Halo 2 Vista FAQ

[Boo Diddly]

the beta ends early next year. You can not upgrade to the full version. you can install the full version over the old one, and you can keep your account's stuff though.

[Agamemnon]

It is still best though to back up everything you want saved before you do; that is, if you're installing the beta.

[Rescudo]

Even if I'm installing it on a physically separate hard drive?

[Stealth]

I don't know, but when I get my DVD RW drive, I'll back up every thing on my Desktop and maybe my laptop, and reformat them, they need it, my Desktop has two OSs and I hate it, I have Windows 2000, and Windows XP, and I want to have only XP for now, but when I get Vista I'll get Vista, but I need to do something first.

[Agamemnon]

Even if I'm installing it on a physically separate hard drive?

No, not then, especially considering it's on...well, a physically and completely different hard drive. That is, unless that hard drive has stuff on it.

[Rescudo]

I'm going to buy a new, external hard drive in the 300-500 GB range, and install Vista on it. I'm pretty sure that will work out

[Boo Diddly]

the only problem with having your os on a seprate hard drive is that "oops, i accedently unplugged my hd from my pc. now i need to reboot"

I have a very interesting configuration that i'm running right now. I have 3 Hard drives, 2 80 gig and 1 160 gig. I have the 180 partitioned into a ~97.6 gig and a 51.3 gig *no they dont add up to 160, you need to look up that yourself, its too complicated for me to explain*. My 2 80 gigs are in a RAID 1 set, so that I don't loose any important school related stuff... and I have all my halo stuff on it to make a little room. Total, my halo stuff ammounts to just under 10 gigs, owch >.<
On the larger partition I have my main os, which is XP. I have 50 gigs worth of music on it *dont ask, i wont tell*, and is where i make my map. On the other partition is vista, which I can upgrade at any time.

Just a little thing, I installed halo pc and halo ce in a way as to only have one of each for both oses.
Interesting btw... I'm running the special halo 1.7 patch that is for the vista verson on xp b/c its being used for both oses. The patch was released due to the fact that Gearbox f*ed up and wrote crappy code to detect the version of DirectX. What happened is that Halo didn't see DirectX 9, so it assumed that windows must be running an older version of it... riiiight... directX 10 is older than 9...

[Chewy Gumball]

Safest thing to do would be to have the drive with vista on it be the only drive connected while running vista. You don't know what vistsa will do to drives.

I would assume the problem with the dx versions is that vista doesn't run the same dx9 that xp does.

[Rescudo]

That won't be possible for me, seeing as I would need to open my laptop and unplug the original hard drive (which makes the guarantee invalid)...

[Stealth]

ok, we are going off topic, but here is something to put us back on track,

Dose any one know where Bungie is going to show off halo 2 Vista in the USA?

I've asked Frankie to think about Utah, Because that is where I live, and it would be cool, because most of my Friends have played Halo, and Halo 2, and some of them hate it because they think it is Cartoony, wich isn't that true about some of the halo CE maps, Halo 2, Halo 2 Vista, and Halo 3.