The MAZZTer
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Anyone have any luck getting Halo 2 to work? I get the following error when I try to install it on 32-bit Windows 7:
The ordinal 125 could not be located in the dynamic link library dwmapi.dll.
Looks like someone coded with the assumption that the DWM API DLL would not change AT ALL between Vista and future versions of Windows.
Any ideas?
<rant> Sometimes I don't understand how Microsoft* can have paid programmers put out products with such problems and Linux comes along coded by people who aren't being paid, and I have far fewer problems with it (and open source software in general). </rant>
* - Yeah I know it's Bungie, but I have a feeling it's not the Bungie guys who woke up one day and said "Hey, let's make the PC port not work on XP!" which caused game sales to be quite poor for a Halo game, as I understand it.
[Edit : Ack I think I got it, whichever genius made the Halo 2 XP hack (which I use) made it put the files in the Halo 2 game directory, including a hacked dwmapi.dll. That's probably causing the error. Dunno why I didn't notice it before.]
The ordinal 125 could not be located in the dynamic link library dwmapi.dll.
Looks like someone coded with the assumption that the DWM API DLL would not change AT ALL between Vista and future versions of Windows.
Any ideas?
<rant> Sometimes I don't understand how Microsoft* can have paid programmers put out products with such problems and Linux comes along coded by people who aren't being paid, and I have far fewer problems with it (and open source software in general). </rant>
* - Yeah I know it's Bungie, but I have a feeling it's not the Bungie guys who woke up one day and said "Hey, let's make the PC port not work on XP!" which caused game sales to be quite poor for a Halo game, as I understand it.
[Edit : Ack I think I got it, whichever genius made the Halo 2 XP hack (which I use) made it put the files in the Halo 2 game directory, including a hacked dwmapi.dll. That's probably causing the error. Dunno why I didn't notice it before.]
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