DashProject
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Note: I would have put this under "PC Gaming" but I figured it is too technical a question for that forum.
I am a huge Halo fan and I finally got my hands on a copy of Halo 2 for Windows Vista, although my computer runs Windows 7 on it. The game runs mostly just fine, except I remember the first time running it it would freeze up for about 20 seconds, the screen would go black for about 10 seconds, then finally the game would resume.
But one time when I was playing, the screen got this strange, interlaced pattern (alternating "strips" where the image was skewed horizontally) for about 1 or 2 seconds before displaying the blue screen of death. For the whole time, the audio skipped/repeated as if buffering, and I could hear it still even after the blue screen.
It is, however, important to note that this interlaced pattern followed by blue screen problem occurred once before, when I was booting up my computer and it had just entered the welcome screen. Restarting fixed the problem, as did the Halo 2 incident, but I'm afraid to play Halo 2 again for fear of it screwing up my computer. I did read that problems have been reported regarding running Halo 2 Vista on Windows 7, but most seemed to be simple "it won't let me install" problems. In my case, it seems to run fine save for those three incidents, although I am afraid to run it again.
I am using an ATI Radeon HD graphics card, a Sound Blaster Audigy sound card and an AMD Phenom II processor, and as I said before I am running Windows 7, 64-bit. Please help, I only just got this computer custom built for me a week ago, and it cost me over $1700 to build it. Last thing I want is to deal with hardware problems!
I am a huge Halo fan and I finally got my hands on a copy of Halo 2 for Windows Vista, although my computer runs Windows 7 on it. The game runs mostly just fine, except I remember the first time running it it would freeze up for about 20 seconds, the screen would go black for about 10 seconds, then finally the game would resume.
But one time when I was playing, the screen got this strange, interlaced pattern (alternating "strips" where the image was skewed horizontally) for about 1 or 2 seconds before displaying the blue screen of death. For the whole time, the audio skipped/repeated as if buffering, and I could hear it still even after the blue screen.
It is, however, important to note that this interlaced pattern followed by blue screen problem occurred once before, when I was booting up my computer and it had just entered the welcome screen. Restarting fixed the problem, as did the Halo 2 incident, but I'm afraid to play Halo 2 again for fear of it screwing up my computer. I did read that problems have been reported regarding running Halo 2 Vista on Windows 7, but most seemed to be simple "it won't let me install" problems. In my case, it seems to run fine save for those three incidents, although I am afraid to run it again.
I am using an ATI Radeon HD graphics card, a Sound Blaster Audigy sound card and an AMD Phenom II processor, and as I said before I am running Windows 7, 64-bit. Please help, I only just got this computer custom built for me a week ago, and it cost me over $1700 to build it. Last thing I want is to deal with hardware problems!
