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Halo 2 is to be released on Window Vista
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another reason not to buy it.
They should make it part of Windows Vista, like the Weezer video in Win95...
It'd be a relatively compelling reason to upgrade...
i have a question about upgrading to windows vista. will you have to wipe your HD in order to install the new OS? and does anyone know approximately when vista will be out?
thanks a bizillion and a half
I would have thought so. In fact almost certainly
Unless your sensible and have your windows on a partition and all your data on the other partition (backed-up and double backed-up of course)
No, you will be able to upgrade as you did with XP (which is rather neat if you ask me - i.e. that it works at all!) but i'd still recommend a clean install for sanityOriginally Posted by crusader4192
Vista will probably make landfall late this year but the dates still aren't set. It will depend on how the beta program goes, and whether MS want a stable, complete product or a rushed one
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well heres to hoping someone cracks whatever makes it NOT run on WinXP.
See System Specs.
It's probably written with DirectX 10 as a requirement.
DX10 will (so far) only be available as part of Vista.
k...so ive got two different answers. any1 know for sure?
I don't know for sure, but...
Vista will use a whole new file system. If you want to use this file system, you will definatly need to format.
However, IF Vista is backwards compatible with NTFS, then you will probably be able to upgrade. However if your HDD is FAT32 (shouldn't be by now!), then it almost certainly will need formatting.
Keep in mind however, that Vista is a whole new operating system. Even more so that XP was to 98/ME. It is highly likely that you will have to re-install all your programs. So what's the point in keeping your HDD intact?
If it's to keep documents, music and/or other downloads then I can understand. Looks like the best thing to do is invest in a shedload of DVD-Rs (or like me and prob some others, have a second HDD or partition to move stuff to).
Regardless of your situation I'd strongly advise a HDD format when you get Vista, and move to the new FS.
has anyone pointed out to microsoft that instead of shelling out for this vista branded DRM crippleware itd be cheaper and easier to buy a 2nd hand xbox and halo2 anyways? then you dont have the bother of hardware support, drm and crazy system requirements - or any other microsoft rubbish - and its guaranteed to run smoothly
winfs is a layer on top of ntfs. converting from fat32 to ntfs is trivial (run cmd.exe, then "convert -?")
You'll be able to 'upgrade' as you did from Win2000->winxp with all your programs intact (although individual compatibility problems may arise [but even then emulation is available]). I'd advise a clean install but it's easier to do that on a seperate partition and transfer your data over slowly that way (i have vista in triple boot here). And yes, Vista uses NTFS and WinFS will probably come as a addon later..
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Right a few things to clear up here..since theres alot of conflicting rubbish been said here..
Firstly Vista will not be using a new file system, it is still using NTFS, just a newer version of NTFS. You can install it on this new version of NTFS, and possibly by final release on the old version, but Vista can read/write to FAT32/NTFS disks as well. You are probably thinking of WinFS - which is not a file system but a service that sit's on top of it
Upgrading - no-one is certain yet, in the current CTP builds you cannot upgrade from XP to Vista (the option is greyed out on install), and I think that it is unlikely that you will ever be able to. This is a good move on microsoft's part, as upgrading has always been a retarded way to do things, and always casused more problems than it solved. It has never been a good idea, and if it's scrapped then all the better.
Having windows on a separate partition being sensible? Well no, having it on a separate disc is for sure, but partitioning itself is a bad idea, dangerous and not really worth the risk.
now back OT, to quote from the article "Halo 2,the game that redefined first-person combat and multiplayer action for millions of gamers worldwide,"
wtf? redefined what? Just because millions bought it doesn't mean it redefined anything. As was mentioned in the previous Halo2 post by someone (I forget who, sry) Halo only sold well on the xbox because the xbox had no other half-decent FPS games. Halo 2 only sold well because of Halo. Neither game offered anything really new or innovative, fancy graphics maybe (by console standards) but that's about it...
Last edited by Spud1; 14-02-2006 at 02:28 PM.
agreed - halo2 was just halo with dual weapons and a different story line imo - and for anyone thats played it the ending is absolute rubbish - i wont be buying the vista/pc version cos i know how lame the ending is.... it left me feeling that a few more levels would have nicely finished the game...but intsead MS had to cut it short to justify a 3rd outing
Rubbish. How on earth can partitioning be a bad idea? I've yet to experience this mysterious 'danger' when using partitioning
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