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Subject: HaloPC 1.06 Hotfix on Tuesday 11/16!
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  • 11.21.2004 5:13 PM PDT
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Hi I have updated to 1.06 (manually) but I now cant see a lot of the servers, in particular the EU Bungie Servers. Can to tell me why, and when/how this can be corrected?

  • 11.22.2004 3:20 AM PDT
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Hi all,

We're looking into why the EU servers haven't updated yet. Hopefully they'll be online soon.
The problem with the server browsing the other day was outo f our control, unfortunately; the Gamespy master server was down, but I called them and they brought it back up quickly.

Regarding latency and crashes: Nothing changed in this version other than a small string-buffer fix. I thnk that with a community of many thousands of users, on any given day a bunch of people's internet connections will be flaky, and for the users where this coincides with a Halo update, there seems to be a correllation. But, just a coincidence I'm afraid. Same with crashes, I'm afraid. New drivers, maybe? Really, nothing changed.

  • 11.22.2004 10:17 AM PDT
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Any chance of an update for us Mac users? The list of servers is getting smaller and smaller...

  • 11.22.2004 1:51 PM PDT
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uninstall halo then reinstall and youre auto updated

  • 11.22.2004 4:27 PM PDT
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As a Clan Leader of a 54 member Halo PC Heavy Weapons Clan, The Tenth Legion Halo Heavy Weapons Clan, I must say that I am disappointed with the 1.06 Hotfix. It has totally fragmented the Halo PC community, and is destroying the fun that we usually have here. Our clan members and our 8 Dedicated servers all updated on day one of this update, as we always do. On the first days, there were not more than 300 people on the entire Halo PC Lobbey for 1.06. Now over a week later, I have never seen more than 1000 people on at once, and I play alot, daily. There use to be over 4000 players in the lobbey or more at most given times before this update. Our servers have been mostly empty, and we were forced to temporarily take down several of our servers due to inactivity, and as not to fragment our remaining visitors.

The fact that you released this update, and did not make an update for the Mac users seems careless, and has upset our Mac Clan members that have not been able to play with their team mates anymore since the update. With so many posts, why has no one addressed this issue?

THIS UPDATE IS DESTROYING THE HALO PC COMMUNITY. With so many strong game titles being released recently, including Halo 2, you need to address these problems so that our community can remain strong and not dwindle at this critical time. If you can correct this problem, I have no doubts our Halo PC community will remain stong and loyal to this game, as Halo PC is THE BEST MULTIPLAYER PC GAME.

As a programmer myself, www.mn8.net, I SUGGEST you do this. Create an autoupdating 1.07 fix that will autoupdate all 1.06 users, and all previous versions, as well as all Mac users. This is a simple solution to fixing a blunderous problem that is extremely hurting the community you have created and fostered. This way we can all be one happy family again, instead of having a practically empty lobbey for all of us that supported your update.

If this problem is not fixed very soon, I will be forced by overwhelming pressure from our members to downgrade all our servers (which we have been resisting) and announce our decisions and reasoning on our forum, which have had over 10,000 unique IP visitors in the last 3 months. Our members have been disappointed by seeing less than 25% of the normal players and servers, and not being able to play with our Mac based members, and not being able to see and play on all those servers of friends and clans that have not upgraded. THIS ISSUE NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED IMMEDIATELY BEFORE MORE HARM TO OUR COMMUNITY IS DONE.

I do ask this Respectfully, but intently, as I believe Halo PC is the best PC game ever created, and my clanmates and I enjoy it immensely.

Please Help Us and someone please reply to all these concerned posts, and give us an update......please!

With Gratitude and Unwavering Support,
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  • 11.23.2004 5:46 PM PDT
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Hi MN8, thanks for your comments. I guess I need to clarify a little more:

- Mac Update. Ad you know, Halo Mac is produced by a different company, and can not always match our update schedule. While we scheduled this release to coincide with when the Mac team estimated they would be ready, other work came up and prevented them from being able to match our patch day. We waited an extra week, and at that point decided to release this security fix before it was exploited by malicious users. (This bug was reported externally, and so we had reason to believe that we could not delay indefinitely without seeing it exploited)

- The (non-)auto-update - this was not a "choice" made in 1.06 to not update 1.05, it was a necessity. A bug slipped through into the updater supplied with 1.05, which would make that updater hang for some users. So by the time 1.06 came along, it was too late; some 1.05 users would not be able to autopatch, period. This has nothing to do with what we changed in 1.06, so a 1.07 would have the same problem from 1.05. (Basically, it's a chicken-and-egg problem: 1.06 fixes the updater, but you can't get 1.06 unless you have a fixed updater) So we'll all just have to wait for the users of 1.05 to update; this will happen, in time.

