I use Windows XP, and I bought Halo 2, hoping that I could use the Halo 2 XP fix to play it on my computer. It worked on 3 of my friends using XP that did the same, so why wouldn't it work on me?
...it didn't.
I decided to turn to VMWare. Having Workstation, I made a VM of Windows Vista Ultimate using a spare copy a friend at work gave me. In 10 minutes I was operating under Windows Vista Ultimate through VMWare. I closed it, used the special commands to enable 3D acceleration with 256MB VRAM (my graphics card is an Asus EN8800GT 512MB). 3D Acceleration didn't work at all. I couldn't even use Aero!
I don't want to dual-boot or install windows vista, because I formatted in January and I don't feel like formatting again.
So I thought of ThinApp. A friend of mine dual boots Vista and XP. I thought of installing Halo 2 there and using thinapp to capture the installation process. But since ThinApp kinda works like VMWare I'm afraid that 3D won't work...
I sent the above to the VMWare team asking wether there was any way to use my Graphics Card's power on VMWare or if ThinApp would do the trick.
I was told to ask here wether anyone has had any luck playing Halo 2 on XP with ThinApp.
Thanks a lot,
Teo