- Monoflow
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For newcomers here's a little info:
1. Disc change for new ones from where you bought the game doesn't help but there's been a couple cases that it fixed the problem but i think everyone who has DRE switched atleast one time disc but it didn't help so no go for that.
2. HDD Installation don't help. It has helped very rarely few players but little bit later they come back saying that they got one level futher and same problem yet again. Some cases trying without HDD helps but no saving, achievements etc. unless you have memory card which has helped some people little futher but it is a temporary solution.
3. Usually the DRE comes up only in Campaign disc but there are reports now that it has spread to Halo 3 and ODST included Halo 3 Mythic MP expansion. These are spots usually ODST Campaign crashes (MINOR SPOILERS):
- First Level: The Rookie takes in a cut scene Dare's broken helmet from a TV wall and after cutscene comes Loading and then approx. 15-30% loaded, crash.
-Second Level: Buck finds Dare's crashed pod and after scene, same again and it crashes in loading.
-Some players get stuck on first cutscene or when they start campaign it crashes instantly with DRE.
I haven't myself gotten futher so i cannot put complete list.
Firefight:
- In some cases Firefight has shown working on Crater and Windward maps but usually any other map crashes with DRE error.
- Also people who successfully played Firefight has been driven near insanity because serious lag problems. My friends have 25/15 mb connections all but still games were so laggy they didn't get to play a full minute with good connection.
This also requires little bit confirmation because i only got to play 15 full minutes alone Firefight because it always crashed when tried to play online.
4. There are some solutions that recommend you somehow boil you dvd or something like that. Don't do anything to discs, HDD, dvd drives etc. until you hear something official from Bungie, Microsoft or both.
5. The recent update for X360 is said to be catalyst for this problem in the first place. No one can be sure of this but it can be a high probability that it has something to do with this DRE error. Some users haven't downloaded updates and get to play ODST Campaign but this isn't answer though, i would category that as luck.
There are other things but this should get you started who doesn't know very much about the issue. You can correct me, give new info or anything useful because we're all "victims" of this problem and i'm trying to help someway i can.
[Edited on 09.25.2009 4:02 PM PDT]