Quit whining. Vista isn't that bad, I use this for gaming strictly, haven't had ONE problem yet. And directx10 is dreamy.

Make sure you have 2GB of ram on your pc and your flawless.

Here's the deal......if you only play games on your PC then thats great for you...yippie.

1)I still resent the fact that while everyone else in the world makes every game to be backwards compatible so people can play it Microsoft uses it as leverage to make us buy their new OS. It's the same thing they did ion the OS market. If you compete with us in any way we make sure your software won't run on windows.....java is a perfect example and there are about a million others.

2) I use my gaming rig for all my resource intense stuff. Animation programs such as mia and lightwave, video editing software such as final cut and premier, and several other work related pieces of software. Vista eats them alive and is rife with all kinds of ridiculous problems.....I hope that you weren't saying Vista is anywhere resembling bug free because it plainly isn't and any pro knows this man. If you remember correctly XP was a nightmare until SP1 and still pretty bad until SP2.

lol halo 2 at cpl what a joke

To be honest Vista's still in a beta stage imo. When SP1 Comes out Vista will pwn faces. Everyone hated XP until SP1/SP2 Came out, nothing new here. Vista works with almost every program (except badly programed ones) fine. Most programs don't work with Vista cause bad programming,

Anyways, everything has bugs dude, everything.

ha my 64 bit Xp box owns my Vista box with better specs all day....it pisses me off that Microsoft wants me to spend $250 bux to play Halo 2 and nothing you have said daywalker convinces me I should feel any other way.

Yeah I bet the all of the bugs on Vista are because of the programs installed not the OS...that makes a ton of sense....Vista has issues all over the place and its common knowledge....

you can BUY windows? :O

I had the exact same idea at first... but with a bit of tweaking and tuning vista runs great I'm even getting better 3dmark scores then XP pc's with similar hardware so it can't be that bad.

I do agree they are a bunch of assholes for only putting directx10 in vista and not on xp...

And at least vista can properly use two or more screens even when running something at full screen modus (something xp can't )

Of course I never bought Vista.

I actually never had a problem with vista besides the new explorer tree is annoying as hell.

Like it or not vista is:

More stable then XP

In many cases also faster then xp if you tune it up a bit

It's safer then xp

it has directx10

much, much MUCH better driver support then xp

Haven't found any real bugs yet in vista then again I only use it for gaming.

RiSqU3- Fri Sep 28 2007 4:10AM

• you can BUY windows? :O

I think you >can< buy it, but ... you know ^ ^

p.s. vista (longhorn (long what oO?)) might be a good OS, but I'm fine with XP and I dont like ppl trying to stick their longhorn into my face telling me to "suck it or no dx10 for ya". But I think thats just what microsoft is all about...

Yes its VERY lame that Halo 2 "requires" Vista since it runs GREAT with XP !  At the risk of being flamed or worse; you CAN get Halo 2 to work with XP! Not going to tell you how, just remember Google is your friend! When my lowly XP that cant run any "next-Gen" games runs Halo 2 flawlessly I loose a little more respect for Microsoft with each DX9 powered frag! ARRG! I say!

As long as were talking FPS, forget about Halo 2 try Bioshock! By far heads above Halo or anything else out there.

I play Halo 2 on XP :D

http://www.ps3forums.com/showthread.php?p=1946045#post1946045

Yes Vista is shit. I mean if you are doing any type of heavy gaming or 3D modelling/Animation why in the world would you want to use an OS that actually decreases Hardware performance?

When it comnes to rendering a detailed 3D scene every little bit helps and with Vista dragging you rresources, why in world would you decide to go with it?

by the way, i feel Microsoft/Bungee did a terrible job with the port  to PC for Halo 2. Its just not optimised well enough.

After looking at Halo 2 on my buddies PC yesterday I have lost all desire to even play the game. You are dead on zub7 it's a horrible port. I don't think the port is the issue entirely though.....the game just seems dumbe down for a console....you can tell what system was in mind when it was designed. Waiting for Crysis or Quake Wars.

the only reason i'm playing it is becuase i do not own a xbox and i just wanna see ho wthe story pans out but its not nearly as fun as the Original Halo was on PC. Now that was good. Halo 2 is really quite horrible and to be honest i'm not even having fun while playing it :P

I've used Vista before, amd it is the shittiest operating system EVER!

You like Halo, you hate vista, and you nowhere mentioned about having a dual-boot machine. I don't think I really need to comment any further.

I have 2 XP laptops, 2 XP desktops, and 1 Vista Desktop....I don't have a dual boot machine...good try though.

I meant for you to try it. Beats whining by a mile and you can be happy you only saw vista for a minute before running Halo, Crysis, Farcry, etc.

buy xbox 360 and then you can play a lot of great games made specifically for it. But ya I dont like what Microsoft did with dx10 but oh well eventually I'm going to update to Vista anyway. Hope al the games I like will run on it.

As far as trying a dual boot machine that's actually a pretty good idea although I don't think I could handle rebooting all day going between apps but it's definately a possibility thanks.

Its not all about how craptastic the wannabe OS that is known as vista is. Its the horrible ethics the company portrays. They try screw over any thing that stands in their way. Because idiots buy into their crock of $#!+.

This being a prime example "Here play our game but you have to spend 100+dollars to do it,.. plus :evilgrin: shove out an additional 50 dollars for the game. :evilaugh:" money grubbing @$$#0!3$. Youll never get from linux the free OS and a good one at that.

I agree jay.....even if Halo 2 was all that...which it clearly is not.....can you imagine if you upgraded to Vista and bought Halo 2 only to find out how horrible it was.....unhappy camper.

It is clear why microsoft did it and the motives behind it are clear as well.