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Subject: Halo PC Problem/Question
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Yo guys, new here if you havn't noticed, or maybe you have.
Alright this is whats been going on:

Was playing online last week and all of a sudden i couldn't see text. I couldn't talk, and i coudln't see ppl join or leave the game at all. It was as if the chatting and alerts were turned off. I joined many games to find out if this was the game or the server. Unfortunatly it was my game. I re-installed and got back online. Whew, text is now fixed. But there's another problem. I play in 1 game. Only 1 game becuz it's one of the best games ever. I love it and thats all i play ne more. Well when i DL'd the patch and brought Halo back online i couldn't see that game. Not to panic, maybe it closed down right? Well i walked across the hall to my brothers computer and sure enough the game was up and running on his comp. Uh oh...problem.
Long story short, i reinstalled 4 times with no success. I later asked several gamers and they said that a new patch had been issued but you had to manually do it. Version 1.06. Well i looked down and i had 1.06. But i could not see ANY of my brothers games nor could he see any of the ones i could see. The only thing i could resolve is that he is on an earlier patch than I. He can see the game I always join but i cannot. Checked his version, he's running version 1.05. so question: How can i revert back to 1.05? Becuz apparently i'm on 1.06 and it auto downloads it for me everytime i grab the update from re-installing. Or if he is on 1.06 why can't i see ANY of the games he see's?? And no i have no filters on.
PLEASE HELP ME!!

Kylax

  • 12.01.2004 2:50 PM PDT
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Heyyo,

Text probs are caused by alt-tabbing in and out of the game, if it doesn't appear at all even before alt-tabbing, install that msxmenu.msi file that's in your halo folder.

There's no downgrading to v1.05, and I suggest to stay at v1.06, though it feels less stable than v1.05, there's a pretty bad hack people can do to kick you from games, and some of me buds have had this happen to them, and so have I... so stay on v1.06, if you really wanna downgrade that bad you have to reinstall the game from scratch.

And don't be a forum n00b, only start 1 thread.

  • 12.01.2004 3:29 PM PDT
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Yeah thats my bad. Didn't mean to make 2 threads. Not used to Delayed Thread Creation. Used to Instantaneous creation. I created it and didn't see it on the page so i figured i did it wrong. then all of a sudden I saw both of them up there. Kinda -blam!-. But the problem of all of this is there is a specific game i want to join. but can't get to it since i'm on 1.06. Thats why i want back on 1.05. Until the server of that game kicks up the upgrade, i'm stuck without it, which is a pain becuz thats the only game i ever play in cuz it's modded just the right way. Ne who, thats all i need. Lata

  • 12.01.2004 8:32 PM PDT
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dont do the msxmlenu thing unless this doesnt work. go to your desktop and right click the icon for halo. go to properties and compatibility. where it says windows 95, 2000 or w/e unclick the little box above it thats checked and your problem should go away. it worked for me when i did it, the running the menu didnt.

  • 12.01.2004 8:59 PM PDT