Halo 2 Wowloader pathcing problem..

[Cortexian]

Thats because there is no online support for Halo 2 Vista on Windows XP.

Oh and there is one solution:

Buy Windows Vista.

[Knight]

Now thats a great solution. But I believe he said he had it on his Vista bootup..

[Cortexian]

Now thats a great solution. But I believe he said he had it on his Vista bootup..

No, he didn't, he said he got an update through his Vista bootup. He could have pirated it.

Anyways, he should just install and run H2V on Vista, then he wouldn't have a a problem.

[kenney001]

hes trying to do this because H2v runs incredibally faster and smoother in XP and requires lower system specs. I have first-hand expirience with this.

The thing is, even with the updates, you still cant play online on xp. Its something the Wowloader had to disable to allow it to run in XP. I myself, as most others do also, see all the servers, but it wont connect to any of them. This is something specifically stated in the Wowloader, and cannot be fixed without serious reverse-engineering and programming.

Your best bet is to either play the campagin, or set your settings to completely low and play mp on vista.

[SuperSunny]

hes trying to do this because H2v runs incredibally faster and smoother in XP and requires lower system specs. I have first-hand expirience with this.

The thing is, even with the updates, you still cant play online on xp. Its something the Wowloader had to disable to allow it to run in XP. I myself, as most others do also, see all the servers, but it wont connect to any of them. This is something specifically stated in the Wowloader, and cannot be fixed without serious reverse-engineering and programming.

Your best bet is to either play the campagin, or set your settings to completely low and play mp on vista.

Really? From everyone else I've talked to, it ran worse!?!

[p0lar_bear]

Really? From everyone else I've talked to, it ran worse!?!

i would think h2v on XP would run a little better, since XP has less of an overhead than vista.

[InnerGoat]

Really? From everyone else I've talked to, it ran worse!?!

It runs better on XP, even if it is showing a lower FPS. My results from benchmarking H2V in XP and Vista were not too accurate, because H2V is always stuttering in Vista for me. It's a big difference when 1920x1200 is sorta playable on Vista, and then adding 4xAA to that under XP and having it play even better yet.

[SuperSunny]

It runs better on XP, even if it is showing a lower FPS. My results from benchmarking H2V in XP and Vista were not too accurate, because H2V is always stuttering in Vista for me. It's a big difference when 1920x1200 is sorta playable on Vista, and then adding 4xAA to that under XP and having it play even better yet.

Ah, I see! I read about the strange benchmarking, where Halo 2 ran at a different FPS than was shown.

Makes me really really wonder why the game isn't out for XP if it runs better.

[Halo2Vista]

because the greedy bastards weren't thinking and they wanted as much money out of this as possible because h2v would come out right after vista so they wanted all the pc gamers to move to vista just to play the game which is the same as the xbox version but no xtra stuff added in also like the collectors edition for h2 XB and MSGS said and admitted to fucking up the whole game, and saving the game is confusing to me because in halo 1 you just save at check point and keep going on, you dont have to exit the SP mode just to save.

[Cortexian]

I have NO problems running H2V on high settings in Vista, I've installed it on my XP computer with WoW loader, and I saw NO difference.