After running Halo for the first time and it updating to version 3.0 of live you can install your other live games and they will work fine. Whatever you do don't install the windows live 3.0 redist like I did. Well install Halo 2 as your FIRST windows Live game and then install windows live manually from the dvd it's under the redists folder and named XLiveRedist.msi BTW this will work for vista as well. So where does it leave Windows 7 users and Halo 2 for now.
HALO 2 PC WINDOWS 7 UPDATE
It then discovered that a live update version 3.0 existed and updated to that etc etc and it runs fine on vista now. redist and then when I started Halo 2 it started wonderfully. So I went to the Halo 2 dvd and installed the live version 1.0. I then installed Halo 2 (doing a custom install so it installs fully), and when I went to start Halo 2 to my amazement I got the same error message, "live failed to initialize" That's because live wasn't even installed on sp2. So what I did to work out it is an issue with Halo 2 and live was to install Windows Vista with SP2 on another hard drive. See NOTE THIS PROBLEM WILL ONLY SHOW ITSELF IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY INSTALLED OTHER LIVE GAMES WHICH UPDATED TO 3.0 BEFORE INSTALLING HALO. So the problem it seems is that when Halo 2 starts it expects to load version 1.0 of live and has problems because it doesn't know what to do with version 3.0. The problem is not new even to vista and the reason is that when the game shipped on the DVD Live dist file was a mere 1.0. Otherwise, reinstalling the game may fix this problem. This may be because another LIVE Gaming on Windows application (such as the Halo 2 dedicated server) is running on the same machine. When the game is completely installed I get this error message: Live Gaming on Windows failed to initialize. I have tracked down the source of the problem but found no solution other than installing Vista on another hard drive. All my other games and there are a lot work fine, all but Halo 2. My son played the game some time ago on Vista and I thought I would give it a go on Windows 7. Hey guys, I thought I would post my findings on Windows 7 and Halo 2.
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