Legit Reviews

Hey guys, as you all may know i'm not the biggest fan of Vista, or Microsoft for that matter. But I do know when to tip my hat to a gaming franchise, and that game is Halo.

Halo 2 for the PC was released, by MS, for their latest OS Windows Vista. However, MS decided not to support WinXP. This was a ploy to get people to buy Vista so that they may sell more Vista units and capitalize off of certain people's infatuation with the Halo franchise.

Anyways, after I was doing my daily searching for .torrents, I came across an interesting patch for Halo 2, that makes the game playable on Windows XP!

The catch is, if you don't have a purchased Halo 2 product key, not only will you not be able to play Halo 2 online, but you will not be able to gain achievements for the PC version through Live.

On the other hand, if you're just a die-hard Halo fan, like myself, and just want to play the single-player storyline (at least for now), then follow these direction below:


Requirements:
A PC (Preferably one with Windows XP installed)
Torrent Client (Bittorent, Azureus, uTorrent, etc)
1x DVD-R unless you have DAEMON Tools 4.09
Archiving program: WinRAR
May need: Image (.iso) Editing software (I used MagicISO, it's free)
May need: Halo 2 startup.exe file (If your startup.exe in the .iso doesn't work) Found HERE (or if the link is broken, a .torrent version is found HERE)


**Warning**
The following directions are designed with the impression in mind that the people following them have purchased a legal copy of Halo 2 for Vista.
The user simply wishes to play the game on WinXP. Downloading .torrents is an act of piracy (stealing), unless the user has an authorized copy of the game.
If caught downloading .torrents, PSU, is not in any way responsible for your actions.
Please do the following at your own risk.


Directions:

[6-13-2013] - Google informed LR that this thread is in violation of Google Adsense terms and we have removed the directions and links on how to do this mod even though all the links were from 2007 and no longer worked.

This works folks I beat the game last week on XP never crashed once. Its a great game I cant wait for Halo 3.

Nice job!

Please keep the thread free of torrent links, if anyone needs the "software" listed above, use google!

That's pretty awesome, i might have to borrow the game from a friend and give this a try. I haven't played the single player much, but I have played a ton of the multiplayer on xbox. I'm glad that I'll be able to do it on the PC's mouse/keyboard instead of a gamepad.

I'm too lazy to go through that. I'll just play it on my 360. Or if I want to try out the pc version, use vmware to run vista.

It's an interesting workaround though. Leaves me scratching my head(again) about why microsoft does the things they do.

Or even easier...

hey guys plz help....
i have installed windows LIVE...even tried it with updated 1.1v...but same error....


LIVE gaming on windows failed to initialize...maybe another application using LIVE gaming [but nothing is running!!!]...plz reinstall to fix this...[tried it hell lot of times!!!]...

HELP HELP HELP!!!!

I need the fixed startup.exe but i cant torrent anything, my exe crashes every time i press [run]

Sweet Post. I think I may have to "buy" me a copy of halo 2 vista

We've been stuck playing Halo-1 like forever both across the home network and on the web servers. All of the machines playing are XP based.

This will no doubt have us purchase a few CD's for Halo-2 now.

A special thanks to those who made the effort to get this going, even by the ability to have legal software to boot!

I'm surprised you didn't see this the first time around. This was posted a year ago!

Well i started doing this at lans with my friends but we sort of gave up.. and went into easier games to play... Sadly one of the games was BF2

How much of a chance have you given BF2?

I wasn't a big fan of it to start out, but I've played a lot of single player games to hone my helicopter skills, now I can fly under bridges and capture flags by hovering over the cap zone.

It just takes a level of practice for me.

vicaphit wrote:How much of a chance have you given BF2?

I wasn't a big fan of it to start out, but I've played a lot of single player games to hone my helicopter skills, now I can fly under bridges and capture flags by hovering over the cap zone.

It just takes a level of practice for me.

I have given it a chance started out playing it then as soon as people in my year got really into it (freaks, Spend all weekend doing it) i sorta thought damn! this game is BS. I can fly the helicopters and planes rather well from my experience in battlefield Vietnam and Battlefield 1942.

dude sweet i wish i would have seen this earlier. O well i couldnt wait long enough so I switched to vista.

Where can i find halo2 setup . exe file????

The links are all broken....
Sorry for the bump.

Wellconsidering that the original post is over two years old i dont think anyone or even myself kept up with it. try google theres probably a better way out there now

necrophile, you live up to your name.