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Subject: Halo 1 on Vista - Crashing between maps
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Hi guys,
Got a friend to get halo, (8 now this year) but they are running it on a vista laptop, only the video card prompts the "not supported" but yet in single player mode it runs smooth, its an integrated something ati.

Yet in multiplayer they load everything fine, on a dsl connection, until when the round ends, they see the total scores, and then when next map is sent to get loaded, the game crashes.

Anyone find this before? They said they tried compatibility mode as XP (i didn't verify though).

  • 11.29.2008 5:14 PM PDT
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Nope, never had it. I don't think games run well on Intergrated Graphic card that are mainly on laptops. Vista is not the problem, i have Vista and works brilliant on my desktop and on this laptop i am typing this on, just tested it out. Works ok, although the graphics card isn't intergrated.

I don't understand how single player runs ok but when a multiplayer game ends it crashes.

  • 11.29.2008 5:37 PM PDT
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Try isolating the problem.
Have him host a game, then from the menu create a new one. We need to find out if it's a problem with loading maps, the game itself, or some other issue.

  • 11.29.2008 6:22 PM PDT
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Stupid question, but are they all up to date, ver 1.08?

I don't know about everyone else but I used to get that quite a lot on the earlier versions of Halo, that was back on my old PC (XP) though so I have no idea what really caused it.

  • 11.30.2008 4:11 AM PDT
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Map crashing/freezes between loads is a really common problem with HPC that's been there since day one.

The only thing I've noticed is that it seems to happen on the indoor maps almost exclusively, so perhaps it's related to a resource they use that outdoor maps don't.

Gearbox did actually fix it in a patch with a few other changes, but they never actually released that final patch. Go figure.

  • 11.30.2008 1:27 PM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Gearbox included that fix in a previous Halo Custom Edition patch.

[Edited on 11.30.2008 1:41 PM PST]

  • 11.30.2008 1:41 PM PDT