Thanks for your continued support,

Roger

  • 11.24.2004 2:45 PM PDT
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Sawnose,

Thank you for your reply and clarification on the update, I appreciate it and have posted in in our forum for our members and visitors.

I hope we can encourage others to update soon, as today I finally saw it break 1000 players with 1014 in 1.06 and 227 servers. We havent seen many of our regulars in our servers in the last week or so, and have no way to contact them to inform them of the updates needed.

I am not sure, but is there a Lobby message in 1.05 server lobby informing them of the update? I guess there probably is. If not, can you put up a strongly worded one?? :)

I wasn't aware that another company did the Mac porting. Can we have a contact email or URL so that our users can contact them to urge the needed update? I have been unable to locate it.

Thanks for your help. I hope that there may be another solution available. We miss all our friends who have been MIA, and its a little disheartening to see the 1.06 so empty and our server numbers down. Especially since all our members are off work and ready for some Holiday Carnage with their Turkey stuffing. :)

Happy Thanksgiving
{X}MN8
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  • 11.24.2004 5:24 PM PDT
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You know I am still on version 1.05 and i have decided not to down load it becuase of all the complaints about it

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  • 11.24.2004 9:44 PM PDT
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well, im still on 1.05, but i'm downloading the 1.06 update now. im having a big problem with 1.05 so i have no choice. none of the text works on 1.05, and theres only 1 server now that i can see so... i would really like to know if the 1.06 update has had any more problems or if 1.05 works better now?? i reinstalled halo today and it still hasnt worker so if i should not upgrade, tell me and i will reinstall halo 1.05. thanks
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  • 11.24.2004 10:29 PM PDT
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MN8 - yes, from the start there's been a separate MOTD for all non-1.06 users pulled from here: http://www.bungie.net/halopc-motd.txt

The text is: Manual Update Required! See http://bungie.net/News/Story.aspx?link=HaloPC106

Once users update, the new version pulls the MOTD from a different URL that welcomes them to 1.06.

The Mac version is made by MacSoft and Westlake - the support page is here: http://www.macsoftgames.com/products/halo/support/MacSoft-Hal o-Support.html

  • 11.24.2004 11:40 PM PDT
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Rabbitsrule - I think you'll find that going to 1.06 is completely safe - if you take a look back at old threads in this forum, you'll find that at each patch, there are posts reporting that each one is 25% slower than the previous, or something like that. Of course, after this many patches, we'd be running at 4 fps is that were true :-) In reality, nothing changed network-wise (or graphically) since 1.05, and I'm confident that the several reports of slowdowns are just due to random internet lagginess (i.e., the people who happen to be on laggy connections the day of the patch assume there is a correllation).

So far, I haven't gotten any problem reports pointing to a real problem with the patch. So, I encourage you to try it and let us know here how it works!

  • 11.24.2004 11:45 PM PDT
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well halo 1.06 patch finished and still no text. anybody know why? please help, im gettin murdered in these games cus i cant tell when people come in or leave/get killed. yesterday i was playin a password protected game and i was just doin target practice on the small decals on the other base in bloodgulch when i get sniped out of the tank...i dunno how the guy got the game password, but he got in and i had no clue cus the text didnt work. well i got shot 2 more times then came back with a shot gun at close range and meleed him, then he left. email me - headrush90@aol.com __ i need help with this text problem.
_escape

  • 11.25.2004 8:15 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

run that Mslxmenu.msi file that's in your HaloPC directory, it'll pop text up then. ;)

@Sawnose: nope, new drivers aren't the cause of the problem because I still have my ATI Catalyst v4.5 drivers, and I'm just getting more "gathering exception error" messages than before. I send my crash information when HaloPC crashes, so if Microsoft checks it, then they'll have all the info, I'm sure thousands of other players do the same... so check on that... I don't have Service Pack 2 btw, it's the devil, so I must ignore it. ;)

You still havn't said anything aboot a better tk banning code in the makings... I guess you guys are avoiding the subject eh? damn... I was hoping this major problem would be solved in v1.07... :(

Any chance of you guys improving the netcode for the rocket warthog? gearbox already solved it in HaloCE, so if you can manage to borrow the code off them then tha'd be hard work taken off your hands...

