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#1 2007-06-09 3:04 am
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'New H2V content at HaloMaps'
New H2V content at HaloMaps
Dennis Powers, of HaloMaps.org, pointed out two new maps for Halo 2 Vista from NiTrOuSoXiDe2k (who was part of the H2V team, actually), showing off how easily new maps can be made using the Halo 2 Map editor tools. Check out Beach Battle and Earth City - they both look pretty nice! (While you're there, check out his views on Halo 2 Vista as a game.) (Louis Wu 19:36:51 UTC)
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#2 2007-06-09 11:57 am
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Re: 'New H2V content at HaloMaps'
Hes right to an extent on the Vista aspect but hes forgetting a big reason why folks complain about Vista only is cause of the current overall crappyness of Vista.
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#3 2007-06-09 3:08 pm
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Re: 'New H2V content at HaloMaps'
I have a hunch some of Vista's crappitude is exaggerated, FUD passed along by bashers. I hope to know more firsthand soon. I note Marathionman reports having little trouble with it, and his Vista box was stable enough with a V1.0 game to finish in two days. Took me nearly that long to do it myself on a 'Box, and I probably had a lot more Halo experience overall (albeit mostly on PC).
Fresh install, hardware 1-3 years old. We'll see. I won't sugarcoat anything.
I am looking forward to multi-controlling the Scorpion and maybe Warthog. I haven't done the like since working up a kb/m/joystick setup for Mechwarrior 2 in the '90s. 
I stalled for awhile after finding two of 4 fan mounting attachments were broken on my Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 64. I superglued 'em back, so now it's ready for the liquid metal 
... then a little more wiring/cabling, then the OS/software stuff... anyway, as a dual-boot XP/Vista box it can avoid any problems about relying on Vista exclusively until those troubles can be shot.
Got my H2V Strat Guide yesterday. Lotsa extras in it vs. the original. Probably spend a little time on H2 Campaign on the 360, I'm in the mood.
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#4 2007-06-09 6:06 pm
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Re: 'New H2V content at HaloMaps'
Bat wrote:
I note Marathionman reports having little trouble with it, and his Vista box was stable enough with a V1.0 game to finish in two days. Took me nearly that long to do it myself on a 'Box, and I probably had a lot more Halo experience overall (albeit mostly on PC).
Fresh install, hardware 1-3 years old. We'll see. I won't sugarcoat anything.
Bats right, I have never had a problem with Vista. Well I can’t get Xcom running. But well. You know.
Nothing crashes... At all. I have had this hardware for 1.5 years. And Vista runs fine. O well I did add a GB of RAM. But so what.
Now when I had 2k running on this hardware if BSOD city. Every day... Just sitting there... It was odd. I never found that the problem was. Once installed Vista it has never given me any problems. UT2k4, Halo, halo2, C&C First Decade, Tribes no problem at all. I ever was playing a Demo of Food chain today with out to many problems.
No Vista isn't perfect. I still feel like changing my wall paper is an adventure in to the unknown. And accessing the control panel can send me into DTs.
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#5 2007-06-09 10:50 pm
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Re: 'New H2V content at HaloMaps'
Marathionman wrote:
Bat wrote:
I note Marathionman reports having little trouble with it, and his Vista box was stable enough with a V1.0 game to finish in two days. Took me nearly that long to do it myself on a 'Box, and I probably had a lot more Halo experience overall (albeit mostly on PC).
Fresh install, hardware 1-3 years old. We'll see. I won't sugarcoat anything.Bats right, I have never had a problem with Vista. Well I can’t get Xcom running. But well. You know.
Hmm... good question. There's Vista 32-bit and 64-bit, but I think it's fundamentally 64-bit. Backwards compat only extends one level, and Win32 stuff is already running in a sort of emulation mode. I don't think Vista does DOS at all.
Another reason for a dual-boot machine! I'm a genius.
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#6 2007-06-10 12:06 am
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Re: 'New H2V content at HaloMaps'
Well when I tryed Xcom I just wanted to see how deap the rabbat hole went. If you know what I mean.
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