- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
hi mate , i think i know your problem , i had exactly the same problem, i tried many many different things, nothings works!!! in the end i tried one more thing , which was to take out the ram upgrade i put in my laptop, and it was confirmed halo trial and halo started working fine, im not sure if it was because the ram was using it's backwards compatibility , ,, but my advice to u , is if you have upgraded your ram, remove it and then try halo, if it still dosent work then the ram you have in the laptop is the wrong ram, i dont know what laptop you have ,im using a HP zt3000 which has 2 x 256 sticks in it, 333 , pc 2700 DDR , my upgrade was a 1 ghz stick 333 pc3200 which has been fine for every game accept halo, even when i took both 256 sticks out , and just put the 1 ghz it still didnt work , halo wanted the pc 2700 ram , so the backwards compatability does not agree with halo , i cant see anything else it could be, backwards compatibility means that if my laptop is only ment to have pc2700 ram and i put a pc3200 ram in it , it would run at the 2700 speed,
the problem i had was exact down to a spec of what ur problem is, im sure now you will solve this mind twister, good luck
[Edited on 08.20.2007 11:35 PM PDT]