Halo 2 Vista, being a release for the Games for Windows service, includes support for Xbox Live for Windows system. Screenshot of Halo 2 Vista, showing high resolution. Halo 2 Vista was the only game released with this technology. It is an attempt to emulate the ability of consoles to instantly play new discs in a DVD drive without installing them, allowing the end-user to play the game as it is installing. It has included the same programs as previously used in the Halo Editing Kit and also includes a pre-made "custom" map by default, named Example, which was made for players to observe as an example for making their own custom maps.Ī new ability pushed by the Microsoft team is a feature called " Tray and Play".
One of the selling points of Halo 2 Vista is an included map editor. While the single player campaign does not differ from the Xbox version, the player can earn newly implemented single and multiplayer achievements. Halo 2 Vista has been reworked graphically for the PC, including high-resolution textures and support for very high resolutions. Microsoft had stated that the release date had been pushed back one final time, due to partial nudity found in the Halo 2 Vista Map Editing Kit, making the release date May 31, 2007, for the United States. The release date was originally planned for May 8, 2007, however, the release date was delayed to May 22, 2007, because the team needed "to make some improvements to the installation experience and address other technical issues." However, release dates for the game were erratic, as Australia had publicly available copies, and some stores in the United States were selling copies as well.
Halo 2 received a PC port, commonly nicknamed Halo 2 Vista, which was developed by Hired Gun for use on the Windows Vista operating system exclusively and as a release title for the "Games for Windows" category. Halo 2 VistaĮSRB: Mature (M) for Blood and Gore, Language, and Violence if you are seriously having trouble and need help, add to your email list and talk to me on MSN.This article is about the Windows Vista port. You can also get the file from the channel xbins on efnet.
the dummyfile.exe file can be found in the downloads section of (sorry for spamming) and go to the "other" downloads section. (remember not to delete the three multiplayer maps cause u could make 2 copies of the game 1 without those three mulitplayer maps and 1 with those three multiplayer maps and just remove another three. finally i made the "xbox ISO for him with Qwix and it was like 4.34Gb just able to fit on a blank DVD. with that program i made 3x 1mb files and named them the exact name of each of the maps (example (nameofmap).map. now for the "tricky Bit" i moved 3 multiplayer maps (remember that they are the maps under 50mb) and used a little program of xbins called dummyfile.exe (this basically makes a file with the extention (*.bin) to the size u request. so i just deleted the whole media folder. (remembering that all of this was over remote assistance i had a few limitations. the reason it was a hastle was because the ISO he had was toooo big so i extracted the ISO with Qwix then i deleted the 3 live files (dashupdate.xbe, downloader.xbe,update.xbe) and i found it was still way too big (but the thing is my ISO wasn't because i FTP'd it myslef)so i went a little further. I helped a person over remote assistacne to get his "downloaded" copy of halo 2 to work but it was a hastle. (remember there is an difference some programs make an ISO and programs like Qwix and Craxtion make Xbox ISO's (they have the same extention but actually they are different)).