800Ultra's and installed Windows Vista on my old Westerdan Digital 15GB hard drive just so I can install Halo 2.
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Kromis (706) My XFire username is: Kromis May 06, 2007 - 10:06 pm
LOL @ sarcasm
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stalker_loner (257) My XFire username is: anygameldo May 06, 2007 - 06:02 pm
Yeah sure you were :P
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Fr0stBite (1144) My XFire username is: Kalif0rnia May 06, 2007 - 07:36 pm
ok, wait. Are you making a sarcastic comment on a joke that was supposed to be sarcastic in the first place. You were? ok just wondering
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stalker_loner (257) My XFire username is: anygameldo May 07, 2007 - 07:52 am
Yeah I was commenting his sarcasm, I know he wouldn't really buy an Ultra since he said it wasn't worth it anyway ;)
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dude282807 (1)

May 06, 2007 - 04:33 pm

I wish Microsoft didn't try to stab the hand that is feeding them by making Halo2 for Windows Vista only! They purposefully did it to yet again to make people buy their products even if we've bought from them, "they"(Microsoft)make us buy more of their products.. When is enough, enough?

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jacobvandy (1233) My XFire username is: jacobvandy May 06, 2007 - 06:16 pm
it worked for XBOX. i don't blame them.
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sqitso (336) May 06, 2007 - 05:44 pm
I don't understand your logic.. So you are saying because you bought Windows 95 12 years ago.. you shouldn't be forced to buy another operating system?
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stalker_loner (257) My XFire username is: anygameldo May 06, 2007 - 06:06 pm
I believe he is trying to say that they are the first to make a game Vista specific when it could have easily been XP/Vista supported. They did it because of the problems XP games have in Vista (potentially, aka STALKER) and to avoid all trouble of having to patch an XP game to work with Vista. It's just a side project of Bungie. Remember that Halo for PC wasn't birthed for 4 years, so be thankful that it is coming out at all, and in the meantime, upgrade your system to Vista, even if by hard drive partition and not a full install.
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asdfqwerty (969) My XFire username is: FiringSquadCEO May 06, 2007 - 10:43 pm
Not only that, but Halo 2 PC is going to have sucky sounds since Vista still doesn't support hardware sound acceleration.
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stalker_loner (257) May 06, 2007 - 02:20 pm
I wouldn't buy it for PC if it was on XP...well, I guess I would cuz I don't have XB Live. » Login to reply to this

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