Halo 2 and Shadowrun coming to XP

no_1_dave · 9 Jun 2007 at 09:29

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/pc/halo2shadowruncomingtoxp.shtml

Yup

Supercow · 9 Jun 2007 at 09:37

Nothing to get exited about really

snowdog · 25 Jun 2007 at 23:02

Both of em work already on xp due to 3rd part workarounds

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Edit meh, old thread, need to check dates 1st when using search

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Tom|Nbk · 25 Jun 2007 at 23:38

Knew it, was a stupid idea of Microsoft to try and make thinngs "Vista Only" pff yea right do one M$ :rolleyes:

andshrew · 26 Jun 2007 at 00:39

Does the Live features of both games still work when its run under XP?

GAMEfreak · 26 Jun 2007 at 00:58

another megagames reader :cool:

, seems to be few of us about. interesting news. if iknew about that shadowrun hack, i would have bought it on release :mad:

. so annoying because i'm going abroad for 2 months and wont have access to my beloved beast of a pc.

. can't pick up my reserved ET:QW either. such is life

UnusualSuspect · 26 Jun 2007 at 08:10

But how will they run, thats what I'd like to know? I'm sure someone could program a hack to get XBox games running on a PC, but I guarantee the performance hit wouldn't be worth it. If this Halo/Shadowrun thing is part emulator, then thats going to make the game unplayable.

drunkenmaster · 26 Jun 2007 at 08:25

UnusualSuspect said:
But how will they run, thats what I'd like to know? I'm sure someone could program a hack to get XBox games running on a PC, but I guarantee the performance hit wouldn't be worth it. If this Halo/Shadowrun thing is part emulator, then thats going to make the game unplayable.

it runs on dx9 on both, performance hit is more likely on Vista as it runs a dx9 emulation, albeit pretty damn well.

99% likely the game simply looks for certain drivers/markers that vista is installed. afaik the halo 2 hack simple changes a couple basic files which is probably just stopping acouple scripts checking vista's there and if it can't find it stops the installation.