February 20, 2006
Microsoft Employee Argues that Halo 2 Should Require Vista
This Microsoft employee argues with a straight face that Vista is really needed to play Halo 2 on the PC. Excuse me, baking powder? This is one of the most idiotic statements I've read in a long long time. Stop drinking the Microsoft kool-aid man. If you know anything about PC gaming, you would know that Halo 2 could run just fine on Windows XP, just like every other cutting edge game on the marketplace.
Penny Arcade’s Tycho is incensed that Halo 2 will only be available on Windows Vista. Thinks it’s just a marketing decision. It might be, but there certainly are some sizeable technical reasons too. At Northern Voice I showed a Channel 9 video that’ll come out soon that shows just how many multimedia improvements have been made in Windows Vista. In the video the audio team shows that Windows XP’s audio won’t play very well (sometimes not at all) if you start applying stress to CPU’s. On Windows Vista the audio and video continue playing just fine with the same level of stress (on the same hardware). It’s a dramatic example of how much better multimedia will be on Windows Vista.
