Microsoft finally pushed me off of the Windows platform for good with this stunt and GWX. (I do regret not starting refusing to do this sooner.) I was still foolish enough to do volunteer work on other peoples’ Windows computers at that time, even after what Microsoft did to me as a fan of the first Halo game.

Others were probably playing Counter-strike Source and TF2. So I went and played other games, like Tremulous and Urban terror, games that ran on Windows, Mac and Linux, and I forgot all about Halo 2 for the PC.

We assumed back then that Microsoft would limit DirectX artificially to Windows 8 or the upcoming version of Windows which we assumed would be Windows 9. On these machines, a vista upgrade would have been a performance downgrade. compatible with DirectX 12 or later with WDDM 2.0 driver - 720p display of at least 9 and 8 bits per color channel - If Windows 11 Home installation. The new version of DirectX was announced at a time when Windows 8 was the latest operating system Windows 10 was released in 2015. It just wasn’t a compelling deal!Īlso worth noting that many systems that would have otherwise run Halo 2 were hardware-limited to only 1 or perhaps 2GB of memory. Being smarter than to pay $200 for an unnecessary OS upgrade, only to then wind up needing an accompanying memory upgrade too because Vista ran poorly in 1 GB, (which was blissful on XP), just to play an at the time 3 year old game which was originally designed for a six year old piece of hardware, (Xbox) I passed. Many of us were really looking forward to the PC version.

Directx 12 windows 8.1