Vista - Halo 2 Crash

I have installed halo 2 without any problems. The game runs flawlessly up until the point after i beat the scarab. I'm able to watch the story line of the arbitar and thats when it goes to pot. The screen goes black and the computer becomes completely unresponsive except for holding the power button down to restart the computer. This problem does not occur anywhere else during the game. I have updated all drivers and tried to uninstall and re-intall. I need help.

My system is:
Gateway t-1625(notebook)
Vista home premium 64bit
amd turion 64x2 mobile technology tl-60
ati radeon x1200 series
4 gb ram
320 gb hd

Possibly a damaged game file on the CD. Try getting another copy of the game, uninstall the current one,and install the new one.

~Lordbob

Unfortunately I tried what you suggested. I thought it might be the same thing aswell. As soon as I got to the same point in the game, my computer did the same thing. Do you or anyone else have any ideas. Thanks,

Hmmmmmmm..............
Yeah... That sucks. Have you had the same problem on other games? Because if it is just that one, then its most likely the game, though changing it should have worked. Though it may be a problem with a registry file that the original game installed, or another file that was left with the original installation, and the new one used it. Try cleaning out the registry and making sure that all traces of the old game are completely off your computer.

If that doesn't work, consider just not playing it on that computer () because i have no other thoughts at this moment...

You do realize that you are below minimum specs (graphics card) for this game right? I suggest you full defrag your system, and reduce all eye candy in the game to minimum. You are bottlenecking your system, and it cannot handle areas of the game that are high graphic processor intensive. I am suprised you are not getting "slide-show" effects. Unfortunately, As this is an integrated card there is no option available to ever upgrade it (MXM notebook cards on the other hand are upgradable).GPU class/benchmarks

Gateway t-1625 $600 (WEI: 3.0)
Turion x2 TL-60 @2.0Ghz (less powerful than a core2duo T5600 @1.8Ghz)
Radeon Express x1270 is an integrated Class 5 card (class 1 is high-end, class 6 is low-end. Anything below class 3 is unsuitable for gaming)

This is an onboard video chip and according AMD optimized for a good price/value. It is based on a X700 (class 3) design but with less pixel- and vertex-pipelines. ATI Radeon Xpress X1270 is hardly apt for gamers. The graphic chip supports Windows Vista Aero surface and all 3D effects run fluently. Sometimes also called Radeon X1270.
400 MHz, 4 / 2 Pixel- / Vertexshader, DX9 | 0 MHz

Class 5
Low End Graphics Cards - Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.

Halo 2 minimum specs:Recomended Vista WEI for game is 5.0/Minimum is 3.0
Processor: 2 Ghz Pentium 4 class processor (or x64)
RAM: 1 GB
Hard Drive: 7 GB
Video Card: DX9 graphics card: WDDM driver, PS 2.0/32BPP, At least nVidia 6000 or ATI x700 or above

AH!

With rive0108's post in mind, that tells us another possibility: Your computer cannot run the game, and when you get to that point, there is just too much, and your computer overheats and shuts off to prevent hardware damage. or something like that. I would not bother trying to play games on that laptop...

I appreciate all of your help. It looks like I'll just uninstall it and be done with it. Thanks again.

Yeah that is probably your easiest option, just play it on another computer