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Trying something once will increace your chances of success, because you tried it. Try someting twice, and your chances increase yet again - seeing as you've done it. Try something a few thousand times, and your chances of success is exponentially increased; this increase would likely provide success every time

I managed to scavenge up a few solutions for you. The first one, may or may not work; it just depends what is causing the problem. The next one, will most likely fix the problem.

Download this file (the website for the file can be found here). Next go to your main Halo folder located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo by default. Open the file you just downloaded in WinZip; if you don't have WinZip you can download a trial here. In there you want to take the 3 files vorbis.dll, vorbisfile.dll and ogg.dll and put them in your main Halo folder replacing the ones that are already in there. This might do the trick for you. If not, try this, then the following.

If the above does not work try going into your firewall settings and select 'Don't Allow Exceptions'. I hear this works for a few people; so only try this if the above fails, since you have to mess with your firewall settings.

I hope one of these methods works for you. If they don't, let me know and I'll keep looking for an answer.

Edit: Added the middle option.

[Edited on 03.12.2008 1:16 PM PDT]

  • 03.12.2008 1:03 PM PDT
Subject: halo pc "gathering exception data" problems
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whenever i try and play on halo 1 for the pc it comes up saying "gathering exception data" and it stays for a min then dissapears and another screen comes up and says an error ocured. I have scoured the internet for solutions but none of the work please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 03.12.2008 12:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: Anton P Nym
who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

Posted by: Kira Onime
Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

First of all, what are your system specifications?

Second, what OS are you running? XP? Vista?

  • 03.12.2008 1:51 PM PDT
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Same thing is happening to me, none of the solutions posted above work. The only thing suggested by the error report is to update halo, and of course the updates don't work with the trial version.

  • 03.14.2008 7:07 PM PDT
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An exception occurs when the game calls for something that doesn't exist. For example, if you play a map that is supposed to have a specific kind of tree scenery in it, the game will look through the map file for that tree. If that tree can not be found various technical things happen causing the game to crash. The result is the "Gathering Exception Data" pop-up.

Short answer: Something is wrong with your instalation. You need to reinstall and be sure you dont mess with any of the game's files.

  • 03.16.2008 12:58 PM PDT