Halo 2 Forum

It refused to run in 17.0.0 until I installed the "Direct X for Modern Games" (2010), and after that was installed the game loaded.. looked like it may benefit from using dxwnd as it seemed to display odd, my panels remained on top of it.. this kinda thing dxwnd can fix. I havent actually played it and seems like it may be on the fringe of what my hw can support, but the menus were all visible and usable. I'm currently archiving my bottle right now.. might check back with more details at some point, but near as I can tell the install went fine, and after installing direct x manually from the codeweavers installer, it runs.

The actual game plays as well though its ridiculously slow on my machine.. I may try tweaking some things or just give up on it idk.. I only have a Intel Core i5 4300U (Dual core 1.9ghz. 4 thread HT) with the built in Intel HD (Haswell-ULT 8086:0a16 rev 0b) graphics and 4GB total ram and near as I can tell X only has like 150MB or so for video and seems DirectX has access to less than half that.. so.. on better hardware the game should be totally playable as well as the original Halo. I did have initial issues where after the first splash screen my panels came on top of the video but going into the video settings menu on Halo 2 and changing the res to 720p, that resolved.