Halo 2 and Future Games

I was wonder if Halo 2 requires Direct X 10 and if and when their gunna make Direct X 10 a requirement for pc games if anyone know id be glad to here your feedback


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While Halo 2 for PC won't require DX10 hardware, you will need DX10 installed on your system - which is why it's going to be a Vista-only game (atleast for now).

I hope the PC version of this game will not suck. They haven't released too much details about this game and the release date is pretty close. I mean i know it is just a port, but still i would like to see some ingame videos or something of the PC version.

Yeah, I thought Halo for the PC was pretty lame (compared to xbox version I just never got in to it). And with Halo 3 being hyped it seems lame that they are just finally going to release #2 for the PC.

Halo 2 still holds the record for most copies sold in 24hrs.

I thought Halo was OK for PC. It didn't run very well, but it was fun.

Well, the "didn't run very well" part was what turned me away from it.

Here's a general FAQ regarding Halo 2 Vista. I personally hold that this game is more than capable of running on XP, Microsoft simply wants to sell more copies of Vista. Watch someone hack the game to make it playable on XP .

Of course it's capable of running on XP. But I seriously doubt anyone is going to run out and buy a $250 copy of Vista just so they can buy and play Halo 2. You can get an entire Xbox system and the game for less than that! LOL.

I hate M$.

That'd be great if someone hacked it though.

Now if the game were DX10... I might consider upgrading sooner.

What happened w/ those? I remember some real progress w/ a PS2 emulator, but that was a long time ago. Seems like Xbox would be easiest... but only a few games worked on that.

But yeah, days of the emulator are dead. SNES and NES games are still fun to play though.

im not a console person myself, but i just played my uncles ps3 and i almost #$it my pants. Its so realistic looking its like playing a game in a movie. They have come a long way.

They've got solid PS1 and Gamecube emu's working, but I guess the guys working on the PS2 and Xbox emus got tired. Understandable, and no bashing of those guys, that was a hard task trying to reverse engineer emulators for no money.

The PS2 Emu and the rest can be found here. MAME still survives and kicks arse for anyone who liked the old arcade games.

The Emulator Zone

Nice link turpit. Do you know how well these work? What are the limitations on the Xbox and PS2 emulators?

The Xbox and PS2 emus are pretty much a bust. Sadly, not worth the time spent downloading them. For whatever reason, developement on them eventually stopped. They got a few game working poorly, most notably Halo, but nothing signifcant beyond that according to what Ive read. On the other and, earlier console emus have been much more succefull.

If you look at the old arcade games, the problems is clear. A galaxian game has less computational power than todays average pocket calculator, but power is dedicated to a single purpose. No file system formats, communication protocols etc etc etc. Trying to work within an OS (DOS windows or Linux) to simulate dedicated processing is a painfull process in reverse engineering. The most sucessful emus are for the oldest systems, i.e arcade games as they are the simplest. Even so, games like Tekken, Street fighter II, or mortal combat brought my old AMD 1900XP to its knees. Its pretty typical of Emus that they require a lot more CPU power than the system they are trying to emulate, to overpower the 'drag'of the systems OS.

With developement halted on the x box/PS 2 emus, it doesnt look like we'll ever see sucsessful emus for any later consoles