Talk:Halo 2 (Windows Vista)

I CAN'T WAIT FOR HALO 2 PC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --EliteDeath

They must have a super computer to get a decent framerate at those über high resolutions. --Doomguy0505 11:25, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually, one with windows vista. And a pretty good graphics card. --EliteDeath 20:34, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

halo 2 pc is coming out on windows vista. and it will prolly take the same grapics card as halo pc. -Rim Ж Fire TM 14:15, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I'd doubt that RimFire. The only reason being that if you take at look at the pic's the graphics are like 5 times better then Halo PC... Yeah...-Guy with a Point

The graphics don't look noticeable different to me... Perhaps it depends on your graphics card... -Havanacus

Interesting.
Considering the game was designed for the XBox (Celeron PIII class CPU, GeForce 4MX) and is now two years old either it it's comming out with the Halo 3 engine or.... it's going to have had major GFX overhauls done to it. PC gamers, especially FPS players like their eye candy and with the best will in the world a 6000 series Nvidia card can do a hell of a lot more than a tweaked 4MX, they also like the 'standard FPS controls' that come with a PC game (WSAD for driving, mouse look, middle button to reload, etc) so hopefully the interface will be better tweaked than the god aweful mouse drive system in the original.

The other problem is that this game will require Vista. By the time it comes out I don't expect Vista to have much market penetration and will probably be used as a reason to kill off MS's PC gaming division.
 * They have placed emphasis on the fact that they are trying to overhaul the vehicle control for Halo 2 PC, for obvious reasons. As to the Vista part, I agree. The game will require high end graphics cards, processing systems, and all that, I doubt it will enter a major selling, they know this and likely just created it because Microsoft is a computer company and they are supplimenting their best-selling game. -ED 15:11, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Dual weilding
How on earth are they going to dual weild with a mouse?--Mac10&amp;Cheese 18:13, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Mice do have 2 buttons you idiot.Maiar 12:19, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * The same way they do it in the halo 2 CE maps. ---Rim Ж Fire TM[[Image:MandalorianSymbol.jpg|20px]] 18:10, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

No, you plug in two USB mice, and hold one with each hand. :P --Fir st S erg eant Dig ipa td ''(My Talk ) (My Adventures ) (Happy Birthday ) that would be weird.--User:JohnSpartan117 22:32, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Vista or not?
I reserved a copy of Halo 2 pc at an EB Games the other day and the guy said I didnt need vista... is that true or not? --Dandaman879 04:22, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm sad to say that, as far as I can see, there are no plans to release Halo 2 PC on any OS other then Vista... Perhaps you should demand a refund and simply wait a few weeks after the release for a cracked version to be available to download for free... -Havanacus

That guy is full of it--User:JohnSpartan117 22:33, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I'm full of it am I?... Link to pirated halo torrents... Like I said, only a matter of time before we can run the game without Vista... If you run Linux then you can find a Vista emulator and be playing halo 2 today... -Havanacus

Actually, there already is way way to play it without Vista. Falling Leaf Systems made a library that runs Halo 2 on PC's with XP. Lemme get you all a link.... There. Just order Halo 2 from the link to Amazon there and apparently, they send you the library for Halo 2 when it's done. Of course, you could just wait until the 15th when it is normally released. - MasterChief16 15:40,10 August 2007

Nudity?
How could there be nudity in Halo 2?--User:JohnSpartan117 22:31, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

http://www.h2vista.net/forums/showpost.php?p=67220&postcount=29 Found in the map editor. It's a Bungie employee mooning the camera. Terin 14:33, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Im not a fan of nudity really. The news that it is in the multiplayer is good news. (I suck at computer MP). As soon as I get Vista, I will prolly get Halo 2. MasterB 07:09, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh my god, that was hysterical! I mean, its a good thing it got taken out before it was noticed post-release and lawsuits would arise, but I saw that pic from the above link and just laughed. Kap2310 22:45, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I like to refer to him as "Basis", The moon in halo (The largest moon of threshold, Alpha halo sits between the moon and its planet)

Demo
will there ever be a Halo 2 demo?i don't have the money to buy vista AND halo 2,and i don't want to get it and try to use that pach that lets you play it on XP and not have it work right,or mess my computer up Voy101

will my comp work too slow with this?
my comp has these specifications:


 * x64 x2 processor (AMD Turion)
 * ATI radion x1200 graphics card

so? will it work smoothly?

