Hey guys, I just want to know if Halo and Halo CE will work with Windows 7. There have been reports of Steam Games not working on Windows 7, so I was just wondering...

Halo 1 will run fine. H2v will not,
Edited by Masters1337 on Jan 15, 2009 at 04:55 PM

Lol it's vista only
what will microsoft do now...

H3W7 ftw lol. (Halo3 Windows 7, if you dont get it)

H37 is more like it

Yeah, I was wondering about that. Thnx for telling me.

You have to be kidding me right? LOL

I remember hearing from somewhere, someone said their friend was getting really low FPS in Halo with Windows 7 when on Windows XP/Vista they had a good frame rate.

That is going to happen because Windows 7 is a light build. There aren't any "Real" configurations for graphics on Windows 7 "yet". Not only that, but since its the Beta, there are no Driver updates for it.

vista... eats halo's FPS, like most of the games,
windows 7 however, i'm getting the same fps hits as in xp, i'm very happy with it

too bad it's gonna expire 30 september 2009 or so, we'll have to use a timer freeze crack like how we did vista lol, i'll look into that later, but for now halo ce runs like grunts stuck with 4 plasma nades

as i said before, if you set your vista up with the right hardware and turn off all of the extra stuff, vista is not that bad. i usually run at around 630 mb ram usage, and can get it down to the upper 500's if i turn off some programs in the background.
L2 vista

I was using 1GB of RAM and no probs except the crappy security. Windows 7 does have a little problem though, when I am in Halo Developers Mode, I crash after I type "bottomless_clip 1" on the campaign maps.

Old windows 7 beta... Halo 2 vista worked great.

Ah you have the unofficial beta...
Well personally I thought it would not work because it was made for Vista Only. I guess Window's Seven is more similar to Vista than I thought.

Ahh, I know what happened, there were too many bots in the map I was playing so my CPU and my RAM was going wack, it was just coincidence.

Other then that, H2V works good on my PC, except for the GFX Card :|

soo..... windows 7 looks like vista cosmetically which means that basically, windows 7 = xp on steroids with vista's eye candy and new tools?

I really hope so. :3

then i invite you all to try microsofts official beta, downloadable till 23 january

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx

That download is working until it hits 2.5 Million Downloads.

then download it quickly lol, i just tried the dl again and it still works, last week took me 1 hour to fully download it


Edited by BeachParty clan on Jan 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM
i don't wanna restart to get into windows 7, so i just got a screenie how the real beta looks like from the MS site
Edited by BeachParty clan on Jan 17, 2009 at 12:30 PM

actually microsoft remove all downloads caps so you can still download

whats ur fps at maximum settings? and what gfx card?

You don't need a Vista beta key. They automatically give you Windows 7 beta keys. I happened to get five of them by refreshing the page a lot.

One question. I'm currently running it through a virtual machine. Would it be stable enough to completely upgrade my current computer to Windows 7? I know that no beta will ever be stable enough to take over, but is Windows 7 capable of being run full time?

I tried. Doesn't work well on an external hard drive. Can't partition it. My current hard drive has 200 mb free. Unless you know how to partition an USB hard drive?

usb hard drive is possible, though it's slow, i'm using dual boot on a 80 gb harddisk



Wait, what? I need to do that too now... *gets pen and paper*
Edited by BeachParty clan on Jan 18, 2009 at 09:32 AM

live is such a stupid invention, like steam, if it doesnt work all your money is wasted, atleast i can play halo 2 and shadowrun on windows xp without live, havn't tried the Live system on windows 7 yet, gotta install halo 2 on that first

and if halo 3 will come to pc, they for sure will add vista and 7 to their supporting list, windows 7 won't come out of the beta this year anyways

what happened to emulators? i have emulators for literally all systems, except xbox 360 and the wii, the ps3 emulator is laggy as hell, aswell as the regular xbox emulator, would be great if we could rip it with dxripper through an emulator hah
Edited by BeachParty clan on Jan 18, 2009 at 10:23 AM

ok so i just checked serials, and reloaded a friggin load of times, is it me or does that page only contain 5 serials? lol
https://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/productkeys/win7-32/enus/default.aspx
all i get are serials that start with:
GG4MQ
6JKV2
QXV7B
4HJRK
TQ32R
those serials that start with that loops contiously
Edited by BeachParty clan on Jan 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM

Great bump... And the beta's been extended. There are more keys now. I have five different, and I've compared with other people.