Q: When I bought my pc, it was windows vista, and then I downgraded to xp home edition. If I buy halo 2, will I be able to play it on my pc since my pc was originally vista? I have a very good graphics card, tons of system memory and like I said, my pc was originally vista. I have not changed any of the components inside the pc, I am using everything that my pc originally came with. P.S incase u didnt know, they say halo 2 can only be run on vista
A: Out of the box it only works on Vista, but there is a patch available that will allow you to play it in XP. There's really no reason the game wouldn't be able to run in XP, other than M$ is trying to stimulate Vista sales by conning people into using it instead of actually improving the OS. The patch removes the Vista-only limitation built into the game. Search The Pirate Bay for "Halo 2 XP Patch".