Halo 2 XP?
Where did you get the info? ((unsigned|Arbitry12}}

There should be a section regarding Halo 2 on PC, I can´t gp beyond the Gravemind level because of the patch limitations and can´t find a fix for that urrrg

Theres a patch you can download in limewire

Halo 2 vista singleplayer mode is fully playable on Windows XP, via Robomaster's Halo 2XP Utilities. If you get a crash on Gravemind or somewhere else you have either pirated a fcked up version of the game or used broken installer. Exact download links appear to have been screwed becouse of forum updates, but you can try looking them from here or try contacting Robomaster on same site. http://www.psu.com/forums/index.php If this is illegal or not depends on are installing on legal Halo 2 retail dvd or did you download it from torrent site. --57E 06:53, October 4, 2010 (UTC)

System Requirments
I Have a computer with the requirments and i have the issue of it running very very slow my requirments are: 1.8 GHZ amd mobile sempron windows vista x64 160 gb hdd 2 gb ram nvidia gforce go 6100 WEI Score of 6 why does it not run fast it runs slow like very slow it takes 5 minutes just to kill someone on easy. Shipmaster117 04:05, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Halo 2 Vista requires 2.o Ghz speed. need an upgrade dude.Arabsbananas 03:27, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Halo 2 PC takes too much system resources!
The game requires soo much computer power. In fact, the cost of a good computer with a good enough graphics card is enough money to buy almost three Xbox 360's. The power Halo 2 needs is like a government super computer.

Setting up account
Were can i set up an account to play this? also; do u need to pay for subsription for the Vista version? for that matter why do u have to pay on XBox live? and then still have to pay for downloads on the marketplace? PICK ONE MICROSOFT!
 * sorry i was misinformed at that point.

Name Change
should this article's name be changed to "Halo 2 PC" because Vista isn't really part of it's title. Bioniclepluslotr 16:58, 26 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The PC community mostly refer to Halo 2 Vista rather than Halo 2 PC.- K A C 18:10, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

very big problem
my computer runs halo 2 vista EXTREMELY slow liek for instance durring loading it stops half way but still turns on the level speeking of loading when on the 3rd level it loads half way only this time IT FREEZES with blank black screen and i have to force shut down =( im stuck on that level because of this problem please someone tell me how to fix this i reinstalled the game but nothing...

Windows 7
Would this work on the new Windows 7? Liquid Ink 02:33, February 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * Probably. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't... 02:38, February 8, 2010 (UTC)Anubis 10545
 * Just for the record, this does work on Windows 7, and very well at that.PotatoBird 16:37, August 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * It does run well on Windows 7 but can run into a few problems in the last few levels. I found running it in Compatibility Mode under Vista (Service Pack 2) can help produce a both stable and constantly high grade of performance. Also using ATi's Catalyst Control Centre may throw up a few errors and gitters. LeMansRacer 16:55, August 27, 2010 (UTC)

Available for Mac OS X?
Does anybody know if Halo 2 Vista is available for Mac OS X? I'd like to get it and play it, but I need to know if there is a version that can be played on Mac OS X, or in my case, a MacBook Pro. Does anybody know? --Xamikaze330 14:43, 5 December 2011 (EST)Xamikaze330


 * As per article, Halo 2 Vista is a ported PC version of Halo 2 ... for use on the Windows Vista operating system exclusively .... Alternative methods to run H2V on a Mac OSX is to either run it via Windows with bootcamp, or run a mod-app such as WINE with Crossover and Cider. As always, Google is your friend. — subtank  15:55, 5 December 2011 (EST)


 * Thanks. I'll keep searching and looking on Google, though so far I haven't had much luck though. I was hoping to get a little bit more information on here, but apparently it is as I have read and thought: Nope, not playable in Mac without some kind of interface program. I had thought maybe they'd done the same thing they did with Halo: Combat Evolved to Halo 2 Vista, probably under a different name excluding "Vista", but it seems it wasn't so. I must say I am a little disappointed. Oh well. Things will change for me soon... --Xamikaze330 16:06, 5 December 2011 (EST)Xamikaze330


 * Well, H2V was released by Microsoft simply with the aim to boost the sales of Windows Vista whereas HCE was simply to cater fans who prefer to play it on the PC/Mac.— subtank  16:08, 5 December 2011 (EST)


 * Hey, just wondering: will it successfully run using an emulator of some kind? Like VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, or other such programs? I'd really like to know. Otherwise, I may have to go buy a Windows laptop computer. -- Xamikaze330  [Transmission |Commencing ] 18:02, 4 October 2013 (EDT)Xamikaze330