dang. i accually bought the game too. but i guess i will just have to wait! maybe after i get a new upgrade in about a month, im getting all new mobo, ram, vid card, processor. maybe that will make it run differently.

Good as the forum only supports people with original bought games.

Need to keep an eye on you :P That statement says alot of things already hehehe

ha no i really did. i went to target to get it, but they wouldnt sell it to anyone under 17, and im like 20 days away from being 17, so my sister came down and bought it for me. hehe. Really though i need help getting this running, i wanna start playin agia, but im comp.

i really want help on this.

i have installed the game using loader. then i copied all files from the loader folded including loader. (files copied over were, dwmapi.ll, mf.dll, XtaskDig.dll, MFPlat.dll, and Wow.dll) and i have tried taking some out.) Then i ran loader to start game. Now it starts to load, but then screen goes black for 20 sec. and it crashes me back to XP, with 800x600 res. Maybe something with Catalyst Control Center?

for the people who can't uninstall halo2 under winXP, this problems got me too. Fortunately, I have my system running dual boot. WinXP and Vista. First time, I want to try it in WinXP. been success in installing the game thru loader, but it won't play. Everytime I choose the campaign, it crashes with a warning dialog. and when i want to uninstall it from add/remove programs, it just splash and then nothing happens. I managed to work it out:
1. delete the folder where halo2 was installed
2. delete the folder Halo2 under my documents\my games or search your hard drive for halo2 folder, and then manually deleted it
3. open regedit (start-->run-->regedit-->enter), and hit F3 to search halo2 in the entire registry. if you found it, delete it, but be careful as some registry search will gives you something like: xxxxxhalOxxxx. do not delete this key!
4. to delete the entry in the add/remove programs, I use RegCleaner (it's a freeware. google it), and navigate the uninstall menu, mark the check box under halo2, and click delete.
5. restart your PC

hopes it helps :)

Now, I play it under vista (where it shuld be played)

stupid nvidia GPU driver is NOT out of date!
 

i have the same GPU and the same problem! the installation is fine until i click continue and it pops up with this http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e5...eblack/grr.jpg problem... i, also, have had issues with this driver. i thought it might have something to do with the driver not being compatible with windows vista, but thought again why other people could get it to work on XP while i couldn't.
Samoth has another nvidia 7 series gpu (same drivers) with this problem. someone please address this issue!! :confused: :confused: :confused:

I get than when I run STEAM games under Vista using the latest BETA driver, 162.22! STEAM doesn't know it's arse from its elbow :)

Isn't the latest version of the nVidia ForceWare drivers for Vista version 100.x?

Latest WHQL drivers released today on Nvidias site: 162.22 for Vista, 162.18 for XP!

I wonder what the chances are for a patch from MS adding XP play to the game, so we wouldn't have to go through these hassles? I know I'd buy the game if they did, otherwise, I think I'll let you guys test it first... :)

I have a big problem with my Halo version:
I used the WOWLOADER und the install window appeared.... but i can´t change the directory and somehow 5gb of my harddrive space is missing and i can´t find where it went. Somehow the loader copied something on my drive... but whre is it? has anyone had the same problem?

... Ok. I get the game to load up, I start a campaign, choose my difficulty.

Nothing happens.. it just sits there.

I press escape and it goes back to the choose difficulty screen.

WHAT THE HECK?

Halo 2 error message
 

can someone help me i installed halo 2 and i get this message" initialization faild. Either insufficient system resources were found

wat does it mean

Same for me. Any solutions?

plz help guys....i m having problem....
LIVE gaming failed to intialize...maybe being used by another LIVE gaming appliation running...plz reinstall....i have reinstalled the game many times...and even upated the windows LIVE...to 1.1...but still having same problem...HELP HELP

Well this game is for Vista, not XP. The XP hack only works so far into the game so best play it under Vista!

i completely understand that...but m not going to use vista for about 5-6 months...n have xp...working great...n gotta know that halo 2 xp is possible by hacking...got an error...so plz guide me...

It's an unsupported 'hack'! If you can't get it working that's nobody's fault, have you checked M$ site for Windows Live issues?

There is working fix for level 12 issue. Just google for "halo 2 loaderplus" and use Loaderplus instead of Loader to launch the game.
The problem is in ReadFile API function. The version included in XP cannot read file chunks bigger than 64 MB, and the Vista one can, so this new Loader intercepts ReadFile calls which try to read more than 64 MB in one try and split them into the multiple calls.
Hope this helps.

I downloaded the file that voodoo_nbgd posted and i have tried the wow loader and both of them give me the same problem it starts to load the game then it crashes. Anyone know what to do?:confused:

Best in Clear Communication
 

Thanks hssemichi
for the clarity in communication.

"I belong to a breed where we are not very computer literate but not afraid to venture deep into it based on clear instructions"

For example I missed typing in the (“) quotes just cause I was not sure I had to.
Maybe that line could be written as
[Loader.exe "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo 2\halo2.exe" (include quotes)]

Finally I got to it. – THANKS.

Thanks for your info. Let me try this..