i thought that windows 7 would work

i select my language then it tell me i need vista service pk 2???? i thought that it windows 7 would work

I had that problem, too. Just right click the icon, select Troubleshoot compatability, and do the Vista Service pack 2. It should work fine then.

7 Does work. That's what I use. I'm not sure what issue you're running into.

i downloaded using firefox would that have caused a problem?

hey thanks for the help guys. btw tim i met u when we saw a team this is mitch

Yea I know, lol. We play shooter games together sometimes. Hasn't been for a while though. Hale: Reach ftw.

yup

might as well come back in a couple hours this is gonna take a while

Open your ports (read these: http://portforward.com/networking/static-win7.htm http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Belkin/F5D8235-4/default.htm) Or use Utorrent to download the files. I recommend the first option. Will really help with download speeds.

ok i can follow directions but is this somethin that can be easily fixed if i screw it up? also im not at home using my router does that matter?

id like it to go faster at this rate itll still be downloading tomorrow morning

Router shouldn't have any effect to the installation of the game. Also if you have problems you can always just uninstall and reinstall.

Yes it can, but to be safe write down any info before you change it, so that you can change it back.

soi followed the directions from the link u gave me and it really do anything the downloader was still sitting at 0.o kb/s o connections

also in the last pick where the f did he get those dns server numbers those werent in his cmd prompt pic

Tigerlady wrote:I had that problem, too. Just right click the icon, select Troubleshoot compatability, and do the Vista Service pack 2. It should work fine then.

I have windows 7, too, but my troubleshoot compatability said windows XP service pack 2..... I did what you said to do anyway, but it's still not working........ what's wrong with my computer????????????

Erika, google the problem, lots of people have been having the error, I don't remember how I fixed it but I got it to stop..i'll look it up for ya tomorrow - for now, I'm tired x.x

Naksu, try turning OFF compatibility. IF it was on before you tried to install that may be causing problems also.

Ok I got it figured out! Thanks you guys^^

but of course :3 <- didn't do anything

So, DNS servers and addresses.

Every computer connected to the internet has a numerical address (their IP address). When we go online, we commonly don't type in numerical IP's into our browser's URL bar because it's a pain in the rear to remember that hotmail is X.Y.Z.Q. while yahoo is P.R.S.T. To facilitate our using of common english (or whatever) in accessing internet locations, DNS (Domain Name Service) exists. Essentially, your computer accesses a predetermined IP address every time you type something in the URL bar and asks what the corresponding IP is to your query. These DNS servers have static IP addresses that do not typically change because if they did start shifting, the whole of the internet's framework would likely collapse.

So we know DNS exists and what it's role is in computing. We also know that DNS servers exist at specific points of reference in the internet and that the IP addresses don't change.

This means we can google it*! Or we can let windows tell us what DNS server to use based on the DNS list that's pre-encoded on every installation of Windows (or that Windows can access at a moment's notice on Microsoft's big database server in the sky). In fact, the steps by which to find where Windows keeps the DNS are in the first link that Thalamant posted at Step 9... so I'm not going to get into it.

I learnt me an internets in Heald, dur...

* I do not recommend googling for DNS servers. DNS poisoning is a known method by which haxxorz can FUBAR your machine and googling for DNS servers makes it easy for them. Just have Windows find you some hot, steamy DNS love.