I know now I'm probably thinking beyond what you guys are gonna do, but I say intergrate HaloCE's graphical improvements (the fast shaders) into HaloPC. The patch for Battlefield: Vietnam v1.2 is 250MB in size, so if the whole BF:V community's willing to dl that patch to play the game? then why can't we eh? For dial up users? pay your bud with highspeed internet $5 (or whatever currency you use..) and get him to burn it onto a cd, it's not hard, and not that expensive. :)

The new patches btw aren't getting slower, if you do a timedemo with v1.00 of HaloPC, and then a timedemo with v1.06, the framerate is up. I think this happened around v1.02... can't remember. So newer patches don't slow down HaloPC, they're more likely to do the opposite. ;)

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  • 11.25.2004 11:58 AM PDT
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it didnt work, i ran the menu but no text. the line u typed in wasnt the same as what was on my computer, u sure u typed it in right? and what folder is it in?

msxmlenu
microsoft installer package

somethin like that is whats on my comp. i may have just gone through the wrong process. should i have clicked repair, modify or uninstall? if modify, what should i do?
thanks
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  • 11.25.2004 2:17 PM PDT
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OK i will Download it now thanks
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  • 11.25.2004 7:09 PM PDT
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A solution... and a problem.

For Escape - the lack of text in my Halo was driving me mad - reinstalling and running that file in the Halo directory and various other solutions didn't work for me.

Then I read somewhere to right click properties on the Halo shortcut. Under Compatability tab, I saw that Halo was configured to run as a Windows 95 program (and I certainly never did this)! I unclicked this, and , lo, text-eth did-eth reappear-eth. Check it out, it might be the same for you.

Now the problem. I don't think I can install the 1.06 fix. When I d'l and run it, it says 'you are up to date, no update required', something like that. But the Message of the Day always says "manual update required!" Plus there are VERY few servers in the room. PLUS, my F1 score doesn't show kills, assists, deaths or ping.

So what am I doing wrong? Or maybe I HAVE updated, it justs the MOTD that's wrong? How can I check what version I'm running?

Help!

  • 11.26.2004 11:45 AM PDT
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Barronimo,

To check your version, start at the Halo main menu, click Settings, and then mouse-over About. The latest is 1.0.6.612

If this is what yours says, check the registry, in HKLM\software\microsoft\microsoft games\halo
and see what "Version" says. If for some reason it says 1.06 and your game doesn't, set the registry to 1.04 and run the patch again.

  • 11.26.2004 12:41 PM PDT
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sawnose,

my settings/about build number is 1.00.00.0564 - that doesn't sound right.

Where do I find this HKLM folder? I've searched my pc.

  • 11.26.2004 2:52 PM PDT
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Barronimo, that's strange, that's the RTM 1.0 version, and should let you patch.

The HKLM thing is in the registry, but if you're not familiar with that, I'd advise you just to reinstall Halo rather than tinker with the registry, since mistakes there can force you to reinstall Windows entirely.

That said, if you want to try it, go to Start - Run: regedit
open HKLM (that's HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) and follow the steps above.

  • 11.26.2004 10:13 PM PDT
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ok wow.. how come it's going back and forth to having GREAT PING GAMES to having HORRIBLE PING GAMES. this always happens. it's back and forth, back and forth. what the heck is going on

  • 12.01.2004 3:56 PM PDT
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Hey All am New to the Forums Anyway to the point. i Have Installed all the Hot Fixes for Halo it Made it Work But when i Am online I Cant see Chat Messages I cant Talk i dont even know wo am killing lol. I have installled all the Patches In order and Still Nothing Could You Make a Chat Message Hot Fix or sumthing Caue i wanna CHAT ON HALO !!!! Please help me!! Bye Hope u can Help

  • 12.02.2004 1:27 PM PDT
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For HeRo6061.. Reinstall your halo into your driver and thrn modify..i had the same problems with multi playa... worked for me

TO HONOR....GET ON HER AND STAY ON HER

  • 12.03.2004 12:48 PM PDT
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i got the update and wheni click get list its so slow then i cant see text anymore! halo is not the same wihtout it!! how do i get it back

  • 12.04.2004 2:44 PM PDT
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i hate this update it ruined my halo its so slow now

is there any way i can get 1.5 now theres only like 5 serves i see plus the rest of the stuff i said

[Edited on 12/4/2004 5:31:22 PM]

  • 12.04.2004 3:12 PM PDT

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