Vista only gaming my FOOT

[W1nTry]

This I am sure will interest many...

Vista-only game cracked

Shadowrun debuts on XP

By Dean Pullen: Sunday 24 June 2007, 20:08
ONE OF THE FIRST games released to be played only under Microsoft's Windows Vista, has been cracked to play on a legacy operating system known as Windows XP.

The infamous warez and hacking group 'Razor1911' has successfully hacked Shadowrun to be played under XP, without any need for DirectX 10.

Apparently the crack just demands that you overwrite a few files in the installation folder with the ones provided by Razor and the game will run happily under XP.

The information text file that ships with the crack states: "Tired of waiting for Falling Leaf to produce drivers so that you can playShadowrun in XP? The wait is over, because Razor1911 already has the remedy! Yes, you read right. This game will also function in Windows XP".

Falling Leaf Studios had previously reported that they were working on the 'Alky Project' that would contribute 'Alky Compatibility Libraries' to allow the successful running of Halo 2 and Shadowrun on Windows XP machines.

Looks like it was a lot simpler than that.

And surely dishearten MS :p

[Arcmanov]

hahahaahahahaha.  Somebody in M$ vex today.

Now THIS is priceless. Now just imagine what will become of Vista if this could be done
for each game that is supposed to be 'Vista only'......

[rb]

Um so no one besides me tried halo 2 on xp i take it ?

[Arcmanov]

When there are SO much better and newer PC games out there for XP?
I really dont think anybody willing to get into THAT again.

That said, I will still 'acquire' it and test it out (even though I have the Xbox version).  Just because...

[Berzerk]

tried it already

got the loadup screen fine, but it doesnt go past install.....anybody fixed it?

[Philosophical45]

yea there is a fix for that halo... as for vista, my new system can run the sh**.. but i'm just watching the dvd on the shelf for the past month now.. so many games for xp .. so many compatibility issues with vista..