How to run HALO 2 under Windows XP

[wolfsrain]

Yup, you are right, Joe. Bungie used to be one of the most innovative companies before being bought by MS. And most of the original team left pretty fast after the purchase of Bungie by MS.
Why the hell MS tries so hard to own everything, beats me. If they needed a game division, why not create one. They do have the money. And they aren't able to keep the employees of the gaming companies that they are purchasing. So why bother...Don't remember a single game that was close to good from MS.

[Grumpy]

raven, Did you copy the wow.dll from the archive into the same Halo2 directory as the loader.exe, and launch it like so from a command prompt:

loader "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo2\Halo2.exe"

Obviously you'll have to put the the path of your game directory inbetween the quotes, e.g if you installed the game to D: in a folder called Halo 2 then you'd type:

loader "D:\Halo 2\halo2.exe"

This will also work as a shortcut on the desktop, just like the shortcut created from the loader.exe for the install that Barry mentioned earlier.
Just edit the shortcut created for the install, then it can be used to play the game.
Dont forget to edit the paths to suit your own install directory.

[Bandoolero]

Guys, does this patch work with an original HALO2???

If YES, please a great man should write a full complete guide for me to how to use it, because when I want to run the loader.exe it says: cannot run, please reinstall WHAT? PLEASE HELP!

[Joe Forster/STA]

There are quite a few text files included in the release; read them all!

[midgetmax4]

Ok so i need some major help. i got the game installed and everything, and my system is compatible with it, except the Vista part. but i start halo 2 through loader, and the screen says halo with that glowing thing behind it moving, but when its almost to the other side, it stops and the screen goes black. i can still move the mouse, but then after about 10 seconds of nothing it shoots me back into windowa, but in 800x600 res. now i have no idea why its doing this! anyone help? PLEASE!