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Subject: Halo 1 PC: what does gathering exception data mean?
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Something smells fishy...

I did a forum search and only found that it might be that the gamespy server was down..

I was in the middle of playing halo and it exited the game and side "gathering exception data"

don't understand the problem.......

I do some research myself too.

  • 03.15.2009 7:24 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

did it only happen once?

  • 03.15.2009 8:09 PM PDT

Is in Charge of the Halo CE3 Online Expo and the Host!

welcome to halo live home of the worlds biggest lag the EXCEPTION!

The exception is known throught halo online as the killer lag. it usaly happends if the host is cheating and forgets to shut his aim bot or dev off (fyi dev isnt cheating its deving lol)

but can be caused by a lot of graphics such as explosions. to many ppl close together. and my favorite server shuting down while somthing special hapend like: voice talking like the guy who says Slayer and blue team flag returned.

there is no awy of fixing this. only bungie could if they *cough make an update *cough*

  • 03.15.2009 8:31 PM PDT
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Something smells fishy...

yeah this is the first time its ever happened to me

  • 03.15.2009 10:08 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

unless it keeps happening dont worry.

  • 03.16.2009 1:36 AM PDT
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Something smells fishy...

ok.. I hope it won't happen again. But just one thing......do you know what the cause of it is?

I'm curious :)

I found something that might help but since i havn't encountered the problem again i'm not going to use it.

see what you think: http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=35945

[Edited on 03.16.2009 11:20 AM PDT]

  • 03.16.2009 11:10 AM PDT

It happens to me often, usually when I'm on a modded map.

  • 03.16.2009 1:20 PM PDT

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my experience is that its when you're doing something the game cant handle...but thats just me

  • 03.16.2009 2:43 PM PDT
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Something smells fishy...

hmmmmm interesting..........anyway thanks folks I'm not too worried anymore :)

  • 03.16.2009 3:52 PM PDT

All I ask is that you don't try to capture me.

I used to get exceptions when my games started overheating my laptop; buying some fans fixed that right up.

In addition, my old PC used to get exceptions constantly since it had crappy hardware and could barely run the game with a good fps rate.

I would suggest either upgrading hardware, or reinstalling the game.

  • 03.16.2009 9:18 PM PDT

Wheres theirs a gun theirs fun, for some one.

I make mods and maps for halo 1 and that just say you did something that the game was way too unable to process like 500000000 hogs its will lag then you will get that

  • 03.16.2009 10:12 PM PDT

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Oh man, does that bring back some memories...

Anyways, "Gathering Exception Data" is the Halo PC equivalent to a BSOD. The game tried to process data that it couldn't and in the chaos the game just shut it self down to avoid 'damage' to your system.

I saw this a lot back when patching .ppf's to .map files.

  • 03.17.2009 9:59 AM PDT
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Something smells fishy...

wow yeah.....

you see I was playing on a server and the game just (like you said) quit. So I was just wondering what BSOD is?

-thanks

  • 03.17.2009 10:04 AM PDT
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Something smells fishy...

To RedFlag-
You know thats a good point.......my computer was running a virus scan at the time. Therefore
the fans were working faster.



I couldn't figure out how to quote!

[Edited on 03.17.2009 10:12 AM PDT]

  • 03.17.2009 10:08 AM PDT

BSOD = blue screen of death. your computer just stops everything and a blue screen pops up with a bunch of text.

  • 03.17.2009 2:52 PM PDT

This is an old account iDarkWint3r is my new Bungie.net user.

When in the early days playing Halo CE I always recieve it.But now there is a final patch that stop Halo CE from glitching,modding and hacking.It's v1.08 released in August 2008.

  • 03.22.2009 11:04 AM 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.

People are still abusing the game even after 1.08. People are crashing servers for fun somehow.

  • 03.22.2009 11:17 AM PDT

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The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

Posted by: ItsNOTJohnston
When in the early days playing Halo CE I always recieve it.But now there is a final patch that stop Halo CE from glitching,modding and hacking.It's v1.08 released in August 2008.


You are clueless. People were cheating again in a matter of days.

And "exceptions" are basically bugs, often caused by users themselves when modding maps or running 3rd party programs. I get exceptions 10% of the time just by running Sightjacker.

  • 03.22.2009 2:41 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

Posted by: Agemenmon matt
....do you know what the cause of it is?



this kinda helps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_handling

  • 03.22.2009 3:03 PM PDT

An Exception is, well, something "exceptional" that happens in a program, to put it simply.

When something goes wrong in a program, an exception can be "thrown", and then "caught".

If something goes horribly, horribly wrong, an uncatchable exception is thrown. An example would be trying to load a corrupted map in Halo - there's no way the program can recover, and then forces itself to (as gracefully as possible) quit.

  • 03.22.2009 4:14 PM PDT
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Something smells fishy...

wow. thanks for the insight all :)

  • 03.24.2009 7:46 AM PDT

Posted by: Achronos
I blame stosh.


Proud tester of the Halo 3 beta.

When I run certain maps on Custom Edition, I also get the "Gathering Exception data" error... I want to prevent this.

  • 03.24.2009 12:41 PM PDT

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Posted by: Turaga008
When I run certain maps on Custom Edition, I also get the "Gathering Exception data" error... I want to prevent this.


Probably no way you can prevent this; however, are you sure you're downloading Halo CE Maps from reputable sources?

  • 03.24.2009 5:04 PM PDT
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Just like the others said, if the map is a modded or corrupted map, or you are running too many programs at the same time, or your computer hardware sucks, the computer will immediantly close down to prevent your computer from crashing or something like that...

  • 03.25.2009 3:17 AM PDT

Posted by: Achronos
I blame stosh.


Proud tester of the Halo 3 beta.

EDIT: Never mind, I had to start it via console. It was a single player map.

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Posted by: Turaga008
When I run certain maps on Custom Edition, I also get the "Gathering Exception data" error... I want to prevent this.


Probably no way you can prevent this; however, are you sure you're downloading Halo CE Maps from reputable sources?


Yeah, downloading from http://hce.halomaps.org/ . My computer is also pretty good, so I should have no trouble running it...

[Edited on 03.27.2009 2:43 PM PDT]

  • 03.27.2009 11:39 AM PDT