I tried loading every file I could find in the save room, including both the manual and auto ones, but they would all bring me back to a very old save. When I loaded it back up, I was several hours behind, despite the game autosaving many, many times before that (I think it brought me back to when Khazar was still alive). Things came to an unfortunate end at the end of land 2, which upon clicking the golden reward scrolls that leads to land 3 via the vortex, the game would autosave, then proceed to crash. Thankfully, the damage wasn't too bad due to autosave. A few times during my playthrough I would get the "lh.exe has stopped working" out of nowhere and lose quite a bit of progress. The more major issue I'm having is crashing and subsequent corruption of my save files. Is there any way around this or is it just one of those things that can't be helped? The first of which is the football addon still isn't working (even in Creature Isle!), but I suppose there's no way around that so long as I'm using windows 7 (all other addons work, however). I've gotten the game up and running but I'm still running into two issues. This guide is absolutely perfect for the most part. You need to copy the Audio folder from the CD to your installation folder. The installer does not copy music audio over to the game folder and can't play it. Your game is now playable, hurrah! However there are some additional steps you may want to take.
I hope I can help anyone get CFS2 up and running on Win10 minus all the frustration.
You will most likely face issues unless you install the game to the C:/ drive. So I downloaded the game from My abandonware and finally got it working on Windows 10 after hours of hair-pulling frustration.
)Īll you need to do to install the game is run Setup.exe as Administrator by right clicking it and pressing " Run as Administrator".
Once you have done that, you are good to install again!įirst of all you will need a clean copy of the Black & White disc, either in your optical drive or more likely mounted in ISO format. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lionhead Studios Ltd\Black and White Patch HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lionhead Studios Ltd\Black and White Clan Patch HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lionhead Studios Ltd\Black and White Project Cartographer + Discord Community [2cwldys, Abandonware Provider for the Project Cartographer (H2V) Halo 2 Revival Community.HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lionhead Studios Ltd\Black & White Main Files, Updater + Non - Microsoft Live Multiplayer įield of View Fix (Run while game is running) įEEDBACK - Most Appreciated Multiplayer will not work without using Project Cartographer (h2online.exe)!!! Run the game within where it is installed by placing and using h2online.exe, at Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Games/Halo 2 (make sure halo2.exe is set in compatability mode for windows 8 if using windows 10) Place h2Update.exe in Program Files(x86)/Microsoft Games/Halo 2, patch the game.
In the midst of the installer, it maybe will ask you to verify your xbox live marketplace account and a game serial key, (Microsoft Live Games and the Microsoft Marketplace has discontinued XLive.dll multiplayer services to Halo 2 for Vista.) click Verify Later and wait for the installation to finish, continue to the next step. ISO and run the Setup (startup.exe), do custom installation and proceed with the selection "Full Game Installation, do not start", MAKE SURE IT IS INSTALLED In Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Games/Halo 2. Halo 2 and the rest of the Halo Franchise is owned by Bungie Studios, meritoriously continued in distributing and handling by 343 Industries on behalf of Microsoft Studios. HALO 2 - Abandonware with Multiplayer Assets