Then again, some files that are needed to run the game, are hidden in a secret place on your hard disk that you won't be able to find in a million years (or less if you know where to look).įor halo 2, i tried copying it to my desktop from my laptop, then ran the freshly copied game from the desktop, which yielded the same result that you got, my friend: 'This application failed to start because 'xlive.dll' was not found. the game locks up, freezes, or does something equally cryptic, such as, the game crashes, and leaves a ransom note saying ' if you want your game to run again, wire me $1,000,000 and i'll give you the files back, and tell you how to get it to run again.' lol.:laugh: (most obvious) the game generally won't work because of missing files Ģ. There are some problems that you would usually run into after doing this, like:ġ.

Usually i'll either install that one copy on all the machines i have, or install the game on 1 pc, then copy the installed game to the others on my network.

My uncle just gave me (or let me borrow, idk until later) his copy of Halo 2: Vista, and, with most of the games that i have (that arehackable),

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