Run Halo 2 on XP

[HATE9X]

My praises to abcba, it finally works for me, actually it seems to work for everyone who had the after logo crash!
Installing the dll pack and stuff didn't work tho, I had to put the dll to the game dir for it to work..
Are you all doing it this way?
Anyhow, hey it works, now let's play!

[gospel_virus]

HATE9X, what version of WowLoader did you use? Can you please check for me if your .map files in <halo 2 install dir>/maps/ are .map, or .maptnptemp? That may help solve our problem here.

[HATE9X]

Originally Posted by gospel_virus

HATE9X, what version of WowLoader did you use? Can you please check for me if your .map files in <halo 2 install dir>/maps/ are .map, or .maptnptemp? That may help solve our problem here.

I'm using 0.2.
The files are *.map.
Sorry to keep you waiting, was too excited to try the game out a bit..

[gospel_virus]

It's ok - I perfectly understand your excitement.

I will re-install the game (delete everything and try again), and I'll post here with the results.

[HATE9X]

Ok, wish you luck..
I personally never had the *.maptemp problem & don't know the cause for that.

[gospel_virus]

Unfortunately, I have re-installed the game and the .maptnptemp files still persist.

Does anyone know what this problem might be?

[gospel_virus]

Intriguing... when I re-installed Halo 2 again, I noticed that it converted the mainmenu and shared .map files after installing all of them as .maptnptemp files.

I wish there was some way to keep converting the other files, since that is my only obstacle to playing this game...

[mileso]

Wierd!!!
everything installed ok i just get a black box which disapears after 2 seconds when i run the loader
CoCreateInstance failed: 80040154! any idea what this is ?
thanks in advance for any help

this is my trace log

Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0228] Wow.dll Loaded at: 02870000 (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersion() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersionExW() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetProcAddress(7C800000, FlsAlloc) (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetProcAddress(7C800000, FlsGetValue) (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetProcAddress(7C800000, FlsSetValue) (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetProcAddress(7C800000, FlsFree) (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersionExW() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersionExW() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersionExW() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] CGameExplorer::VerifyAccess() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] CGameExplorer::Release() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersionExW() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetProcAddress(7C800000, FlsAlloc) (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetProcAddress(7C800000, FlsGetValue) (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetProcAddress(7C800000, FlsSetValue) (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetProcAddress(7C800000, FlsFree) (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersionExW() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersion() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersion() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersionExW() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersionExW() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] CoCreateInstance failed: 80040154! (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] clsid: {F3BDFAD3-F276-49E9-9B17-C474F48F0764} (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] iid: {F8AD5D1F-3B47-4BDC-9375-7C6B1DA4ECA7} (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersionExW() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersion() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersion() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] WowGetVersionExW() (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)
Jan/01/01 02:06:47 [1940:0212] Wow.dll Unloaded (from C:\program files\microsoft Games\halo 2\halo2.exe)

[gospel_virus]

CoCreateInstance is a COM function, used for initializing DirectX.

I don't know why that would happen to you (perhaps you have a bad version of DirectX 9 on your PC?), but that's all I can get out of it.

[Masterjai423]

I'm having the exact same problem as mileso. The black cmd box shows up for a few seconds and then it closes. If anyone's encountered this b4, please tell what u did to get around it. Thanks!