One of my Christmas gifts was the PC video game Crysis. Ah yes, holiday cheer, therapeutic beating the bad guys… life is good . The installation was weird. It was as if my DVD drive had problems reading the DVD. After the game installed I checked for updates and was directed to this URL: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105. [...]
Games
Back to Max Payne 2
I saw a commercial for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men and I had to get out my copy of “Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne” and install it. This game came out in 2003 and I still like playing it. It’s like Humphrey Bogart directed by John Woo. Very cool. I’ve only just [...]
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
I’ve bought Half-Life games since they first came out so naturally I had to buy Episode 2. I’m about half way through in only a couple of hours. The play is okay and unlike Microsoft games (Halo 2 is still dead on Vista; what a waste) it works very well with my Vista 64 system. [...]
Ad supported games?
I had purchased Far Cry a couple of years ago. It was a cool game (although later levels were just nuts). I wanted to install it but could not find the disk. Now there is an advertisement supported version which I downloaded from FilePlanet and installed. Here is what the menu screen looks like with [...]
Completed Halo 2 on Vista
That was anticlimactic. My saved games came back and I was farther along than I thought. After a couple of “boss” battles I completed the game. I actually had to check the Wikipedia page to see if there was something I missed. It was definitely an “okay” game but nothing to get excited about. After [...]
Halo 2 on Vista fix?
This morning tried Halo 2. All my accomplishments attached to my Live account got wiped out. I have to start from scratch. That might fix it; the problem was definitely with my online account.
Halo 2 on Vista problems (continued)
Still having problems with Halo 2 despite removing the game and re-installing. This is no longer funny; the problem seems to be the data on my live account.
