Falling Leaf Systems: Alky Update!

The official release of XP compatability library for halo 2 release date has been announced! I have had my doubts, but I have been waiting for this a long time now. It supposed to support multiplayer as well as live. Anyways, the release date is set for the 15th, however, there may be delays. This was originally supposed to be out in late july. Heres the quote from the site:

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Originally Posted by Falling Leaf Systems

Alky for Games - Free Edition


The Free Edition of Alky for Games is expected to launch on the 15th of August 2007 with full support for Halo 2. Support for Shadowrun will be added shortly thereafter.

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There are also other tools out as well that allow further XP compatibility for vista applications such as the side bar, screen savers etc. The DX10 compatibility libraries for XP aren't set for release until this winter though... :/

Heres the link to the update.

Are they allowed to do that, make Halo 2 run on XP? Microsoft would sue the pants off them.

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Originally Posted by Conscars

Are they allowed to do that, make Halo 2 run on XP? Microsoft would sue the pants off them.

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The law protects them from being sued for that unless they violate any copyright infringements which they aren't. Its only going to be a set of their own dlls that allow you to run vista games in xp. Besides, other makers of xp loaders weren't sued, nor were makers of compatibility libraries for Linux and OSX to run windows games.

Wait so they are giving the dll's out for free? ("Free Edition")?

If so I'm defiantly going to get halo 2 vista, I'm considering getting it right now just got SP as I havent played SP :)

I want proof it works for LIVE though :P

awsome cant wait to try this !

finaly all my friends may actualy be able to play with me... Is it jsut me or is there never more than 15 people on live at any one time?

I have only seen a maximum of 30 players online once. Most of which are people alone all by themselves in their own gold only server. Usually theres about 15 to 20 players online on average. Boy did this game screw up... However, the player counts might triple once XP users can play online. It may sky rocket to be like Halo PC if XP becomes officially supported via update by microsoft and the newer version is put up on the shelves at game stores that support xp.

Why are there gold only servers? Does halo 2 make player hosted games gold only by default?

wtf, 30 people online in live?

thats WORSE than CE >____________>


Looks like I'm getting h2v after all.

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Originally Posted by [EJ] Bean

Why are there gold only servers? Does halo 2 make player hosted games gold only by default?

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Not only by default, but there is no option. Player hosted games are gold only. You need gold to host it, and you need gold to join it.