News hit Digg earlier that Shadowrun has been cracked to work on XP, by simply overwriting some files, and that this could theoretically work on all Vista games. Then an image of Halo 2 supposedly working on XP showed up (yes, I'm whoring my own Digg story). The person who posted it and uploaded the image hasn't said if it's cracked or just the original disc working on XP, but apparently, it's "buggy."
Have any other of the handful of Vista games been cracked? What does this mean if Microsoft's flagship titles can be used by most of their current customers without upgrading to the next-gen operating system for gaming?
Man, I wish I could post the dramatic squirrel right now.
I hate microsoft for trying to make it so we have to upgrade to an overpriced, over buggy OS. I would upgrade to vista myself, but frankly , it's just too f***ing expensive to buy an "upgrade"
Have any other of the handful of Vista games been cracked? What does this mean if Microsoft's flagship titles can be used by most of their current customers without upgrading to the next-gen operating system for gaming?
It means absolutely nothing. People are going to upgrade to Vista, just as people upgraded to XP SP2. They just like to complain before they do.
you may not be old enough, but i knew many people that actually stuck with windows 2000 rather then go to xp...
personally i like XP though. And i dont like Vista so far...and that has nothing to do with Gaming on it...usage...is odd to me, but in a year or two im sure ill be on it and it will be easy.
Only problem i have with Microsoft trying to force gamers into going to Vista is that I forsee many gamers buying the incorrect version of vista. Need Home premium or Ultimate, ult being the preferred one. But it also costs a bundle
ive got home premium. and while vista is neat, and has its good points. its got so many bugs with old games. and the Compatibility mode system, that supposedly runs older games in the format of an older OS, doesnt mean shit. every game that bugs out on it, isn't helped at all by a compatibility mode.
It's not going to be too long before the games are going to require DX10 to work, and at that point they're going to need to use Vista to run it, because DX10 only works in Vista (unless there's some kind of crack for it also).
ppl think hackers cracking vista games to run xp is good for microsoftbecause more games.....wrong microsoft gets money for vista games not xp games since xp is like already in everyhome and microsoft cant get money off sumthing ppl already own, game companys dont really care they dont get the money from ppl upgrading to vista its all microsofts plan damn you redmond.
Hah. You're funny. I wish I could be as funny as you.
What can you say? People want the games, and Vista, in their eyes, looks buggy, expensive, and not worth the hassle. This was inevitable. Eventually, many will switch over to Vista once M$ smooths the bumps.
I am currently runnign my machine with both XP, Vista, and 98 because of what everyone has been saying. I enjoy playing my older games that require 9x that will not run in XP/Vista (too buggy) , and I am playing games that are slightly current but do not like Vista, so I need XP, and new games that require Vista. Thats 3 hard drives I've dedicated to the OS. And DON"T TELL ME TO GET A MAC!!!! I have one, it playes 10% of my games, which makes it worse off that one of the windows os. And thats with boot camp.
I'm hoping to stick XP on my machine once I get a new hard drive. All this porn is taking up too much space on my 120. I kid, I do want to be able to run some of the newer games that are XP+. I had bought a copy of LotR BfME II only to find out too late that it needs XP so I'm running it on my slow ass laptop.
you can play some of them. a lot probably. but i have numerous games that don't work on it right. the CnC First Decade is Buggy. only letting me play half of the series. Starcraft has a graphics bug (thats only in menus though). Black and White two refuses to work for me. Stronghold is suffered from some crashes. i've got about 30 PC games, and about a third don't work.
i actually tried Vista for about a month, its nice and all with all the bells and whistles but the pop-ups when i install anything or change any setting is really annoying. So i got sick of it and switched back to XP, had to format my drive to do so, but it was well worth it. i forgot how fast my PC was with XP lol
Unfortunately i'm stuck with the crappiest version of Vista on my laptop, Home Basic....gawd this sucks, i have to call Dell to see if i can get a disk from them to convert back to XP.
I just got XP working on this machine but haven't gotten all the kinks worked out yet. For some reason, Guild Wars audio doesn't work very well, I'll hear whats happening a mile away but my sword slashes are totally silent. Installed PowerDVD but it crashes once I start it, can't get through to Cyberlink's techsupport, like their email addy isn't there anymore. God I hate switching OSes in general but hopefully I can get some newer games on this thing...once I can get it working.
I'm pretty sure they are using modded DX9 to appear as DX10 files get it to work. I'm thinking games out now for DX10 are just ported from a DX9 build they had which is why it runs. Later on though I'm pretty sure when games are programmed on DX10 from the ground up this method will not work anymore unless they started to create wrappers.
Side note - Unfortunately, in Vista to get some games to work, you need to run them as an administrator. Vanguard is one game you need to do it with. Some games will run fine if you change the property for the game to run in XP compatability mode.
