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Gaming and Consoles Forum - Halo 2 on PC - problems - Page 1
Elite Donator
OK, now hopefully one or two of you can help me out here because my son is pulling his hair out!
He never had an original Xbox, but he has now had a 360 for the past year, and Halo is his favourite game. He has all the Halo games so far released on the 360 including Anniversary.
Now, obviously he wanted to play Halo 2, and without buying an Xbox just for that game, the obvious answer seemed to be to get it on PC, especially as it can still be played online on PC. So we got it in the post today, and tried to install it, and that's as far as we have got.
It would seem that it was designed to run on Vista with Windows Live 1.0 or something. We have Windows 7 premium 64 bit with Windows Live 3.0 or whatever (means diddly squat to me)
We've tried uninstalling Windows Live, but there seem to be quite a few things mentioning the word Live in the program listings and we're a little confused as to what is relevant. I'm more than a little bit anxious about uninstalling too much without understanding what it all does.
But so far it just won't run. Error messages left right and centre and nothing we can find online can seem to resolve it. My son started asking if we could wipe the bloody PC and do a fresh install of everything (he read it on a forum) but I'm not prepared to do that.
Is there a way round this, or should we give up and sell the game off again? He is quite peed off, to be honest.
Reviewer
Have you tried this?
Please check Windows 7 compatibility center link to find which products are compatible with Window 7:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us/default.aspx The issue you posted is related to gaming and would be better suited in
http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-US/Community/Pages/forums.aspx
I would suggest you to run the game in Vista compatibility mode
Here are the steps to go in to the Vista compatibility mode.
To change compatibility settings manually for a game:
1. Right-click on the game,
2.Click Properties, and then
3.Click the Compatibility tab.
4.Put a check mark on “Run this program in a compatibility mode”.
5. Select the operating system as Windows Vista
6.Click “Apply”
7.Click “OK”
Try this and check if it helps
Hope it helps
Thanks and regards
Dinesh-Microsoft Support
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Si Wooldridge
Reviewer
http://synth.myreviewer.com
Reviewer
This also may help but it's full of links that I'm not sure of the veracity of:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-CA/w7itproappcompat/thread/a9e029e0-197a-4e9c-8d2d-f4a08ec2e0ec
You can take some heart from teh fact it appears to be a huge problem (within context, of course...).
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Si Wooldridge
Reviewerhttp://synth.myreviewer.com
Elite Donator
Had I realised the size of the hornets' nest I was opening, I wouldn't have let him buy the game!
Thanks, Si. I'm not even sure if we have got as far as getting an icon to right click on, but I'll have a look-see in a bit.
I did reason with him that as Halo Anniversary has been released on the 360, chances are they will follow suit with Halo 2 anyway, but he reckons it won't happen for another 2 years until 10 years after its original release date...I don't know.
Elite Donator
Although that advice looked good, we can't work out WHERE to right-click on the game. If we find the game in the program listings and right click on it, there is NOT a compatibility tab, and we can't find one in any of the advanced options either...ho hum. Any more ideas? 
Elite
Is it definitely installed?
Or do the error messages appear when you try to install, and then it cancels?
Halo 2 (normal XBox version) should work on the XBox 360 as it is on the backwards compatibility list.
If you can find it cheap then that could be a solution.
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Elite
As daft as it sounds, a crack may be the only solution 
A lot of games use Windows Live/Games for Windows not just for on-line content , achievements etc, but as an anti piracy measure, so that may help you work round it, but don't know if that would effect playing on line.
I see loads of ppl have this problem, and loads of ppl supply " work arounds", lots on youtube
unfortunately he supplies a link to megaupload for a file to fix it, but mentions games for windows forums, so you may be better looking there
This item was edited on Saturday, 28th January 2012, 11:28
Elite Donator
Quote:
Gareth Williams says...
Halo 2 (normal XBox version) should work on the XBox 360 as it is on the backwards compatibility list.
I asked the geeks behind the counter in CEX this question and they said it would only work on hacked machines. My son's Xbox is the new slim version. They were adamant it doesn't run. Can anyone else confirm or deny this???
Elite
It should work on the slim version as long as it has a hard drive - ie. not the 4GB model.
Also, the HDD needs to be the original XBox one, not one that was installed separately.
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Elite Donator
Hm, I've been googling and that does appear to be the case. Yes, it is the 250 gig model, with the original, completely unmodified in any way, hard drive. Unfortunately the game is no longer live online because of its age, but my son thinks this will have to be the way to go.
Wait till I see those geeks in CEX - they DON'T know everything! lol
