(I do regret not starting refusing to do this sooner.) I was still foolish enough to do volunteer work on other peoples’ Windows computers at that time, even after what Microsoft did to me as a fan of the first Halo game. Others were probably playing Counter-strike Source and TF2. Fortunately, there are still games that do not require DirectX 12 and are simply based on OpenGL, such as the popular Corona-KO time game. This will open the DirectX diagnostic tool which will tell you in the Display tab the version of Direct3D and the supported functionality levels. If the DirectX 12 is not supported, the DirectX 12 Ultimate will not work either. So I went and played other games, like Tremulous and Urban terror, games that ran on Windows, Mac and Linux, and I forgot all about Halo 2 for the PC. To find out if your system is compatible with DirectX 12, nothing could be simpler: open the Start menu and type dxdiag.
On these machines, a vista upgrade would have been a performance downgrade. It just wasn’t a compelling deal!Īlso worth noting that many systems that would have otherwise run Halo 2 were hardware-limited to only 1 or perhaps 2GB of memory. In other words, if you need to get hold of them for Windows 8.1, Windows 7 o Windows Vista (lets hope youve already got rid of XP), you can download DirectX. Being smarter than to pay $200 for an unnecessary OS upgrade, only to then wind up needing an accompanying memory upgrade too because Vista ran poorly in 1 GB, (which was blissful on XP), just to play an at the time 3 year old game which was originally designed for a six year old piece of hardware, (Xbox) I passed. Until the arrival of Windows 10, all the versions of this pack of APIs could be downloaded as a standalone and werent included in the operating system by default.
Many of us were really looking forward to the PC version.