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Geek Culture / Games for windows: Shadowrun and halo 2 Vista experience

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jonathan samson
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2007 10:55
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Yesturday i just bought halo 2 vista and tryed installing it on my computer it pops up with a message saying vcredist.MSI fatel error bla bla bla... so i went to go and reture it for shadowrun i installed it everything works fine until i start the game it says it side by side is inccorect. Know i wasted $70 on a stupid disc . Apperently everyone is getting the sam problem mwith halo 2 vista and now one incountered this error with shadow run i have duel core nvidia 8800 GTX 768MB and windows vist home premium. i have contacted the company on halo they said to get a new CD i did and no dice so dont even try to get them its hopless!

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Osiris
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2007 12:13
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Vista sucks...but we already know that.

The only way I ever get anything out of support people is if I keep bugging them a lot and they give up on shoving me off.

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dark donkey
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2007 13:50
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That sucks, vista sucks. Basicly Microsoft sucks.
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jonathan samson
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2007 13:54
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i have too admit that is true anyyone play shadowrun here on pc?

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GatorHex
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2007 15:36
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You may need to log in as administrator to install some stuff. Some user accounts can be too restrictive.

also found this for ya...

http://thejevans.com/halo2errorfix.aspx

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Raven
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2007 17:27
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I own and play both Halo 2 and ShadowRun.
Although Shadowrun very little because it's quite frankly a sh*te game.

Still I've had no issues installing them, remember.. Halo 2 doesn't have a traditional installer. So you have to manually tell it to run in admin mode (which I think is a bit silly).

ShadowRun on the other hand is just buggy, and well see above comment.

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_Nemesis_
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2007 18:47
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Halo2 has been fine for me. I chose the option to play immediately, and for it to install in the background, and that worked fine. I do have UAC disabled though, as has been said, you'll probably have to manually tell it to run as an admin.

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RalphY
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 22:35 Edited at: 4th Sep 2007 22:36
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Shadowrun wasn't so bad. It installed and ran fine for me, though I only played it for about two weeks. Just lost interest in it, and it took ages to find a game to join.

Halo 2 on the other hand, has been a nightmare. First time I installed it half the textures were corrupt so had to install it again (this time not using the play whilst installing option). Then whilst playing it, when my xbox live subscription ran out I found that actually it was lie when they said you could get single player achievements with silver subscription. Finally it managed to completely corrupted my install of vista and I had to reformat.
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